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Cory Doctorow / 11:34 am Thu, Jan 16, 2020

Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks

Now that many online services rely on sending SMSes to your phone to authenticate your identify, thieves and stalkers have created a whole "SIM swap" industry where they defraud your phone company or bribe employees to help them steal your phone account so they can break into all your other accounts. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 9:52 am Wed, Aug 22, 2018

Vulnerabilities in smart electric plugs give attackers a staging point for scanning and attacking your whole network

If an attacker takes control of a device inside your network -- by exploiting a defect in it or a mistake you made in configuring it or by tricking you somehow -- then they can do all kinds of bad things, like scanning your local network for other vulnerable devices, attacking them and taking control over them. Read the rest