Day: July 27, 2018

‘Fancy Bear’ Targets Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill

Russian hackers have their sights on McCaskill and her staff as they gear up for her 2018 re-election campaign. …read more Source:: DarkReading


New York City could soon cap the number of ride hailing vehicles – Roadshow

Uber et. al’s growth hasn’t been without its downsides. …read more Source:: CNet


Every Week Is Shark Week in Cyberspace

Your data, identities, and credentials are cyber chum. Here’s how to protect yourself from the feeding frenzy. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Animatronic Puppet Takes Cues From Animation Software

Lip syncing for computer animated characters has long been simplified. You draw a set of lip shapes for vowels and other sounds your character makes and let the computer interpolate how to go from one shape to the next. But with physical, real world puppets, all those movements have to be done manually, frame-by-frame. Or…


Google Executive Warns of Face ID Bias

Facial recognition technology does not yet have “the diversity it needs” and has “inherent biases,” a top Google executive has warned. From a report: The remarks, from the firm’s director of cloud computing, Diane Greene, came after rival Amazon’s software wrongly identified 28 members of Congress, disproportionately people of colour, as police suspects. Google, which…


Sellers Of Land Rovers Could Meddle With Connected Cars If Not Unbound

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


How They Do It: GRU Hackers Versus US Elections

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Study Warns Of Rising Hacker Threats To SAP, Oracle Software

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Bugs In Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Opera browser raises $115 million in initial public offering – CNET

Then the stock popped more than 25 percent in public trading. …read more Source:: CNet