This “normal” USB cable secretly wants to be a hacking tool

A new Kickstarter project called Hacknect hides a Wi-Fi-enabled hacking and automation platform inside what appears to be an ordinary USB cable. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...
Hackaday

Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Hacking USB 2 Hubs

We’ve been recently looking into USB 2.0 – the ubiquitous point-to-point communications standard. USB 2 is completely different from USB 3, the blue-connector next-generation USB standard. For ...
Android

Android 16 has a clever way to defeat USB-based hacking

Android 16 introduces a powerful new security measure that automatically blocks USB connections when your phone is locked, requiring device authentication before any external USB drives or peripherals ...
Digital Trends

Apple seeds critical update to guard iPhones from USB hacking tools

Apple has released a fresh software update for iPhones and iPads to plug a critical flaw that could allow bad actors to extract data even from a locked device. The company says if granted physical ...
PC Magazine

Flaws in Open-Source Software Exposed 'Almost Every Apple Device' to Hacking

The news underscores how vulnerable open-source software can risk impacting an entire software ecosystem, like it did with the Apache Log4j 2 flaw in 2021. It doesn’t help that open-source projects ...