Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers

A US-Japanese team published a research paper which confirms an interesting and under-estimated possibility – these devices will also accept “signal injection” commands sent to them using pulses of laser light over distances of a hundred metres or more… Continue reading Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers

Linux maintainer: Patching side-channel flaws is killing performance

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the worst side-channel vulnerability of them all? Continue reading Linux maintainer: Patching side-channel flaws is killing performance