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BMW has a cool, clever new way of weaning its gas-powered customers off the pump and into EVs, but it can also prove to be a huge privacy nightmare.

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Forscher der UCSD (University of California, San Diego) und der Northeastern University haben auf dem Usenix Security Symposium eine Angriffstechnik vorgestellt, mit der es ihnen möglich war, aus der Ferne in drahtlose Gangschaltungssysteme des japanischen Herstellers Shimano einzugreifen. Letztere werden weltweit von zahlreichen Radsportteams eingesetzt – etwa im Rahmen der Tour de France oder der Olympischen Spiele.

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Apple has announced that any third-party wallet can now build on Apple’s Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Element (SE) architecture. As industry expert Tom Noyes immediately pointed out, this is no “spur of the moment announcement” and Apple must have been working on this for some time. It is huge.

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Die Pwnie Awards sind die jährlich vergebenen „Hacker Oscars“ und wurden in diesem Jahr erstmals während der Hackerkonferenz Def Con verliehen und nicht wie gewohnt während der Schwesterkonferenz Black Hat.

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Surveillance has been creeping unabated across schools, universities, and much of daily life over the past few years, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in October, however, graduate students at Northeastern University were able to organize and beat back an attempt at introducing invasive surveillance devices that were quietly placed under desks at their school.

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