Senator Seeks Privacy Answers on Face ID

Researchers have developed a method for sending human-inaudible ultrasonic voice commands to voice-enabled assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant that could be used to force the assistants to visit attacker-controlled websites or take control of other connected smart devices. The technique is known as DolphinAttack and was developed by academic researchers at Zhejiang University in China. It takes…

LAS VEGAS–The security community needs to get back to solving real problems facing real users in the real world, Facebook’s CSO said, and the company is putting up a million dollars to help do that. Alex Stamos, the top security official at Facebook, said security professionals are spending too much time focusing on elaborate hacks and rare vulnerabilities, at the…

Malware for the macOS platform is still unusual enough that new variants often draw detailed analysis from researchers, especially when they seem to have unusual capabilities. That’s the case with Fruitfly, which first emerged earlier this year and was seen targeting medical research facilities. Recently, a new variant popped up and it appears to have been compromising victims for several…