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Key takeaways
- While the theft remains unconfirmed, the fact that Foxconn remains a valuable target is all but inevitable.
- The skies above the United States-Canada border are about to get a lot more crowded.
- Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves.
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Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story. The worst part of your i Phone getting stolen may not be the theft itself. Instead, it’s the phishing attacks waged against people in your contacts. New research this week shows that there’s a thriving ecosystem for tools that let criminals unlock i Phones and target the phone numbers they find inside.
Foxconn, the electronics manufacturing giant known for its role in building i Phones, revealed this week that it recently “suffered a cyberattack.” A ransomware group known as Nitrogen, claimed responsibility for the hack and said it had stolen 8 TB of data from the manufacturer. While the theft remains unconfirmed, the fact that Foxconn remains a valuable target is all but inevitable.
The skies above the United States-Canada border are about to get a lot more crowded. The Department of Homeland Security and Defense Research and Development Canada plan to run an experiment this fall testing 5G-connected drones for collecting “real-time battlefield intelligence.”