Facial recognition is real-life ‘Black Mirror’ stuff, Ocasio-Cortez says

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:59:27 +0000

“People think they’re going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears, and not realize that that data’s being collected.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WEGyDh5kmBU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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EDRi’s guidelines call for more ethical websites

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:42:40 +0000

Recommendations cover areas including security and privacy while listing alternatives to free online services that slurp your users’ data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/kpjTYPyRRG8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Changing the monolith—Part 2: Whose support do you need?

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:00:28 +0000

Transformation can be a daunting task. In this series, I explore how change is possible when addressing the components of people, process, and technology that make up the organization.

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Feds may already have found a way to hack into Apple iPhones

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:30:00 -0800

After Apple turned down a request by U.S. Attorney General William Barr this week to unlock two iPhones used by a terrorist suspect in a recent deadly shooting, the FBI appears to already have the tools needed to access the smartphones.

Apple turned down a request from U.S. Attorney General William Barr saying it would  not help unlock two iPhones used by the shooter, 21-year-old Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani. He is believed to have acted alone when he shot and killed three service members and wounded several others at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. last month.

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Kadena launches Chainweb, a hybrid platform to connect public, private blockchains

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:10:00 -0800

Brooklyn-based startup Kadena has launched a hybrid blockchain that can scale horizontally, enabling multiple electronic ledgers to talk to each other via smart contracts – and letting users transfer cryptocurrency between the chains.

Hybrid blockchains combine permissioned chains for businesses to transact in the background while connecting to a public blockchain (via an API) for consumers and others to make money transfers or access information about products moving across supply chains.

“Their hybrid blockchain model looks interesting, mainly because it enables interoperability via smart contracts that run on public chains and talk to/with private chains,” said Avivah Litan, a vice president of research at Gartner. “That way, enterprises can keep their private data and transactions limited to the private chain but benefit from the liquidity and cross-chain access available by leveraging smart contracts running on the public chain.”

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Explained: data enrichment

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:27:53 +0000

Data enrichment applies to the process of enhancing, refining, and improving raw data. Used by companies to improve marketing efforts, data enrichment impacts both privacy and security.

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NSA and Github ‘rickrolled’ using Windows CryptoAPI bug

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:42:09 +0000

We said, “Assume that someone will find out how to do it pretty soon,” and that’s exactly what happened.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/XhJpjHyVCqc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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