San Francisco was right to ban facial recognition. Surveillance is a real danger

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The government’s embrace of facial recognition technology has red flags all over it, argues Veena Dubal. Photograph: Ian Davidson/Alamy Stock Photo San Francisco’s recent municipal ordinance banning the use of facial recognition technology by city and county agencies has received international attention. The first of its kind anywhere in the US, the law is a preemptive response…

Toyota Security Breach Exposes Personal Info of 3.1 Million Clients

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credit : AllAboutLean.com The personal information of roughly 3.1 million Toyota customers may have been leaked following a security breach of multiple Toyota and Lexus sales subsidiaries, as detailed in a breach notification issued by the car maker today. As detailed in a press release published on Toyota’a global newsroom, unauthorized access was detected on the computing systems of Tokyo…

Sydney man charged with selling personal details of customers online in joint international operation

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A 21-year-old Sydney man has been arrested and charged following a joint international cybercrime investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) involving online subscription service credentials stolen from Australian customers, and others around the world. The investigation began after the FBI referred information to the AFP in May 2018…

Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users across platforms

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On Wednesday, February 27th, we reported two 0-day vulnerabilities — previously publicly-unknown vulnerabilities — one affecting Google Chrome and another in Microsoft Windows that were being exploited together. To remediate the Chrome vulnerability (CVE-2019-5786), Google released an update for all Chrome platforms on March 1; this update was pushed through Chrome auto-update. We encourage users to verify…