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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. I mean, it was open source, right? What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. I mean, it was open source, right? What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. I mean, it was open source, right? What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

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After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay

The Verge

When the pandemic hit, the firm began adapting an open-source machine named TurtleBot to work as a mobile disinfectant unit using ultraviolet light. Violet, by comparison, can clean the room in just 15 minutes. The robot is made by Chinese firm Ubtech, though it is programmed and resold by Belgium firm Zorabots.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. And it's a doozy program.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. And it's a doozy program.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

The first digital systems simply ran software, meaning it ran one program at a time. That program, then, handled all the issues of hardware and software. For example, you’d need several different systems, each running just one program, to accomplish a task. No need for an operating system. Doesn't matter.