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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality. Co-ordination is key.

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AUSTRALIA: Assistance and Access Act, December 2018 – Holy grail of uncertainty created by new rushed-in data encryption laws

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Of particular public concern is the issue raised that law enforcement agencies will be allowed to directly intercept messages sent through end-to-end encryption under technical assistance and capability notices, affecting tools used by companies such as Google, WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, and Telegram (who have all publicly denounced the Act).

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

BK: But certainly there are some areas of computer hardware and network design where you absolutely must have far greater integrity assurance? Once I know I can trace back the construction of a computer board to a certain place, you’ve built a different kind of security challenge for the attacker.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking High-Tech Cars

ForAllSecure

A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. As more and more automotive manufacturers start incorporating computer technology into their expensive BMWs, Mercedes Ferraris and Porsches. Lacking any formal computer training. And for the most part, this is true. To take it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

The flaw was discovered and reported directly to the administrators of Log4j, widely used open source tool, who then patched it. While this episode of The Hacker Mind isn’t specifically about Log4Shell, it is about finding flaws in open source tools like Log4j that we use, that are perhaps more ubiquitous than most of us even realize.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

And now it was like how can I contribute back to Tibet and put material out and help other people maybe join in the same way I did by not traditional means like, it wasn't really college or anything that got me into electronics. And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers? Turns out they weren't.

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Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

Security Affairs

BitsAdmin.exe is a command-line tool that system admin can use to create download or upload jobs and monitor their progress over time. Now I was able to see encrypted URLs coming from infected hosts. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Important steps ahead are intentionally missing.