Texting or e-mail: Which gives you more secure communication?
WhatsApp, text or email—which is the most secure option when your conversation really has to be locked down?
Oct 14, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Using artificial intelligence to help drones find people lost in the woods
A trio of researchers at Johannes Kepler University has used artificial intelligence to improve thermal imaging camera searches of people lost in the woods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, ...
Security
Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data
Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines—a so-called "privacy nightmare on wheels," according to US-based research conducted by the Mozilla Foundation.
Oct 14, 2023
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Brute-force test attack bypasses Android biometric defense
Chinese researchers say they successfully bypassed fingerprint authentication safeguards on smartphones by staging a brute force attack.
Security
Evolve Bank & Trust confirms its data was stolen in cyber attack
Evolve Bank & Trust confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack and that customer data had been posted on the dark web, less than two weeks after the Arkansas-based lender was ordered by regulators to improve its risk management ...
Jun 27, 2024
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A face recognition framework based on vision transformers
Face recognition tools are computational models that can identify specific people in images, as well as CCTV or video footage. These tools are already being used in a wide range of real-world settings, for instance aiding ...
Internet
How the world's biggest dark web platform spreads millions of items of child sex abuse material
Child sexual abuse material is rampant online, despite considerable efforts by big tech companies and governments to curb it. And according to reports, it has only become more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sep 3, 2021
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Image cloaking tool thwarts facial recognition programs
Researchers at the University of Chicago were not happy with the creeping erosion of privacy posed by facial recognition apps. So they did something about it.
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How your brainwaves could be used in criminal trials
American Kevin Strickland was exonerated after spending 42 years in prison for being wrongfully convicted of a triple murder in November 2021. His 1978 conviction was based on mistaken identification of an eyewitness. The ...
Jul 1, 2022
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Florida has spent $1.5 million developing smartphone ID apps that hardly anyone is using
Are we ever going to be able to leave our driver's licenses at home and use a smartphone app if pulled over by police?
Apr 5, 2023
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Law enforcement agency
In North American English, a Law enforcement agency (LEA) is an organisation that enforces the law.
Outside North America, such organisations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police, others have other names (e.g. sherriff's department; investigative police services in the USA are often called bureaus (e.g. FBI, ICE, ATF, DEA, USSS, SBI, etc.).)
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