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New IoT Security Regulations

Schneier on Security

It falls upon lawmakers to create laws that protect consumers. While the US government is largely absent in this area of consumer protection, the state of California has recently stepped in and started regulating the Internet of Things, or "IoT" devices sold in the state­and the effects will soon be felt worldwide.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying. What did Verkada do wrong?

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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

Customers photos and videos were used, with their permission, to train RealNetworks’ facial recognition engine, which maps 1,600 data points for each face. Other obvious use cases would be to provide real-time authentication to access autonomous vehicles or to control IoT devices in a smart home. Marquez, the Robbie.AI

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms. Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms.

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Security Boulevard

As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms. Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms.

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Past, present, and future of the Dark Web

Security Affairs

The visible peak, which represents the smallest part of the iceberg, that many have mistakenly associated with the clear web: is the part reachable by search engines. The Deep Web is composed of the content of the www that is not indexed by search engines. Its files are not indexable by search engines. Exactly, how?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

And we actually did some tests, comparing data we've gotten from three partners, commercial companies that have provided us with sample data and applications, and we've run tests of our data versus the most used external analytics engine, which will remain nameless, but it's awfully expensive. VAMOSI: There is something else here.