Collaborate Disseminate
The Senate on Thursday passed a bill that aims to crack down on unwanted robocalls. “The legislation would impose stiffer fines of as much as $10,000 per call on robocallers who knowingly flout the rules on calls and would increase the statute of limit… Continue reading Senate Passes Bill Cracking Down On Robocalls
PolygamousRanchKid shares an excerpt from a report via The Economist: Most online fraud involves identity theft, which is why businesses that operate on the web have a keen interest in distinguishing impersonators from genuine customers. Passwords help… Continue reading Phones Can Now Tell Who Is Carrying Them From Their Users’ Gaits
This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors found in smartphones to construct a globally unique fingerprint. Overall,… Continue reading Fingerprinting iPhones
Interesting article about how traditional nation-based spycraft is changing. Basically, the Internet makes it increasingly possible to generate a good cover story; cell phone and other electronic surveillance techniques make tracking people easier; and machine learning will make all of this automatic. Meanwhile, Western countries have new laws and norms that put them at a disadvantage over other countries. And… Continue reading How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft
An anonymous reader quotes Reuters:
Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware and software products except those covered by open source licenses, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Sunday,… Continue reading Google Ends Android Collaboration With Huawei. No Gmail, Play Store For Future Huawei Phones
A new report from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) found that the average American video gamer is 33 years old, prefers to play on their smartphone and is spending big on content — 20 percent more than a year ago and 85 percent more than i… Continue reading US Adults Are Spending Big On Video Games, Playing Mostly On Smartphones
“When law enforcement investigations get cold, there’s a source authorities can turn to for location data that could produce new leads: Google.”
An anonymous reader quotes CNET:
Police have used information from the search giant’s Sensorvault databa… Continue reading Police Are Using Google’s Location Data From ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of Phones
After crunching data on 4.5 billion miles of driving, road-safety analytics company Zendrive concludes there’s a new threat which just last year claimed the lives of 6,227 pedestrians: drivers “under the influence of a smartphone.”
The study points o… Continue reading Are Phone-Addicted Drivers More Dangerous Than Drunk Drivers?
“While lawmakers debate what to do about the roboscourge, engineers have cooked up some clever ways to make bots work for us, not against us,” writes the Washington Post, taking a look at apps like the $4-per-month RoboKiller — which offers malicious … Continue reading New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans
Yet another side-channel attack on smartphones: "Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones," by Ilia Shumailov, Laurent Simon, Jeff Yan, and Ross Anderson. Abstract: We present the first acoustic side-channel attack that re… Continue reading Recovering Smartphone Typing from Microphone Sounds