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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

” The 30-person company has worked to create decentralized identifiers for open-source projects and efforts such as International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass. That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results.

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Teen Finds Vulnerability That Can 'Annoy the Sh*t' Out of Tesla Owners

SecureWorld News

He found he could mess around with all kinds of settings and even view a car's location and where it had traveled. Michael Isbitski, Technical Evangelist at Salt Security, summarizes how TeslaMate works: "The incident originated from a vulnerable open-source application, TeslaMate.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

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KITABOO eReader: Revolutionize Your Digital Reading Experience

Kitaboo

Whether at home or traveling, learners can conveniently study whenever they want. Shareable Content eBooks can be authentically shared with multiple individuals, which eventually encourages collaboration among students and professionals. Offers Convenience and Portability You don’t have to carry bulky printed books anymore.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Digital Forensics

ForAllSecure

The tools are open source, and Paula has a team of experts that helps build these tools. Lack of multi factor authentication or some even vulnerable services that are available in the internet that someone could exploit, but that is a very nice way to attack the company because it's quite unexpected.

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Seven Trends and Predictions for 2017

CTOvision

Their Mesos framework is built on open source tools: Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, R, and Docker. AirBnB has released the platform to the entire travel industry as open source. At Netflix, machine learning makes your movie recommendations. But there is relief on the horizon as AI makes great strides.

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