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Cyberattacks, Google Crash Bring Internet Security Into Question

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At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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Hackers Disrupt Benefits Claims On Italy’s Social Security Website

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As individuals were beginning to seek COVID-19 benefits, hackers disrupted Italy’s Social Security internet site, per the leader of the welfare agency. Tridico said he notified authorities about the incident, which has brought into question the security of the country’s online infrastructure as it grapples with the COVID-19 crisis. “In

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Even For Smart Sprinklers, Security Matters

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Despite IoT’s popularity, however, security a nd privacy issues continue to make headlines. A popular white-label GPS tracker sold by more than a dozen companies was found to have a number of security flaws earlier this year, while a new strain of Mirai malware specifically targeting IoT devices was recently discovered.

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Today In Data: Alternative Banking, Innovation Budgets And Transportation Expenses

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Here are the numbers: 270 million | Number of bank accounts opened using the Aadhaar payments app, according to analyst estimates, meaning more transacting and banking is being done outside the traditional system. 25 | Number of hours it can take for SMBs to manually prepare and submit paperwork for the business lending process.

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The Challenges Of Securing The Smart Cities Of Tomorrow

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Citywide blackouts, targeted blackouts effecting in hospitals, panic over water safety and water diverted away from fire hydrants — the list according to Cesar Cerrudo, the founder of Securing Smart Cities, is long. If you don’t cover security from the very beginning, then it becomes very difficult to protect it,” said Cerrudo.

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TSA Screens 800,000 At US Airports In A Day, Making Airline Stocks Lift

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported that it served over 800,000 individuals at American airport screening lanes Sunday (Aug. The biggest 20 airlines in the country transported just over 16 million travelers in June, which marked an 80 percent drop compared to June 2019 yet almost two times as many people as May.

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Equifax Settles With NY AG Over App Security

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Underwood said all five companies had mobile apps that had a well-known security vulnerability that enabled hackers to intercept private data including passwords, social security numbers, credit card account numbers and bank account information.