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The next wave of wireless security worries: API-driven IoT devices

LAS VEGAS – Wireless carriers may be the next cast of characters to learn the hard way about the security risks created by IoT devices. This warning came in a recent briefing at the Black Hat information-security conference here by Altaf Shaik, a senior security researcher at Technische Universität Berlin. “There is increased threat when it comes to 5G, […]

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Expiring root certificates threaten IoT in the enterprise

So many everyday items in the developed world are now connected to the Internet, often inexplicably. It adds another layer of potential technology failure that for personal appliances can be something of an amusing annoyance: blinds that won’t open, microwaves that don’t adjust for time changes, refrigerators that need firmware updates. But in the enterprise, when Internet of […]

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UMass researchers develop sweat-powered electricity

A team of researchers has created a sweat-powered biofilm that sticks onto the skin like a bandage, converting the wearer’s perspiration into electricity in a process that could be harnessed for wearable devices. The design from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst uses the process of a person’s sweat evaporating to generate energy, with the […]

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Newscan: DHS tests new tech that could bring emergency alerts to vehicle screens

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations DHS tests new tech that could bring emergency alerts to vehicle screens Oracle begins auditing TikTok’s algorithms Strong solar storm could impact U.S. communications this week VA systems vulnerable to cyber intrusions due to lack of effective oversight, report says Former city employee shut down police website over […]

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Patch madness: Vendor bug advisories are broken, so broken

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Keeping up with security-vulnerability patching is challenging at best, but prioritizing which bugs to focus on has become more difficult than ever before, thanks to context-lacking CVSS scores, muddy vendor advisories, and incomplete fixes that leave admins with a false sense of security. That’s the argument that Brian […]

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FirstNet PTT technical progress highlighted by AT&T at APCO 2022

FirstNet PTT—the mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) service launched in 2020—continues to evolve with the development of much-anticipated features like LMR interoperability and broadcast technology that will support one-to-many calls, an AT&T official said during a presentation at the recent APCO 2022 event in Anaheim, Calif. FirstNet users can use numerous different push-to-talk (PTT) applications that leverage the […]

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Researchers developing health-monitoring e-tattoo

Stories of people embedding digital devices into their bodies are becoming increasingly common; with these digital implants capable of everything from aiding mobility to paying for products, unlocking doors and storing data. A team of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have taken a similar concept and applied it to the […]

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Partnership launches no-cost wastewater monitoring service for local governments

Of all the important lessons cities and counties have learned since the pandemic began, high up on the list is the value of working together. No one community can solve cross-jurisdictional challenges alone—that’s a concept that’s at the heart of a new initiative launched by the National League of Cities (NLC) and WastewaterSCAN that brings no-cost wastewater monitoring […]

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Research claims driverless tech still too easy to trick

Autonomous vehicles can be easily manipulated into performing undesirable driving behavior through the placement of ordinary objects on the roadside, according to a study from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The research team set up a course on the UCLA campus to test the reactions of driverless cars, running the open-source AD systems Apollo […]

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10 malicious code packages slither into PyPI registry

Administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have removed 10 malicious software code packages from the registry after a security vendor informed them about the issue. The incident is the latest in a rapidly growing list of recent instances where threat actors have placed rogue software on widely used software repositories such as PyPI, Node Package […]

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The next wave of wireless security worries: API-driven IoT devices

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Expiring root certificates threaten IoT in the enterprise

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UMass researchers develop sweat-powered electricity

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Newscan: DHS tests new tech that could bring emergency alerts to vehicle screens

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Patch madness: Vendor bug advisories are broken, so broken

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FirstNet PTT technical progress highlighted by AT&T at APCO 2022

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Researchers developing health-monitoring e-tattoo

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Partnership launches no-cost wastewater monitoring service for local governments

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Research claims driverless tech still too easy to trick

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10 malicious code packages slither into PyPI registry

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