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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

The Threat is Definitely Real. 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. Users could leave all the responsibility to governments and other institutions.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

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

Troy Hunt

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with.

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

ForAllSecure

In the 1950s we started to get early operating systems, and these included supervisory programs that helped manage the data coming in and going back out. But the interesting thing about that is that these column oriented data warehouse DBMS are extremely fast at searching. With simple, really fast SQL queries. Right, okay.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. In particular, he was reading the data off of the various smart meters learning when they were last shut off. I logged all that data. Hask This is a map of Dallas, Texas.