Israeli researchers show that even if you're paranoid enough to remove your computer's microphone, malware can convert your headphones into spy bugs.
These Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says | Fortune
They allegedly record your listening history.
Hackers Can Silently Control Siri From 16 Feet Away
A clever attack by French researchers turns your headphone cable into an antenna to send surreptitious voice commands.
Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Government Surveillance Program In The Bay Area
A clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area is being exposed.
Israeli Spy Company Busted Using Malware Ads To Infect, Locate, And Spy On Starlink Users · Techdirt
Israeli spy outfit Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of dodgy online ads that it used to track, surveil, and geolocate internet users. In some instances simply having the firm’s “zero click” spyware ads displayed by devices resulted in infection. The company seemed particularly interested in using ads to surveil and geolocate...
Acoustic Cryptanalysis - Schneier on Security
This is neat: Here, we describe a new acoustic cryptanalysis key extraction attack, applicable to GnuPG’s current implementation of RSA. The attack can extract full 4096-bit RSA decryption keys from laptop computers (of various models), within an hour, using the sound generated by the computer during the decryption of some chosen ciphertexts. We experimentally demonstrate that such attacks can be carried out, using either a plain mobile phone placed next to the computer, or a more sensitive microphone placed 4 meters away. Beyond acoustics, we demonstrate that a similar low-bandwidth attack can be performed by measuring the electric potential of a computer chassis. A suitably-equipped attacker need merely touch the target computer with his bare hand, or get the required leakage information from the ground wires at the remote end of VGA, USB or Ethernet cables. ...
FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphones, says Apple
Eddy Cue warns precedent set by San Bernardino case could lead to company being forced to turn users’ smartphones into surveillance devices
The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations
In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s microphone. But researchers have found there’s another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. And it doesn’t even need to ask. In a presentation at \[…\]
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Opinion | Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal (Published 2014)
Is American intelligence data being used to persecute Palestinians?
I Like the Apple Ecosystem. This Is Not a Declaration of War. - Ewan’s Blog
My phone is an iPhone, my computer is a Mac, my watch is an Apple Watch and my earphones are AirPods. Somehow, this apparently requires a political theory.
Facebook is ‘using your phone to listen to everything you say’
The company says that it does use peoples' microphones, but only to help them out – and there’s an easy way of turning it off
Your Security is My Security
Speaking to the world, I care about how good the security of your machines are.
The never-advertised, always coveted headphones built and sold in Brooklyn
Ars presents a mini-documentary on the low-profile, highly regarded Grado Labs.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
How governments are using spyware to attack free speech
Security expert, hacker and new Amnesty advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire spends his days researching the shady underworld of government surveillance. Here he explains how governments are using malicious computer code, or spyware, to spy on journalists and human rights activists across the world.
Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We also uncover Discover-Tech, and show how the company helps mercenary surveillance vendors track and hack devices around the world.
