Why Does Bob From HR Need Your Email Password? Because Bob’s Not Bob.
10.21.24Employees fall for phishing scams frequently, giving attackers an open door to your data. Get smart about these scams with our expert insights.
10.21.2410.21.24Author: Phil Brass
10.21.24
Is This Thing On? Privacy and Your Smartphone Sensors
03.08.23Smartphone Snooping Without Microphone Access Can your smartphone sensors still enable apps to eavesdrop on your conversations even after the app has been denied microphone access? It does seem possible. We dug into this question based on two research papers, “AccEar: Accelerometer Acoustic Eavesdropping with Unconstrained Vocabulary”, and “Side Eye: Characterizing the Limits of POV… Read more »
Assessing Memory Safety in Programming Languages Like Rust and Go
01.18.23Can These Languages Eliminate Memory-Handling Vulnerabilities for Programmers? Much has been made recently of the memory safety provided by programming languages like Rust and Go. These languages have been designed to eliminate some of the language weaknesses that make it so easy for C and C++ programmers to write vulnerable software. These memory-safe languages are… Read more »
