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Security News Bites For The Week Ending January 18, 2019

City of Del Rio, Texas Reverts to the 1950s – Paper and Pen – After Ransomware Attack Update:  The city says that it cannot issue utility bills which means that it won’t get utility revenue from residents. Del Rio, Texas, on the Texas-Mexico border was hit by a ransomware attack this week and as a […]

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Peace Sign Could Mean Trouble – For Your Identity

Japanese researchers released a paper talking about the (hypothetical) risk of flashing the peace sign. As we saw a couple of years ago with a German politician, a high definition photo from close enough (a few meters away according to the researchers) , with the right lighting, allowed the researchers to replicate the fingerprint. Apparently, […]

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