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Smart Cities and Connected Communities - the need for standards

CGI

The first phase of development will see hospital appointments by video link, ambulances video conferencing with clinical specialists, live streaming of CCTV footage from buses and real-world testing of driverless cars. The UK Smart City vision. But beyond these innovative technology use-cases lies a much more wide-ranging vision.

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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. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one.

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

IT Governance

Data breached: 21,100,000 records. Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93