All of the Creepy Things Facebook Knows About You

Facebook knows more about your personal life than you probably realise. As part of the company’s increasingly aggressive advertising operation, Facebook goes to great lengths to track you across the web. The company compiles a list of personal details about every user that includes major life events and general interests. For years, details have been…

All of the Creepy Things Facebook Knows About You was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all

Bugs in several password managers, including the vulnerabilities discovered in LastPass in late July, have scared away some users. But such fears go too far. Millions of users rely on password managers to keep track of passwords for applications and online services, and by all indications, they work better than trying to do it on your…

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all

Bugs in several password managers, including the vulnerabilities discovered in LastPass in late July, have scared away some users. But such fears go too far. Millions of users rely on password managers to keep track of passwords for applications and online services, and by all indications, they work better than trying to do it on your…

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognise you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled (disguises! twins!), so it’s no surprise that even as computer vision evolves, new attacks will trick facial recognition systems, too. Now researchers have demonstrated a particularly disturbing new…

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognise you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled (disguises! twins!), so it’s no surprise that even as computer vision evolves, new attacks will trick facial recognition systems, too. Now researchers have demonstrated a particularly disturbing new…

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognise you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled (disguises! twins!), so it’s no surprise that even as computer vision evolves, new attacks will trick facial recognition systems, too. Now researchers have demonstrated a particularly disturbing new…

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Security researcher turns the tables on cyber-scammers

Have you ever gotten a phone call, email or pop-up from someone trying to scam you with an obviously non-existent problem with your computer that will be expensive to solve? French security researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski knows how you feel, but he wasn’t content with hanging up or uttering a few choice words of reprimand. He…

Security researcher turns the tables on cyber-scammers was originally published on iSeeTech

Security researcher turns the tables on cyber-scammers was originally published on iSeeTech

Security researcher turns the tables on cyber-scammers was originally published on iSeeTech

Security researcher turns the tables on cyber-scammers

Have you ever gotten a phone call, email or pop-up from someone trying to scam you with an obviously non-existent problem with your computer that will be expensive to solve? French security researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski knows how you feel, but he wasn’t content with hanging up or uttering a few choice words of reprimand. He…

Security researcher turns the tables on cyber-scammers was originally published on iSeeTech

Security researcher turns the tables on cyber-scammers was originally published on iSeeTech