Tag - Hacker

Phone Light Sensor: A Potential Tool for Unauthorized Surveillance

Credit: Unsplash.In increasingly mobile-dependent lives, people entrust their smartphones with various sensitive tasks, from financial transactions to work-related activities and even documenting personal musings through apps like Notes. However, a recent study conducted by MIT researchers sheds light on a potential privacy threat associated with the unassuming ambient light sensor in most phones.The Vulnerability...

KeePass Exploit Enables Attackers to Recuperate Master Passwords from Memory

A proof-of-concept (PoC) has been provided for a security flaw affecting the KeePass password manager that could be exploited to recover a victim's master password in cleartext under certain situations.The problem, tracked as CVE-2023-32784, impacts KeePass versions 2.x for Windows, Linux, and macOS and is presumed to be patched in version 2.54, which is...

Hackers Install Malware Instead of Promised AI

Tech titan Meta says it expects hackers and other malicous actors online to begin using generative artificial intelligence to scale up attacks. Credit: W&V.On Wednesday, the social media giant Meta, which is the parent company of popular platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, warned that hackers exploit the popularity and potential of generative...