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Hackaday.io user [mabe42] works during the week away from their home city and rents a small apartment locally to make this life practical. However, the heating system, a night-storage system, …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: SMS Controlled Heating
How can SMS spoofing be detected? I know we can find it by message centre, but what if in the case of multiple routing?
Continue reading Detecting SMS spoofing when there is multiple routing
Although I disagree with the term MFA entirely if it refers to ‘login code send to email’, it’s a one-time password at best, and likely badly implemented with its associated risks. I do see quite some software having email as their only ‘M… Continue reading If only ‘two’ insecure MFA options are available (email and sms) which is ‘most secure’? [duplicate]
Valve, the company behind the Steam video game platform, has announced a new security feature after multiple reports of game updates being poisoned with malware.
But have they chosen the best way to protect developers’ accounts?
Read more in my a… Continue reading After hackers distribute malware in game updates, Steam adds SMS-based security check for developers
I received an odd SMS message from xfinity earlier. The message looks real, and the link they provided is real, but they said I ordered a movie through their service, which I did not. I am wondering if spoofed SMS messages would show up in… Continue reading Would a spoofed SMS message show up in the same chat history as a legitimate SMS?
The new router I was given by my internet and phone provider can only be configured via their website. I logged in and went to the page where you can set things like the SSID and password for the WiFi signal, and changed some of the settin… Continue reading Is ISP sending WiFi password in plain text to phone necessarily a bad sign?
I received 3 sms messages since morning with an sms verification code, supposedly from "Feels App". The sms message contains no links, just a code.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this app and is not something I have ever us… Continue reading Receiving sms code from dating app I don’t have (or ever had) an account with [closed]
Surely you should be able to order pizza without being pestered for sex? And Carole takes a look at the what and why of wearables…
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Gr… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #336: Pizza pests, and securing your wearables
Surely you should be able to order pizza without being pestered for sex or a date?
So, how come so many young people are claiming that they are being hassled after ordering an online delivery?
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Nearly a third of young people preyed on by “text pest” delivery drivers
I’m trying to get through to a friend of mine that her abusive BF sent some harassing texts about her to another friend of ours, but her BF is claiming the texts were spoofed. I know that in the US it is nearly impossible to spoof a sms no… Continue reading Proving a text was not spoofed?