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A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors

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A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors 2026-07-13 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each written by a company the buyer may never deal with directly. […]

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Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules

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Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules 2026-07-06 at 07:57 By Sinisa Markovic Owners of the Flipper Zero, the pocket-sized wireless testing tool, spent recent weeks worried that its official firmware had gone quiet. Pavel Zhovner, CEO of Flipper Devices, moved to settle that concern with word that the company has

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Residential proxy SDKs are hiding in LG and Samsung smart TV apps

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Residential proxy SDKs are hiding in LG and Samsung smart TV apps 2026-06-23 at 08:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec Smart TVs in living rooms run small apps that show fish tanks, clocks, solitaire games, and slideshows of puppies. A share of those apps can also send other people’s internet traffic out through the home connection. Spur

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car 2026-06-18 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand feature into a standard meant to work across phones, automakers, and suppliers. She

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight 2026-06-15 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Deep learning systems on phones, cars, and other edge devices increasingly run on custom silicon. Specialized chips such as FPGAs and ASICs give these systems the speed and low power consumption that edge applications need. Many of these chips

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Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem

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Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem 2026-06-15 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Defense contractors build AI systems that task drones automatically and propose kill-chains to support soldiers. Several of these contractors have partnered with frontier AI companies to put advanced models into military tools. Anduril works with OpenAI, Palantir

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot produces a small number of demonstrations per day, which slows the growth

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills 2026-06-10 at 09:55 By Mirko Zorz Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 billion mobile phones became electronic waste in 2022. Many of these

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Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them

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Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them 2026-06-05 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz A keyless car can be stolen in under a minute. Two people, a pair of cheap radio amplifiers, and a fob sitting on a hallway table inside the house. That is enough.

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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge

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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge 2026-06-02 at 09:09 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Chuck Davis, VP, Global Information Security at Hikvision, explains how zero trust applies to physical security systems like cameras and door controllers. He breaks down how to make trust decisions at the

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Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering

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Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering 2026-05-22 at 12:17 By Sinisa Markovic Probing how a CPU isolates user code from kernel code is messy work. Researchers patch kernels, write drivers, or boot stripped-down bare-metal programs, and any of those choices change variables they were trying to hold still. Fractal, a new operating

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes from an accelerometer of the kind already sitting inside many wireless earbuds, so

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CERN’s open source KiCad library gives the world 17,000 circuit board components

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CERN’s open source KiCad library gives the world 17,000 circuit board components 2026-05-14 at 11:16 By Sinisa Markovic CERN has released its complete KiCad component library under an open source license, making it available to hardware designers anywhere in the world. The library, maintained by CERN’s Design Office, contains more than 17,000 electronic components in

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase 2026-05-12 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz Household refrigerators are built to last more than a decade. The software, cloud services, and mobile apps that control them are not. A new analysis from Erik Buchmann at Leipzig University maps what happens when those two timelines collide,

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ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys

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ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys 2026-05-04 at 02:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec Journalists, elected officials, researchers, and political dissidents have spent years adapting their accounts to phishing-resistant authentication on consumer platforms. ChatGPT now joins that list. OpenAI has introduced Advanced Account Security, an opt-in setting that strips password-based sign-in from ChatGPT and

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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI

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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Global spending on IT is expected to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026, according to the latest quarterly forecast from Gartner, marking a 13.5% increase from the previous year. The forecast shows that growth is spread across all major segments,

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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it

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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it 2026-04-23 at 14:17 By Sinisa Markovic A new cybersecurity device developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) should be a helpful solution for protecting governments and businesses from malicious activity carried through display connections. Called SilentGlass, the plug-and-play tool is

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A single platform powers SIM farm proxy networks across 17 countries

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A single platform powers SIM farm proxy networks across 17 countries 2026-04-21 at 12:30 By Mirko Zorz Racks of phones and 4G modems, connected to carrier networks and rented out as commercial mobile proxy services, are operating across at least 94 locations in 17 countries. An investigation by infrastructure intelligence firm Infrawatch traced a large

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Apple AirTag tracking can be misled by replayed Bluetooth signals

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Apple AirTag tracking can be misled by replayed Bluetooth signals 2026-04-17 at 09:24 By Sinisa Markovic Apple’s AirTag is designed to help users track lost items by relying on a vast network of nearby Apple devices. New research shows that this same system can be manipulated to display locations where an AirTag has never been.

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Raspberry Pi OS 6.2 disables passwordless sudo by default

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Raspberry Pi OS 6.2 disables passwordless sudo by default 2026-04-15 at 14:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Raspberry Pi OS 6.2, based on the Trixie version, introduces small changes, bug fixes, and disables passwordless sudo by default for new installations. Screenshot of password prompt (Source: Raspberry Pi) “We continually review the security of Raspberry Pi OS to

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