Tag Archive for: Picking

iPhones, iPads ripe for the picking

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Attackers could compromise iPads and iPhones on a large scale through the infected computers that make up botnets, researchers say.

Nearly a quarter of zombie computers that make up certain known botnets eventually connect with Apple iOS devices, making these phones and tablets vulnerable to infection from malicious applications, a team from Georgia Institute of Technology said last week at the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium.

+[Also on Network World: Office for iPad could have security implications both good and bad; Researchers demo how apps, chargers can circumvent Apple iPhone, iPad security]+

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Lock picking hotel rooms like James Bond

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Have you ever envied James Bond for his ‘toys,’ his spy tools disguised as innocent objects? Is so, then you’ll be happy to know that for about $ 30 you can now build a pen-sized device that looks like a dry erase marker . . . but it will open about four to five million hotel keycard locks. Read more

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