Academics from universities in Sweden and the UK have come up with a new technique that turns a smartphone's built-in speaker and microphone into a crude sonar system to steal phone unlock patterns ...

A new academic study shows that a regular smartphone can act as a sonar system and steal sensitive information based on the victim's finger movement on the screen. Researchers from Lancaster and ...

Hackers can turn smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs into surveillance tools by exploiting their built-in microphones, according to a new study out of the University of Washington. With the device ...

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a method to covertly track the activity of people in a room, and in some conditions, even beyond thin walls. The researchers demonstrated ...

Enigma, the cyrptocurrency investment and trading platform, was hacked on 21 August by unknown hacker(s). Around $500,000 in Ethereum has reportedly been stolen by the hackers. The heist hit Enigma as ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have devised a way of conducting surreptitious sonar surveillance using home devices equipped with microphones and speakers. The technique, called ...

Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Smart devices packing a microphones and speakers have been turned into spying tools that track your activities around the house by using acoustic ...

Researchers warned that CovertBand could be used by a variety of threat actors, including covert government spies iStock The attack, dubbed CovertBand, could allow hackers to track movements to guess ...