CARDIFF, Wales — A few hours before a recent Wales-Ireland rugby match in Cardiff, amid throngs of fans dressed in team colors of red and green, and sidewalk merchants selling scarves and flags, police officers popped out of a white van. The officers stopped a man carrying a large Starbucks coffee, asked him a series […]
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. No one should be downloading a flashlight app in the Year of Our Lord 2019 — that’s why both Google and Apple have integrated the ability into their devices as part of the base operating system. Avast security researcher Luis
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Enlarge / Simjacker attack flow. AdaptiveMobile Security Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned on Thursday. The so-called Simjacker exploits work across a wide range of mobile devices, regardless of the hardware or software
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What you don’t know about the dark web might be exploited by a ‘dark web intelligence’ vendor. Forrester’s Josh Zelonis offers a simple explanation and some helpful pointers. The dark web is nothing fancy. It’s really just a different series of protocols. Commonly, when surfing the web, transport layer security (TLS) is the cryptographic protocol
For a company that’s in the business of tracking users’ online activities, Google sure is going all out to prove it’s dead serious about privacy. To that effect, the internet behemoth is open-sourcing a library that it uses to glean insights from aggregate data in a privacy-preserving manner. Called Differentially Private SQL, the library leverages
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Google stands accused of using hidden web pages to circumvent EU privacy regulations, secretly sending users’ personal data to advertisers. The accusation comes from the privacy-focused Brave web browser which says it has, “uncovered what appears to be a GDPR workaround that circumvents Google’s own publicly stated GDPR data safeguards”. Evidence has been handed to
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“If we could trigger a reward for every click we put in, would that cause people to continue interacting with it?” Ms. Ma wondered. It did. A year later, Ms. Ma and Ms. Syam reused that template for an F.A.Q. about the royal baby watch. This time, rather than placing Easter eggs throughout, the designers
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Zao — a Chinese face-swapping app with the potential to be used to create deepfakes — went viral over the weekend, shooting to the top of the App Store download charts. But concerns have been raised not only over the potential for the app to be abused, but also over its privacy policies. Of particular
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Security researchers at Google say they’ve found a number of malicious websites which, when visited, could quietly hack into a victim’s iPhone by exploiting a set of previously undisclosed software flaws. Google’s Project Zero said in a deep-dive blog post published late on Thursday that the websites were visited thousands of times per week by
Today’s leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese About this Episode Episode 90 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Norman Sadeh from Carnegie Mellon University about the nature of intelligence and how AI effects our privacy. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This
