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Intimate images from kink and LGBTQ+ dating apps left exposed online
A researcher found millions of pictures from specialized dating apps for iOS stored online without any kind of password protection. The pictures, some of which are explicit, stem from dating apps that all have a specific audience. The five platforms, all developed by M.A.D. Mobile are kink sites...
The vulnerability of the Microsoft Azure AI Face Service, a cloud-based facial recognition and analysis service using artificial intelligence technologies, relates to the ability to bypass authentication through spoofing. This allows attackers to elevate their privileges.
The vulnerability of the Microsoft Azure AI Face Service, a cloud-based facial recognition and analysis service using artificial intelligence technologies, relates to the ability to bypass authentication through spoofing. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow unauthorized actors to gain increas...
Upload a video selfie to get your Facebook or Instagram account back
Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram says its testing new ways to use facial recognition—both to combat scams and to help restore access to compromised accounts. The social media giant is testing the use of video selfies and facial recognition to help users get their hijacked accounts...
Auto-Identification Smart Glasses
Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious--something similar was done in 2011--but the sort of creepy demo that gets attention. News article...
Not Black Mirror: Meta’s smart glasses used to reveal someone’s identity just by looking at them
Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to immediately reveal people’s names, phone numbers, and addresses. The Harvard students have dubbed the system I-XRAY and it works like this: When you look at someone’s...
Snapchat wants to put your AI-generated face in its ads
Snapchat is reserving the right to use your selfie images to power Cameos, Generative AI, and other experiences on Snapchat, including ads, according to our friends at 404 Media, The Snapchat Support page about its My Selfie feature says: “You’ll take selfies with your Snap camera or select image...
Clearview AI Faces €30.5M Fine for Building Illegal Facial Recognition Database
The Dutch Data Protection Authority Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of €30.5 million $33.7 million against facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR in the European Union E.U. by building an "illegal database with billions of photos of faces,"...
Stadiums Are Embracing Face Recognition. Privacy Advocates Say They Should Stick to Sports
Protesters took to Citi Field Wednesday to raise awareness of the facial recognition systems that have become common at major league sporting venues...
A week in security (July 29 – August 4)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Threat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator Scammers are impersonating cryptocurrency exchanges, FBI warns Meta to pay $1.4 billion over unauthorized facial recognition image capture Apple fixes Siri vulnerabilities that could have allowed...
Meta to pay $1.4 billion over unauthorized facial recognition image capture
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta to “stop the company’s practice of capturing and using the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without the authorization required by law.” The prime reason for the initial lawsuit that led to the...
Meta Settles for $1.4 Billion with Texas Over Illegal Biometric Data Collection
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulato...
New iOS Trojan “GoldPickaxe” Steals Facial Recognition Data
By Deeba Ahmed This is the first instance of an iOS trojan that has been found stealing facial data from victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New iOS Trojan "GoldPickaxe" Steals Facial Recognition Data...
Chinese Hackers Using Deepfakes in Advanced Mobile Banking Malware Attacks
A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that's capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS...
Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea...
Facial Recognition Systems in the US
A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. This, of course, can all change without notice. Three years ago, I wrote that campaigns to ban facial recognition are too narrow. The problem here is...
A week in security (December 18 – December 24)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Comcast’s Xfinity breached by Citrix Bleed; 36 million customer’s data accessed How does ThreatDown Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management work? How Outlook notification sounds can lead to zero-click exploits Update Chrome now! Emergency update patches...
US pharmacy Rite Aid banned from operating facial recognition systems
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid has been denied the right to run facial recognition systems in its stores for five years, by a Federal Trade Commission FTC ruling. The regulator found so many flaws in the retailers surveillance program that it concluded Rite Aid had failed to implement reasonable...
Face search engine PimEyes stops searches of children’s faces
In what may come as a surprise, subscription-based face search engine PimEyes seems to have realized that their service can be used for nefarious purposes. PimEyes’ CEO Giorgi Gobronidze told the New York Times that it has taken technical measures to block such searches as part of a “no harm...
On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvands head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleagues name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at ...