Tinder to get panic button, catfish-fighting facial recognition
It’s both a genius move to protect from assault and fraud and a personal data grab. ——– Free High Security Email from […]
Instagram CEO’s homes were targetted by SWATters
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri’s houses were surrounded by SWAT teams after hoax phone calls claimed hostages were being held there. ——– Free […]
New York wants to ban taxpayer-funded ransomware payments
One of the proposed bills would set up a $5m fund to help small towns upgrade their systems and bolster their security. […]
Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; […]
Smartphone Election in Washington State
This year: King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through […]
Average Ransomware Payments More Than Doubled in Q4 2019
Ransomware attackers collected an average of around $84,000 from victim organizations, up from $41,000 in Q3 of 2018, Coveware says. ——– Free […]
Greater Focus on Privacy Pays Off for Firms
Privacy-mature companies complete sales more quickly, have fewer and less serious breaches, and recover from incidents faster, according to Cisco’s annual survey. […]
How to Get the Most Out of Your Security Metrics
There’s an art to reporting security metrics so that they speak the language of leadership and connect the data from tools to […]
Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Pleads Guilty
Aleksei Burkov, an ultra-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. […]
Job hunting? Beware hiring scams using spoofed company websites
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