Air India says data on 4.5 million passengers stolen
Hackers have stolen data on about 4.5 million Air India passengers around the world in the latest breach reported by a major airline.
May 22, 2021
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Vulnerability found in Apple's T2 security chip
Security firm IronPeak has found a vulnerability in Apple's T2 security chip. They claim in a blog post that the vulnerability allows would-be hackers to gain root access to a wide variety of Apple computers.
Security
Cybersecurity seen as rising risk for airlines after 9/11
After remaking their security procedures following the 9/11 attacks to stop airline hijackings, carriers are now faced with rising threats targeting computers and electronic equipment critical to their operations and safety.
Sep 11, 2021
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Security tool guarantees privacy in surveillance footage
Surveillance cameras have an identity problem, fueled by an inherent tension between utility and privacy. As these powerful little devices have cropped up seemingly everywhere, the use of machine learning tools has automated ...
Mar 28, 2022
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A simple tool to make websites more secure and curb hacking
An international team of researchers has developed a scanning tool to make websites less vulnerable to hacking and cyberattacks.
Jun 22, 2022
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As more biometric data is collected in schools, parents need to ask these 10 questions
A Sydney high school recently introduced fingerprint technology to "help narrow down" students who were vandalizing school toilets.
Nov 30, 2022
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New CPU security loophole: Analysis of energy consumption allows data theft
Researchers at TU Graz and the Helmholtz Center for Information Security have discovered a novel security gap in all common main processors (CPUs) of computers that can hardly be mitigated. CPUs are designed to run multiple ...
Aug 2, 2023
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Radio waves for the detection of hardware tampering
As far as data security is concerned, there is an even greater danger than remote cyberattacks: namely tampering with hardware that can be used to read out information—such as credit card data from a card reader. Researchers ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Helping companies prioritize their cybersecurity investments
One reason that cyberattacks have continued to grow in recent years is that we never actually learn all that much about how they happen. Companies fear that reporting attacks will tarnish their public image, and even those ...
Sep 4, 2020
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PLATYPUS reveals new vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors
An international team of security researchers, including experts from the University of Birmingham, is presenting new side-channel attacks, which use fluctuations in software power consumption to access sensitive data on ...
Nov 11, 2020
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