I don’t usually blog about an individual hacker takedown but this one – it is worth talking about. Certainly not the end of hacking but a significant win for the federales. Last month Interpol talked about Operation HAECHI IV. It was a six month takedown effort that involved 34 countries and funding from South Korea. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI and the End of Privacy A couple of Stanford grad students have written an AI app that using a very small dataset (400,000 images) can detect your location. PIGEON, as the project is called, can predict the country of the image with 92 percent accuracy and provide location within 25 kilometers in 40 percent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Low Code/No Code Apps Not A Security Nirvana Just because the computer is generating much of the code does not mean the software doesn’t have bugs or is secure. In fact, since many times non-developers are using the tools, the code may be less secure. Details at The Hacker News As If Twitter Doesn’t Have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]But AI is really the buzzword, so if the writer puts AI in the title then maybe more people will read it. Specifically this is designed to help banks prevent token fraud, which is hard to do anyway. Token fraud happens when a merchant “tokenizes” a credit card transaction so that the merchant doesn’t have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Windows administrators are painfully aware of a long history of security issues with Microsoft’s Windows Printing System. Microsoft has tried time and again to patch it, but it is, apparently, kind of like putting duct tape on a submarine with a screen door. Print bugs account for almost 10% of all cases reported to Microsoft’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]
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