The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A string of advances in biometric authentication systems has brought facial recognition systems, in particular, to the brink of wide commercial use. Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. Facial biometric security is both strong and convenient. Related: Drivers behind facial recognition boom.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

As part of our series on Digital Identity , this blog will look back on the personal identification techniques of previous eras to show how methods of identification have developed over the course of human history. 1858 – First instance of biometric information being used for identification. 100,000 years ago – Jewellery.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft this month also issued a different patch for another MSDT flaw, tagged as CVE-2022-35743. See Microsoft’s blog post on the Exchange Server updates for more details. The publicly disclosed Exchange flaw is CVE-2022-30134 , which is an information disclosure weakness.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Employees of the central government in this country are required to use this biometric package to track attendance. On January 25, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced a state-sponsored threat actor had targeted security researchers. We refer to this supply-chain incident and this particular PlugX variant as SmudgeX.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. billion locals' data. rather than on the various subdomains.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2021

Biometrics with fingerprint and face, touch screen, 4K inbuilt display and enough GPU grunt to drive 2 external 4K displays daisy chained via Thunderbolt. Then, just as in the earlier video where she made my name tag, we sliced the file and defined a colour change point.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

In the following sections, we will discuss: API Basics Common API Security Vulnerabilities Best Practices for API Security How to do API Security Automatically By the end of this blog post, you will have a good understanding of API security and the steps you can take to easily secure your APIs. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work?

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