Hackers Can Use Ultrasonic Waves to Secretly Control Voice Assistant Devices

The Hacker News Daily Updates Becoming the Hacker ($31.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time Protect the web by learning the tools and the tricks of the web application attacker. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Mar 2, 2020 Hackers Can Use Ultrasonic Waves to Secretly Control Voice Assistant Devices Researchers have discovered a new means to target voice-controlled devices by propagating ultrasonic waves through solid materials in order to interact with and compromise them using inaudible voice commands without the victims' knowledge. Called "SurfingAttack," the attack leverages the unique ... Read More GhostCat: New High-Risk Vulnerability Affects Servers Running Apache Tomcat If your web server is running on Apache Tomcat, you should immediately install the latest available version of the server application to prevent hackers from taking unauthorized control over it. Yes, that's possible because all versions (9.x/8.x/7.x/6.x) of the Apache Tomcat released in the past ... Read More Let's Encrypt Issued A Billion Free SSL Certificates in the Last 4 Years Let's Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate signing authority (CA) from the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), has said it's issued a billion certificates since its launch in 2015. The CA issued its first certificate in September 2015, before eventually reaching 100 ... Read More Why Businesses Should Consider Managed Cloud-Based WAF Protection The City of Baltimore was under cyber-attack last year, with hackers demanding $76,000 in ransom. Though the city chose not to pay the ransom, the attack still cost them nearly $18 million in damages, and then the city signed up for a $20 million cyber insurance policy. It's very evident that ... Read More New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over A Billion Devices Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability residing in the widely-used Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress—apparently powering over a billion devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, routers, and IoT gadgets. Dubbed 'Kr00k' and ... Read More Becoming the Hacker ($31.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time Protect the web by learning the tools and the tricks of the web application attacker. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India