This week it is in England, but next week it could be on this side of the pond. Facebook was flooded with fake ads featuring Rishi Sunak. The UK also has an election for the prime minister this year. Researchers found 143 DIFFERENT ads impersonating the prime minister. They think the ads may have reached […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Kemba Walden to Head new Paladin Cyber Research and Advocacy Institute After being passed over as the national cyber director, she is going to head up a new effort by cyber venture firm Paladin. Walden will serve as president of the new Paladin Global Institute, an organization Paladin said in a press release is designed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Governments around the world, at best, tolerate encryption. If they thought they could outlaw it, they would. Public pronouncements that it is “about the children” or other fairy tales not withstanding, it is about them not being able to snoop at will. That is something that they have been able to do pretty freely until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FTC announced today its first ever settlement with a data broker for selling location data. The FTC alleged that the data broker, Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social, sold precise consumer location data and allowed third parties to track visits to health care providers, houses of worship and other sensitive destinations. The FTC claims […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You Haven’t Migrated to WiFi 6 Yet? It is Already Obsolete. Here is WiFi 7 WiFi 7 or, officially, IEEE 802.11be is faster and more spectrum efficient that previous WiFi versions. WiFi 7, they say, is 3 times faster than either WiFi 5 or 6, which makes it useful for things like gaming apps. Of […]
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 […]
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