As San Francisco moves to regulate the use of facial recognition systems, we reflect on some of the many ‘faces’ of the fast-growing technology
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In general, the most secure software is open source. Even old, underfunded open source security projects can still withstand the onslaught of exploits and invasions by the NSA. Open source has one main advantage over closed-source software: the code is…
Google tracks every single purchase that you have made online in years if you have the receipts sent to your personal Gmail account. The purchase records can be accessed through a page called Purchases, which shows a list of products that you have purc…
“WhatsApp Will Never be Safe” !! Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Attack Facebook Owned WhatsApp after the recent incident, in which, WhatsApp fixed a high severity bug that allows hackers to inject spyware remotely by making a single WhatsApp …
European Digital Rights Organization Seeks Investigation Into Internet Service Providers’ Use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 45 NGOs, academics and companies across 15 countries, has sent an open letter to European policymakers and regulators, warning about widespread and potentially growing use of deep packet inspection (DPI) by internet service providers (ISPs). In simple terms, DPI is the analysis of the content of a packet….
Facebook this week informed users that it has partially restored a privacy feature abused by hackers last year as part of an attack that impacted 29 million accounts. The social media giant informed customers in late September 2018 that hackers had exploited a series of vulnerabilities to steal tokens that could be used to access 50 million Facebook accounts. The company later told users that the attack, reportedly launched by…
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s offering a free replacement for its Titan Security Key dongles following the discovery of a potentially serious vulnerability. The Titan Security Key is designed to help users protect themselves against phishing attacks and account takeover by using FIDO standards for two-factor authentication (2FA). The product uses cryptography to verify the user’s security key and address when they log in to their account. The problem…
An Israeli spyware company named in a Financial Times report on a WhatsApp security flaw prides itself on “rigorous, ethical standards” despite previous links to alleged espionage. – Pocket spy – Founded in 2010 by Israelis Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, NSO is based in the Israeli seaside hi-tech hub of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. It says it employs 600 people in Israel and around the world. It produces Pegasus,…
San Francisco on Tuesday became the first US city to ban use of facial recognition technology by police or other government agencies. Backers of the legislation argued that using software and cameras to positively identify people is, as city councillor Aaron Peskin put it, “not ready for prime time.” All but one of the nine members of San Francisco’s board of supervisors endorsed the legislation, which will be voted on…
Twitter on Monday revealed that a bug in Twitter for iOS led to the micro-blogging platform inadvertently collecting location data and sharing it with a third-party. The company reveals that the data collection and sharing occurred only in certain circumstances and says that only one of their partners was involved in it. Nevertheless, this partner is an advertising company. “Specifically, if you used more than one account on Twitter for…