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Target announces move to chip-and-PIN card technology
Target has announced that, effective May 5, Bob DeRodes will lead the company’s information technology transformation in the wake of the massive breach it recently …
The security of embedded devices
Embedded devices are everywhere and they make our lives more convenient, but from a security standpoint, they can be intimidating, especially if we’re talking about an …
Cyber threats organisations will deal with in 2014
The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and it’s an enterprise’s job and duty to keep up with the changes and do the best it can to protect its data, …
Researchers hack femtocells, record mobile phones’ calls, SMS traffic
Intercepting voice calls, SMS messages, and web traffic coming and going from a target’s mobile phone may be as simple as waiting for his phone to associate to a …
Hijacking connected cars with a $25 tool
A presentation by two Spanish researchers scheduled to take place later this month at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas will apparently prove that hijacking modern cars …
The future of electronic payment: Smartphone authentication and facial recognition
Withdrawing cash from an ATMs by using a debit or credit card or paying with it at a point-of-sale may soon become a thing of the past, as several manufacturers have presented …
Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet
A fascinating but technically illegal experiment conducted by an anonymous researcher has witnessed over 420,000 Internet-connected devices being roped into a botnet that …
FIPS certified cryptography for embedded systems
At RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Allegro announced the addition of the FIPS 140-2 compliant Allegro Cryptography Engine (ACE) to the RomPager suite of embedded …
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