The White House is contemplating issuing an executive order that would widen its attack on the operations of social media companies. The White House has prepared an executive order called “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship” that would give the Federal Communications Commission oversight of how Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies monitor and manage their…
Government-issued digital identities and signatures for citizens, businesses and government agencies is an emerging digital trend. Digitally leading countries demonstrate that, for instance, hacker attacks on financial institutions are lower in numbers compared to countries without a central digital identity. Whereas traditional paper documents only require simple Photoshop skills to forge, it is impossible to…
California lawmakers today passed a bill placing a three-year state-wide moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies. AB 1215, The Body Camera Accountability Act, was introduced earlier this year by assembly member Phil Tang, a Democrat. Both San Francisco and Oakland previously passed similar bills preventing the use of facial…
Cyber-Attacks have grown significantly in complexity, rendering the majority of ‘Off the Shelf’ detection solutions ineffective. In addition, due to advanced subterfuge techniques, malware often goes unnoticed by system administrators despite being clearly visible to experienced investigators. We have to rely on the human factor, i.e. the analysts, to outsmart the sophisticated attackers. An effective…
