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ComputerWeekly – The discovery of a publicly accessible database of biometric information highlights failings by the supplier, the need for supply chain security, and the challenges of using biometric data.

WIRED – Joseph Tartaro never meant to cause this much trouble. Especially for himself. In late 2016, Tartaro decided to get a vanity license plate. A security researcher by trade, he ticked down possibilities that related to his work: SEGFAULT, maybe, or something to do with vulnerabilities.

Security Boulevard – “…security researcher Ruben Santamarta sat in his home office in Madrid and partook in some creative googling, searching for technical documents related to his years-long obsession: the cybersecurity of airplanes.”

Dark Reading News Desk – IOActive researcher Ruben Santamarta visits the Dark Reading News Desk to discuss radio-based vulnerabilities on radiation monitoring devices and how the integrity of critical data can be manipulated to simulate or exacerbate emergency situations and complicate incident response.

TechCrunch – Every year the great and good (and bad) of the hacker/information-security world descend on Las Vegas for a week of conferences, in which many present their latest discoveries, and every year I try to itemize the most interesting (according to me) Black Hat talks for TechCrunch.