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In the age of Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, concerns about police use of live facial recognition systems are overblown, especially if those systems will save us from being attacked in the street. That’s the sentiment of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, who in a speech this week made the case for the use of technology […] More
Hacking is growing, but in some cases, that’s no bad thing. That’s the main take-away from the annual report on the state of ethical hacking published by bug bounty platform HackerOne. As of 2020, the organization can boast a base of 600,000 white hat hackers; a community twice as big as the previous year, which […] More
Some 68% of consumers in Asia-Pacific say they made the majority of their purchases in physical retail stores over the past year, but 82% will turn to an app on their phone to research products before buying in-store. In addition, more are seeking out hybrid shopping options where they have the ability to buy online […] More
Image: Mozilla Mozilla will add a new security sandbox system to Firefox on Linux and Firefox on Mac. The new technology, named RLBox, works by separating third-party libraries from an app’s native code. This process is called “sandboxing,” and is a widely used technique that can prevent malicious code from escaping from within an app […] More
Over half of Internet of Things devices connected to enterprise networks are consumer-grade products – and the low levels of protection offered by these devices could potentially be putting businesses at risk of from cyber attacks. Cybersecurity researchers at Zscaler analysed data generated by IoT devices generated by enterprises and found there has been a surge in unauthorised IoT […] More
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has admitted to a data breach that exposed confidential information belonging to roughly 1,600 consumers. On Tuesday, the financial watchdog said it the information exposure occurred following the public release of data in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request. FOI requests can be made in the […] More
McAfee has acquired Light Point Security to bring remote browser isolation capabilities to the MVISION Unified Cloud Edge (UCE) security solution. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2010 by former US National Security Agency (NAS) employees CEO Zuly Gonzalez and CTO Beau Adkins, the Washington DC-based company’s Web Full Isolation […] More
Image: deepanker70 Google has released today a Chrome update to address three security bugs, including a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. Details about these attacks are not yet public, and we don’t know how this bug is being used against Chrome users. All we know is that the attacks were […] More
