Many people have moved to facial recognition to unlock their iPhone, mostly because it is easy. Researchers wanted to know how secure that is. For those people who use their face to authorize payments, the problem is, maybe, a bit more serious. Researchers at Tel Aviv University harnessed deep fakes and that magic word, AI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe I should title this “what could possibly go wrong”. This is not specifically a security issue, but it could be. Mostly it is a safety issue. In new cars, you have a big ole screen in the front. It is designed to replace the dash controls and instruments. If you are Ford and you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well That Seems Like a Bit Over the Top A pharmacist in Illinois faces up to 120 years in prison for selling dozens of (I assume blank) Covid vaccine cards. The pharmacist sold 134 cards to 11 buyers for roughly $1276. He is being charged with theft of government property. That seems like a stretch, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Census Bureau admits that they were hit by a cyberattack last year while they were tallying the U.S. population, but not to worry – the servers compromised weren’t being used to conduct the tally. Trust them. According the the Inspector General, the Census Bureau missed multiple opportunities to stop the attack. How would you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nick Merker, partner at Indianapolis based law firm Ice Miller, spoke at Black Hat on the subject. Nick has been involved in over 500 cyber incidents and has learned a few things in the process. When lawyers become involved in a cyber incident, the consider things like compliance (like HIPAA), insurance, liability, evidence preservation and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has to be called a really bad oopsy, the Dallas Police Department, during a data migration effort back in March, lost 22 TB of data. This includes data from at least one murder case. The Dallas DA said that the city of Dallas (as opposed to the DA) discovered the problem on April […]
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