cybersecurity
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Shady Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says It’s Left Canada Amid Two Federal Investigations
Dystopian, U.S.-based face recognition firm Clearview AI has suspended its contract with the Royal Mounted Canadian Police (RMCP), effectively locking its business out of Canada entirely, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
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Samsung, Rolls-Royce Information Exposed By Leaky Database, Security Firm Says
Hypothetically, if you, a criminal, wanted to steal millions of dollars from a corporation, one place to start might be figuring out who it owes money to. Does it pay rent on any of its offices? How often does it make payments on the expensive software or equipment it leases? Which overworked account executive handles…
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US Conspiracy Theorist Probably Behind Leak Of WHO, Gates Foundation Data: Report
Whoever was behind the release of around 25,000 purported emails and passwords from the World Health Organisation, National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, and other large organisations this month was likely a U.S. conspiracy theorist, according to the group that first flagged the release.
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NYC Bans Zoom In Classrooms Following Porn ‘Zoombombings’ And Security Failures
As reports of security issues surrounding the video conferencing app Zoom continue to mount and accounts of video “bombing” grow increasingly disturbing, New York City has taken the extraordinary measure of banning the service from the city’s classrooms. New York City Mayor de Blasio said this week that the city was “not going to put…