Amazon Patents a Privacy Monitor That Catches Alexa Skills Collecting Sensitive Data
Every time you talk to an Alexa skill, you might accidentally share more than you intended — a phone number, a health…
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Samsung Patents a Blockchain-Backed File Sharing System for Registered Devices
Samsung is exploring a file-sharing method that wraps transfers between your devices in a blockchain ledger — so every encrypted handoff is…
Samsung Patents an AI System That Scores App Permissions for Privacy Risk
Every app on your phone quietly uses permissions — microphone, contacts, calendar — and most people never know when something sketchy is…
Microsoft Patents an LLM-Driven Threat Hunting Tool Built Around a Tree Interface
Security investigations are notoriously nonlinear — you chase a lead, it goes cold, and you have to backtrack. Microsoft's new patent describes…
Google Patents a Security Platform That Diagnoses and Fixes Itself
Most security platforms tell you something went wrong — Google's patent describes one that figures out why and fixes itself before you…
Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Tightens Its Own Security When It Overheats
Hackers don't just attack software — they attack physics. By deliberately overheating a chip, they can cause it to make computational errors…
Sony Semiconductor Patents a Way to Keep Camera Sensors and Chips on the Same Encryption Key
When a camera sensor and its host processor disagree on which encryption key to use, you get corrupted or unreadable frames. Sony's…
Samsung Patents a Chip-Tied Authentication Key System for Secure Storage
Samsung is patenting a way to generate authentication keys that are cryptographically bound to a specific chip's unique identifier — meaning a…
Red Hat Patents a Cloud-to-Local Secrets Manager Topology Migrator
Migrating sensitive credentials off the cloud without scrambling how they're organized is a real operational headache — and Red Hat thinks it…
IBM Patents a Version-Control System for Security Configs in Container Platforms
Managing security configurations across hundreds of containers is a known headache in modern cloud infrastructure. IBM's new patent tries to bring version…
IBM Patents a System That Automatically Finds Sensitive Data Hiding in Databases
Most companies don't actually know where all their sensitive data lives — it's buried somewhere between the app your employees use and…
IBM Patents a Gesture-Based Authentication System Using Machine Learning
Forget passwords or fingerprints — IBM is exploring whether the way *you* move your hand in space could be enough to prove…
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