22 Apr

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges

London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.

Author rabih
22 Apr

Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies

Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company’s security strategy du jour as follows: “You need to use AI to fight

Author rabih
22 Apr

France’s ‘Secure’ ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

France’s National Agency for “Secure” Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they’ve nicked a third of the country’s ID

Author rabih
22 Apr

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on Londoners, say judges

London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.

Author rabih
22 Apr

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock

A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the ‌world, Gartner increased

Author rabih
22 Apr

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.

Author rabih
21 Apr

Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash – stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor

State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display “an eye-watering level of sophistication,” UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to

Author rabih
21 Apr

Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide

If a cyberattack leads to a death, that’s murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges

Author rabih
21 Apr

More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks

America’s lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch

Author rabih
21 Apr

macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets

A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, and more

Author rabih
21 Apr

Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords

The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two

Author rabih
21 Apr

AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account

Vercel’s CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with “surprising velocity” and a

Author rabih
21 Apr

Crook claims to leak ‘video surveillance footage’ of companies

A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance

Author rabih
21 Apr

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters

London’s Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city’s pervasive shoplifting problem… and it doesn’t rely on live facial recognition (LFR).

Author rabih
21 Apr

New NGate variant hides in a trojanized NFC payment app

ESET Research has discovered a new variant of the NGate malware family that abuses a legitimate Android application called HandyPay, instead of the previously leveraged

Author rabih
21 Apr

Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul

UK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intruder logged in with stolen credentials, while a ransomware crew claims

Author rabih
21 Apr

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture

Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments. The company revealed

Author rabih
21 Apr

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war

Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining

Author rabih
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