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Privacy issues and security risks in Alexa Skills
With the voice commands 'Alexa Skills,' users can load numerous extra functions onto their Amazon voice assistant. However, these Skills can often have security gaps and data protection problems, as a team of researchers ...
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Security
AI facial analysis is scientifically questionable. Should we be using it for border control?
Developments in global border control technologies are providing innovative ways to address issues relating to migration, asylum-seeking and the introduction of illegal goods into countries.
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Software
Red Canary researchers find evidence of malware on 30,000 infected Apple computers
A team of researchers at security firm Red Canary has found evidence of a new kind of malware infecting Apple brand computers. They claim on their website that they have found evidence of the malware, which they have named ...
Feb 22, 2021
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Business
Privacy faces risks in tech-infused post-COVID workplace
People returning to work following the long pandemic will find an array of tech-infused gadgetry to improve workplace safety but which could pose risks for long-term personal and medical privacy.
Feb 21, 2021
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Security
Massive breach fuels calls for US action on cybersecurity
Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation's cyber defenses and recognizing that an agency created two years ago to protect ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Security
Location tracking apps and privacy implications
How much personal information can our phone apps gather through location tracking? To answer this question, two researchers—Mirco Musolesi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Benjamin Baron (University College London, UK)—carried ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Malware targeting Apple's M1-based computers found
Security researcher Patrick Wardle is claiming on his Objective-See website that he has found an instance of malware that targets Apple computers running the M1 chipset. Apple began Mac Mini, Macbook Pro and the Macbook Air ...
Feb 18, 2021 report
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France to boost cyberdefense after hospital malware attacks
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday unveiled a plan to better arm public facilities and private companies against cybercriminals following ransomware attacks at two hospitals this month and an upsurge of similar ...
Feb 18, 2021
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US still unraveling 'sophisticated' hack of 9 gov't agencies
U.S. authorities are still working to unravel the full scope of the likely Russian hack that gave the "sophisticated" actor behind the breach complete access to files and email from at least nine government agencies and about ...
Feb 17, 2021
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Internet
Ransomware gangs are running riot and paying them off doesn't help
In the past five years, ransomware attacks have evolved from rare misfortunes into common and disruptive threats. Hijacking the IT systems of organizations and forcing them to pay a ransom in order to reclaim them, cybercriminals ...
Feb 17, 2021
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Security
More privacy when using WhatsApp, Signal and others
When installing a messaging service on a smartphone, users are usually prompted to give the app access to their own phone address book. This will automatically connect them with those contacts from their address book who ...
Feb 16, 2021
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Internet
How Apple and Google protect your privacy while warning of COVID exposure
Virginia has enabled app-less COVID-19 exposure notification services for iPhone users, joining California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. This ...
Feb 15, 2021
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French cyber agency reveals suspected Russian hacks
France's national cybersecurity agency said Monday it had discovered a hack of several organisations that bore similarities to other attacks by a group linked to Russian intelligence.
Feb 15, 2021
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