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DHS awards two grants to help defend cars from hacking/cyberattacks

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Dissent

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded two grants for the development of technologies that can help defend government and privately owned vehicles from cyberattacks. “Modern vehicles are no longer purely mechanical systems,” said Dr. Dan Massey, S&T Cyber Physical Systems Security (CPSSEC) Program Manager. “Today’s vehicles have interdependent cyber components…

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PHIprivacy.net posts now incorporated in DataBreaches.net

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Dissent

To regular readers of DataBreaches.net and those first migrating over from PHIprivacy.net: Because the time and expense of operating three web sites became seriously headache-inducing for me, I’ve consolidated PHIprivacy.net and DataBreaches.net. All medical/health data breach reports that appeared on PHIprivacy.net have now been incorporated in the “Health Data” category on this site. Non-breach posts from PHIprivacy.net…

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Hacking Team Offering Encryption Cracking Tools to Law Enforcement Agencies

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Dissent

Swati Khandelwal writes: The infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential information stolen earlier this year, has resumed its operations and started pitching new hacking tools to help US law enforcement gets around their encryption issues. Yes, Hacking Team is back with a new set of Encryption Cracking Tools…

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Chinese popped-box VPN crims screamed hacker booty in cleartext

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Dissent

Darren Pauli reports: China-based virtual private network provider Terracotta, a favourite of some of the most capable hacking groups, is pumping their stolen user credentials in cleartext. The forehead-slapping gaffe was revealed by RSA fraud prober Kent Backman, while outlining more details about the Terracotta VPN organisation first described in August. All of the nodes Terracotta…

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No Bank Card Required: Citigroup Testing Eye-Scanning ATM

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Dissent

James Eng reports: No card reader, no PIN pad, no touch-screen display — how you bank at your ATM could drastically change in the not-so-distant future. Citigroup is testing an automated teller machine made by Canton, Ohio-based Diebold that relies on your smartphone and perhaps an eye scan to dispense your cash. Read more on…

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Dark Side: The rise and fall of a suburban hacker

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Dissent

Matt Hrodey had an interesting piece on Daniel Placek of Darkode infamy. It begins: Daniel Placek was just old enough to buy a beer when the FBI knocked on the door to his parents’ house in Bayside, where he was living, and seized his computer. Placek, a 21-year-old self-taught computer programmer, confessed most everything to the…

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