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Tag Archives: Security threats
Medtronic rushes to replace insulin pumps after flaws found
Medtronic is immediately recalling of all MiniMed 508 & Paradigm insulin pumps after researchers uncovered serious security flaws.
Tesla 3 navigation system fooled with GPS spoofing
Cybersecurity researchers have fooled the Tesla Model 3’s automatic navigation system into rapidly braking and taking a wrong turn on the highway.
FTC crackdown targets operators behind 1 billion robocalls
It’s a drop in the “4.7 billion robocalls placed per month” bucket, but hey, it’s better than nothing!
Are heart electrocardiograms the next big thing in biometrics?
After fingers, the iris of the eye, ears and even lips, it was probably inevitable that someone would propose the human heart might be the next big thing in biometric security.
Hacker threw Molotov cocktail, dropped USB drive of his DDoS deeds
Those things drop out of pockets at the worst times. Like, say, when you’re hurling a bomb at a brick-and-mortar that you’ve also DDoSed.
Social engineering forum hacked, user data dumped on rival site
Social Engineered, dedicated to the “Art of Human Hacking,” was gutted, with 55,121 users’ details leaked on the same day as the hack.
VLC media player gets biggest security update ever
Maintainers of the world’s most popular open source media player, VLC, has issued the biggest single set of security fixes in the program’s history.
WeTransfer sends user file links to wrong people
Popular file transfer service WeTransfer faces embarrassment this week after admitting that it had mailed file links to the wrong users.
Presidential text alerts are open to spoofing attacks, warn researchers
Researchers have shown that it’s technically possible for hackers to target the US Presidential text Alerts system to send fake messages.