The foundation has reported at least 30 incidents that targeted their Twitter account and followers last month with GIFs and videos of harmful strobe lights.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 18, 2019
As shoppers try to find deals in time to put presents under the tree, phishing campaigns are making it more difficult for consumers to tell if a website is naughty or nice.
- By Tyler Reguly
- Dec 18, 2019
Thanks to a statewide policy banning law enforcement use of facial recognition for three years, several agencies in San Diego will lose access to a database of facial scans.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The travel companies were fined for lax data security practices that potentially led to a breach affecting 880,000 payment cards globally.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The vote marks the fourth town that has banned facial recognition this year, following Somerville, Mass. and San Francisco and Oakland in California.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
The cyberattack caused the city to completely shut down its network for several days, but did not affect emergency services.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
There is little known about the government’s use of “stingrays,” which tracks the locations of a cell phone and all devices within its range.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The Port of Seattle Commission approved a moratorium on new biometric technology programs on Tuesday amid concern over data privacy and the tool’s accuracy.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The ongoing debate over Apple and Facebook’s decision to not build “backdoors” for law enforcement to obtain encrypted messages continued to rage during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 12, 2019
A Mississippi family had their Ring account hacked, allowing a man to speak to their eight-year-old daughter through the speaker.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 12, 2019
Chris Krajewski previously served as general manager for Ojo's Central Valley office
The government has not linked the attack to the shooting, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 11, 2019
The shooting in Jersey City lasted for over an hour and ended with a firefight between the suspects and several police officers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
The lawsuit argues that Mercy Hospital and SDI Security did not follow their own protocols by failing to issue alerts or initiating a lockdown of the building.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
After the FCC voted to ban telecommunications companies from using subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei, the Chinese company filed suit.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
With the January 2020 deadline for CCPA compliance looming, what lessons from GDPR compliance apply most this time around? Topping the list should be thinking and acting beyond compliance to build and sustain a long-range view of data security.
- By Mark Casetta
- Dec 09, 2019
Friends of the gunman, who was in the Saudi air force, have been cooperating with the investigation into the attack, which killed three sailors.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 09, 2019
Commercial 5G mobile networks are only just becoming available, with highly developed use cases for improving autonomous automobiles navigation and smart-sensor networks, and new vulnerabilities and security requirements are already emerging.
- By Karen Epper Hoffman
- Dec 09, 2019
We all heard it growing up, “Close and lock the doors when you leave the house!” We all knew where the doors were and how to lock them. It was easy. But what if you don’t know where all the “doors are” and they don’t all have “locks?” What’s the move then?
China is home to more than 54 percent of those cameras, and the most growth is expected in developing countries like India and Brazil.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 09, 2019
There are three types of organizations: Those who have been hacked; those who are doing everything in their power to not be hacked; and those who are being hacked right now, without even knowing it.
Today’s security networks have evolved from where they were 20 years ago. With these changes, we have seen many amazing advances in the technology and the connectivity between the systems which comprise today’s complex security systems. Through these advancements has also come concerns on how we secure these systems and the data within them.
- By Chris Garner
- Dec 09, 2019
The decision to reverse plans to expand facial recognition at ports of entry came after widespread criticism from legislators and activists.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 06, 2019
This is the second time in three days that a shooter has opened fire at a U.S. naval base.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 06, 2019
Two House members want the Department of Homeland Security to increase its rate of inspection from 15 percent of commercial vehicles to 100 percent.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 06, 2019
U.K.-based company will begin offering the product in January 2020.
The first-place winner will be honored with their parent at the ESA Expo in June.
The Trump administration plans to expand facial scans from a pilot program for foreign travelers to include all travelers, including permanent residents and citizens.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 05, 2019
Many security solutions providers are redesigning and upgrading systems every day. It’s time for them to be rewarded with the R&D Tax Credit.
- By Tracy Lustyan
- Dec 05, 2019
The viral app concerned senators due to the amount of data that it collected, including facial scans of users.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 04, 2019