#internet of things

Remote Mouse turns your smartphone into a handy PC remote

Ivan Franco writes at TechSpot about Remote Mouse, an app that turns a phone or tablet into a wireless mouse, keyboard and touchpad for a computer. It runs on iOS and Android, and the helper software it talks to works on Windows, macOS and Linux. Along with the basic pointer and typing, there are panels […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

New wave of fridge cyberattacks hits European supermarkets, this time in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden and Estonia

A new wave of fridge cyberattacks hit supermarket refrigeration systems across five European countries, raising temperatures and causing food losses. A new wave of fridge cyberattacks has affected supermarket refrigeration systems in several European countries. Fridges and freezers suddenly rose in temperature overnight, with some incidents suspected to be caused by hackers. On Monday, November […]

Security Affairs · EN

Bloatware in Aftermarket Auto Parts

This story is interesting: One Civic owner purchased a cheap aftermarket head unit off Amazon, and decided to have Claude work its magic on it, like it would a smart TV. What was reportedly discovered isn’t surprising, but is worth knowing about. Among the pre-installed bloatware—­or spyware, if you’re being less charitable­—was a voice assistant equipped with WebView, an Android system component that lets apps display content off the web. This apparently always used about a third of processing power, even while idle, which isn’t great. There were also Baidu location services, a call recorder

Schneier on Security · EN