Day: October 15, 2020

Confirmed: Barnes & Noble hacked, systems taken offline for days, miscreants may have swiped personal info

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Barnes and Noble tonight confirmed it was hacked, and that its customers’ personal information may have been accessed by the intruders. The cyber-break-in forced the bookseller to take its systems offline this week to clean up the mess. See our update at the end of this piece. Our original report follows. Bookseller Barnes and Noble’s Read more about Confirmed: Barnes & Noble hacked, systems taken offline for days, miscreants may have swiped personal info[…]

Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light

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A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory over a distance of 1.2 millimeters. They have demonstrated that the controlled transport process and its dynamics has only little impact on the properties of the stored light. The researchers used Read more about Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light[…]

Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready – but it’s not

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The world’s plague-time video meeting tool of choice, Zoom, says it’s figured out how to do end-to-end encryption sufficiently well to offer users a tech preview. News of the trial comes after April 2020 awkwardness that followed the revelation that Zoom was fibbing about its service using end-to-end encryption. As we reported at the time, Read more about Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready – but it’s not[…]

Your Edge Browser Installed Microsoft Office Without Asking. NO!

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Edge Chromium started out as a respectable alternative to Google Chrome on Windows, but it didn’t take long for Microsoft to turn it into a nuisance. To top it off, it looks like Edge is now a vector for installing (even more) Microsoft stuff on your PC—without you asking for it, of course. We don’t Read more about Your Edge Browser Installed Microsoft Office Without Asking. NO![…]

German Hospital Hacked, Patient Taken to Another City Dies- First documented cyberattack fatality?

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German authorities said Thursday that what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment. The Duesseldorf University Clinic’s systems have been disrupted since last Read more about German Hospital Hacked, Patient Taken to Another City Dies- First documented cyberattack fatality?[…]

Attack on The EMV Smartcard Standard: man in the middle exploit with 2 smartphones

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EMV is the international protocol standard for smartcard payment and is used in over 9 billion cards worldwide. Despite the standard’s advertised security, various issues have been previously uncovered, deriving from logical flaws that are hard to spot in EMV’s lengthy and complex specification, running over 2,000 pages. We formalize a comprehensive symbolic model of Read more about Attack on The EMV Smartcard Standard: man in the middle exploit with 2 smartphones[…]