Google Project Zero on Thursday disclosed details of a new security mechanism that Apple quietly added to iOS 14 as a countermeasure to prevent attacks that were recently found to leverage zero-days in its messaging app. Dubbed “BlastDoor,” the improved sandbox system for iMessage data was disclosed by Samuel Groß, a security researcher with Project…
There is a tacit acceptance that the world appears to be growing ‘smarter’. The total number of internet-facing smart devices is expected to exceed 38 billion by 2025, and reach 50 billion by 2030. By 2022, your average family home could contain over 500 smart devices, according to Gartner. Consider the ‘smart city’, in which…
As is its job, the LoRa Alliance took to the (virtual) stage at The Things Conference this week to proclaim its destiny, slate the competition, and gee-up the troops. The message was that LoRaWAN will achieve “massive scale” in practically every ‘vertical’ market in the year ahead, vanquishing rivals in the race to arm major…
Credit: Clément Hélardot/Unsplash TLDR: With access to the Zenva Academy, users can take over 250 tech courses packed with real world programming training to become a knowledgeable and hirable professional coder. The tech industry is expected to grow by as many as 13 million new jobs in the U.S. alone over the next five years,…
The pressure on small to medium-sized enterprises to protect their organizations against cyberthreats is astronomical. These businesses face the same threats as the largest enterprises, experience the same (relative) damages and consequences when breaches occur as the largest enterprises but are forced to protect their organizations with a fraction of the resources as the largest…
January 28, 2021 Source: Oliver Theiss, Chief Revenue Officer, Andronix The coronavirus pandemic brought on one of the most sudden shifts in US economic history. We went from record-low unemployment and continuous economic growth to tens of millions of unemployed and trillions of dollars in the economic loss within major manufacturing industries. The fortunes of…
As is its job, the LoRa Alliance took to the (virtual) stage at The Things Conference this week to proclaim its destiny, slate the competition, and gee-up the troops. The message was that LoRaWAN will achieve “massive scale” in practically every ‘vertical’ market in the year ahead, vanquishing rivals in the race to arm major…
I wouldn’t be surprised if right now, in an office in China, a bunch of Xiaomi employees are jumping up and down and yelling, “Suck it Apple!” The company just revealed that it has invented a device that wirelessly charges your devices over the air. What Xiaomi has claimed to achieve is long-distance wireless charging. The company…
Researchers have disclosed a new family of Android malware that abuses accessibility services in the device to hijack user credentials and record audio and video. Dubbed “Oscorp” by Italy’s CERT-AGID and spotted by AddressIntel, the malware “induce(s) the user to install an accessibility service with which [the attackers] can read what is present and what…
Telecoms solutions provider BICS has expanded its NB-IoT network to France in partnership with local carrier SFR. BICS operates one of the largest NB-IoT/LTE-M networks in the world, with coverage in 30 countries. IoT devices embedded with an eSIM can also access 2G, 3G, and 4G connectivity through partnerships with over 700 mobile operators around…
