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Sophos Announces Partnership with Measured Analytics and Insurance

May 3, 2023 0 Comments cyber insurance, featured, measured, products & services, Ransomware, research, sophos endpoint, sophos mdr

Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 12:31:16 +0000

Unlocking cyber insurance premium savings for Sophos’ U.S. customers

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Traffic Light Protocol for cybersecurity responders gets a revamp

August 5, 2022 0 Comments cybersecurity, mdr, mtr, research, security leadership, tlp

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 16:57:56 +0000

Traffic lights make a handy global metaphor for denoting the sensitivity of cybersecurity threat data – three colours that everyone knows.

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Pwn2Own hacking schedule released – Windows and Linux are top targets

May 18, 2022 0 Comments Hacking, pwn2own, research, secops, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 13:04:06 +0000

What’s better? Disclose early, patch fast? Or dig deep, disclose in full, patch more slowly?

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Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images

March 3, 2020 0 Comments AI, anthropometry, Artificial intelligence, biometrics, camera-to-subject distance, conference, eilidh noyes, face matching, faceprints, facial recognition, Law & order, Machine Learning, research, surveillance, ufig, unfamiliar face identification group, university of huddersfield

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:48:02 +0000

It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A15DxfJxLcc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Study explores clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites

August 27, 2019 0 Comments advertising, Alexa, alexa-ranked websites, chromium, clickjacking, clickjacking attacks, clickjacking research, observer, ranking, research, study, Web threats, websites

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:36:52 +0000

We look at recent research exploring the threat of clickjacking, along with other solutions considered by site owners and analysts for protecting users against these online attacks.

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Tags: advertising alexa alexa-ranked websites chromium clickjacking clickjacking attacks clickjacking research observer ranking research study web threats websites

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Fake news doesn’t (always) fool mice

August 13, 2019 0 Comments adorable science, animals, Black Hat, deep fakes, fake news, GANs, Institute of Neuroscience, Machine Learning, mice, research, rodents, speech, trained mice, University of Oregon

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:05:34 +0000

Mice can interpret speech phonemes correctly up to 80% of the time without falling for semantic hoodwinks like humans do.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DOZxZWFWABA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons

August 13, 2019 0 Comments acoustic cyber weapons, bluetooth, DEF CON, Def Con 2019, Defcon, malware, Matt Wixey, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, research, security threats, sounds, soundwaves, vulnerability, Wi-fi

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:54:10 +0000

Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren’t protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/S9CML6xBVTQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook is working on mind-reading

August 2, 2019 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, facebook, Facebook Reality Labs, mind reading, research, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:39:03 +0000

The completely non-evil-genius goal: a wearable, noninvasive device that could translate thoughts into text, for the speech impaired or VR.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/E-Vvn7l33Vw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>