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mjg59 | I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was just as bad as you’d imagine

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html Another story on bad IoT security… Posted from WordPress for Android →

Hackers have figured out how easy it is to take down a hospital | Fusion

Hackers have figured out how easy it is to take down a hospital article tells that when 18 USB sticks were dropped into a hospital, within 24 hours, at least one of them had been plugged into a nurse’s station, infecting it with malware. Hackers were soon able to get into the hospital’s network and take →

Click bait: Tor users can be tracked by mouse movements — RT Viral

The way you move your mouse is unique, like fingerprints, and can be used by dark forces to track you on supposedly anonymous and secure networks like Tor, according to a Barcelona researcher. Jose Carlos Norte discovered the snooping method in recent weeks: Using Javascript, a hacker could identify a user based on the movements in →

Why Is the U.S. Determined to Have the Least-Secure Credit Cards in the World? – The Atlantic

For years, when it came to credit-card security, the United States was the last major holdout in the developed world, continuing to issue cards with magnetic stripes rather than the more-secure microchip EMV cards (EMV stands for the three companies that pioneered the chip: Europay, Mastercard, and Visa). http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/us-determined-to-have-the-least-secure-credit-cards-in-the-world/473199/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

In one single image, establishment and mainstream media show their utter ignorance of security | Privacy Online News

Now consider this story by the New York Post, which cries out in terror that a master key to the New York City utilities has leaked. The New York Post is crying out in terror that this master key is on the loose, and goes on to publish the full secret of the key, →

NEC uses sound echoes in your ear as biometric authentication | Science! | Geek.com

We have biometrics, which replaces all that security with a unique aspect of your body, be it a fingerprint, iris scan, or now even the unique sound echo created by your ear. That last one has been developed by NEC Corp in collaboration with Nagaoka University of Technology. They realized that the shape of an →

Three Reasons Why Everyone Should Consider Using Ad Blocker — Faith and future — Medium

For an internet advertising company to make money, it can only happen because of the internet user. Yet sometimes it seems almost as if the advertising technology industry is at war with internet users. With more than 50% of savvy internet users in US on ad blockers, and ad blockers being among the most downloaded →

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