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Daily Archives: December 11, 2014
Iowa Might Go Walletless
With Google Wallet and Apple Pay starting to take off, Geico putting your insurance on an app on your phone with digital ID cards, the only thing left for wallets is the driver’s license. Well, that too may go digital. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, digital drivers license, iowa, wallets
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US Navy Laser Weapon System
The Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (ASB(I) 15) conducts an operational demonstration of the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored Laser Weapon System (LaWS) while deployed to the Arabian Gulf. The LaWS consists of a 30-kilowatt solid-state infrared laser, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Lasers, military, Navy, pen test, vulnerability scan, Weapons
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POODLE attack through TLS
POODLE = Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption Once upon a time, in October, I wrote about SSL POODLE, a flaw in how browsers handle encryption; by negotiating down to SSL 3.0, attackers can alter padding data at the end … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle, mitm, Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption, POODLE, ssl, tls
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Smartwatch to Smartphone Data Interception
Data sent between a Smartwatch and an Android smartphone could be a subject to brute force hacks to intercept and decode users’ data, including everything from text messages to Google Hangout chats and Facebook conversations. Liviu Arsene explains. Read more … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, android, bluetooth, cyber risk, Google, nfc, risk, smart-watch, sniffing, video tutorial, wearables
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