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I am assisting another Data Scientist with helping a bank detect and prevent fraud via data analysis and predictive modeling (Machine Learning). It’s a challenge because the proportion of known fraudulent cases is small and some fraud goes… Continue reading Fraud Detection – 2FA Bypass Methods and SIM Cloning
How is the malware file signature generated? Does it use a sequence of bytes in the beginning, size, PE (export, import, section), etc?
And can the MD5 or SHA256 be considered a file signature for a malware file?
Note: I know that there’s … Continue reading How malware file signature is generated?
Escort card (Identification) for school
When can a escort card (Identification) for school as part of security measures cannot be tampered?
Input Parameters : Photo image, Escort card material etc.
I meant to say, a fake duplicate escort c… Continue reading Escort card (Identification) for school security measures [closed]
During my work day, I came upon a website that had a popup that identified the company I work for(basically saying "contact us X company"). This website was never previously visited, cookies were blocked and the company I work fo… Continue reading How can websites fingerprint the company I work for?
We’ve always known that phones—and the people carrying them—can be uniquely identified from their Bluetooth signatures, and that we need security techniques to prevent that. This new research shows that that’s not enough.
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego proved in a study published May 24 that minute imperfections in phones caused during manufacturing create a unique Bluetooth beacon, one that establishes a digital signature or fingerprint distinct from any other device. Though phones’ Bluetooth uses cryptographic technology that limits trackability, using a radio receiver, these distortions in the Bluetooth signal can be discerned to track individual devices…
Continue reading Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones
Despite protective measures being in place, endangered fish species are regularly caught then sold in open markets. And while visually searching them out can be difficult, a new technology could more easily allow authorities to know which species are b… Continue reading Wastewater-borne DNA reveals endangered species in fish markets
A new client wants to conduct KYC checks on users on a basic level, meaning they will need to submit their ID card (Hong Kong) and proof of address. The client will simply check the documents manually before verifying the user.
I’m not ent… Continue reading Is there a service for storing sensitive user identity documents? [closed]
Researchers are using the reflection of the smartphone in the pupils of faces taken as selfies to infer information about how the phone is being used:
For now, the research is focusing on six different ways a user can hold a device like a smartphone: w… Continue reading Using Pupil Reflection in Smartphone Camera Selfies
We just stumbled across a wordpress-hosted blog (subdomain.wordpress.com that contains false claims and which we might want to sue in a legal (or inofficial) case.
Are there any technical solutions how we can identify the blog owner?
We al… Continue reading How to identify the owner of a wordpress-hosted blog? [migrated]
If someone steals your smartphone, the harder it is for them to unlock it, the better. New research shows how gait analysis could provide an added layer of security, by authenticating a user’s identity based on the way they walk.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Real-world testing suggests gait ID could boost smartphone security