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Lock and Code S1Ep6: Recognizing facial recognition’s flaws with Chris Boyd
This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, about facial recognition technology—its early history, its proven failures at accuracy, an...
Fingerprint cloning: Myth or reality?
Phone, computer fingerprint scanners can be defeated with 3-D printing By Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura. Executive summaryPasswords are the traditional authentication methods for computers and networks. But passwords can be stolen. Biometric authentication seems the perfect solution for that...
Facial Recognition for People Wearing Masks
The Chinese facial recognition company Hanwang claims it can recognize people wearing masks: The company now says its masked facial recognition program has reached 95 percent accuracy in lab tests, and even claims that it is more accurate in real life, where its cameras take multiple photos of a...
Covid-19 Privacy Poll: Phone Tracking, Public Health and Surveillance
As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates, authorities worldwide are plotting ways to flatten the curve of infection rates using potentially privacy-busting measures such as phone tracking, facial recognition and other tech. In this Threatpost poll, we want your take on whether sacrificing personal...
CVE-2020-10847
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with P9.0 Galaxy S8 and Note8 software. Facial recognition can be spoofed. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-16614 February 2020...
CVE-2020-10847
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with P9.0 Galaxy S8 and Note8 software. Facial recognition can be spoofed. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-16614 February 2020...
Code injection
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with P9.0 Galaxy S8 and Note8 software. Facial recognition can be spoofed. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-16614 February 2020...
CVE-2020-10847
CVE-2020-10847 affects Samsung mobile devices running P(9.0) on Galaxy S8 and Note8, where the facial recognition system can be spoofed. The core issue is a vulnerability in biometric authentication allowing an attacker to bypass security controls. The connected Red Hat and NVD entries confirm th...
CVE-2020-10847
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with P9.0 Galaxy S8 and Note8 software. Facial recognition can be spoofed. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-16614 February 2020...
News Wrap, Coronavirus Edition: WFH Security Woes, Pwn2Own
For the week ended March 20, Threatpost editors break down the top security stories, including: The various cybercriminal activities – malware, phishing and other scams – tapping into the coronavirus pandemic The security risks of businesses working from home due to the virus’ spread Privacy...
Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears
In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, facial recognition technology is being adopted globally as a way to track the virus’ spread. But privacy experts worry that, in the rush to implement COVID-19 tracking capabilities, important and deep rooted issues around data collection and...
Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears
In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, facial recognition technology is being adopted globally as a way to track the virus’ spread. But privacy experts worry that, in the rush to implement COVID-19 tracking capabilities, important and deep rooted issues around data collection and...
ACLU Sues Over U.S. Airport Facial-Recognition Technology
The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has filed suit the Department of Homeland Security DHS over its use of facial recognition technology in airports, decrying the government’s “extraordinarily dangerous path” to normalize facial surveillance as well as its secrecy in making specific details o...
ACLU Sues Over U.S. Airport Facial-Recognition Technology
The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has filed suit the Department of Homeland Security DHS over its use of facial recognition technology in airports, decrying the government’s “extraordinarily dangerous path” to normalize facial surveillance as well as its secrecy in making specific details o...
A not so Clearview?
Unless you were asleep last week, you probably saw the press story about the controversial facial recognition vendor, Clearview AI, being breached. There is debate about whether Clearview should be permitted to scrape photos from social media and use them to populate its facial recognition system...
Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors
The steady parade of US data privacy legislation continued last month in Washington with the introduction of an improved bill that would grant state residents the rights to access, control, delete, and port their data, as well as opting out of data sales. The bill, called the Washington Privacy...
Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to Illinois users to settle a class action lawsuit filed over the use of its face-tagging technology to collect facial-recognition data on its social media platform. The company unveiled the settlement on a quarterly financial call Wednesday, in which it...
Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville and Brookline in Massachusetts a statewide ban may follow. In December, San Dieg...
