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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. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

At CanSecWest 2022, researcher Martin Herfurt announced a new tool, TeslaKee.com , which he hopes prevents wireless key attacks from happening. Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore.

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How DMARC Can Protect Against Ransomware

eSecurity Planet

Now it may have an even more important role to play: preventing ransomware attacks. These malicious encryption attacks that take your data hostage are the most financially harmful attacks for companies. Rampant Ransomware Attacks. Cyber extortion is a common concern. East Coast.

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Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021

eSecurity Planet

As the enterprise attack surface grows, IoT is yet another attack vector organizations aren’t fully prepared to defend. Armis was acquired at a $1 billion price tag by Insight Partners in January 2020, joining Insight’s other cybersecurity subsidiaries like SentinelOne, Perimeter81, Mimecast, and Tenable. Armis Features.

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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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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.