A universal bypass tricks Cylance AI antivirus into accepting all top 10 Malware revealing a new attack surface for machine learning based security
Researchers from Skylight Cyber, an Australian cybersecurity enterprise, have tricked Blackberry Cylance’s AI-based antivirus product. They identified a peculiar bias of the antivirus product towards a specific game engine and bypassed it to trick the product into accepting malicious malware files. This discovery means companies working in the field of ... Read More
British Airways set to face a record-breaking fine of £183m by the ICO over customer data breach
UK’s watchdog ICO is all set to fine British Airwaysmore than £183m over a customer data breach. In September last year, British Airways notified ICO about a data breach that compromised personal identification information of over 500,000 customers and is believed to have begun in June 2018. ICO said in ... Read More
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked; Ubuntu source code unaffected
On Saturday, Ubuntu-maker Canonical Ltd’s source code repositories were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities. The unknown attacker(s) used a Canonical owned GitHub account whose credentials were compromised to unauthorizedly access Canonical’s Github account. According to a mirror of the hacked Canonical GitHub account, the ... Read More
Experts discuss Dark Patterns and deceptive UI designs: What are they? What do they do? How do we stop them?
Dark patterns are often used online to deceive users into taking actions they would otherwise not take under effective, informed consent. Dark patterns are generally used by shopping websites, social media platforms, mobile apps and services as a part of their user interface design choices. Dark patterns can lead to ... Read More
The US launched a cyber attack on Iran to disable its rocket launch systems; Iran calls it unsuccessful
On Thursday, the US launched a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems, according to sources. This attack is a retaliation by the US govt after Iran shot down a US spy drone. In response to the drone’s destruction, the US was ready to carry out a military strike against Iran but ... Read More
Amazon is being sued for recording children’s voices through Alexa without consent
Last week, two lawsuits were filed in Seattle that allege that Amazon is recording voiceprints of children using its Alexa devices without their consent. This is in violation of laws governing recordings in at least eight states, including Washington. The complaint was filed on behalf of a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl ... Read More
Mozilla puts “people’s privacy first” in its browser with updates to Enhanced Tracking Protection, Firefox Lockwise and Firefox Monitor
On Tuesday, Firefox released a number of updates to its browser with the intention of putting “people’s privacy first”. The new features were detailed by Dave Camp, Senior Vice President of Firefox in a blog post. Firefox will roll out its Enhanced Tracking Protection, to all new users on by ... Read More
Microsoft Build 2019: Microsoft showcases new updates to MS 365 platfrom with focus on AI and developer productivity
At the ongoing Microsoft Build 2019 conference, Microsoft has announced a ton of new features and tool releases with a focus on innovation using AI and mixed reality with the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge. In his opening keynote, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined the company’s vision and developer ... Read More
DuckDuckGo proposes “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” to require sites to respect DNT browser setting
DuckDuckGo, the browser known for its privacy protection policies, has proposed draft legislation which will require sites to respect the Do Not Track browser setting. Called, the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”, this legislation will mandate websites to not track people if they have enabled the DNT signal on their browsers ... Read More
Will Facebook enforce it’s updated “remove, reduce, and inform” policy to curb fake news and manage problematic content?
Facebook announced updates to it’s “remove, reduce, and inform” strategy to better control “problematic” content and fake news across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. No new tools or updates have been announced for Whatsapp. By problematic content, they mean reducing the spread of content that is inappropriate but does not violate ... Read More
