“If asked by the government to weaken encryption, it would be “very foolish” to accept, Will Cathcart told the BBC.” BBC News website Will Cathcart is Head of WhatsApp at Meta. WhatsApp: We won’t lower security for any government – BBC News
How do threat actors get hold of your login credentials? They just ask you to send them over!
The US Government has issued a warning over the growth of text messages that are designed to manipulate you into giving away your secret information. US govt warns Americans of escalating SMS phishing attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) If it is happening in the US, why not extend the attacks to other English …
“Shoddy” customers’ identity security
JPMorgan Securities, UBS Financial Services, and TradeStation Securities have been fined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – although to me the fines look like small change for these organisations! JPMorgan, UBS accused of shoddy identity theft protection • The Register
European Commission bans EU formal cooperation with UK on online data issues
When Boris Johnson’s UK government “got Brexit done”, a number of things were agreed upon as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol but British union leaders have been opposed to many of the planned checks of goods going from the rest of the UK into Northern Ireland. As a result …
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A challenge to facial recognition surveillance
There are a lot of issues around facial recognition (Kostka, Steinacker and Meckel. 2021). Law enforcement likes it, that makes sense, but then where do they get their footage to examine from? Should we have privacy when we walk down a street? What happens if the machine learning behind the …
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