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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:00:12 +0000
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| As drive-by downloads slow down, drive-by cryptocurrency mining emerges as the latest annoyance that hijacks our PCs’ CPU. Categories: Tags: coinhivecryptocurrenciesCryptojackingDrive-by miningJsMinermonero |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:20:00 +0000
Take our quiz and find out if your online dating activity is likely to come back and bite you.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0700
Apple’s new iPhone X reads faces. And privacy pundits are gnashing their teeth over it.
The phone’s complex TrueDepth image system includes an infrared projector, which casts 30,000 invisible dots, and an infrared camera, which checks where in three-dimensional space those dots land. With a face in view, artificial intelligence on the phone figures out what’s going on with that face by processing locations of the dots.
Biometrics in general and face recognition in particular are touchy subjects among privacy campaigners. Unlike a password, you can’t change your fingerprints — or face.
Out of the box, the iPhone X’s face-reading system does three jobs: Face ID (security access), Animoji (avatars that mimic users’ facial expressions), and also something you might call “eye contact,” to figure out if the user is looking at the phone (to prevent sleep mode during active use).
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Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:28:41 +0000
The telecom giant filed a white paper with the commission last week arguing that it had the authority to overrule recent state-level laws.
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Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:25:26 +0000
Affordable housing activists were out at a town hall to make themselves heard.
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Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:22:29 +0000
A tweet about the bizarre ‘brassiere’ category raised some eyebrows.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:17:48 +0000
This week’s Transatlantic Cable podcast dishes on a hacked plastic surgeon, unsafe dating apps, new forms of 2FA, and more.
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Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:08:39 +0000
E’ Ottobre e questo significa che è il mese della sensibilizzazione sulla cybersecurity (Cybersecurity Awareness Month). Negli Stati Uniti è una tradizione talmente importante da essere ufficialmente conosciuta come National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) ed è iniziata nel 2004 come “uno sforzo di collaborazione tra governo e industria per garantire che ogni americano abbia le […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=43265&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/A6mSflk-aMo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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