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.
CNET

Russian Hackers Are Inside American Home Routers. The FBI Has a 5-Step Fix

A coordinated cyberattack by Russia's GRU targeted home and small office routers across 23 states. Here's how to check yours ...

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.
IEEE

Automated Environment Mapping Using LiDAR for Optimal Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 Router Placement

Abstract: Wi-Fi technologies are rapidly evolving and have become indispensable in many areas of daily life. In indoor environments where these technologies are frequently used, optimizing signal ...
IEEE

Robust Contactless Human Respiration Monitoring amid Moving Individuals Using Wi-Fi

Abstract: Respiratory rate is an important vital sign that can be used to determine human physiological state. In recent years, Wi-Fi-based contactless respiration monitoring has drawn significant ...
The New York Times

Passkeys Are the New Passwords. You Should Start Using Them Now.

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Max Eddy Max Eddy is a writer who has covered privacy and security — including ...
Inc

Inside OpenAI, This Productivity Hack Is Giving Workers Their Own Chief of Staff. You Can Use It Too

Inside OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, employees both technical and non-technical are using Codex, the company’s agentic coding app, to handle an increasing amount of work. Codex is OpenAI’s label ...
Ars Technica

Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials

Open source software with more than 1 million monthly downloads was compromised after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in the developers’ account workflow that gave access to its signing keys ...
Android Police

I finally stopped fighting with spotty hotel Wi-Fi thanks to this Netflix USB hack

Sanuj is a freelance tech journalist with over six years of experience covering smartphones, wearables, and consumer technology. He currently writes for Android Police, Tom's Guide, Android Central, ...
The Washington Post

A secretive AI hacking system has sparked a global scramble

When security researchers at Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, pointed a powerful new artificial intelligence model at their code, they had a feeling of “vertigo.” Bobby Holley, ...
Renewable Energy World

Delaware’s interconnection hack: Treat it like code adoption

Across the U.S., nearly every state has taken a similar approach to defining electrical safety. They charge an administrative body to review updates to the National Electrical Code (NEC), identify any ...