What is biometrics? And why collecting biometric data is risky 2/2019 Biometrics has the potential to make authentication dramatically faster, easier and more secure than traditional passwords, but companies need to be careful about the biometric data they collect.
‘Screen Time’ Is Over 6/2019 The phrase can’t remotely capture our ever-shifting digital experience, social scientists say. Say hello to the “screenome.”
A study of phone usage found that people switched screen activities every 20 seconds on average, and rarely spent more than 20 minutes uninterrupted doing any one thing.
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Deep learning explained 5/2019
Deep neural networks can solve the most challenging problems, but require abundant computing power and massive amounts of data
Malvuln.com Web portal that lists vulnerabilities in the code of common malware strains. The researcher hopes other security professionals will use the bugs to crash, disable, and uninstall malware on infected hosts as part of incident response operations.
May 12, 2017 WannaCry Ransomware Global Attack
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Graphic created from source: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/ISTR2016_Ransomware_and_Businesses.pdf
WAP is "Wireless Application Protocol" that lets people
access the Net using wireless devices like mobile
phones and other gadgets. Eventually all wireless tools will
come equipped with WAP as standard issue. These wireless net-surfers cannot access HTML-driven sites. Their devices can
read sites using WML - "Wireless Markup Language." So, you need to develop WAP cards rather than Web pages to reach these people.
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