Remotely Controlling Touchscreens

Researchers have demonstrated controlling touchscreens at a distance, at least in a laboratory setting: The core idea is to take advantage of the electromagnetic signals to execute basic touch events such as taps and swipes into targeted locations of the touchscreen with the goal of taking over...

Attackers Can Use Electromagnetic Signals to Control Touchscreens Remotely

Researchers have demonstrated what they call the "first active contactless attack against capacitive touchscreens." GhostTouch, as it's called, "uses electromagnetic interference EMI to inject fake touch points into a touchscreen without the need to physically touch it," a group of academics from...

GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update

accountsservice 0.6.55-2 - Add support for user templates so user can specify default session Resolves: 1812788 gdm 40.0-14 - Fix XDMCP Resolves: 2004170 - Fix crash at shutdown Related: 2004170 40.0-13 - Disable Wayland on HyperV - Fix Xorg fallback Related: 1998989 40.0-12 - Redisable on server...

This Week in Security News: Banks and Botnets

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the FBI warned U.S. banks of a wide-scale cybercrime campaign called “ATM cash-out,” in which hackers use cloned ATM cards for fraudulent...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the extended stable 3.8.13.4 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device acces...

Updated kernel packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the extended stable 3.8.13.4 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to...