While Clearview AI has billions of images for people to search against, they are expensive and fussy (to a degree) about who they sell to. On the other hand, PimEyes is free and available to anyone with a web browser. As I said, a stalker’s dream. Here is how it works. The stalker uploads a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Cyber Attacks Lithuania After Gov Refuses to Let Russian Coal, Steel Trains Through Apparently Russia couldn’t figure out a way to do any real damage, so they launched a denial of service attack against a bunch of Lithuanian web sites.. This includes the state tax inspector, migration department and secure national data network. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is an interesting story and we will have to watch to see where it goes. One FCC commissioner sent a letter to Apple and Google asking/telling them to remove TikTok from their app stores. The commissioner, one of the Republicans, Brendan Carr, said “it is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There have been many issues over the years with passive (keyless) entry systems, including but not limited to vehicles. In this case, researchers at the NCC Group used a “relay attack” to not only unlock a Tesla Model 3, but also start it and drive away. A relay attack works like this. You take one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chinese Sponsored OPERATION CUCKOOBEES Active for Many Years Researchers with cybersecurity firm Cybereason briefed the FBI and Justice Department as early as 2019 about Operation CuckooBees, an alleged espionage effort by Chinese state-sponsored hackers (named Winnti or APT41) to steal proprietary information from dozens of global defense, energy, biotech, aerospace and pharmaceutical companies. The companies […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Courts can’t quite figure out how to treat Internet companies. Amazon is an interesting mix. It sells some products itself, it offers other products that are sold and fulfilled by third parties and it does a mix (products sold by third parties but fulfilled by Amazon). I hope Amazon is hiring a lot of lawyers […]
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