Flashing popular hand gestures for selfies could cost us our biometric data. As reported by The Korea Herald, a new generation of AI tools can easily reconstruct fingerprints from ordinary photos posted online.
Cybersecurity long ago stopped being a topic reserved for banks, military contractors, and companies with “classified” on the door. Attacks are making their way into healthcare, energy, hospitality, libraries, cloud services, and everyday office applications. Against this backdrop, Zero Trust keeps coming up more and more. It’s one of the most widely embraced responses to a reality where an employee might work from the office, home, an airport, or a coffee shop, applications live in the cloud, and part of the infrastructure is handed off to contractors.
A group of Chicago-area activists has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The plaintiffs argue the US government is violating the Constitution by collecting DNA samples from peaceful protesters, which are then permanently fed into a massive criminal database.
The second, crucial phase of the unprecedented trial against Meta in New Mexico has begun. State prosecutors are demanding the tech giant pay $3.7 billion and face a mandate requiring a radical overhaul of Instagram and Facebook algorithms to protect minors from sexual predators
Utah is the first state in the US to introduce an age verification law aimed squarely at VPN users. Experts warn the legislation could force website owners to enact blanket bans on virtual private networks or impose a global ID requirement.
Canadian police have dismantled a criminal ring that used “SMS blaster” devices to carry out a massive attack on smartphone users in downtown Toronto. Machines hidden in the trunks of cars driving through the streets spoofed cell tower base stations, leading to 13 million communication disruptions. Tens of thousands of infected phones were cut off from legitimate networks, leaving victims unable to even call emergency services.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is funding the development of specialized “smart glasses” that will allow federal agents to automatically and invisibly identify people on American streets. The project, initially justified by the fight against illegal immigration, relies on military technologies from Iraq and Afghanistan. As an anonymous DHS lawyer warns, it is actually a step toward “omnipresent surveillance” that will primarily target citizens participating in protests.
The European Union declared its new digital age verification app ready for launch, ignoring prior warnings from cybersecurity experts. The fallout from this decision proved disastrous, as hackers managed to completely bypass its security in exactly 120 seconds, exposing fundamental flaws in the code.
The Chinese navy has successfully tested a new ship-based system capable of severing telecommunications infrastructure thousands of meters underwater. The development is raising serious alarms about the security of the global internet network.
Anthropic has developed an artificial intelligence model with unprecedented hacking capabilities. For security reasons, the technology won’t hit the open market – instead, access has been granted to a select group of US tech titans. This situation exposes a glaring flaw in European regulations: while the US builds a digital fortress, EU policymakers are trying to regulate a technology they cannot even access.