Nearly 8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers and 40 million former customers are affected
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Hacker claims to have full data from 100M T-Mobile customers, carrier investigation underway
T-Mobile is investigating a forum post that claims to be selling personal information related to over 100 million customers.
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This homemade Star Trek Tricorder is powered by a Raspberry Pi
One of the most iconic devices from the science fiction universe of Star Trek is the Tricorder, a handheld device often used for scanning, analysis, and recording. There have been many officially-licensed toy Tricorders and Tricorder-themed phone cases over the years, but one dedicated tinkerer has made his own functional clone.
Imgur user Himmelen has posted photos of his homemade Tricorder, showing off a 3D-printed folding device that looks much like the prop from Star Trek shows and films (via HackADay). The top section has a small LCD screen and a USB port, while the lower half has a working button panel and another display.
“This is a fully custom cyberdeck-ish project ive been building during the pandemic that I’ve styled after a Tricorder from Star Trek,” the creator said in a Reddit thread. He mentioned the device is powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero, a small single-board computer, fitted with a GPS module and NESDR RTL-SDR radio. The keyboard alone is an impressive achievement, as it’s connected to an external Arduino Nano (another single-board device) that handles input, then sends the results to the Raspberry Pi.
If you want to check out all the photos, head on over to the full Imgur album. The Reddit thread also has a few more comments from the creator on the build process.
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Unreported Tizen vulnerabilities believed to be in the dozens
The operating system that Samsung wants to replace Android with on its smartphones is ripe with hacking holes and old code.
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UK Cabinet ministers go without Apple Watch for fear of Russian hackers
UK Cabinet meetings have gotten less breathy and have been discharged of modern jewelry as Prime Minister Theresa May’s administration has banned the use of the Apple Watch during them.Already, mobile phones were given the boot for the very same security concerns that have affected the Apple Watch. That threat may be coming from Russia.“The Russians are trying to hack everything,” said one source ...
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XDA devs craft up Android Nougat for Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (2013)
The beloved, if design-maligned Nexus 5 is not unofficially dead just yet.Within a day of Google dropping the Android Nougat images for certain Nexus devices that aren’t the Nexus 5, XDA developers have been figuring out a build for the fan favorite phone. One did so, though it’s ...
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Pocketnow Throwback: HTC HD2 (Video)
Even at launch, there was nothing humble about the HTC HD2. With the largest screen ever grafted onto a smartphone, the first-of-its-kind Qualcomm Scorpion SoC, and the heaviest skin ever crafted for a Windows Mobile device (here called “HTC Sense” for the first time), the HD2 was a behemoth – the biggest spec beast ever devised. It married the touch-and-go simplicity of the iPhone with the power of WinMo 6 to produce the best Microsoft-powered smartphone anyone ...
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Harden Your Android Against Hacking Attempts (Video)
One of the reasons we all love Android is because it can do so many things, especially when rooted. Unfortunately with that comes the ability for bad guys to do many things, especially when rooted. Luckily there is something that we can do to help protect from some of the more popular “attack vectors”. SecDroid is an app available from either its XDA thread or the Google Play Store which ...