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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. The partners aim to combine fingerprint and facial data to more effectively authenticate employees in workplace settings. Last November, SureID , a fingerprint services vendor based in Portland, Ore.,

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Aussie Telcos are Failing at Some Fundamental Security Basics

Troy Hunt

Recently, I've witnessed a couple of incidents which have caused me to question some pretty fundamental security basics with our local Aussie telcos, specifically Telstra and Optus. She was pretty shocked when I showed her this as it was precisely the same verbal password as she used to authenticate to her bank.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices. Obviously, this.

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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Krebs on Security

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. started receiving emails with a “cash back” offer.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices. Obviously, this.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With more than 65,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales is a global leader in technology solutions for the aerospace, transport, defence and security markets. Its unique capabilities include the design and deployment of equipment, systems and services to meet complex security requirements. But, that’s not the whole story.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. million users.

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