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Man Arrested At Border For Refusing To Hand Over Phone Passcode

CNet wrote about a man who was arrested at the Halifax (Canada) airport for refusing to hand over the passcode for his cellphone to the Canadian border agents. Even if you are not paranoid, it should make you think about what gadgets you take across the border.  Here are some details of this case. He […]

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Hacking Your Car – It Is Not So Hard

Probably many of you saw the 60 Minutes segment on hacking your car (see video here).  In the 60 Minutes segment, the researcher/hacker was able to turn on the wipers and washers, blow the horn and disable the brakes in that demonstration.  Here is a link to a conversation with the guys who did the […]

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Another Small Office/Home Office Router FATAL Vulnerability

Security researchers at the International Conference On Cyber Security And Cyber Law reported that they have found a fatal security hole in a wide variety of SOHO Internet Routers. As is often the case, the researchers discovered this problem accidentally while examining the code of a router for a completely different problem (see the researcher’s […]

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Dentists (and Doctors) A Target For Cyber Criminals

DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.  Think about all the non public personal information that a […]

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