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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

However, if you know where the dangers lurk, there is a way to minimize the cybersecurity risks. The Threat is Definitely Real. In some cases, patches and updates address serious vulnerabilities. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. It encrypts the connection and masks the IP addresses of all devices on the network.

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Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity

Troy Hunt

Later in 2018, I did the same thing with the email address search feature used by Mozilla, 1Password and a handful of other paying subscribers. Every time this very blog loads Font Awesome from Cloudflare's CDN, for example, it's verified against the hash in the integrity attribute of the script tag (view source for yourself).

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

IT Governance

Data apparently includes users’ full names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and partial payment card information. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. Data breached: 21,100,000 records.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: That talk focused on the fact that there are InfoSec hackers openly working to address this problem. Vamosi: So let's first ground ourselves in a common definition of what is and what is not stalkerware. Vamosi: This definition is precise and well suited for apps that record or transmit data in secret.

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

Troy Hunt

But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. This is implemented by IP address which means 2 things: Many legitimate Indian residents would not be able to access the service if they were outside of India (i.e. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. travelling).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Like maybe I should just risk it and just start publishing this stuff to raise awareness. And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers? And so that's where I felt like maybe attacking this not on the network side and the IP side and is the backhaul secure and all this stuff that people are traditionally looking at.