{"id":183577,"date":"2024-02-25T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/newly-found-cyberattack-can-set-your-smartphone-on-fire-heres-how"},"modified":"2024-02-25T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T13:25:57","slug":"newly-found-cyberattack-can-set-your-smartphone-on-fire-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/newly-found-cyberattack-can-set-your-smartphone-on-fire-heres-how","title":{"rendered":"Newly-Found Cyberattack Can Set Your Smartphone on Fire: Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-found-cyberattack-can-set-your-smartphone-on-fire-heres-how2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security experts at the University of Florida, in collaboration with CertiK, a security audit company, have uncovered a potential cybersecurity threat that could result in smartphones catching fire when placed on wireless chargers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2024-02-cyberattack-smartphone-wireless-charger.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to TechXplore<\/a>, this discovery highlights vulnerabilities in the Qi communication-based feedback control system used in inductive chargers, which wirelessly transfer energy to devices through electromagnetic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts at the University of Florida, in collaboration with CertiK, a security audit company, have uncovered a potential cybersecurity threat that could result in smartphones catching fire when placed on wireless chargers. According to TechXplore, this discovery highlights vulnerabilities in the Qi communication-based feedback control system used in inductive chargers, which wirelessly transfer energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}