Google reveals 18 chip vulnerabilities threatening mobile, wearables, vehicles

Googles Project Zero is warning of multiple significant vulnerabilities found across many models of mobile devices including Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, Vivo, and several forms of wearable and vehicles using certain types of components. Between late 2022 and early 2023, Project Zero reported 18...

Google Uncovers 18 Severe Security Vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos Chips

Google is calling attention to a set of severe security flaws in Samsung's Exynos chips, some of which could be exploited remotely to completely compromise a phone without requiring any user interaction. The 18 zero-day vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Android smartphones from Samsung, Vivo...

Will Social Distancing Break the Internet?

First off, no -- the Internet is not going to break! That said, the news media is awash with stories and statistics about how the Internet is faring with the increase in traffic due to isolation protocols forcing daily functions online. Which functions? In my house, we have remote work, e-learnin...

T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling App vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attack

T-Mobile devices having a default Wi-Fi Calling feature that keeps you connected in areas with little or no coverage using Wi-Fi connection. But according to new finding by students Jethro Beekman and Christopher Thompson from University of California Berkeley, that this feature lets millions of...

T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling App vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attack

T-Mobile devices having a default Wi-Fi Calling feature that keeps you connected in areas with little or no coverage using Wi-Fi connection. But according to new finding by students Jethro Beekman and Christopher Thompson from University of California Berkeley, that this feature lets millions of...

T-Mobile Fixes Man-in-the-Middle Vulnerability in Wi-Fi Calling App

UPDATE: The default “Wi-Fi Calling” feature on T-Mobile devices that lets milllions of Android users make phone calls over a wireless Internet connection contained a vulnerability that could have been exploited to perform man-in-the-middle MiTM attacks. Graduate students Jethro Beekman and...