Day: January 26, 2025

Phone Metadata Suddenly Not So ‘Harmless’ When It’s The FBI’s Data Being Harvested

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] While trying to fend off attacks on Section 215 collections (most of which are governed [in the loosest sense of the word] by the Third Party Doctrine), the NSA and its domestic-facing remora, the FBI, insisted collecting and storing massive amounts of phone metadata was no more a constitutional violation than it was a Read more about Phone Metadata Suddenly Not So ‘Harmless’ When It’s The FBI’s Data Being Harvested[…]

Trump Disbands Cybersecurity Board Investigating Worst Hack in US History: Massive Chinese Phone System Invasion

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] We’re still nowhere near understanding just how bad the Chinese hack of our phone system was. The incident that was only discovered last fall involved the Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon, which used the US’s CALEA phone wiretapping system as a backdoor to gain incredible, unprecedented access to much of the US’s phone system Read more about Trump Disbands Cybersecurity Board Investigating Worst Hack in US History: Massive Chinese Phone System Invasion[…]

Circle to Search now offers one-tap actions for phone numbers, emails and URLs

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] As a reminder, Circle to Search is an AI-powered feature Google released at the start of last year. You can access it by long-pressing your phone’s home button and then circling something with your finger. At its most basic, the feature is a way to use Google Search from anywhere on your phone, with Read more about Circle to Search now offers one-tap actions for phone numbers, emails and URLs[…]

Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking, remote controlling Millions of Cars

Posted on by Robin Edgar

About a year ago, security researcher Sam Curry bought his mother a Subaru, on the condition that, at some point in the near future, she let him hack it. It took Curry until last November, when he was home for Thanksgiving, to begin examining the 2023 Impreza’s internet-connected features and start looking for ways to Read more about Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking, remote controlling Millions of Cars[…]

Magic packet Backdoor found on Juniper VPN routers

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023. The devices were infected with what appears to be a variant of cd00r, a publicly available “invisible backdoor” designed to operate stealthily on a victim’s machine by monitoring network traffic for specific Read more about Magic packet Backdoor found on Juniper VPN routers[…]