Apple Works with Sony’s iPhone Camera Sensor Division 11 ByNitish Singh-December 28, 2018.712 Figure 1 Photo Courtesy of Sony Sony may be responsible for providing Apple with the new iPhone 11 3D imaging technology. The technology could provide for improved Ar face recognition and 3D modeling functionality. Certain features the next iPhone is expected to include 5 G compatibility and better wireless charging.Microsoft disagrees with Eu’s Facial Recognition Policy
ByBill Toulas-January 21, 2020.713 The European Commission plans to impose a five-year ban on facial recognition systems. Google responds with “good idea” but Microsoft feels we’re going to lose critical benefits. Microsoft has shared its reservations about the facial recognition technologies that Eu considers. The Bbc reported last week that the European Commission was very worried about the effects of facial recognition software and the social consequences. Accordingly, the Commission was preparing an 18-page paper that would recommend formally banning innovation in Europe for the next five years. This would be necessary to identify and assess the potential risks found by this new technology and to establish mitigation and management steps. This news was welcomed by Sundar Pichai from Alphabet who said that at this time temporary bans on facial-recognition technology make perfect sense. Mr Pichai spoke at a conference in Brussels and said that policymakers and regulators will address this now rather than later, so it is a good idea to think about how facial recognition should be best used after a waiting period approach. On the other hand, Microsoft’s chief legal officer Brad Smith expressed his reluctance at this moment to accept any kind of use restrictions in relation to the emerging tech. As he said, there are many facial recognition advantages and there are already organizations that use the software to find missing children and save lives for people. Banning the software for five years will lead to the death of people who otherwise could have been saved. Since there is no alternative to use right now Smith claims we will continue to use facial recognition and simply strengthen the laws and control measures that support it as we move forward. At the same time as the controversy over facial recognition technology and applications flares the police in the UK are undertaking a large-scale test of their Nec-made facial recognition software outside the Cardiff stadium last week, scanning people in real time and detaining anyone in their “blacklist.” Accuracy problems further worsen inequality and abuses of privacy, and many are still concerned about police entering undemocratic territory. The Uk moves out of the Eu anyway so any regulations will be implemented to regulate how quickly facial recognition will be used will be their own matter. As for the rest of the Union, we hope that the Commission will actually move forward with its plan and that innovation will be banned until we are sure how to make the most of it without violating the constitutional rights of people. There are no advantages or positive outcomes that can outweigh the negative outcomes of abussing these programs, and we need to first establish a framework that will determine what constitutes a proper application. Close to 22 Million User Passwords Email dresses Dumped on a Hacking Forum
ByNitish Singh-January 17 2019.714 Figure 1 Photo Courtesy of Pexels A list of usernames and passwords from multiple data breaches has been posted on a hacking forum. Security researcher Troy Hunt has published a report informing users about the breach. Recently, a huge archive (87 Gb) called “List # 1” has been dumped on hacking forums. The folder contains over 772 million email addresses, 82 per cent of which have already been identified on the website of the security researcher Troy Hunt. Nearly 22 million passwords were also included in the folder in addition to the email addresses but luckily they are all old passwords and are not involved. The folder that can be downloaded is no longer on the forum. The emails and passwords have been collected from a series of data breaches that date back to 2008. If you want to know if your email is one of them, you can check on Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website for your email or use Mozilla’s (Firefox Monitor) service, which is partnered with Hunt to provide alerts whenever a registered user is affected by a data breach or leak. The service is free and no user data are stored. Current breach: The collection of credentials Collection # 1 began to circulate widely last week and includes 772904991 unique email addresses with plain text passwords (now in Pwned Passwords). 82 percent of the addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) January 16, 2019 Users finding their emails on the list will automatically change their passwords. Hunt has reported that having passwords written down is far easier than using the same passwords for multiple services. Password management services are available and the use of hardware authentication keys is another choice for internet users. A number of online services support hardware and biometric 2Fa which are much safer than using regular Sms or email-based methods of authentication.ByNitish Singh-January 17 2019.714 Figure 1 Photo Courtesy of Pexels A list of usernames and passwords from multiple data breaches has been posted on a hacking forum. Security researcher Troy Hunt has published a report informing users about the breach. Recently, a huge archive (87 Gb) called “List # 1” has been dumped on hacking forums. The folder contains over 772 million email addresses, 82 per cent of which have already been identified on the website of the security researcher Troy Hunt. Nearly 22 million passwords were also included in the folder in addition to the email addresses but luckily they are all old passwords and are not involved. The folder that can be downloaded is no longer on the forum. The emails and passwords have been collected from a series of data breaches that date back to 2008. If you want to know if your email is one of them, you can check on Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website for your email or use Mozilla’s (Firefox Monitor) service, which is partnered with Hunt to provide alerts whenever a registered user is affected by a data breach or leak. The service is free and no user data are stored. Current breach: The collection of credentials Collection # 1 began to circulate widely last week and includes 772904991 unique email addresses with plain text passwords (now in Pwned Passwords). 82 percent of the addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) January 16, 2019 Users finding their emails on the list will automatically change their passwords. Hunt has reported that having passwords written down is far easier than using the same passwords for multiple services. Password management services are available and the use of hardware authentication keys is another choice for internet users. A number of online services support hardware and biometric 2Fa which are much safer than using regular Sms or email-based methods of authentication.