Podcast: You’ll never need to know a password again!

Worryingly, drivers of connected vehicles may not control their car, says Julia O’Toole, founder of security company MyCena. All the vehicles’ internet-facing communications are entry points to hijack your car or tamper with signals; it’s a serious matter for the auto industry. Julia insists no one needs to know a password – ever. Plus the first factor in multi-factor authentication can be a weak, reused, phished, shared or stolen password – it has zero security. Fortunately, Jeremy Cowan hears that Ancient Greece holds a solution. And waste chip oil may be the answer for EVs in the Australian Outback. We are NOT making this up!

“Podcast: You’ll never need to know a password again!”
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New ‘uncrackable’ security system to revolutionise privacy launched by UK, Saudi and US academics

A new, reputedly “uncrackable security system” has been created by researchers at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and the USA’s Centre for Unconventional Processes of Sciences (CUP Sciences). According to its creators, the system is set to revolutionise communications privacy. “New ‘uncrackable’ security system to revolutionise privacy launched by UK, Saudi and US academics”

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