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App Data Vulnerability Threatens Millions of Users
Technische Universität Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT have investigated cloud databases like Facebook?s Parse and Amazon's AWS and found 56 million sets of unprotected data. The researchers found email addresses, passwords, health records and other sensitive information of app users, which may be easily stolen and often manipulated. App developers use cloud databases to store user data but apparently ignore the security recommendation given by the Cloud providers.
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Future-Proof Electronic Signatures en Route to Internet-Standard
Electronic signatures are essential building blocks of most IT
security solutions. They allow the authentication of communication
partners on the Internet, for example in E-commerce and E-banking
solutions.
Hacker attack on TV5
From the perspective of EC SPRIDE researcher and Claude Shannon Fellow Dr. Haya Shulman the basic Internet protocols, which form the basis of the global network are vulnerable to attacks. To change the system or secure with defensive walls, means a lot of effort and costs, Haya Shulman said in the interview on Deutsche Welle.
EC SPRIDE researcher Marco Ghiglieri examines how easily television screens can be attacked by cyber terrorists. His conclusion in heute.de: "Any kind of manipulation is easy to carry out."