Pacemaker Hacking Fears Rise With Critical Research Report

Researcher warn medical devices made by St. Jude Medical are at risk of attacks via SSH certificate reuse vulnerabilities and static credentials that can easily give hackers root access to key monitoring equipment. Continue reading Pacemaker Hacking Fears Rise With Critical Research Report

MIT Thinks It Can One-Up TOR With New Anonymity Network: Riffle

Tor is the household name in anonymous networks but the system has vulnerabilities, especially when it comes to an attacker finding out who is sending and receiving messages. MIT researchers think they have found a better way in a system called Riffle. You can dig into the whitepaper but the MIT news article does a great job of providing an overview.

The strength at the core of Tor is the Onion Routing that makes up the last two letters the network’s name. Riffle keeps that aspect, building upon it in a novel way. The onion analogy has to do with …read more

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