Exposing Computer Monitor Side-Channel Vulnerabilities with TempestSDR

Having been endlessly regaled with tales of side-channel attacks and remote exploits, most of us by now realize that almost every piece of gear leaks data like a sieve. Everything from routers to TVs to the power supplies and cooling fans of computers can be made to give up their …read more

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Dumpster Finds Combined into 4K Desktop Monitor

Dumpster diving is a time honored tradition in the hacking community. You can find all sorts of interesting hardware in the trash, and sometimes it’s even fully functional. But even the broken gadgets are worth taking back to your lair to strip for parts. If you’re as lucky as [Jamz], …read more

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Stalkerware Attacks Increased 50 Percent Last Year, Report

Research puts the emerging mobile threat—which monitors the whereabouts and device activity of devices users as well as collects personal data—into clearer focus. Continue reading Stalkerware Attacks Increased 50 Percent Last Year, Report

Monochrome CRT and Liquid Crystal Shutter Team Up for Color Video

If you were tasked with designing a color video monitor, it’s pretty clear how you’d go about it. But what if you’d been asked to do so 20 years ago? Would it have been a cut and dried from an engineering standpoint? Apparently not, as this hybrid LCD-CRT video monitor …read more

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Broken TV used to brighten up a room with artificial daylight

The UK’s Matthew Perks has been running a YouTube channel for about five years, where he walks viewers through the ins and outs of making their own gadgets – from a glass speaker to a smartphone projector and more. For his latest project, he’… Continue reading Broken TV used to brighten up a room with artificial daylight

BladeX gives laptop, phone or​ console users an ultra-slim second screen

Our laptops, tablets and smartphones serve us well when we’re away from home or the office, but sometimes we want more. More speed, more storage and much more screen. We can already buy portable screens, but few tick as many boxes as the mini… Continue reading BladeX gives laptop, phone or​ console users an ultra-slim second screen

Trio adds extra screens to make laptop multitasking easier

A year ago, an MIT-backed startup called Mobile Pixels launched crowdfunding efforts for a slick-on, slide-out second screen for laptops called Duo. Now the team is back with a similar setup, this time adding up to two screens per laptop…
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