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465,000 patients have implanted pacemakers with critical security vulnerability

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“Pacemakers from Abbott Laboratories contain critical flaws that allow hijackers within radio range to seize control while the pacemakers are running.  The update will require patients to visit a clinic where doctors will put the pacemakers in backup mode while the firmware is being patched. The Abbott letter said that, for certain patients, the update should be performed ‘in a facility where temporary pacing and pacemaker generator change are readily available, due to the very small estimated risk of firmware update malfunction.'”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/465k-patients-need-a-firmware-update-to-prevent-serious-pacemaker-hacks/

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CIA sneaks undetectable ‘malicious’ implants onto Windows OS: WikiLeaks

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“Windows machines are targeted by the CIA under ‘Angelfire,’ according to the latest release from WikiLeaks’ ‘Vault7’ series. The documents detail an implant that can allow Windows machines to create undetectable libraries. WikiLeaks says the leaked ‘Vault 7’ documents came from within the CIA, which has in turn refused to confirm their authenticity. Previous releases include details on CIA hacking tools used to weaponize mobile phones, compromize smart TVs and the ability to trojan the Apple OS.”

Read more: https://www.rt.com/news/401568-cia-hacks-angelfire-wikileaks/

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US government: We can jail you indefinitely for not decrypting your data

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“The US government is fighting to keep a former police officer in prison because he claims not to be able to remember the code to decrypt two hard drives under investigation.  The ex-cop has twice appealed the decision to detain him, once in federal court and once in the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals. His lawyers argue that holding him breaches his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself.  The government is also arguing that, as Rawls didn’t use his Fifth Amendment rights in his initial appeal he can’t try to use that defense now.”

Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/08/30/ex_cop_jailed_for_not_decrypting_data/

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IRS Now Has a Tool to Spy On Bitcoin Users

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“The Internal Revenue Service has purchased specialist software to track those using bitcoin, according to a contract obtained by The Daily Beast.  The document highlights how law enforcement isn’t only concerned with criminals accumulating bitcoin from selling drugs or hacking targets, but also those who use the currency to hide wealth or avoid paying taxes.  The IRS has claimed that only 802 people declared bitcoin losses or profits in 2015; clearly fewer than the actual number of people trading the cryptocurrency—especially as more investors dip into the world of cryptocurrencies, and the value of bitcoin punches past the $4,000 mark.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/irs-now-has-a-tool-to-unmask-bitcoin-tax-cheats

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More staged police body cams lead to 43 more dropped Baltimore cases

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“The first two videos involved either the planting of drugs or the recreation of a drug crime scene. Those videos prompted Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis to order officers not to stage body cam footage. The authorities did not publicly release the latest video. Nor did they identify the suspects or the officers connected to the video.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/third-staged-baltimore-police-body-cam-surfaces-dozens-more-cases-dropped/

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DOJ Demands 1.3 Million IP Addresses Of Visitors To Antifa Website

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“In what is shaping up to be a contentious battle over privacy rights and free speech, the Department of Justice has formally requested that web hosting firm ‘DreamHost’ turn over 1.3 million IP addresses and other information to ‘unmask‘ visitors to the anti-Trump Antifa website ‘disruptj20.org,’ as part of the investigation into crimes committed on and around January 20 by protesters. DreamHost has challenged the request, claiming the scope of data requested violates the first and fourth amendments because it is too broad.”

Read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-15/doj-demands-13-million-ip-addresses-visitors-antifa-website-used-coordinate-riots-0

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Feds Searching Record Number of Our Personal Devices at the Border

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“Allowing government agents to simply search a U.S. citizen’s contacts, social media, videos and everything else in search of a crime doesn’t feel American because it isn’t.”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/feds-seizing-record-numbers-of-our-laptops-at-the-border/

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Bureaucrat Who Concocted Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets It

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“Bill Burr didn’t really know much about how passwords worked back in 2003, when he wrote the manual. He certainly wasn’t a security expert. And now the retired 72-year-old bureaucrat wants to apologize.”

Read more: http://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987

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Ex-NSA Personnel Show DNC ‘Hack’ Was Actually a Leak and Inside Job

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“The Nation‘s Patrick Lawrence wrote a lengthy review of the findings made by various computer experts formerly with the NSA. Published this week, the left-wing magazine’s report notes two bases for their conclusion: (1) hard science shows that a remote hack of the DNC servers resulting in the breach that actually occurred would have been technologically impossible; (2) forensic review of the initial Guccifer 2.0 documents proves that they are poorly-disguised cut-and-paste jobs–forgeries–intended to finger Russia.”

Read more: http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bombshell-nsa-experts-say-dnc-hack-was-actually-a-leak-and-inside-job/

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Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack

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“It fills the airwaves with probes that request connections to nearby computing devices. When the specially devised requests reach a device using the BCM43xx family of Wi-Fi chipsets, the attack rewrites the firmware that controls the chip. The compromised chip then sends the same malicious packets to other vulnerable devices, setting off a potential chain reaction.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/broadcom-chip-bug-opened-1-billion-phones-to-a-wi-fi-hopping-worm-attack/

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