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]Oracle POS Back Door Discovered Oracle bought the Micros Point of Sale System a few years ago and now needs to deal with the challenges from that. The newest challenge is a modular back door that affects the 3700 POS series. It is used by hundreds of thousands of hotels, restaurants, bars and other hospitality […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is TikTok is Going to Sell to Oracle. Maybe Well sale is not really the right word. They call it a “trusted tech partner”. This does not solve the national security problem, so it is not clear what problem this does solve. None the less, Steve Mnuchin will present it to the President. If it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hamas Creates Fake Missile Warning App to Hack Israelis The Times of Israel is reporting that Hamas has created and was distributing a fake Code Red rocket warning app. The app, according to Clearsky Cyber Security, takes over the phone and is impossible to remove, even if the app is deleted. Once infected, the app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.K.’s High Court Gives the U.K. Gov 6 Months to Fix Law Privacy in the U.K. is a bit of wishful thinking. Besides having the most public surveillance cameras in the world (Wikipedia says there is one camera for every 14 people in the country), the government has attempted to kill privacy in other ways. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So far this week (and it is only Monday), we have two POS breaches in the news. HEI Hotels and Resorts, which manages almost 60 hotels for Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and other chains announced that 20 of their locations, covering all of their brands, had suffered breaches. While they have not said how many cards […]
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