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Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots 2024-08-05 at 12:31 By Connor Jones The technology remains highly controversial despite widespread rollout Responding to the riots across England over the past week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he’s backing a wider rollout of facial recognition technology to track and prevent “thugs” […]

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The cybersecurity QA trifecta of fail that may burn down the world 2024-08-05 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins Malware is often described as biology. It should be the other way around Opinion  In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, he invents malware that can leap species from silicon to the human brain. That’s a great

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Tencent Cloud’s home-grown traffic-tamer halves latency 2024-08-05 at 10:01 By Simon Sharwood MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs Sigcomm 2024  Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed MegaTE – a traffic engineering system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring network performance

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Critical Flaw in Rockwell Automation Devices Allows Unauthorized Access 2024-08-05 at 09:31 By A high-severity security bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation ControlLogix 1756 devices that could be exploited to execute common industrial protocol (CIP) programming and configuration commands. The flaw, which is assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6242, carries a CVSS v3.1 score

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China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes 2024-08-05 at 08:31 By Laura Dobberstein Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system Chinese app developers have signed up to beta test a national cyberspace ID system that will use facial recognition technology and the real names of

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New Android Trojan “BlankBot” Targets Turkish Users’ Financial Data 2024-08-05 at 08:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan called BlankBot targeting Turkish users with an aim to steal financial information. “BlankBot features a range of malicious capabilities, which include customer injections, keylogging, screen recording and it communicates with a control server

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China-Linked Hackers Compromise ISP to Deploy Malicious Software Updates 2024-08-05 at 08:16 By The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda compromised an unnamed internet service provider (ISP) to push malicious software updates to target companies in mid-2023, highlighting a new level of sophistication associated with the group. Evasive Panda, also known by the names

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Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers 2024-08-05 at 07:16 By Simon Sharwood Happy to have ’em go hybrid as it wises up to the enterprise Fresh from moving its smaller customers off its server-based products onto and into its cloud, Atlassian has softened its cloud-first approach after recognizing that its larger customers

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AI security: Safeguarding schools beyond surveillance 2024-08-05 at 07:16 By To bring surveillance systems up to date, schools are beginning to explore the potential of artificial intelligence. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Securing hospitality: Balancing guest experience and safety 2024-08-05 at 07:16 By Doug Alexander, Director of Security and Loss Prevention at Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan discusses challenges and advice within the industry. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months 2024-08-05 at 04:16 By Laura Dobberstein Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more ASIA IN BRIEF  India’s government has successfully migrated 25,904 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) to a unified ERP system in just five months, as part of its

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Lights, camera, AI! Real-time deepfakes coming to DEF CON 2024-08-04 at 21:46 By Jessica Lyons Red teamer finds they’re easy to make, which is welcome to produce fodder for detection bots DEF CON  Visitors to the AI Village at this year’s DEF CON hacker conference will have the chance to star in their own deepfake

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IBM Canada can’t duck channel exec’s systematic age discrimination claim 2024-08-04 at 20:31 By Thomas Claburn ‘They actually replaced me with a younger employee’ Three years ago, Bruce Maule, worldwide president of channel marketing at IBM, was informed by bosses that his position was being eliminated.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure 2024-08-04 at 14:16 By Dan Robinson Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades Analysis  Cloud infrastructure is undergoing an upheaval with service providers rushing to deploy servers configured for AI model training, often at the cost of postponing the usual refresh cycle

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Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon 2024-08-03 at 22:16 By Richard Speed And you thought you had range anxiety Feature  Electric vehicles have generated plenty of discussion over the last decade or so. However, it was 53 years ago this week that one of the battery-powered machines

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DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By Thomas Claburn Now that’s a TRACTOR pull request To accelerate the transition to memory safe programming languages, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is driving the development of TRACTOR, a programmatic code conversion vehicle.… This

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DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok

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Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool 2024-08-03 at 08:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack. Mineping is

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San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking software algorithms 2024-08-03 at 01:02 By Thomas Claburn Automated price-fixing screwing over tenants? Fog off! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week approved a ban on algorithmic price setting in the rental housing market, a measure targeting real estate management software from the likes of RealPage and Yardi

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