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Peace Sign Could Mean Trouble – For Your Identity

Japanese researchers released a paper talking about the (hypothetical) risk of flashing the peace sign. As we saw a couple of years ago with a German politician, a high definition photo from close enough (a few meters away according to the researchers) , with the right lighting, allowed the researchers to replicate the fingerprint. Apparently, […]

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Medsec vs. St. Jude – Security Research Version 2

About four months, a security firm named Medsec discovered some flaws in St Jude Medical’s cardiac implantable products.  The accepted way to deal with this is to privately let the manufacturer know what you found, let them fix it and then release your research. In this case, Medsec had been told that St. Jude would […]

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Cardless ATM Access – The Next Fraud Frontier

I wrote the other day about hackers stealing your phone number to be able to capture the text messages for password resets. Here is another reason to be concerned about the security of your phone and phone number. The banks are walking a tightrope.  Millennials just don’t relate to banks the way their parents do, […]

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