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Nest Security Cameras Can Be Easily Blacked Out

Security researchers have figured out three different ways to disable Nest Security Cameras (Nest is part of Google).  As of a few days ago, Google said they were working on patches and would push them out shortly.  But it speaks to the more general problem of wireless security. In the Nest situation, there are three […]

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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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The Safety Of Using Your Facebook ID To Sign On To Other Websites

UPDATE:  Apparently Paypal was one of the companies affected by some of these OAuth security holes and they just released a fix (Dec 1,2016) for a bug that would allow hackers to steal OAuth tokens from payment apps of third party developers. Many web sites encourage you to sign on with your social media userid […]

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