Collaborate Disseminate
The free face-image search engine PimEyes “scans through billions of images from the internet and finds matches of your photo that could have appeared in a church bulletin or a wedding photographer’s website,” -us/news/technology/they-made-a-public-rol… Continue reading PimEyes ‘Made a Public Rolodex of Our Faces’. Should You Opt Out?
I’m researching a privacy-oriented traffic extraction scheme, based on homomorphic encryption and several other technologies.
I’m having trouble how to evaluate the scheme according to the goal of the project (privacy and security).
How th… Continue reading How privacy schemes can be evaluated? [closed]
In this Help Net Security interview, Miguel Guevara, Product Manager, Privacy Safety and Security at Google, discusses the complexities involved in scaling differential privacy technology across large systems. He emphasizes the need to develop secure, … Continue reading Google on scaling differential privacy across nearly three billion devices
In this week’s episode your hosts practice standing on one leg, Carole gives Graham a deepfake quiz, and we investigate how Strava may be exposing the movements of world leaders.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winn… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #391: The secret Strava service, deepfakes, and crocodiles
Yet again, connected devices are in the news for all the wrong reasons. In October, security researchers found that robot vacuums from Chinese company, Ecovacs, can be compromised via a backdoor. In one case, hackers gained control over the device and … Continue reading IoT needs more respect for its consumers, creations, and itself
For months, the Colorado Department of State inadvertently exposed partial passwords for voting machines in a public spreadsheet. “While the incident is embarrassing and already fueling accusations from the state’s Republican party, the department said… Continue reading Colorado Agency ‘Improperly’ Posted Passwords for Its Election System Online
Some recent court rulings show the difficult road of anti-spyware litigation, but those in the fight also see signs of promise.
The post Legal barriers complicate justice for spyware victims appeared first on CyberScoop.
Continue reading Legal barriers complicate justice for spyware victims
In this Help Net Security interview, Carla Roncato, VP of Identity at WatchGuard Technologies, discusses how companies can balance privacy, security, and usability in digital identity systems. She emphasizes modern techniques like biometrics and passke… Continue reading Simplifying decentralized identity systems for everyday use
When filling out forms in the browser is the client side input secure against JS and other attack vectors?
Continue reading Is form data as is being inputted always safe?
French newspaper Le Monde found that the fitness app Strava can easily track confidential movements of foreign leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, and presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The Independent reports: Le Monde found … Continue reading Fitness App Strava Gives Away Location of Foreign Leaders, Report Finds