Privacy Security

Smartwatches for children are a privacy and security nightmare

Researchers analyzed the security of four popular smartwatches for children and found pre-installed downloaders, weak passwords, and unencrypted data transmissions. The analysis demonstrates that most of these devices arbitrarily collect and periodically transmit sensitive data to remote servers without the user knowing about it.This finding is worrisome as these devices quickly grow in popularity, with […]

Biometrics Data Protection GDPR Privacy

Clearview AI may be fined 20 million euros for violating privacy law

UK privacy regulator ICO plans to fine facial recognition company Clearview AI €20 million for violating UK privacy law. Clearview collected photos from Facebook, LinkedIn and other websites for training a facial recognition system. This system contains a database of ten billion collected images, according to the ICO. This allows police services to identify unknown […]

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Hacking fingerprint recognition for 5$

Biometric authentication techniques have gained momentum over the past few years due to the inherent vulnerability of PINs, passwords, and other similar verification methods. With that said, researchers have shared how a simple fingerprint hacking technique can render biometric authentication useless as a verification method for around 5$. Steps:1. Grab a photograph of someone’s fingerprint […]

Security SOC Vulnerability

How to defend with(out) a SOC as first defense?

Do you want to understand the modern cyber threats and the most commonly used attack surfaces behind any malware/cyber-attack?Don’ts:1.) Don’t give everything easily to the attacker, make it harder for him to get. (Control Measures in the network)2.) Don’t enable legitimate vulnerable application if not in use, attackers always use legit applications in the network. (Abuse […]