Use of facial recognition in four B.C. Canadian Tire stores broke privacy law: Report
Retailers would have to go some way to legally justify the collection of biometrics from everyone who enters their premises, says BC privacy commissioner
Infected app on employee’s PC led to 3CX compromise: Report
The trading app downloaded by the employee was signed with a legitimate digital ce
Security and performance improvements dominates Android 14
Android users can expect improvements throughout the year via individual app updates on the new Android 14. J.R. Raphael, a Tech Writer for ComputerWorld highlights several new features, including end-to-end encryption for group conversations of up to 100 people. Additionally, users can now respond to any message with any emoji. Gmail also has a new […]
Tiny fraction of attack pathways expose businesses to security risks
According to a study from XM Cyber, just a tiny fraction of attack pathways expose most businesses’ important assets to security concerns. The study, titled “Navigating the Paths of Risk: The State of Exposure Management,” examined more than 60 million exposures in more than 10 million organizations and discovered that 75% of exposures were not […]
Growing cybercrime groups under pressure to keep up with employee wages
According to a new report by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, as cybercrime groups continue to “corporatize,” they are under growing pressure to keep up with staff compensation. According to the survey, the majority of the operational expenditures of medium to big cyber crime groups are spent on paying workers and contractors for their activities, with […]
GlobalFoundries files lawsuit against IBM over trade secrets, intellectual property
GlobalFoundries has sued IBM, accusing it of disclosing private intellectual property and trade secrets to other parties. GlobalFoundries claims that IBM illegally divulged to Rapidus, a state-backed Japanese consortium, and Intel its valuable intellectual property and trade secrets, which it obtained after buying IBM’s microelectronics division in 2015. According to the lawsuit, which was filed […]
Microsoft develops internal AI chip
Microsoft has been working on a secret project codenamed Athena since 2019. The project entails the creation of an inside artificial intelligence (AI) chip, which is being tested by a select group of Microsoft and OpenAI personnel. The Athena chip is intended for training software such as large-language models (LLMs), which are critical to the […]
Second-hand enterprise routers still contain sensitive data, ESET finds
ESET researchers have discovered that more than 50% of second-hand enterprise routers purchased for testing have not been wiped by their previous owners. The routers, which included models by Cisco, Fortinet and Juniper Networks, contained confidential data, network information, and credentials that could easily be used to determine the previous owner. Among the data, were […]
Bard faces criticism over ethical concerns
Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, is facing criticism from its employees for refusing to adhere to ethical recommendations, according to reports. The employees accuse the chatbot of providing erroneous and potentially dangerous information, while the company’s management has been accused of ignoring safety and ethical concerns in a build-up to Bard’s launch in 2023. Despite earlier […]
Facebook offers $725 Million settlement to users affected by Cambridge Analytica scandal
As part of a settlement relating to the Cambridge Analytica incident, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is compensating anyone who had active Facebook accounts between May 2007 and December 2022. The class-action lawsuit was settled for $725 million in December 2022, following charges that Facebook enabled Cambridge Analytica and other third parties to obtain personal user […]
