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Give your older car a modern dashboard in one afternoon (and save $100 doing it)

If your car still has the factory stereo that feels stuck in 2014, this is one of the cleanest quality-of-life upgrades you can make. The Kenwood DMX4710S 6.8-inch multimedia receiver is $299.99, which is $100 off the $399.99 compared value. The main draw is simple: wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto so you can get […]

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The β€œbuilt-in backyard audio” dream is $1,000 cheaper right now

Outdoor audio usually falls into two buckets: a little Bluetooth speaker that gets lost once people start talking, or a full setup that actually fills the space the way a living-room system does. This Sonance MAG6.1 landscape outdoor speaker system is for the second bucket, and it’s down to $1,799.00, saving you $1,000 off the […]

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Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (EoL) of the expensive home theater devices.

In October, Bose announced that its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars would become dumb speakers on February 18. At the time, Bose said that the speakers would only work if a device was connected via AUX, HDMI, or Bluetooth (which has higher latency than Wi-Fi).

After that date, the speakers would stop receiving security and software updates and lose cloud connectivity and their companion app, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based company said. Without the app, users would no longer be able to integrate the device with music services, such as Spotify, have multiple SoundTouch devices play the same audio simultaneously, or use or edit saved presets.

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Israel to launch advanced malware eavesdropping on your computer

Scientists from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have developed malware that can eavesdrop on computers by using an air-gapped network. By manipulating the power supply, a specific audio signal is transmitted, which in turn is intercepted. That means even data stored on an offline computer is no longer safe.

The scientists named their malware Power-Supplay, referring to data leaks from an air-gapped computer. These are devices that are not connected to outgoing networks, such as the internet. The driving force behind Power-Supplay is a phenomenon called Β΄singing capacitator,Β΄ which makes a capacitator transmit a sound with high frequency, as soon as different quantities of power are flowing through. The operators of the malware can manipulate the power supply very precisely and determine the audio signal of the capacitator.

Yes, the irrepressible Mordechai Guri has found another weird way to exfiltrate data from an #airgapped machine: using singing capacitors. I bet the CIA is quaking in its boots at his β€œPOWER-SUPPLaY” scheme: https://t.co/Ts39RFMCoK

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β€” @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) May 6, 2020

Subsequently, an operator nearby can intercept the acoustic signals and steal the binary data from the targeted computer. A smartphone is sufficient to receive and store the stolen data. It is possible to filter the data up to six meters, but it also depends on the ambient noise. In close proximity, the malware can generate up to 40 bits of data per second, and on more considerable distances 10 bits per second.

The group of scientists is lead by Mordechai Guri, an expert in the field of eavesdropping on air-gapped networks. Previously, Guri researched techniques to manipulate screen brightness, to read infrared lenses of security cameras, and to modify sound ports of computers. Hacking is generally considered an online affair. However, Guri takes retrieving data through unconventional means to a whole other level.

The video below roughly demonstrates how Power-Supplay works:

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