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It’s summer time in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means campfires for cooking hot dogs, keeping the mosquitoes away, and of course, making s’mores. For our far-flung friends, that’s a …read more Continue reading Industrial Robot Repurposed to Make S’Mores
By Waqas
The Italian Competition Authority AGCM has fined Apple and Samsung a whopping 5 million Euros ($5.7m – £4.4m) and 10 million Euros ($11.4m – £8.84m). for what it called “planned obsolescence” of their smartphones. If yo… Continue reading Apple and Samsung fined millions for intentionally slowing down old smartphones
Bing Crosby famously sang “Just let a smile be your umbrella.” George Carlin, though, said, “Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.” [BebBrabyn] probably agrees more with the former and used a Raspberry Pi with Open CV to detect a smile, a feature some digital cameras have had for a long time. This project however doesn’t take a snapshot. It launches a marshmallow using a motor-driven catapult. We wondered if he originally tried lemon drops until too many people failed to catch them properly.
This wouldn’t be a bad project for …read more
Continue reading Reinforce Happy Faces With Marshmallows And Computer Vision
Android receives three remote code execution patches for vulnerabilities rated critical as Google launches a new Pixel/Nexus Security Bulletin. Continue reading Five Critical Android Bugs Get Patched in October Update
There are innumerable password hacking methods but recent advances in acoustic and accelerometer sensing have opened up the door to side-channel attacks, where passwords or other sensitive data can be extracted from the acoustic properties of the electronics and human interface to the device. A recent and dramatic example includes the hacking of RSA encryption simply by listening to the frequencies of sound a processor puts out when crunching the numbers.
Now there is a new long-distance hack on the scene. The Cerebrum system represents a recent innovation in side-channel password attacks leveraging acoustic signatures of mobile and other …read more
Continue reading Cerebrum: Mobile Passwords Lifted Acoustically with NASB
Android.Bankosy and Android.Cepsohord are capable of working with the new runtime permission model introduced in Android 6.0 Marshmallow.Read More Continue reading Android threats evolve to handle Marshmallow’s new permission model