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Facebook is going to shut down Face Recognition system and data it collected

Security Affairs

Facebook is using the face recognition system to analyze photos taken of tagged users and associated users’ profile photos to automatically recognize them in photos and videos. ” reads a blog post published by Facebook. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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4 Ways North Korea Is Targeting Security Researchers

SecureWorld News

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations. However, because they are heroes, they are also targets.

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VASTFLUX ad fraud massively affected millions of iOS devices, dismantled

Malwarebytes

The Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team dubbed the campaign VASTFLUX, a portmanteau of "fast flux" —an evasion technique involving the constant changing of IP addresses behind a single domain—and "VAST" ( Video Ad Serving Template ), a framework to embed ads in videos.

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GUEST ESSAY: The privacy implications of facial recognition systems rising to the fore

The Last Watchdog

Adoption of facial recognition technology is fast gaining momentum, with law enforcement and security use cases leading the way. Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. The combination of these trends makes the widespread adoption of the technology at this time almost inevitable. billion by 2022.

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Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

Troy Hunt

Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? Obviously, the image is resized to the width of paragraphs on this blog, give it a click if you want to check it out at 1:1 size.

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The JavaScript Supply Chain Paradox: SRI, CSP and Trust in Third Party Libraries

Troy Hunt

This tag was in the source code over at secure.donaldjtrump.com/donate-homepage yet it was pulling script directly off Igor Escobar's GitHub repository for the project. In short, we have the technology to fix this so why did things blow up so spectacularly today? Now, imagine if Igor took a dislike to Trump. from its current state.

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Hack Yourself First Workshops in Australia, Denmark and Portugal (Virtually, of Course)

Troy Hunt

But the NDC events really need to run over 2 whole days, so we came up with a better idea: Scott and I will be tag-teaming the 2-day events. Or don't ask anything and we'll banter away as we normally would anyway which people always seem to love when it happens on my weekly videos. I'll post details about that event tomorrow.

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