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Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting

Elie

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol whereby a client can query a centralized breach repository to determine whether a specific username and password combination is publicly exposed, but without revealing the information queried.

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Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers in just 3 seconds

Security Affairs

Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers installed at the gas pumps to steal customers’ credit and debit card information in just 3 seconds on average. Bluetooth card skimmers continue to be one of the favorite tools in the arsenal of crooks that attempt to steal credit and debit card information. In recent years, law enforcement reported many cases of gas stations where cyber criminals have installed Bluetooth card skimmers.

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Manchester City face calls to reconsider facial recognition tech

The Guardian Data Protection

Campaigners say decision to grant fans access by facial scan ‘intrusive’ and ‘disturbing’ Manchester City have been cautioned against the introduction of facial recognition technology, which a civil rights group says would risk “normalising a mass surveillance tool”. The reigning Premier League champions are reportedly considering introducing technology allowing fans to get into the Etihad Stadium more quickly by showing their faces instead of tickets, according to the Sunday Times.

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Intel addresses High-Severity flaws in NUC Firmware and other tools

Security Affairs

Intel released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities in NUC firmware, the Processor Identification Utility, and the Computing Improvement Program. Intel Patch Tuesday for August 2019 addressed high-severity vulnerabilities in NUC firmware, Processor Identification Utility, and Computing Improvement Program. One of the flaws addressed by Intel, tracked as CVE-2019-11140 , is an insufficient session validation vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers for privilege esc

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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A Brief History of Vanity License Plates Gone Wrong

WIRED Threat Level

The stories might sound unbelievable, but they’re all real—and a cautionary tale for anyone who wants to get clever at the DMV.

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Make a smooth transition to the cloud

Quest Software

See what DCIG had to say about Quest's helpful backup and recovery tools that ease the transition to the cloud.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 227

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! 10-year-old vulnerability in Avaya VoIP Phones finally fixed. Boffins hacked Siemens Simatic S7, most secure controllers in the industry.

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Welcome to ILTACON 2019!: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual educational conference of 2019 (known as ILTACON) kicked off yesterday with several networking events, and begins in earnest today with the first day of sessions. As always, eDiscovery Daily will once again be covering the show. Over the next four days, we will provide a description each day of some of the sessions related to eDiscovery to give you a sense of the topics being covered.

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At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks

Security Affairs

At least 23 local governments were impacted by a wave of ransomware attacks that according to the experts are the result of a coordinated effort. Texas is the victim of an ongoing wave of ransomware attacks that are targeting local governments. At least 23 local government organizations were impacted by the ransomware attacks, the Department of Information Resources (DIR) is currently investigating them and providing supports to mitigate the attacks. “The Department of Information Resource

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.