As college students try to return to campus, some are being asked to allow the college unprecedented access to their whereabouts and health information, as we posted last week. Many are learning about the personal implications of their data security for the first time, let alone dealing with being quarantined. Source:: Avast
After a long wait and months of beta testing, Google last week finally released Android 11, the latest version of the Android mobile operating system—with features offering billions of its users more control over their data security and privacy. Android security is always a hot topic and almost always for the wrong reason, including Google’s…
The contentious debate over facial recognition software – and now mask recognition software – rages on as developers race to pioneer the best algorithms, despite substantial criticism from privacy advocates. Source:: Avast
BBC Click’s Paul Carter reports on some of the best technology news stories this week. Source:: BBC News – Technology
UK ISP Exascale, which last year began to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover premises in the Shropshire borough of Telford and Wrekin (here), has today confirmed the next set of locations to benefit from their on-going deployment. At present the operator has already completed their Phase One roll-out to the…
One victim was duped into sending nude photographs to someone she later found out was an adult. Source:: BBC News – Technology
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware incidents targeting educational institutions, urging them to follow the recently updated recommendations for mitigating malware attacks. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Some call them copyright trolls, but these companies say they defend photographers’ rights. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Did you spot it? Many did not. In a surprising move new customers looking to benefit from ultrafast 5G based data speeds (mobile broadband) on the BT Mobile (EE) network can no longer do so and will instead only be able to harness 4G connectivity, which represents a significant change of strategy. Last year broadband…
You can now identify and mask personally identifiable information (PII) from text documents using Amazon Comprehend. Amazon Comprehend uses machine learning to detect PII information that can be used to identify any individual such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and email addresses. You can use Amazon Comprehend’s PII API synchronously and asynchronously to…
Tan DaiLin, a.k.a. “Wicked Rose,” in his younger years. Image: iDefense Anvisoft claimed to be based in California and Canada, but a search on the company’s brand name turned up trademark registration records that put Anvisoft in the high-tech zone of Chengdu in the Sichuan Province of China. A review of Anvisoft’s website registration records…
With the release of iOS 14, Apple has introduced a new feature that warns users when their stored passwords have been compromised in data breaches. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring SQL Server native backups onto DB instances that have read replicas configured. Previously, the read replica would need to be removed before restoring the native backup file onto your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. SQL Server backup files stored in your Amazon S3 bucket can…
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now expands support for Channel Identification to streaming audio transcription. With Channel Identification, you can process live audio from multiple channels, and produce a single transcript of the conversation with channel…
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers a detailed audit log of all Elasticsearch requests. Audit Logs allows customers to record a trail of all user actions, helping meet compliance regulations, improving the overall security posture and providing evidence for security investigations. Source:: Amazon AWS
Amazon Aurora Parallel Query is now available with MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Parallel Query provides faster analytical queries over your transactional data, speeding up your queries by up to 2 orders of magnitude, while maintaining high throughput for your core transactional workload. Source:: Amazon AWS
Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. Customers can now enable mTLS on custom domain names for regional REST and HTTP APIs at no additional cost. Mutual TLS enhances the security of your API and helps protect your data from attacks such as client spoofing or man-in-the middle attacks. Source:: Amazon AWS
Canadian police said both front seats were fully reclined as the car drove at 150km/h. Source:: BBC News – Technology
With the next update for Chrome, Google is planning to automatically create a tab group if you open multiple tabs with the same domain. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
You can now view AWS Step Functions workflows in your AWS Lambda console, making it easier to orchestrate Lambda functions into business critical applications. Source:: Amazon AWS