CES Surveillance Hype Worries Privacy Advocates
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Category Archives: Consumer Electronics Show
Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images
It isn’t new, all the tech giants do it, and your privacy’s intact – unless you’re dealing in illegal imagery with telltale hashing. Continue reading Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images
At CES, Focus is On ‘Cool Factor’ Not IoT Security
When it comes to IoT, the priority at CES is the “wow factor” – but not so much a focus on security. Continue reading At CES, Focus is On ‘Cool Factor’ Not IoT Security
The Promise and Peril of 5G
As the hype at CES demonstrates, 5G is the newest and shiniest tech bauble out there: but security concerns loom. Continue reading The Promise and Peril of 5G
Comcast launches subscription Wi-Fi security service
With the Consumer Electronics Show underway in Las Vegas, consumers are set to endure a flood of product announcements for connected devices they didn’t know they wanted, creating more potential gateways for home networks to be exploited by hackers. After all, some 20.4 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020, up from 8.4 billion in 2017, according to projections from the market research firm Gartner. Many of those devices are not manufactured with security in mind, as evidenced by recent cyberattacks. Now, Comcast is looking to tap into the internet-of-things security market with a new subscription service announced Tuesday. The company’s xFi Advanced Security is a $5.99-per-month service available to existing Comcast Wi-Fi customers that is meant to monitor all of a network’s devices for suspicious activity, block anything necessary, and alert the customer. To subscribe, customers must already be renting the company’s Xfinity xFi Advanced Gateway modem, which by default gives […]
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CES Revoked an Award for a Female Pleasure Device for Being ‘Immoral’
The device was deemed “immoral, obscene, indecent, [or] profane” by CES. Continue reading CES Revoked an Award for a Female Pleasure Device for Being ‘Immoral’
Yubico unveils new NFC key, developing a Lightning-enabled key
Yubico, the physical authentication key company, announced two new products Tuesday, as it continues to make its key fob-like authenticators available on more platforms. The YubiKey for Lightning is geared specifically for Mac and iOS users, but is in a private preview phase while Yubico and third-party developers work on making the keys more compatible with Apple devices. The other announced product, the Security Key NFC, is a USB-A key that has near field communication capability. It combines some functionalities of the company’s standard security key and the YubiKey 5 NFC, both of which were updated in Yubico’s Series 5 line released in September. The new key supports FIDO2, a standard for hardware-based, passwordless authentication, as well as the older FIDO U2F two-factor authentication. However, some authentication protocols included in other keys aren’t supported in the new key. Yubico says the Security Key NFC “works out-of-the-box” with many popular services and […]
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