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Getty Images/iStockphoto A facial recognition startup, that was earlier this year revealed as being used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the United States, has suffered a data breach. A statement from Clearview AI’s attorney Tor Ekeland said security was the company’s top priority. As first reported by The Daily Beast, the data accessed […] More
Image: Stuart Police Department US prosecutors were forced to drop 11 narcotics cases against six suspected drug dealers after crucial case files were lost in a ransomware infection at a Florida police department. The evidence in the 11 cases could not be recovered following a ransomware attack that hit the Stuart police department in April […] More
Artificial intelligence, for all its benefits, needs human oversight. Government reports, and experts all over the world have stressed the importance of keeping a human decision-maker in the loop when using AI. “Human agency and oversight” is the first key requirement laid out in the EU Commission’s white paper on the regulation of AI published earlier this […] More
Sami Saydjari, the president of Cyber Defense Agency, tells ZDNet’s Tonya Hall that today’s individual voting machines were not built to withstand hacking, cyberattacks, and other threats, but he also explains ways that voting systems can be better prepared. 2020 Elections More
All six major browser vendors have plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS (or DoH), a protocol that encrypts DNS traffic and helps improve a user’s privacy on the web. The DoH protocol has been one of the year’s hot topics. It’s a protocol that, when deployed inside a browser, it allows the browser to hide DNS requests […] More
Image: Frank Wang Today, at the RSA 2020 security conference in San Francisco, security researchers from Slovak antivirus company ESET will present details about a new vulnerability that impacts WiFi communications. Named Kr00k, this bug can be exploited by an attacker to intercept and decrypt some type of WiFi network traffic (relying on WPA2 connections). […] More
As you navigate the storms of potential doom at every hour of the day, can you trust anyone at all? Life used to be so much simpler before tech came along and tempted the nefarious into instant and constant acts of subterfuge. Now, we don’t know whom — or what — to trust. When we […] More
Samsung says it will offer its secure element for storing passwords on the Galaxy S20 series smartphones to other smartphone vendors. The secure element consists of Samsung’s S3K250AF chip, a microcontroller, hardware-level protection and a locked-down operating system. The technology is designed to store users’ secrets, including PINs, passwords, and cryptocurrency details in a way […] More
