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Canadian Broadcast Corporation – Joseph Tartaro is really good at finding vulnerabilities in the I.T. systems of big businesses. You might say that as a security consultant he can walk through advanced computer programming in his sleep.

Security Boulevard – At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm IOActive, plans to present his findings, including the details of multiple serious security flaws in the code for a component of the 787 known as a Crew Information Service/Maintenance System.

ComputerWeekly – Most third-party risks are discovered after the initial due diligence period, Gartner study shows, highlighting the need for a new approach to risk management and the importance of effective access controls.

The Verge – I’m not a massive fan of personalized license plates, but even I feel a little bad for Joseph Tartaro, a security researcher who, at one point, had as much as $12,049 in traffic fines because of an ill-advised license plate choice.

Forbes – A security researcher by the name of Droogie decided to mess with the Automatic License Plate Reader systems that issue traffic fines, securing the vanity plate “NULL,” part for fun and part in the hope that this spoofed the system into returning errors whenever his plate was seen. Instead he received more than $12,000 in fines—clearly his plate became a dumping ground for erroneous data records.