MasterTrend InfoFeb 7, 2024

Taping over your webcam might not be enough to stop hackers from spying on you — they can now use a device's ambient light sensor https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/webcams/taping-over-your-webcam-might-not-be-enough-to-stop-hackers-from-spying-on-you

Hackers can exploit the ambient light sensor in devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops to spy on users.

#cybersecurity #privacy #ambientlightsensor #hackers #onlinesafety

Taping over your webcam might not be enough to stop hackers from spying on you — they can now use a device's ambient light sensor

Time to install another privacy shutter (or piece of tape).

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LEDEdit PROMay 21, 2023

ESP8266 NodeMCU With BH1750 Ambient Light Sensor Using Arduino
https://lededitpro.com/esp8266-nodemcu-with-bh1750-ambient-light-sensor

#esp8266 #NodeMCU #BH1750 #arduino #AmbientLightSensor #LightSensor #lededitpro

ESP8266 NodeMCU With BH1750 Ambient Light Sensor Using Arduino

In this tutorial, you learn how to use the BH1750 ambient light sensor with the ESP8266. The sensor is very easy to use.

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Serge Matveenko ♻️☮️ ⩜⃝Jun 8, 2021

They even install IR cameras on laptops and still no ambient light sensor. Whatahel?

#whatahel #laptops #ircamera #ambientlightsensor #als

https://mastodon.social/@rzrOct 15, 2019
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/stealing-sensitive-browser-data-with-the-w3c-ambient-light-sensor-api/# #InfoSec : Stealing sensitive #browserdata with the #W3C #AmbientLightSensor API
Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API

In this post we describe and demonstrate a neat trick to exfiltrate sensitive information from your browser using a surprising tool: your smartphone or laptop’s ambient light sensor. In short: 1. We provide background about the light sensor API and current discussions to expose it more broadly to websites. 2. We show how the color of the screen of the user’s device can affect light sensor readings, and explain why this has dangerous security and privacy consequences. We focus on

Thomas Steiner Jul 3, 2018

RT @[email protected]: Freshly blogged! Getting started with the Ambient Light Sensor

https://deanhume.com/ambient-light-sensor/

#javascript #PWA #ambientlightsensor

Getting started with the Ambient Light Sensor

The Ambient Light Sensor API provides developers with the means to determine ambient light levels as detected by the device’s main light detector. This information is available to developers in terms of lux units.