‘Weaponizing Vulnerabilities’: New Snowden Doc Reveals Spy Agencies Targeted Smartphones

The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance exploited weaknesses in popular browser and planned to hijack links to app stores to implant spyware on mobile phones, new documents show.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis

The intelligence alliance known as Five Eyes—comprising the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Australia—exploited security weaknesses in one of the world's most popular browsers to obtain data about users and planned to use links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top secret National Security

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Over 2 Billion Smartphones Are Hacker-Friendly

Researchers reveal a smartphone security vulnerability that puts the data and private communiques of millions at risk of being hacked and stolen.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

In 2013, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that, for the first time, most American adults own a smartphone. With 55 percent of the survey’s respondents using either an iPhone or an Android-enabled device, and with only 44 percent indicating they do not use a microcomputer-based cellphone, it’s apparent that

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Defense Dept Grant Used To Speed Up Trauma Care With Smartphones

Armed with a $4 million grant from the Defense Department, doctors and nurses at Cedars-Sinai have been testing ways to improve trauma care by running simulations at the newly opened lab that oozes tech startup.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Before the car-wreck victim reached the emergency room, doctors, residents and nurses at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center knew what to expect by glancing at their smartphones. The details came in the staccato of text messages: A 35-year-old man had driven head-on into a bus. He suffered major chest injuries. His vital signs

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Photos Of Prison Band Rehearsal Land Jailed ‘Prince Of Pot’ In Solitary

Emery is locked in his cell 23 hours a day and denied basic prison amenities.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

Four years into a 5-year prison sentence for selling seeds to grow marijuana plants over the Internet, Canadian Marc Scott Emery -- the publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group -- was placed in solitary confinement for a week at the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Institution in Mississippi. Emery

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