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Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa

Security Affairs

Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa and added the military organization to its leak site. The group claims to have stolen Military contracts, internal call signs and personal data, for a total of 1.6 HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. TB of data.

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MY TAKE: Why security innovations paving the way for driverless cars will make IoT much safer

The Last Watchdog

Intelligent computing systems have been insinuating themselves into our homes and public gathering places for a while now. Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years. military and intelligence agencies. Lifecycle risks. Deep testing.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

This was before David Miranda, Greenwald’s partner, was detained at Heathrow airport by the UK authorities; but even without that, I knew there was a risk. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. Very probably. Definitely.

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

Near the end of the movie the Rebel Alliance infiltrates the Imperial Center of Military Research on the planet Scarif (i.e., K-2SO was then able to login to the computer system in the Scarif base. Humans were also at risk of becoming data ghosts, which are like digital zombies as the result of data degradation (a.k.a.

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Episode 103: On the Voice-Controlled Internet, How Will We Authenticate?

The Security Ledger

» Related Stories Episode 100: Estonia’s Former CIO talks about engineering a secure electronic vote Fitness apps: Good for your health, not so much for military security Episode 101: The Dystopian IoT looks a lot like the Printer Ink Aisle and City of Atlanta Employees phished on Rogue Wi-Fi. Read the whole entry. »

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On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter

John Battelle's Searchblog

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). He took a risk by allowing Ashton’s team to create an API.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. One of the biggest risks is physical access to an airplane. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger. Here’s CBS news.