Tag Archives: bluetooth

Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds

Security firm Sentinel One has a deeper dive into CVE-2025-20701 here. Heinze and Steinmetz said last year that the full chain of attacks gave attackers the ability to do other malicious things, including retrieving call history and contacts, and even calling arbitrary numbers. Many of those capabilities are dependent on the specific devices being paired,… Read More: Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds »

How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched

After successfully replacing the firmware with a replacement image that did nothing more than display the word “patched” on the speaker’s LED display, the researcher got to wondering what else a hacker might do. So he turned his attention to FreeRTOS, the open source operating system that ran the Katana V2X. It contained a set… Read More: How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever… »

New Bluetooth hack can unlock your Tesla—and all kinds of other devices

Getty Images reader comments 52 with 39 posters participating, including story author Share this story When you use your phone to unlock a Tesla, the device and the car use Bluetooth signals to measure their proximity to each other. Move close to the car with the phone in hand, and the door automatically unlocks. Move… Read More: New Bluetooth hack can unlock your Tesla—and all kinds of… »

Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in Linux

reader comments 41 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story Google and Intel are warning of a high-severity Bluetooth flaw in all but the most recent version of the Linux Kernel. While a Google researcher said the bug allows seamless code execution by attackers within Bluetooth range, Intel is characterizing the flaw… Read More: Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in… »