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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. IoT devices are exposed to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Poor credentials.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise? agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018.

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Security Keys

Imperial Violet

The FIDO Alliance is a group of major relying parties, secure token manufacturers, and others which defines many of the standards around Security Keys. Predictions of, and calls for, the end of passwords have been ringing through the press for many years now. One common form of second factor authentication is TOTP / HOTP. RSA SecurID ).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Environmental effects caused by pollution. This included the rapid adoption of smart meters. For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. It's estimated that within the first year, over half the homes in the United States had spark meters installed. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. OSes today are basically ineffective database managers, so why not build an OS that’s a database manager? Michael Coden, Associate Director, Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan, along with Michael Stonebreaker will present this novel concept at RSAC 2023. He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021.