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    Former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt has warned of the dangers of flaws in Bluetooth protocols, claiming these vulnerabilities are unrecognised.

  • London's Oyster card easy to hack?

    A Dutch researcher rode free on the London transit system, having hacked the public transit's card system; he used a clone of a paying passenger's transit cards. His point? The transit smartcards, which are used by millions worldwide, are vulnerable to attack.

  • Chipmaker sues researchers to hide smartcard flaws

    Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has sued a university in The Netherlands to block publication of research that details security flaws in NXP's Mifare Classic wireless smart cards, a market leading product used in public transport and building entry systems around the world.

  • London ends Oyster card contract

    Transport for London has terminated its contract with the Transys consortium that provides the Oyster ticketing system for the London Underground, buses and trams.

  • Oyster security "fundamentally broken"

    Details of vulnerabilities in the chipset used in London's Oyster travel smartcard have been released by Dutch researchers, who have said the smartcard's security was "fundamentally broken".

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    The question on the lips of most CIOs is no longer whether to send work offshore. It's a question of how much to send.

  • 10 mobile trends: Should you care?

    silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?

  • Putting the brains into your network

    Networks don't just ferry packets around your office anymore. ZDNet Australia looks at some of the latest developments that allow your network to manage itself more intelligently.

  • Hacker-proof server: Myth or reality?

    Take a look at Hydra, an embedded server, and see if there is any truth to its "hacker-proof" claims.

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