How Many Times Do I Need to Say – Crypto is Software, Software Has Bugs, Your Money is at Risk Decentralized Finance platform (DeFi) Revest Finance said that it lost $2 million due to a software bug and, oh yeah, (a) the can’t recover the funds, (b) they do not have the money to cover […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ukraine Starts Using Clearview Facial Rec to Detect Ruskies Ukraine is using Clearview’s facial recognition tech to identify Russian operatives trying to infiltrate the Ministry of Defense. Clearview has over 2 billion photos scraped from Russia’s social media service VKontakte. They are not sharing with Russia. That likely makes Clearview a high priority hacking target […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump is Not Happy About Launch of Twitter-Like Truth Social Apparently not happy is a bit of an understatement. He has a lot to lose if this is not successful. As part of the SPAC deal with Digital World, he has a lot of shares. If the stock, which is still going up slowly, tanks, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Scrambles to Try and Figure Out How to Stop Stalkers From Using AirTags Their newest idea is, when you initialize a new AirTag, it will tell you that Stalking may be illegal in your country. I really, really, doubt that will have any effect. They are also shortening the time window for notifying you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Scammers Figure out How to Fake Out Facial Biometrics Multi-factor authentication is not magic. For the most part, it is software. And if software is not well written, it can be fooled. That means that we should not be surprised if scammers try to use deep fakes and other techniques to fool automated facial recognition. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]
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