Moscow metro launches face recognition payments
Moscow on Friday rolled out a facial recognition payment system in the city's metro system, part of a rapid expansion of the controversial technology in Russia.
Oct 15, 2021
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A new US data privacy bill aims to give you more control over information collected about you
Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world's largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), ...
Aug 24, 2022
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Two security researchers find WPA3 vulnerabilities
You mean my safety blanket isn't safe? A next-gen standard "was supposed to make password cracking a thing of the past," clucked Ars Technica, after learning that vulnerabilities were found in the WPA3 protocol that could ...
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VeryMal: Campaign in image-based malware spotted
By this time, news stories have made words like bugs, viruses and malware familiar and by all means frequent, as computer users scramble to self-educate on how to avoid falling victim to a range of security invasions.
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New malware detection for Android at the source code level
There are numerous malware detection and antivirus apps for mobile devices running the Android operating system. However, a team in China introduces a new approach that can detect malicious activity at the source code level. ...
Jul 23, 2021
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Addressing the issue of using hacked data in research efforts
A pair of health and ethics scientists, one with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the other ETH Zurich, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, discussing the ethics of researchers ...
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Performing matrix multiplications at the speed of light for enhanced cybersecurity
"All things are numbers," avowed Pythagoras. Today, 25 centuries later, algebra and mathematics are everywhere in our lives, whether we see them or not. The Cambrian-like explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) brought ...
Feb 1, 2023
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Apple devices getting beefed-up defense against spyware
Apple on Wednesday unveiled a new way for activists, journalists and other targets of state-sponsored espionage to protect themselves from spyware.
Jul 6, 2022
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Massive breach shows how espionage is carried out in the 21st century
Forget KGB agents Russian intelligence officers masquerading as ordinary Americans to slip inside government agencies and steal national security secrets like in television's "The Americans."
Dec 21, 2020
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New record set for cracking encryption keys
An international team of computer scientists had set a new record for two of the most important computational problems that are the basis for nearly all of the public-key cryptography that is currently used in the real world.
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