Loss of dashcam footage could compromise investigations, including those concerned with driving under the influence (DUI) cases.
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Flash zero-day exploit. Act now!
A newly discovered flaw in the Flash Player is being exploited in the wild – update Flash, or remove it.
Hackable CloudPets pulled from Target, Walmart, Amazon and more
The stuffed toys are stuffed with security problems that we’ve known about for over a year.
Oh the irony! When cybercriminals are rubbish at cybersecurity
The Owari DDoS botnet, built by knocking over weakly-secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has had a bad week.
Norman the AI bot reads Reddit, becomes “psychopath”
You say tomato. I say tomahto. “Norman” would likely see a traffic fatality splattered on the asphalt.
The Zip Slip vulnerability – what you need to know
Thousands of projects affected by painful programming lapse
Apple says no to Facebook’s tracking
Apple will stop Facebook and advertisers from tracking users across multiple sites (cross-site tracking), running their ads or embedding content such as ‘like’ buttons.
Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI
If AI is increasingly able to recognise and classify faces, then the only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be possible.
Microsoft faces wrath of developers after GitHub acquisition
Microsoft’s come a long way in the past 10 years, since former chief Steve Ballmer called open-source a malignant cancer.
We won! Naked Security awarded Best Security Video Blog
In a glittering (well, we were in jeans, in a pub) awards ceremony we won Best Security Video Blog at the European Security Blogger Awards.