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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Contactless Payment Cards Will Approve Foreign Currency Transactions of up to 999,999.99
“With just a mobile phone we created a POS terminal that could read a card through a wallet,” explains Martin Emms, from the NewCastle University research team during the 2014 ACM CCS Conference held in the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, contactless payment card, credit card, foreign currency, PCI Compliance, risk, visa
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OS X 10.10 rootpipe
rootpipe, a privilege escalation vulnerability in OS X version 10.10, allows attackers to completely bypass logging in and gaining the highest administration privilege on a Mac. To protect against it, create a new admin user and remove the admin rights … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, mac, OS X, remote code execution, root pipe, rootpipe, vulnerability
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AirHopper. Keylogging Disconnected Computers.
AirHopper demonstrates how textual and binary data can be ex-filtrated from physically an isolated computer to mobile phones at a distance of 1-7 meters, with effective bandwidth of 13 to 60 bps. Enough to steal a password. The technology works … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, airhopper, hacking, isolated, keylogging, mobile, no connection no problem, video display adapter radiation
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