Europol has announced that a total of 27 related arrests have been made since the ATM black box threat first emerged in 2015. Eleven arrests have been made in France, four in Estonia, three in the Czech Republic and Norway, and two in The Netherlands, Romania and SpainA black box attack is a logical attack against cash dispensers. It requires gaining access to the inner workings of the machine, usually, notes Europol, "by drilling holes or melting."...
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Hackers working for China's Ministry of State Security broke into networks of eight of the world's biggest technology service providers in an effort to steal commercial secrets from their clients, according to sources familiar with the attacks. Reuters today reported extensive new details about the global hacking campaign, known as Cloud Hopper and attributed to China by the United States and its Western allies. A US indictment in December outlined an elaborate operation to steal Western...
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His idiosyncratic approach to the head-mounted display technology was formed in response to ‘creative technologist’ Omer Shapira, who wrote an impassioned plea for users to remove their cyber-glasses at a recent New York University graduate exhibition....
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Plantronics, Inc. (“Poly” – formerly Plantronics and Polycom) (NYSE: PLT), a global communications company that powers meaningful human connection and collaboration, today announced the next generation of the company’s lineup of popular Savi wireless headsets. The enhanced Savi Office and UC Series will offer more wearing styles, plus features to help with working in noisy office environments. “People will always need the ability to focus,” said Tamara Lane, d...
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Companies that suffer a data breach can expect their customers to abandon them. They can also expect new customers to think twice before registering for a service or giving away any kind of personal or private data. This is according to Ping Identity, whose latest report says consumers are making ‘drastic changes’ to how they interact with brands online, and how they safeguard their personal data after a breach. Based on a poll of 3,000 people in the UK, US, France and Germany, the r...
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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week announced that updates to its Automated Combinatorial Testing for Software (ACTS) research toolkit should help developers of complex safety-critical applications find potentially dangerous errors and make their software safer. ACTS is designed to help developers ensure that their products are safe from simultaneous input combinations that could trigger a dangerous error. A software error can have serious consequences in the...
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