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POTD: Shorties in Switzerland

A wonderful picture from Switzerland to kick off TFB’s Photo Of The Day. We have a table full of Short-Barreled Rifles. Yes, their legal definition and how they’re classified may vary from country to country and sometimes even from state to state. The following rifles are on the table:

B&T P26 CSA VZ58 Sporter Compact AR-15 SAN SG552 BSR74

To my knowledge, the B&T P26 is not available any longer.

T…

Critical Flaws Affect Citrix Endpoint Management (XenMobile Servers)

Citrix today released patches for multiple new security vulnerabilities affecting its Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM), also known as XenMobile, a product made for enterprises to help companies manage and secure their employees’ mobile devices remotely.

Citrix Endpoint Management offers businesses mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) capabilities. It allows…

POTD: German Special Forces Sniper Training in Lithuania

Today’s Photo of the Day brings us to an almost exclusive Made In Germany experience, with the G28 DMR rifle (Designated Marksman Rifle) in use by the German Army. The rifle is a Heckler & Koch 417 with a Schmidt & Bender 3-20×50DMR scope with a single turn turret and DMR reticle, as used by the snipers of the German Special Forces Command (KSK). They also use the G22 sniper rifle. The location…

Flaws in Samsung Phones Exposed Android Users to Remote Attacks

New research disclosed a string of severe security vulnerabilities in the ‘Find My Mobile‘—an Android app that comes pre-installed on most Samsung smartphones—that could have allowed remote attackers to track victims’ real-time location, monitor phone calls, and messages, and even delete data stored on the phone.

Portugal-based cybersecurity services provider Char49 revealed its findingson…

Power electronics and wireless charging startup Eggtronic raises $10M Series A

Eggtronic, the Italy-founded startup developing power electronics, wireless charging and data over power technology and products, has closed around $10 million in Series A funding.

Backing the company is Rinkelberg Capital — the investment fund from the founders of TomTom — and funds managed by an unnamed investment bank in Milan. It brings the total raised by Eggtronic since 2012 to $17…

Friday Night Lights: Offset RMR Night Vision Mounts – Valhalla Tactical RUKH VS. TREX Arms Offset Mount

When it comes to tactical accessories, they typically come from military use. However, in some cases competition world can sometimes lead the way. Offset mounts for red dotsare nothing new. 3-Gun shooters in Open Division are allowed multiple optics and some of the fastest shooters will run an offset red dot along with their magnified optic of choice. It is just faster to roll the gun to get a 1x…

Amazon Alexa Bugs Allowed Hackers to Install Malicious Skills Remotely

Attention! If you use Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa in you smart speakers, just opening an innocent-looking web-link could let attackers install hacking skills on it and spy on your activities remotely.

Check Point cybersecurity researchers—Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Yaara Shriki—today disclosed severe security vulnerabilities in Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant that could render it…

Google’s Lookout app for vision-impaired now scans food labels and long documents

Google has updated its Lookout app, an AI toolkit for people with impaired vision, with two helpful new capabilities: scanning long documents and reading out food labels. Paper forms and similarly shaped products at the store present a challenge for blind folks and this ought to make things easier.

Food labels, if you think about it, are actually a pretty difficult problem for a computer vision…

TFB Review: Ithaca Model 37 Defense

Ithaca Model 37: Slamless Edition

The Ithaca Model 37 started life in 1937 in Ithaca, NY.  The design is derived from the JMB designed Remington model 17.  Chambered in 12 and later 20 ga, the 37 had a few interesting facets of its design that made it somewhat unique.  One was the slab sided, bottom ejecting receiver.  The other was the ability to slam-fire when the slide action was cycled with…

New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls

A team of academic researchers—who previously made the headlines earlier this year for uncovering severe security issues in the 4G LTE and 5G networks—today presented a new attack called ‘ReVoLTE,’ that could let remote attackers break the encryption used by VoLTE voice calls and spy on targeted phone calls.

The attack doesn’t exploit any flaw in the Voice over LTE (VoLTE) protocol; instead, it…

The Oura Ring is the personal health tracking device to beat in 2020

The Oura Ringhas been getting a lot of attention lately because of its role in a number of COVID-19 studies, as well as its adoption by both the NBA and WNBA as a potential tool for helping prevent any outbreaks of the novel coronavirus as those two leagues get back to a regular schedule of play. Oura has released multiple generations of the Ring, which is a health and fitness tracker that…

5 Rare and Unusual Guns Seen in September 2020 Rock Island Premier Firearms Auction Catalog

Welcome back to another installment of our series of articlesdedicated to the most obscure and rare firearms consigned to major American auction houses. Every time an online catalog of a premier gun auction is published, we thoroughly browse it to find and tell you about the gems of firearms’ design and history listed in these catalogs. Today we’ll take a look at five rare and unusual…