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Ontarioa s new RFID drivera s licence still has privacy flaws, commissioner says
2015-02-21 02:52:13| Semiconductors - Topix.net
The enhanced driver's licences being made available in Ontario June 1 still aren't up to snuff when it comes to protecting personal privacy , says Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner in her annual report. Ann Cavoukian has been working towards adding an off-switch to the enhanced licenses .
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Parents of ramp agent killed at Dulles International say airport has serious flaws
2014-12-29 04:14:34| Airlines - Topix.net
On a dark, misty morning in January 2012, Southwest Airlines ramp agent Jared Dodson steered his baggage tug, with four empty carts behind him, out of the main terminal at Dulles International Airport and headed toward Concourse B. He came to a complete stop as he reached Taxiway B, then continued straight across the airplanes' runway. As Dodson crossed the runway, a 35-ton mobile lounge with a handful of passengers aboard, driven toward Concourse D by Kenneth L. Smith Jr., made a diagonal beeline toward him on the runway at about twice Dodson's speed, investigative records show.
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Flaws in Ancient Standard Enable Wireless Eavesdropping, Spying
2014-12-23 23:27:01| TechNewsWorld
Vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7, telephony signaling protocols used by carriers worldwide, allow third parties to listen to people's cellphone calls and intercept text messages despite encryption, The Washington Post reported last week. German cybersecurity researchers Tobias Engel of Sternraute and Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs separately discovered these vulnerabilities.
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Adobe fixes critical flaws in Flash Player, delays Reader and Acrobat updates
2014-09-10 00:21:29| InfoWorld: Top News
Adobe Systems released a critical security update for Flash Player that fixes 12 security vulnerabilities, but pushed back its planned patches for Reader and Acrobat by a week. The Flash Player updates, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, address nine vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution and three that can allow attackers to bypass security features, including memory address randomization and the same-origin policy.
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Security Researchers Lay Bare TSA Body Scanner Flaws
2014-08-22 21:06:43| TechNewsWorld
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has spent more than a billion dollars on full-body scanners designed to strengthen airport security. It turns out that at least one model of scanner in use for four years -- the Rapiscan Secure 1000 full-body scanner -- easily could have been foiled by a savvy bad actor.
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