11-13 year old girls most likely to be targeted by online predators

The Internet Watch Foundation IWF, a not-for-profit organization in England whose mission is "to eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online", has recently released its analysis of online predator victimology and the nature of sexual abuse media that is currently prevalent online. The scope of th...

FBI face recognition trawl finds Capitol rioter via his girlfriend’s Instagram

Facial recognition tech is in the news again after the FBI discovered the identify of one of the Capitol rioters by using facial recognition software on his girlfriends Instagram posts. It may sound scary and invasive, but in truth, what’s happening isn’t particularly new. In this case, we have...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: openjpeg2-2.3.1-10.fc32

The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 library developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000. This package contains JPEG 2000 codec compliant with the Part 1 of the standard Class-1 Profil e-1 compliance. JP2 JPEG 2000 standard Part 2 - Handling of JP2 boxes and extended multi ple...

Wanted: Cybersecurity Imagery

Eli Sugarman of the Hewlettt Foundation laments about the sorry state of cybersecurity imagery: The state of cybersecurity imagery is, in a word, abysmal. A simple Google Image search for the term proves the point: It's all white men in hoodies hovering menacingly over keyboards, green...

Friday Squid Blogging: Detecting Illegal Squid Fishing with Satellite Imagery

Interesting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Maliciously Tampering with Medical Imagery

In what I am sure is only a first in many similar demonstrations, researchers are able to add or remove cancer signs from CT scans. The results easily fool radiologists. I don't think the medical device industry has thought at all about data integrity and authentication issues. In a world where...

Let's Get Visual: Best Practices for Digital Image Management

"Offering rich, interactive images has emerged as a critical component to any website or web app visitor engagement strategy -- and with good reason," wrote Parag Pathak, our Senior Product Marketing Manager, in his recent published article - Let's get visual: best practices for digital image...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: openjpeg2-2.2.0-3.fc27

The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 library developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000. This package contains JPEG 2000 codec compliant with the Part 1 of the standard Class-1 Profil e-1 compliance. JP2 JPEG 2000 standard Part 2 - Handling of JP2 boxes and extended multi ple...

Friday Squid Blogging: Using Squid Ink to Detect Gum Disease

A new dental imagery method, using squid ink, light, and ultrasound. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: openjpeg2-2.2.0-3.fc26

The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 library developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000. This package contains JPEG 2000 codec compliant with the Part 1 of the standard Class-1 Profil e-1 compliance. JP2 JPEG 2000 standard Part 2 - Handling of JP2 boxes and extended multi ple...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: openjpeg2-2.1.2-1.fc24

The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 library developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000. This package contains JPEG 2000 codec compliant with the Part 1 of the standard Class-1 Profil e-1 compliance. JP2 JPEG 2000 standard Part 2 - Handling of JP2 boxes and extended multi ple...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: openjpeg2-2.1.1-3.fc25

The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 library developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000. This package contains JPEG 2000 codec compliant with the Part 1 of the standard Class-1 Profil e-1 compliance. JP2 JPEG 2000 standard Part 2 - Handling of JP2 boxes and extended multi ple...

Worldview-3 — Satellite That Could Allow Google and U.S Government to See Your Face from Space

Majority of my articles are related to government spying, privacy and security issues of your online stuffs and also measures that you can adopt in protecting yourself from being spied on. But, your all efforts will soon be of no use - someone is about to secretly track your every footstep. Googl...

Digital Imagery Gets Encrypted Watermarking

A new approach to adding an encrypted watermark to digital images allows the an image to be validated against a pass key, according to research according to research published in the International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering. Read the full article. Science Daily...