Articles tagged with: Privacy and Hacker

T-Mobile: No security breach in alleged hacking

T-Mobile USA said Tuesday that it did not suffer a security breach after a hacker claimed this weekend to have accessed the company's servers. more

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Could Wireless Controlled Drug Delivery Devices be Hacked?

..use, among other reasons, a failure to do so could risk the privacy and possibly the life of a patient," the researchers say. "The dilemma in RIDDS makes adoption of the technologies intimidating," they add. The team concludes th more

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Smaller Wireless Players Tout New Services At Industry Show

..an remotely turn on the microphone of the device, allowing hackers to listen in on private meetings."These are attacks for fortune," he said. "They're going to try to stay as quiet as they can and exploit as much information in order to capitalize on more

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SIM cards can be hacked in just a couple of minutes

IBM Research says that it has discovered a new vulnerability in GSM SIM cards, and has developed technologies to protect them from hacker attacks. The IBM Research team is the first one to illustrate a new class of side-channel attacks, called partitioning attacks, which extract secret key information from SIM cards by monitoring side-channels, such as power consumption and electromagnetic (EM) emanations. The attack can get the key information within minutes. This is much easier than either breaking the cryptographic algorithms used by the card or using intrusive attacks to extract the key from the microchip. The team has also developed a new technique to protect SIM cards from such attacks. more

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