Cybersecurity
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Keeping an "air gap" between a hard drive and other devices forces any would-be thief to physically go to the machine ... or so you might think. Researchers have shown that hackers could use the flashing LED on the outside of a computer to beam data to a waiting drone.
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A new study cautions against typing while Skyping. By analyzing the acoustic signals of key presses, hackers may be able to untangle typed text through the clickety-clack of a keyboard itself, with an alarming accuracy of over 90 percent.
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Cybersecurity is a growing concern, and the US government has been tightening its digital defenses. In March, the Department of Defense invited hackers to “Hack the Pentagon”, in a competition designed to highlight its vulnerabilities, and now the results of that initiative have been released.
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The US may boast the world's most powerful military, but its online databases are far from indomitable, as a recent spate of cyberattacks seems to suggest. The Pentagon is now inviting hackers to have at its public webpages as part of an initiative to highlight its cybersecurity vulnerabilities.