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Here’s how long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on a range of Android devices in as little as 45 minutes. Dubbed BrutePrint by its creators, the attack requires an adversary to have physical control of a device...

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It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved

Enlarge / Detail of the ethernet ports on an Asus DSL-AC88U router, taken on November 30, 2017. (Photo by Olly Curtis/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images) On Wednesday, Asus router users around the world took to the Internet to report that their devices suddenly froze up for no apparent reason and then, upon rebooting repeatedly, stopped...