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Tag Archives: Law & order
Cathay Pacific fined over crooks slurping its database for over 4 years
The ICO found a “catalog of errors,” including backups without passwords, unpatched servers, no-longer-supported OSes and feeble anti-virus.
Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says.
Tech support scammers hacked back by vigilante
A cybercrime vigilante was so incensed by tech support scammers, he reverse-hacked the Indian call centre to spy on his would-be attackers.
Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers
It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.
Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images
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.
Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK
Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.
Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?
Ransomware wipes evidence, lets suspected drug dealers walk free
Six alleged drug criminals will go free thanks to a ransomware attack on a small Florida city, it was revealed this month.
Google has right to censor conservative nonprofit on YouTube
It’s not a “state actor”, so isn’t subject to 1st Amendment scrutiny and can censor PragerU’s videos on abortion, gun rights and terrorism.