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Comparitech’s Paul Bischoff found that Amazon’s facial recognition platform misidentified an alarming number of people, and was racially biased. Facial recognition technology is still misidentifying people at an alarming rate – even as it’s being used by police departments to make arrests. In fact, Paul Bischoff, consumer privacy expert with Comparitech, found that Amazon’s face recognition…
In dem bodengebundenen Forschungsflugzeug wird das Kabinenklima mit Messtechnik samt spezieller Dummies untersucht. Bild: DLR Zum Start der Sommerferien sind Reisen innerhalb Europas wieder möglich. Doch wie groß ist das Risiko, sich im Flugzeug oder Zug mit dem Coronavirus anzustecken? Forscher untersuchen, wie sich die Viren in der Kabine verteilen. Die Flugzeugkabine ist nur schwach…
A multinational tech company gets schooled in the risks of doing business in China. A large, multinational technology company got a nasty surprise recently as it was expanding its operations to China. The software a local bank required the company to install so it could pay local taxes contained an advanced backdoor. The cautionary tale,…
SophosLabs published a study that revealed hackers use the blockchain network to share secret messages. A group of researchers from SophosLabs state that hackers operating the cryptojacking malware, Glupteba, have been using the Bitcoin blockchain network to communicate in secret. According to the report published on June 24, cybercriminals rely on a command and control…
The original 1995 ShockWave Global Download Servers at Macromedia HQ San Francisco Back in 1995 Macromedia’s influence on interactive media began with the launch of Shockwave, a technology that converted Macromedia Director presentations into a compressed format for web delivery: the first true animations on the Internet, which also allowed Youtube to exist later, delivering…
A partial screenshot of the BlueLeaks data cache. Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from US police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks” and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at Texas web design and hosting company Netsential that maintains a number of state…
Senior Level Executives are invited to participate in the Virtual Cyber Summit Power Hour DC Metro Edition. During these unprecedented times, it is more important than ever for business leaders to have a clear and well thought-out cyber security battle plan. Join us and learn from Leading Industry Experts from the US DHS, Arctic Wolf,…
Encountered this today: “The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn’t allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath.” #cybersecurity #notlinuxfriendly
Recently, I was tipped off about certain sites performing localhost port scans against visitors, presumably as part of a user fingerprinting and tracking or bot detection. This didn’t sit well with me, so I went about investigating the practice, and it seems many sites are port scanning visitors for dubious reasons. A Brief Port Scanning…
Phishing-Mails sind eine der beliebtesten Methoden, Zugang zu Firmenaccounts oder Privatkonten zu bekommen. Die Firma Gitlab wollte nun die eigene Sicherheit testen und war dabei erfolgreicher als erhofft. Es geht schneller, als viele Menschen sich eingestehen: Einmal einer falschen Mail vertraut und schon hat man Hackern oder Kriminellen die Türen zum eigenen E-Mail-Account, dem Rechner…
Image by : Internet Archive Book Images. Modified by Opensource.com. CC BY-SA 4.0 Check the security of your Linux box with this comprehensive open source security auditing tool. Have you ever thought about how secure your Linux machine really is? There are numerous Linux distros, each with its own default settings, on which you run…
An investigative report by The Washington Post and ZDF – published 11 FEB 2020. For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines…
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) More sensors mean more data. Today’s battlefield is networked with sensors at an unprecedented scale. It is the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) that encompasses drone payloads, video cameras, signal and radio sensors, cyber sensors and scores of other devices. This cohesive network increases situational awareness, risk…
Oracle VP highlights what happens when data leaves your devices. No SIM card, no browser or app open, only the WiFi connection enabled: Android constantly transmits: GPS location, time & date, movement, temperature, atmospheric pressure, other smartphones and WiFi hotspots nearby — all to Google, to the tune of 4 megabytes each hour. Device sensor…
Normally creating a traffic jam takes actual traffic, like the cars seen here. With a wagon full of smartphones, a traffic jam can be created without the need for a long line of cars. (EveryPicture, via Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0) A single red wagon, hand pulled down the middle of a lightly traveled street, is an…
New research from IOActive has found that “blindly” trusting the encryption of the widely adopted device protocol can lead to DDoS, sending of false data and other cyber attacks. The LoRaWAN protocol has become standard in the world of industrial IoT because of its support for low-power wireless devices over long distances and its end-to-end…
In Deutschland wird derzeit diskutiert, ob der Staat genug in Infrastruktur und Bildung investiert. Wie die Statista-Grafik auf Basis einer Auswertung des Handelsblatts zeigt, ist das Volumen nicht abgerufener Fördergelder beträchtlich. So sind die Gelder der beiden Fonds, mit denen besonders finanzschwache Kommunen gefördert werden sollen, bis Ende letzten Jahres zu rund 44 Prozent bzw.…
Die Digitalwirtschaft des Silicon Valley konnte ihre weltweite Vormachtstellung weiter ausbauen. Plattform-Unternehmen wie Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook oder Google, dessen Mutterkonzern Alphabet als vierter US-Konzern eine Börsenbewertung von mehr als einer Billion Dollar erreichte, dominieren die westliche Welt und treffen nur in Asien auf ebenbürtige Konkurrenten. Europa ist abgemeldet.
Shipping at only $149, Brave Heart is a fully open-source smartphone running Linux. Pine64’s open source PinePhone runs Linux and is designed for developers and early-adopters. Computer and developer-board maker Pine64 has started shipping the first edition of its much-anticipated – at least in the open-source community – PinePhone, after pre-orders sold out. Dubbed…
Morgen stellt Microsoft den Support für Windows 7 ein. Das Betriebssystem ist derzeit laut NetMarkeShare mit einem Desktop-Marktanteil von 26,6 Prozent die Nummer zwei hinter Windows 10. Das heißt, dass ab Dienstag weltweit Dutzende Millionen Menschen keine Updates mehr für ihr Betriebssystem bekommen. Damit wird die 2010 erschienene Windows-Version für Anwender zum Sicherheitsrisiko. Das gilt…
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