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There are plenty of security cameras you can install at home or in an office that will turn on automatically when they detect movement. What’s unusual about the £85.99 (inc. VAT) Imou Ranger IQ is that it has motorised pan and tilt, so it can follow someone as they move around, giving you the best […] More
Over £16 million has been lost to online shopping fraudsters and scams in the three months since the UK started lockdown as people became reliant on buying things via the internet – and criminals have taken advantage. The figure comes from Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, which has received […] More
Ron Jenkins, Getty Images An activist group has published on Friday 296 GB of data they claim have been stolen from US law enforcement agencies and fusion centers. The files, dubbed BlueLeaks, have been published by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a group that describes itself as a “transparency collective.” The data has been made […] More
The Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media has been tasked with probing the risk posed to the nation’s democracy by foreign actors online, but it’s been warned against ignoring the power of domestic influence in spreading misinformation. It’s also been cautioned against simply enforcing content blocking and leaving the responsibility to a handful of mostly […] More
Top scams by loss, as reported to Scamwatch Australians reported 167,797 scams to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)-controlled Scamwatch in 2019. A 34% increase over the year prior, the financial impact in 2019 to Australians was just over AU$634 million. This was an average loss of AU$7,224. The Scamwatch Targeting scams 2019: A review […] More
Controversial facial recognition service Clearview AI has been marketing directly to individual Australian police officers, encouraging them to make 100+ searches during free trials, and to refer the service to their colleagues. In emails to Victoria Police [PDF] obtained under freedom of information laws by analyst Justin Warren last week, “Team Clearview” signed up at […] More
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Data61, together with Samsung Research and South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University, have developed a solution to protect consumers from voice spoofing attacks. The Voice liveness detection (Void) has been designed to be embedded in a smartphone or a voice assistance software to identify the difference between a live […] More
Image: Adobe Adobe plans to prompt users and ask them to uninstall Flash Player from their computers by the end of the year when the software is scheduled to reach End-Of-Life (EOL), on December 31, 2020. The move was announced in a new Flash Player EOL support page that Adobe published earlier this month, six […] More
