surveillance of computer networks

The report states that a facial recognition service called Face-Int is owned by Israeli vendor Verint, which acquired another surveillance company called ... Facebook does use facial recognition techniques using computer vision, to help you with tagging friends, or notify you if your face comes up in some ...

"Increasingly, modern surveillance is mass surveillance," Granick said. "We used to target people for surveillance because of their political opinions or their religion or their race. Now the mainstream is being surveilled." This mass surveillance is not only mainstream, but it's still mostly secret from the public, ...

A year and a half of bad press has certainly sucked some wind from the social network's capacious sails. Just in .... In the end we didn't achieve any kind of legislative change, but we did channel public outrage over NSA surveillance into a focused movement—one that remains in place to push back against ...

Two months after a serious cyberattack crippled some of Allentown's most vital systems, Allentown City Council approved funding to pay for a solution Wednesday — a pricey, nearly $1 million fix. Allentown was struck by a malware virus known as Emotet in mid-February, an attack that threatened all city ...

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a technology for wired Ethernet local area networks (LANs) that allows the electrical current necessary for the operation of each device to be carried by the data cables rather than by power cords. Doing so minimizes the number of wires that must be strung in order to install the network.

The ANSSI's laboratory, which verifies the security of French government computer networks, is also responsible for raising ministries and major French corporations' awareness of the ... Both procure Tempest-standard telephones and computers from Ayon CyberSecurity (ACS) and CIS Secure Computing.

The unauthorized leaks also provided information on the NSA's Tailored Access Operations program, an elite offensive hacking unit created in 1998 that conducts technical surveillance. According to Snowden's disclosures, in addition to computer networks, TAO infiltrated satellite and fiber optic communications systems, ...

Chorine said the group uses phishing e-mails and malware to access and harvest information from computer networks. It also uses unconventional surveillance methods, such as hiring a “mystery shopper” from Craigslist, for instance, who unwittingly helps reveal if a retail store is using an outdated credit ...

The city of Atlanta's networks are said to be infected with SamSam ransomware. (Image: stock photo) ... based cybersecurity firm Rendition Infosec, seen by ZDNet, shows that the city's network was silently infected last year with leaked exploits developed by the National Security Agency. The cybersecurity ...

Focus on the networks, which are advancing at a much faster rate, agreed British Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, speaking alongside Goldfein at a celebration of the Royal Air Force's centennial. The first battle-winning example of an airpower network was actually the British air defenses in the Battle of ...