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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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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 apparently includes users’ full names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and partial payment card information. The claim is yet to be verified. EasyPark data breach: 21.1

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Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021

eSecurity Planet

The Armis Platform offers the behavioral analysis of billions of devices to inform the Armis Device Knowledgebase, which monitors and alerts administrators to anomalies in IoT device traffic. Launched in 2015, Armis Security specializes in providing agentless IoT security for today’s enterprise infrastructure. Armis Features.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

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. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. In the early days, there were not too many of these key fobs. So entropy, randomization. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. US Army Video: Operations security or OpSec, preserves the effectiveness of military capabilities and keeps potential adversaries from discovering our critical information.

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

Troy Hunt

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. It's also an era where this sort of information is constantly leaked to unauthorised parties; last year Equifax lost control of 145.5 billion locals' data. They claim that they're hack-proof.

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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.