Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition System and Delete Billions of Records

Facebook's newly-rebranded parent company Meta on Tuesday announced plans to discontinue its decade-old "Face Recognition" system and delete a massive trove of more than a billion users' facial recognition templates as part of a wider initiative to limit the use of the technology across its...

Imperva Recognized as a Best Place to Work in Israel

It is not easy and takes many things to create a winning workplace, including and certainly not limited to: a vibrant culture, a balanced approach to professional and personal life, career advancement opportunities and, most importantly, a group of talented, world-class professionals who care abo...

Recog: Data Rules Everything Around Me

The recog project — a recognition framework used to identify products, operating systems, and hardware through matching network probe data against its extensive fingerprint collection — has been around for many years. In the beginning, Rapid7 used it internally as part of the Nexpose vulnerabilit...

The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance

Its not actually banned in the EU yet -- the legislative process is much more complicated than that -- but its a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance. To respect "privacy and human dignity," MEPs said that EU lawmakers should pass a permanent ban on the automated recognition of...

Army Testing Facial Recognition in Child-Care Centers

Live video feeds of daycare centers are common, but the Army wants to take their kid-monitoring capabilities to the next level. Under a new pilot program being rolled out at a Fort Jackson, S.C. child-care center, the military is looking for service providers to layer commercially available facia...

The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools

Documents reveal that police bought facial-recognition software, vans equipped with x-ray machines, and “stingray” cell site simulators—with no public oversight...

The vulnerability of the Windows Hello face recognition component on Microsoft Windows operating systems allows a perpetrator to bypass security measures.

The vulnerability of the Windows Hello facial recognition component on Microsoft Windows operating systems is related to deficiencies in the authentication mechanism. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass security measures...

Using “Master Faces” to Bypass Face-Recognition Authenticating Systems

Fascinating research: "Generating Master Faces for Dictionary Attacks with a Network-Assisted Latent Space Evolution." Abstract: A master face is a face image that passes face-based identity-authentication for a large portion of the population. These faces can be used to impersonate, with a high...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!

The MSRC Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and acknowledgement to the researchers who help protect customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s Most Valuable Security...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!

The MSRC Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and acknowledgement to the researchers who help protect customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s Most Valuable Security...

Ruse - Mobile Camera-Based Application That Attempts To Alter Photos To Preserve Their Utility To Humans While Making Them Unusable For Facial Recognition Systems

Mobile camera-based application that attempts to alter photos to preserve their utility to humans while making them unusable for facial recognition systems. Installation 1 Easy Method: Wait and download app from appropriate app store. 2 Download and run ios app via XCode see Development setup for...

Hackers Got Past Windows Hello by Tricking a Webcam

The security researchers used infrared photos and third-party hardware to best Microsoft’s facial-recognition tech...

PT-2021-3755 · Microsoft · Windows

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a security feature bypass in the Windows Hello facial recognition component, which is caused by weaknesses in the authorization mechanism. This can allow an attacker...

How to Empower Employees to be Secure and Productive

How can CISOs make cybersecurity positive, productive, inclusive, and maintain best practices across the enterprise? -- Do your staff feel valued and important in their roles? More than 65 percent of employees report they do not feel recognized at work, and 31 percent say theyre "engaged but feel...

Microsoft named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM for Azure Sentinel

We’re pleased to announce that in its first year of inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant report, Microsoft Azure Sentinel has been named a Visionary, where we were recognized for our completeness of vision for SIEM.1 Gartner has said that “cloud SIEM will be the future of how many organization...

Ltd. T83-CV102 Entrance and Exit License Plate Recognition HD Network Integrated Camera with Weak Password Vulnerability

Ltd. is China's leading R&D and manufacturer of intelligent terminal equipment for intelligent parking. Shenzhen Qianhai Huaxia Zhixin Data Technology Co., Ltd T83-CV102 Entrance and Exit License Plate Recognition HD Network Integrated Camera has a weak password vulnerability, which can be...

A week in security (June 28 – July 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Is it Game Over for VR Advergaming? Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator What is the WireGuard VPN protocol? Binance receives the ban hammer from UK’s FCA Fired by algorithm: The future’s here and it’s a robot wearing a white collar Second colossal Linkedin...

tesseract 资源管理错误漏洞

tesseract is an open source OCR Optical Character Recognition engine. tesseract OCR has a security vulnerability that stems from the fact that Tesseract OCR has oneellconflict use-after-free during strpbrk calls. no details of the vulnerability are currently available...

Feds Told to Better Manage Facial Recognition, Amid Privacy Concerns

Though the federal government widely uses facial recognition for various uses from criminal investigations to collecting traveler data, this use is largely unmonitored and unmanaged — a scenario that must change to protect people’s privacy and avoid inaccurate identification of perpetrators, a...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Hanvon Face Recognition Attendance Management System of Hanvon Technology Co.

Ltd. is committed to the research and application of intelligent interaction technology in multiple fields. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the HANWANG Face Recognition Attendance Management System of HANWANG Technology Co. Ltd, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive...