Canada’s largest Bitcoin exchange – Cavirtex – has announced its closure, saying the latest in a string of hacking attacks may have left hashed passwords and 2FA “secrets” compromised.
Daily Archives: February 19, 2015
Forget Google Glass, here’s Sony’s (not quite as catchy) SmartEyeglass
Those aren’t augmented reality spectacles. THESE are augmented reality spectacles! But what about the privacy and security side?
FreeBSD and the YARNBUG – more trouble at the Random Number Mill
How do you test your random number generator? How do you determine, in an ordered way, that a sequence of numbers is entirely disordered? With difficulty!
Breakthrough in facial recognition: the ‘Deep Dense Face Detector’
A breakthrough in facial recognition technology means that computers will soon be able to spot faces even if they’re tilted or partially blocked: a boon to cloud storage providers, social networks, surveillance and advertisers alike.
Twitter’s new tool should stop password sharing and help fend off hijackings
The new tool, TweetDeck Teams, lets users share Twitter accounts without having to share passwords.