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Report: Mandatory Olympic app has serious security flaws
A smartphone app that athletes and others attending next month's Winter Games in Beijing must install has glaring security problems that could expose sensitive data to interception, according to a report published Tuesday.
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Protecting EV charging stations from cyberattacks
As the number of electric cars on the road grows, so does the need for their electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and the Internet-based managing systems within those stations. However, these managing systems face their ...
Jan 14, 2022
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Poland: huge military data leak has only public information
Poland's Defense Ministry said Friday that a massive leak from a military equipment database includes only publicly available information and is not harmful.
Jan 14, 2022
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Cyber attack in Albuquerque latest to target public schools
When the superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools announced earlier this week a cyber attack would lead to the cancellation of classes for around 75,000 students, he noted that the district's technology department had ...
Jan 14, 2022
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Teen hacker claims ability to control 25 Teslas worldwide
A 19-year-old security researcher claims to have hacked remotely into more than 25 Tesla Inc. cars in 13 countries, saying in a series of tweets that a software flaw allowed him to access the EV pioneer's systems.
Jan 13, 2022
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Business
Largest seller of stolen credit cards on Dark Web shuts down
Another seller of stolen credit cards on the dark web appears to be closing up shop.
Jan 13, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Modelling the spread of viruses
New research published in the International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research plots a new route for viral propagation in a computer network.
Jan 13, 2022
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Security
Report: Dozens of El Salvador journalists, activists hacked
Dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with sophisticated spyware over the past year and a half, an internet watchdog said Wednesday.
Jan 13, 2022
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Ransomware attack locks down US prison
A ransomware attack locked down a US jail, knocking out security cameras and leaving inmates confined to their cells, court documents show.
Jan 12, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Personalized smart guns, which allow only verified users to shoot, may become available in US
Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may be arriving to U.S. markets.
Jan 12, 2022
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Raspberry Pi system can detect viruses on other devices without use of software
A team of researchers at the Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems has built a non-software-based virus detection system using a Raspberry Pi, an H-field probe and an oscilloscope to detect electromagnetic wave ...
Jan 11, 2022 report
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Internet
Google Docs comment feature exploited to distribute phishing links
A team of security researchers at Avanan is reporting that hackers are taking advantage of a Google Docs security vulnerability—one that takes advantage of a comment feature. They are claiming that they saw hackers using ...
Jan 07, 2022 report
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Security
Seeking a way of preventing audio models for AI machine learning from being fooled
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly based on machine learning models, trained using large datasets. Likewise, human-computer interaction is increasingly dependent on speech communication, mainly due to the remarkable ...
Jan 06, 2022
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Internet
How cybercriminals turn paper checks stolen from mailboxes into bitcoin
While cybercrime gets a lot of attention from law enforcement and the media these days, I've been documenting a less high-tech threat emerging in recent months: a surge in stolen checks.
Jan 06, 2022
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