Word of the week “Valentine Romance Scams” Links HERE and HERE AND “Hypertargeting” Facebook ex-security chief: How ‘hypertargeting’ threatens democracy – Great (and Long) article Links HERE and HERE Word of the week special “Risk of Oversharing” Links HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE AND The “Accidental Hacker” Link HERE ….
Word of the week “Safer Internet Day” – 5th of February Safer Internet Day 2019 was celebrated globally with the theme: Together for a better internet National Crime Agency “I am delighted to support the ongoing work of the UK Safer Internet Centre and Safer Internet Day. Children and young people’s use of technology is constantly….
Word of the week “Fake Hand” Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user’s veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint….
Word of the week “Toxic Data” Links HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE Word of the week special “Robots as a Platform” Robots are about to become a platform worthy of every developer’s time. After all, every single thing that a phone, desktop, or voice assistant can do, a robot can….
Word of the week “Hot tub hack” reveals washed-up security protection Thousands of hot tubs can be hacked and controlled remotely because of a hole in their online security, BBC Click has revealed. Researchers showed the TV programme how an attacker could make the tubs hotter or colder, or control the pumps and lights via….