23 Oct 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/23/2024

Europe launches ‘gait recognition’ pilot program to monitor border crossings A European Commission-funded biometric “gait recognition” program to study how to more easily identify people crossing the European Union’s external borders by examining their unique walking styles kicked off Thursday. The initiative, dubbed the PopEye Project, is supported by a €3.2 million ($3.5 million) grant that covers a three-year pilot testing the technology, according to TechTransfer, a program at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and a partner on…
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23 Jan 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 1/23/2024

Five ripped off IT giant with $7M+ in bogus work expenses, prosecutors claim  Five people have been accused of pulling off a "brazen" scam that involved submitting more than $7 million in fake work expense claims to an IT consultancy to bankroll hotel stays, a cruise, visits to strip clubs, and more. Mark Angarola, Allison Angarola, Jose Garcia, Michelle Cox, and Lisa Mincak were all arrested and charged in the US with one count each of wire fraud…
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25 Aug 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 08/25/2022

University can’t scan students’ rooms during remote tests, judge rules An Ohio judge has ruled that a Cleveland State University’s virtual scan of a student’s room prior to an online test was unconstitutional. The ruling marks a victory for digital privacy advocates around the country, who have spoken loudly against the practices of online test proctoring for many years. Chemistry student Aaron Ogletree sat for an online test in the spring 2021 semester. Ogletree was…
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01 Sep 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 09/01/2021

Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How hacker Sick Codes learned too much about John Deere No one ever wants a group of hackers to say about their company: “We had the keys to the kingdom.” But that’s exactly what the hacker Sick Codes said on this week’s episode of Lock and Code, in speaking with host David Ruiz, when talking about his and fellow hackers’ efforts to peer into John Deere’s data operations…
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08 Oct 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/08/2020

Twitter is testing how its misinformation labels can be more obvious, direct Twitter’s Yoel Roth said the company is exploring changes to the small blue notices that it attaches to certain false or misleading tweets, to make these signals more ‘overt’ and be more ‘direct’ in giving users information. But he did not say whether any new versions would be ready before the U.S. election in the next four weeks, a period that experts say…
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29 Jan 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 1/29/2020

1 - Watch out Google. You've got competition. Verizon has a new 'privacy-focused' search engine Verizon has slung out a new, privacy-focused search engine in an effort to win over customers who prefer not to have their browsing habits tracked by ad-slingers and the like. Verizon said the new search engine, named One Search, won't share user's personal information with advertisers, or store their search history. A new "Advanced Privacy Mode" will encrypt search terms…
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