Security
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412Face ID Patent Might Fix The Problem That Allows People To Unlock Phones With Masks
You might remember that, back in 2017 a $150 3-D printed mask was able to unlock an iPhone X. While the rest...
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70914-Year Old Gets Compensated For Discovering FaceTime Bug
Apple released iOS 12.1.4 today, just days after the reveal of a major FaceTime bug which let others hear you even if...
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920Privacy Concerns Force EU to Order Mass Recall of Kids’ Smartwatches
For the first time ever, EU authorities stepped in to order a mass recall of Safe-Kid-One, a line of kids’ smartwatches that...
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2.0KSecurity Experts Warn About World’s Biggest Data Leak, Check Now If You’re Affected
Just weeks after security expert Troy Hunt broke the news of Collection #1, a massive dump of stolen personal information, with more...
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894San Francisco Considers Citywide Ban on All Facial Recognition Technology
San Francisco might become the very first city in the U.S to ban the use of facial recognition technology under a legislation...
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1.7KIllinois Supreme Court Passes Ruling Protecting Biometric Privacy
Back in 2008, the state of Illinois passed a Biometric information Privacy Act (BIPA), which protects people against the storage and collection...
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2.6KChinese App Tells You If Someone is In Debt And Helps You Report Them
A report from state-run China Daily tells us that the Chinese Government has developed an extension of its social credit system in...
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1.3KFrance Slams Google with $57 Million GDPR Fine for Tracking Users
Months after the groundbreaking user privacy regulation GDPR went into effect across Europe, Google gets its first massive fine. The French watchdog...
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4.4KAlmost 773 Million Email Accounts Have Been Exposed in Massive Data Breach
Security researcher Troy Hunt reported a security breach on his blog that involves 772,904,991 email addresses and over 21 million passwords. The...
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794U.S Judge Rules That Police Cannot Force You To Unlock Your Smartphone via Fingerprint or Face ID
A federal judge from the District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that the police cannot force anyone to...
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481Yubico’s New YubiKey Helps You Keep Your iPods and iPads Secure
We all know that Yubico is one of the best companies out there when it comes to security keys. Now, it has...
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1.6KLedger Nano X Debuts At CES, Brings Bluetooth
Ledger, the biggest maker of physical cryptocurrency wallets, debuted at CES 2019 its first wallet compatible with smartphones – the Ledger Nano...
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867Two Hackers Take Over Thousands of Chromecasts to Spread Awareness (And Promote Pewdiepie)
Two hackers just took over thousands of Chromecast devices to raise awareness about an old security flaw dubbed “Cast Hack.” Hacker Giraffe...
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877Beijing Uses Smart Locks with Facial Recognition To Prevent Public Housing Abuse
It’s no secret that China is pushing facial recognition technology in almost all areas of public surveillance it can and now that...
