Collaborate Disseminate
Occasionally, the extra features added to a product can negate some of the reasons you wanted to buy the thing in the first place. Take, for example, Apple’s AirTag — …read more Continue reading Apple AirTag: Antitheft or Antistalking?
In an ideal world we would never lose our belongings, and not spend a single hour fruitlessly searching for some keys, a piece of luggage, a smartphone or one of …read more Continue reading AirTags, Tiles, SmartTags and the Dilemmas of Personal Tracking Devices
There’s a problem with Opera. No, not that kind of opera. The Oracle kind. Oracle OPERA is a Property Management Solution (PMS) that is in use in a bunch of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Oracle Opera, Passkeys, and AirTag RFC
Apple and Google have announced that they are teaming up in order to combat the safety risks associated with AirTags and other tracking devices.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Apple and Google join forces to combat AirTag stalking
To bleat, or not to bleat, that is the question. Continue reading Tracked by hidden tags? Apple and Google unite to propose safety and security standards…
I know, it reads like an April Fools, but Apple and Google announced today that they are partnering to create industry standards preventing the abuse of location tracking devices.
The post Apple and Google Partner on Location Tracking Protection appear… Continue reading Apple and Google Partner on Location Tracking Protection
Remember the chip shortage? We sure do, mainly because as far as we can tell, it’s still going on, at least judging by the fact that you can’t get a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 6, 2022
There were strange doings this week as Dallas-Forth Worth Airport in Texas experienced two consecutive days of GPS outages. The problem first cropped up on the 17th, as the Federal …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 23, 2022
Someone’s election-fiddling is uncovered with an Apple AirTag, a cyber scandal rocks Germany, and a swindler steals a fortune due to trains being delayed.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Secur… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #294: The Virgin trains swindler, cyber clowns, and AirTag election debacle
Apple AirTags are useful little devices. They essentially use iPhones in the wild as a mesh network to tell the owner where the AirTag is. Now, researchers have shown that …read more Continue reading Apple AirTags Hacked And Cloned With Voltage Glitching