The macOS Keychain attack, Signal’s new private contact discovery service, the Deloitte hack, and a handful of mobile stock trading app vulnerabilities are discussed.

IOActive analyzed 21 mobile stock trading platforms and found vulnerabilities that put transactions and personal information at risk. Of the 13 firms notified, only two acknowledged the disclosure.

The news of the week is discussed, including the AWS S3 leaks, Zerodium’s bounty on messaging app zero days, Ropemaker, and cobot vulnerabilities.

Researchers at IOActive are sounding an early alarm on the security of industrial collaboration robots, or cobots. These machines work side-by-side with people and contain vulnerabilities that could put physical safety at risk.

Three radiation monitoring device vendors will not patch a handful of vulnerabilities that could be abused by hackers, including a backdoor that affords high privileges on one device.

IOActive Labs released a report Wednesday warning that consumer, industrial, and service robots in use today have serious security vulnerabilities.

Panasonic Avionics has pushed back against research released Tuesday by IOActive disclosing vulnerabilities in in-flight entertainment systems.

IOActive researchers disclosed vulnerabilities in Panasonic Avionics In-Flight Entertainment systems that could be abused to manipulate flight data shown to passengers, or steal their personal information.

Researchers have identified a router so fraught with vulnerabilities and so “utterly broken” that it can be exploited to do pretty much anything. An attacker could bypass its authentication, peruse sensitive information stored in the router’s system logs and even use the device to execute OS commands with root privileges via a hardcoded root password. Tao Sauvage,...

The National Security Agency’s silence in the Apple-FBI story is probably not so surprising. But that hasn’t stopped people from dragging the NSA’s name into the conversation. The latest to do so is Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chair under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Clarke appeared on NPR with David Greene and said...