The researchers found that when connected to a target user on a Skype call, they could record the audio of the user’s keystrokes. With a small amount of knowledge about the victim’s typing style and the keyboard he’s using, the researchers could accurately get 91.7 percent of keystrokes. The attack does not require any malware Read more about Recording Keystroke Sounds Over Skype to Steal User Data[…]
Redmond’s digital crimes unit senior attorney Courtney Gregoire says half of respondents between the age of 18 and 34 had followed tech support scammer instructions, handing over remote access to their machines or downloading software after encountering a scam page. Only 17 per cent of respondents 55 years and older took the bait. Meanwhile, one Read more about Kids today are so stupid they fall for security scams more often than greybeards[…]
Images representing 117 million American adults – almost half the grownups in the country – can be found in the facial recognition databases maintained by US law enforcement agencies, according to a study conducted by the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law School. That figure is expected to grow as facial recognition technology Read more about Meanwhile, in America: Half of adults’ faces are in police databases[…]
A total of 32 lakh debit cards across 19 banks could have been compromised on account of a purported fraud, the National Payment Corporation of India said in a statement. The issue was brought to light when State Bank of India blocked the debit cards of 6 lakh customers on October 14. This was done Read more about 32 million Indian debit cards possibly compromised[…]
The BTB provides a history of branches taken by the processor as it runs through its code: after the CPU is told to make a decision, it usually jumps to another part of the program based on the outcome of that decision. For example, if something fetched from memory has a value greater than zero, Read more about Intel CPU memory location randomisation weakness broken by flooding branch buffer[…]
When it gave the Tesla Model S an unprecedented 103 out of 100 score last August, Consumer Reports looked like it might try to marry Elon Musk’s company and have its little electric car babies. But after a year of disappointments, trust violations and janky-ass door handles, it seems the magazine can no longer advocate Read more about Consumer Reports Now Ranks Tesla Among the Least Reliable Carmakers[…]
For the past two years, since researchers discovered the attack, the term Rowhammer has been used to describe a procedure through which attackers launch read & write operations at a row of memory bits inside a RAM memory card. The repeated read and write operations cause an electromagnetic field to appear, which changes local memory Read more about Rowhammer Attack Can Now Root Android Devices[…]
The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit—previously known as CNTK—helps you harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning. Source: The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit – Microsoft Research They also offer RESTful APIs on another site, Cognitive Services, with applications you can tap into and APIs for vison, speech, language, knowledge and search. They usually offer free testing, Read more about The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit now on Github: deep learning AI that recognises human speech at very low error rates[…]
iTrack Easy, Nut Smart Tracker, TrackR Bravo en Tile were looked at: both the data the device itself sends and the apps they use. They don’t come out well. Source: Stalkers volgen je dankzij je eigen GPS-trackers