A flaw in Virgin Media wireless home routers, allowing them to gain unauthorised administrative-level access to the devices has been discovered by Researchers from Context Information Security.

Vulnerabilities have been found in a Bluetooth CloudPets Unicorn toy by researchers at Context Information Security. They were able to take control of the toy’s voice recording functionality. The CloudPets range of cuddly toys uses Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) to communicate with a smartphone app, allowing parents to record an audio messages on their phone and send it to their child’s toy, or vice versa.

  Criminals can gain a treasure trove of sensitive information by listening in to board meetings, suggest security researchers at Context Information Security, who have shown that some conference phone systems might be at risk from hackers.