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Wearable Technology Could Be Revealing Your PIN to Everyone!
When it comes to technology, wearable technology is the next big thing, offerings users the ability to enjoy their phones without them ever leaving their pockets. If a generic wearable isn’t enough for you, sport based wearables often let you measure everything from heart rate to the distance your morning jog…
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1.2 Million Reasons Why Chip And Pin Security Matters
When it comes to banks, they’ve not had the best of luck. Gone are the days where a bank heist involved someone walking in with a balaclava and a big brown bag ready to stuff their pockets with notes. These days you lose your money to someone sitting behind a…
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Walmart Suing Visa to Ensure Customers Use Pin
Remember when you got that new bank card through the post and the first thing you forgot to do was sign the back of the card? This signature is used to protect your card and help you prove who you are, even sometimes authorising payments. The latter of these uses…
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IRS Hacked By The Same Issue They Were Protecting People From
Last year the US Internal Revenue System revealed that they had been hacked. At first they said that up to 100,000 people were affected by the hack, only to then bump that up to 334, 000 in August. The latest figures put that closer to 724,000 and set to only get…
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iPhone Unlock Perused After Defendant Pleads Guilty
In recent years, technology has evolved in such a way that the law is often trying to catch up with the technology that comes out. In the last few months, technology companies have come to odds with the government regarding a range of topics but none more so than encryption.…
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Ransomware Locks Your Android Phone Pin And Asks For Cash
Ransomware is akin to the booming stock market of yesteryear for hackers, the notion of locking an individual’s infected device is a powerful reality for today’s modern day connected gadgets. As such it can be no surprise that a new technique has surfaced which implements a free app on third-party…
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Hackers Want to Make You Play ‘Doom’… on an ATM!
Normally when you hear about hackers and ATMs, you think of someone attempting to steal your credit card details or make the machine spit-out some bills. This time however, it is more fun than drama, since you can get to see how a game can be played on an ordinary…
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Hackers Can Get Your Wi-Fi Password By Simply Hacking Your Smart Lightbulbs
Though everyone wants to bring a variety of ‘Internet of things’ products on the market, from microwaves, to refrigerators, and even light bulbs, not everyone thinks about the bad side of all this. This means that, despite everything linking to your local area network, not everything connected is currently secure.…
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Motorola Touchless Control App Can Unlock Your Phone By Speaking Out Your PIN
Have you ever wanted a device that will listen to you even when it is locked? There are times when your phone’s voice commands are useless as you still have to unlock your device before using them, and that is not at all possible if you are doing something that…
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Google Announces The Availability Of Google Wallet Debit Cards
It looks like the Google Wallet Card has been officially released. The prepaid debit card lets Google Wallet users make payments with their Wallet balance at ATMs, banks, and any business that accepts MasterCard Debit. You can request your own card as long as you’ve verified your identity, and Google…
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Researchers Found A Way To Use The Smartphone Camera To Figure Out PINs
It appears that researchers have found a way to figure out what personal identification number someone is typing into their smartphone by using the device’s built-in cameras and microphones to secretly record them. Security researchers at the University of Cambridge detailed how they exploited the smartphone’s camera and microphone to…
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