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Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs To Steal Data – Texas, United States
Researchers have determined that some light bulbs are suitable for covert data exfiltration from personal devices, and can leak multimedia preferences by recording their luminance patterns from afar. For the light sources to become an attack surface, they need to meet some requirements such as support for multimedia visualizations and infrared capabilities. The adversary does not need to attack the internal network of the victim to extract the information. They only need a direct connection between the target device and the lights, and line-of-sight with bulbs during the exfiltration process. Anindya Maiti and Murtuza Jadliwala from the University of Texas at San Antonio studied how LIFX and Philips Hue bulbs receive their commands for playing visualizations into a room and developed a model to interpret brightness and color modulations occurring when listening to music or watching a video. During audio-visualization, the brightness level reflects the source sound, while in the case of video visualizations, the modifications reflect the dominant color and brightness level in the current video frame.
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Residents Can Begin Pre-Registering For REAL ID Cards Sept. 4 – Pennsylvania, United States
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will hire 250 additional workers to help process paperwork from residents seeking REAL ID cards that become available in March. The department announced Monday it will begin Sept. 4 pre-registering residents who received their first driver’s licenses before September 2003. Beginning in October 2020, a REAL ID card, which is harder to forge, or a valid passport will be required to enter most federal buildings or to pass through airport security. Obtaining the card is voluntary and people who have a passport or don’t expect to use federal buildings or airports do not need REAL ID. Residents with licenses or ID cards issued after 2003 have been able to pre-register online since March because PennDOT still has proof of their identification. Kurt Myers, the department’s deputy secretary for driver and vehicle services, said the department’s goal is to get as many people as possible to pre-register so that when the cards become available in March those customers can go online to pay their fee and obtain the new card.
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Iran Asks UN’s Highest Court To Suspend US Sanctions
Iran warned Monday that re-imposed U.S. sanctions would cripple its economy and plunge the volatile Middle East deeper into crisis as it urged the United Nations’ highest court to suspend the Trump administration’s economic pressure on Tehran. In a written statement about the case at the International Court of Justice, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Iran’s claims “meritless” and defended the sanctions as a way of keeping Americans safe. The world court’s wood-paneled Great Hall of Justice in The Hague is the latest backdrop for Washington and Tehran’s high-stakes dispute about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. President Donald Trump said in May that he would pull the U.S. out of a 2015 agreement over Iran’s nuclear program and would re-impose sanctions on Tehran. Washington also threatened other countries with sanctions if they don’t cut off Iranian oil imports by early November.
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