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Zerush@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

A type of cyberattack that could set your smartphone on fire using its wireless charger

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A type of cyberattack that could set your smartphone on fire using its wireless charger

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Zerush@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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A team of security experts at the University of Florida working with security audit company CertiK has found that a certain class of cyberattacks could cause a smartphone to catch fire via its wireless charger. The team has posted a paper describing their research and results on the arXiv preprint server.
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    Let’s pray they don’t find a way to detonate the batteries!

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      As in older iPhones? Without the need of an malicious charger

      • https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/more-exploding-iphones/
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        Also Samsung Note 7 was da bomb!

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          It is the result of, to make the phone thinner, putting a battery that is too thin for the necessary power and therefore it gets too hot. It happens when the design is governed by the commercial demands of managers rather than those of technicians.

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