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FDA urges patients to implement patch to secure their cardiac implants
Patients who have been implanted with pacemakers and defibrillators manufactured by US-based St. Jude Medical are urged to make sure that their Merlin@home Transmitter unit is …

Wi-Fi risks: Delivering a secure hotspot
The fact that Wi-Fi stands for Wireless Fidelity hints at how long Wi-Fi has been around, but it was only in 1999 that the Wi-Fi Alliance formed as a trade association to hold …

Netgear pushes out beta firmware for vulnerable router models
Netgear has confirmed that eight of its router models are vulnerable to device hijacking due to a vulnerability that can be easily exploited by remote, unauthenticated …

Critical flaw opens Netgear routers to hijacking
Several Netgear router models can be easily hijacked by remote, unauthenticated attackers, CERT/CC has warned on Friday. The vulnerability that allows this takeover can be …

Nintendo offers up to $20,000 for bug info
Video game giant Nintendo has set up a bug bounty program through HackerOne’s platform, and is asking researchers to find and flag vulnerabilities in the Nintendo 3DS …

Deutsche Telekom goes drone hunting
Drone popularity continues to rise rapidly as they become ever cheaper and more powerful. Easy availability and large payloads conspire to increase the potential for dangerous …

Employees rely largely on personally owned mobile devices in the workplace
Mobile device adoption in the workplace is not yet mature, found a recent survey from Gartner. Although 80 percent of workers surveyed received one or more corporate-issued …

Fingbox: Network security and Wi-Fi troubleshooting
Fingbox allows you to secure and troubleshoot your home network. It plugs in to your existing router, alerting you when it senses anything out of the ordinary – from new …

New infosec products of the week: November 25, 2016
Anomali STAXX: Easy way to subscribe to any STIX/TAXII feed Anomali, provider of threat intelligence platforms, today announced the availability of Anomali STAXX, a free …

Review: iStorage diskAshur Pro SSD
The iStorage diskAshur Pro SSD is the hard drive for users with security on their mind. This USB 3.0 device comes in various storage capacities, ranging from 128GB to 1TB, and …

Researchers set to work on malware-detecting CPUs
Adding hardware protections to software ones to block the ever-increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea, and a group of researchers have just been …

Exposing voting machine vulnerabilities
Cylance announced the successful exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in a common model of voting machine. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities was previously thought …
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