Leaked Renders of Samsung’s Galaxy S9 Show Off Incremental Updates

We finally have a good look at the Galaxy S9. Spoiler alert: it’s just an incremental update over last year’s Galaxy S8.
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Critical “Same Origin Policy” Bypass Flaw Found in Samsung Android Browser

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the browser app comes pre-installed on hundreds of millions of Samsung Android devices that could allow an attacker to steal data from browser tabs if the user visits an attacker-controlled site.

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Tech Brief: Immersive technologies 
give military new tools for training

The U.S. Department of Defense spends an estimated $14 billion or more per year on “synthetic” digital training  —  training that uses digital environments to teach and prepare personnel for real-life jobs and experiences. Continual advances in U.S. military systems make it imperative for military personnel to stay up to date with the latest changes in hardware, software and related systems. Yet pulling personnel out of the field for training is costly, time-consuming and often not possible during prolonged engagements. And it’s nearly impossible to keep up with changes for so many systems and procedures. A new CyberScoop Tech Brief, sponsored by Samsung, outlines the benefits of virtual and augmented reality training, which make it possible to deliver training to troops anywhere, anytime, rather than requiring personnel to travel to training centers. With the Pentagon reportedly looking to budget as much as $11 billion for virtual-, augmented- and mixed-reality training […]

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Eavesdropping With An ESP8266

In the old days, spies eavesdropped on each other using analog radio bugs. These days, everything’s in the cloud. [Sebastian] from [Hacking Beaver]  wondered if he could make a WiFi bug that was small and cheap besides. Enter the ESP8266 and some programming wizardry.

[Sebastian] is using a NodeMCU but suggests that it could be pared down to any ESP8266 board — with similar cuts made to the rest of the electronics — but has this working as a proof of concept. A PIC 18 MCU samples the audio data from a microphone at 10 kHz with an 8-bit resolution, …read more

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Samsung now offers an Enterprise Edition of the Note 8 for business

 The push to let employees bring their own devices to work has been underway for some time now — in fact, it’s a big part of what ultimately doomed enterprise-focused companies like BlackBerry’s hardware businesses. Samsung’s been walking the line for a while as well, rolling out enterprise features like Knox security for its consumer handsets, along with accessories… Read More Continue reading Samsung now offers an Enterprise Edition of the Note 8 for business

New infosec products of the week​: October 20, 2017

Ransomware protection intercepts threats targeting enterprise data FileCloud announced FileCloud Breach Intercept, which offers ransomware protection. FileCloud offers branding and customization tools, allowing you to set your own policies, and design your own emails and alerts. Customized emails and UX reduce spoofing risk as hackers can’t run a mass spoofing unless they have an exact copy of an email from one of your employees. Nfusion 2 provides stronger misattribution environments for online investigation Ntrepid announced … More Continue reading New infosec products of the week​: October 20, 2017