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Security Electronics

Frontier Airlines is leaking your passport and credit card details from a boarding pass

A hot potato: A security researcher has discovered serious vulnerabilities in Frontier Airlines' booking system. Using just two pieces of information printed on every boarding pass – a booking code and a last name – anyone can pull full passport numbers, home addresses, TSA PreCheck codes, and nearly complete credit card details from the airline's API. The vulnerabilities have been known for over three months.
Full story By Julio Franco,
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Hardware Electronics

Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware

Old smartphones are piling up as e-waste, but wait... 25 phones can match a single server CPU
Forward-looking: Researchers at the University of California San Diego are testing whether retired smartphones can still do useful work instead of ending up as electronic waste. Working with Google, the team is trying to turn retired Pixel smartphones into a low-cost data center. The goal is to keep working hardware in use instead of throwing it out after a few upgrade cycles.
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