Apple Patents Unfakeable Audio Alerts That Could Lock Down Your Mic and Camera
Apple is patenting a dedicated security chip that plays an audio tone every time your microphone or camera is activated, and that…
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Samsung Patents Technology to Shield Sensitive Phone Tasks in a Separate Locked Environment
Most phones rely on a dedicated security chip to handle sensitive tasks like payments and biometrics. Samsung's new patent describes a software-only…
IBM Patents a Way to Find Security Leaks Hidden in a Chip's Power Draw
Your computer's chip might be broadcasting your secrets through nothing more than how much electricity it consumes at any given moment. IBM…
Intel Patents a Chip Security System That Quarantines Suspicious Messages Mid-Transfer
When a secure message between two chips just... never arrives, is that a glitch or an attack? Intel's new patent describes a…
IBM Patents a System That Stops Private Data From Exposing During Code Testing
Debugging software is supposed to expose everything under the hood, but that creates a real problem when the code is handling passwords,…
Microsoft Patents a System for Catching AI-Generated Voices
As AI voice cloning gets cheaper and more convincing, Microsoft is building a detector that learns to spot synthetic speech by studying…
Apple Patent Uses UWB Technology to Verify Location Before Sensitive Data Transfers
Apple is patenting a system that won't hand over your data until it physically confirms where you are standing, using the same…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Vault System for Managing Data Encryption Keys
Samsung is patenting a system where a device encrypts its own encryption key twice over, sending it to two completely separate security…
Samsung Patents a System That Scrubs Personal Data Before It Hits the Blockchain
Blockchains are famously permanent and public, which creates a real problem when a device wants to share data on one without exposing…
New Patent Splits Master Encryption Key Across Multiple Trusted Parties
What happens to your encrypted data if the one key protecting it is lost or stolen? Sony's new patent describes a way…
Microsoft Patents a Circuit That Randomizes Encryption Math to Block Spy Attacks
Your device could be doing all the right encryption math and still leak your secrets, just by the pattern of power it…
AMD Patents an Internal Security Check for Network Chips That Blocks Unauthorized Access
AMD has filed a patent for a method that puts a security gatekeeper inside the network chip itself, so that even traffic…
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