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Thanks to technology, we are seeing an increasing number of home testing kits for various diseases that can be uploaded onto our phones and then uploaded online to our doctors, so that they can monitor our health remotely and get the latest information. It sounds convenient, but there is also some danger to that.

A good example would be recently, F-Secure researcher Ken Gannon discovered a vulnerability in Ellume’s nasal swab test, which is a home testing kit for COVID-19. The kit uses Bluetooth to transmit data from the kit to a companion app on a smartphone. However, the vulnerability allowed Gannon to basically create a couple of scripts that would allow him to change the results of the test that was being uploaded.

This means that if someone tested negative, they could change it to positive and vice versa for whatever reasons they might have. However, it should be noted that this wasn’t a particularly easy hack which means that not everyone will be able to start hacking their COVID-19 test kits, but the fact that the vulnerability was there is concerning.

The good news is that Ellume has since patched the issue and the company says that they have followed F-Secure’s recommendations to do more analysis to ensure that the data from their kits are accurate.

A COVID-19 Home Testing Kit Was Hacked To Display Fake Results

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Every year without fail, we’re sure that we’ve all received a couple of spam/scam calls. These calls are annoying because the numbers are generally unknown, which means that it’s hard to tell if this is a legitimate call from a company, or a scam call.

However, it seems that T-Mobile is doing their part to block these calls and according to the carrier, they claim that for 2021, they have managed to block a whopping 21 billion scam, spam, and unwanted robocalls made through its network to its customers. This is thanks to the carrier’s Scam Shield robocall and scam protection service.

According to Jon Freier, President of T-Mobile’s Consumer Group, “Attempted scam calls hit record highs in 2021, but with Scam Shield we are identifying or blocking an average 1.8 billion calls each month — or 700 calls per second! — for our T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile customers. We are the only provider protecting every single customer with the free scam-fighting tools in Scam Shield, regardless of their plan or device.”

While 21 billion calls is an impressive feat, we have to wonder how many did slip through under the radar. After all, there is no perfect system, but we suppose it’s still a good effort. Freier adds, “We know that scammers won’t stop as long as they continue to be successful, so we are doing everything we can to make their job as hard as possible. Scam Shield leverages T-Mobile’s powerful network to help keep our customers protected in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

T-Mobile Blocked 21 Billion Scam Calls In 2021

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Google’s Pixel smartwatch is one of the most anticipated devices on the horizon despite not being a confirmed product, and a new report makes us even more eager to see what’s coming.

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Apple has a real privacy problem with the AirTags. In the recent months, we’ve been hearing various reports of how the AirTags have been used by car thieves to track down their victims, and recently there was also another report of a woman discovering an AirTag hidden in her car’s wheel well.

Now according to the latest report from Fox 2 Detroit, it appears that there is yet another case of the AirTag being abused. The report tells a story of a man by the name of John Nelson who claims that he discovered an AirTag hidden in his 392 Scat Pack 2018 Charger that he had bought two days ago.

According to Nelson, he drove the car to a shopping center in Auburn Hills, and after that he went to a friend’s house. That’s when he discovered a notification on his phone that said he was being tracked by an unknown AirTag. He opened the notification and played the sound and discovered that the AirTag was hidden inside of a drain cap under the trunk of his car.

Thankfully he discovered the tag before anything untoward could have happened, but it’s still pretty worrying. Priced at $100 for a pack of four, the AirTags are so cheap that anyone can buy them and slip them into a variety of bags and places. While Apple does have features to alert users of unknown AirTags in their presence, we’re starting to feel like maybe that isn’t enough.

Man Discovers AirTag Hidden In His Dodge Charger

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Ever since Apple announced their plans to transition away from Intel back in 2020, the company has been steadily putting out new Mac computers that are powered by its own Apple Silicon chipset. To date, the company hasn’t unveiled any new Intel models, but it seems that there could be at least one more model in the works.

According to a report from MacRumors, it seems that Apple could potentially release one more new Intel Mac in the form of the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro, for those unfamiliar, is Apple’s most powerful Mac computer designed with professionals in mind, and as such, it would be interesting to see how Apple could approach it with the Apple Silicon in terms of both CPU and GPU performance.

While we wait on that, the report claims that Apple could refresh the Mac Pro one more time with Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The report suggests that app compatibility could be one of the reasons Apple could still be planning on using Intel’s processors. This is due to how Rosetta 2 handles app “translations”, and the report suggests that maybe Apple wants to wait until it becomes more mature and better before making it available to its professional customers.

There have been reports that Apple will eventually transition the Mac Pro to Apple Silicon, and how the use of the chipset could allow the company to shrink the overall size of the desktop to something more compact but just as powerful.

Apple Still Has One More Intel Mac In The Works

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