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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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Weekly Update 138

Troy Hunt

It's Minnesota this week and I've just wrapped up a couple of days of Hack Yourself First workshop followed by the opening keynote at NDC followed by PubConf. After a mammoth 30-hour door-to-door journey, I'm back in the USA! There's also a follow-up to the video I promised to include in this blog post.

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Two flaws could allow bypassing AMD SEV protection system

Security Affairs

The chipmaker AMD published guidance for two new attacks against its SEV ( Secure Encrypted Virtualization ) protection technology. The findings about the two attacks will be presented by two research teams at this year’s 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT’21). SecurityAffairs – hacking, AMD).

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link. The attacker would have to be on your wi-fi network to do the hack. The growth has been driven by the free and easy availability of certificates, largely due to the emergence of Let's Encrypt in 2016. HA has a Let's Encrypt add-on. Neither is encrypted.

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Top IT Areas You Need to Check to Strengthen Your Cybersecurity

CyberSecurity Insiders

The Internet network is vulnerable as cybercriminals are lurking online, waiting to intercept loopholes for hacking systems. Thus, it would be best if you secured all networks by incorporating firewalls and advanced encryption technology. Implementing high-level encryptions will also keep your company data secure.

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Mandating End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems in U.S. Elections

SecureWorld News

Paper ballots can be miscounted or lost and DRE machines are susceptible to hacking and software errors. This approach also protects the integrity of the entire voting process, from casting to tallying, by allowing independent verification of results through a public bulletin board that contains anonymous encrypted votes.

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2017 Retrospective

Troy Hunt

It was a massive year for encrypted web communications and people have really eaten up material on it. Doing things like the remote workshops will help me achieve that objective. I felt like I did an enormous amount of stuff that made both myself and many other people happy whether that be blogs or talks or workshops.

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