…however, I do not reuse passwords – anywhere – and I had protected myself with an anonymous email using Apple’s Hide My Email service. 200,000 North Face accounts hacked in credential stuffing attack (bleepingcomputer.com) If you do not have an Apple device, have a look at DuckDuckGo’s solution, I wrote …
Update on the 49ers ransomware attack
I covered this story when it broke back in February and it had a connection to me as I have a San Francisco 49ers account. It contained no financial details but I immediately changed my credentials. I do not reuse passwords, so that was a non-issue for me. Now the …
Here is where automated law enforcement falls flat on its face
We have similar issues with the firewall security we maintain at a legal firm – some of the lawyers deal with distressing cases and our monitoring and filtering has to be done on a very granular level to enable their work but protect the rest of the users, and we …
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Facial recognition in the UK to track offenders
This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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UK Free Speech and Encryption under attack
The exceptions are telling. The UK’s new proposed censors at OFCOM are making it clear they’ll never enforce against corporate media concerns; it’s only small media creators, activists, citizen journalists, and everyday users who will be subject to the extra scrutiny and accompanying punishments. Joe Mullin – www.eff.org – AUGUST …
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