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Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:33:00 -0700

Reacting to concerns about the mass collection of photographs in police databases, U.S. lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to limit the use of facial recognition technology by the FBI and other law enforcement organizations.

The FBI and police departments across the country can search a group of databases containing more than 400 million photographs, many of them from the drivers’ licenses of people who have never committed a crime. The photos of more than half of U.S adults are contained in a series of FBI and state databases, according to one study released in October.

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Independent Krebs

March 22, 2017 admin

eBay Asks Users to Downgrade Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 17:59:44 +0000

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity received an email from eBay. The company wanted me to switch from using a hardware key fob when logging into eBay to receiving a one-time code sent via text message. I found it remarkable that eBay, which at one time was well ahead of most e-commerce companies in providing more robust online authentication options, is now essentially trying to downgrade my login experience to a less-secure option.

MalwareBytes Security

March 22, 2017 admin

SMS phishing for the masses

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:00:27 +0000

This post looks at a recent SMS phishing scam for the RBC bank and a tool the attackers may have used to bulk send fraudulent SMS messages.

Categories:

Social engineering

Tags: Bank of Montreal BMO phishing RBC Royal Bank Sendroid sms

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Fortinet Security

March 22, 2017 admin

Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Spotlight: Versa Networks

Credit to Author: Darlene Gannon| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:25:06 -0700

Fortinet spoke with Fabric-Ready Partner, Versa Networks to learn what’s top of mind for its customers, the key IT challenges they are facing and how Versa Networks’ approach to integrated security is helping drive business and customer success.

Security TrendMicro

March 22, 2017 admin

CeBIT 2017: 27 Years In The Making for Trend Micro

Credit to Author: Eva Chen| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:00:46 +0000

As I entered CeBIT 2017 on Monday, a nostalgic wave hit me. I was reminded of my first trip to this conference 27 years ago, shortly after we founded Trend Micro. Walking in that day, floppy disks and computer in hand, I was eager to learn and ready to grow in this industry. My excitement…

Security Wired

March 22, 2017 admin

Good News: Android’s Huge Security Problem Is Getting Less Huge

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:00:39 +0000

According to Google’s own stats, only half of Android devices received a security update any time in 2016. The post Good News: Android’s Huge Security Problem Is Getting Less Huge appeared first on WIRED.

ComputerWorld Independent

March 22, 2017 admin

Password-stealing flaws in LastPass Chrome and Firefox extensions

Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 06:25:00 -0700

Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher on Google’s Project Zero team, warned of flaws in LastPass browser extensions, vulnerabilities which – if a person surfed to a malicious site – would allow the malicious site to steal passwords from the password manager.

LastPass said it patched the vulnerability in its Chrome extension and said it is working on a fix for the flaw in its Firefox add-on.

Ormandy originally said the LastPass bug affected 4.1.42 Chrome and Firefox browser extensions. He developed a working exploit for a Windows box running the LastPass Chrome extension, but said it “could be made to work on other platforms.” He sent the details to LastPass before adding:

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 22, 2017 admin

Security Sessions: Where is VC security funding going?

In the latest episode of Security Sessions, CSO Editor-in-Chief Joan Goodchild sits down with Jeff Fagnan from Accomplice, a venture capital and private equity firm in Cambridge, Mass. The two discuss the current state of VC funding in security companies and where the money is going (and not going), and why CSOs should "follow the money."