Facial recognition
October 2024
October 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 40
Robin’s Newsletter #329
LockBit arrests. Evil Corp linked to Russian intelligence. Meta Ray Bans used in creepy facial recognition concept.
August 2024
August 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #320
Electoral Commission slammed for 'basic errors'. CrowdStrike faces multiple legal challenges. $75 million record-breaking ransomware payment.
November 2023
November 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 47
Robin’s Newsletter #283
Australian port operations disrupted by cyber-attack. 16 Danish CNI orgs hit simultaneously earlier this year. Ransomware group files SEC complaint.
Vol. 6, Iss. 46
Robin’s Newsletter #282
LockBit behind attack on US arm of China's largest bank. Aonoymous Sudan DDOS disrupts ChatGPT. Sandworm's attack against Ukraine power grid.
January 2023
January 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 2
Robin’s Newsletter #238
Details of 200 million Twitter users posted online. Cracking 2048-bit RSA encryption. Turla co-opting old malware.
December 2022
December 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 52
Robin’s Newsletter #236
LastPass customer vault data stolen in breach. EternalBlue-style vulnerability in Windows. Okta source code stolen.
July 2022
July 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #215
Facial recognition use at Co-Op convenience stores and 'secret blacklists' challenged in the UK. The opportunity cost in action bias. And protestware, the 'insider threat' of hacktivism.
November 2021
November 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #177
Trojan source vulnerbaility in the way compilers handle Unicode characters. Meta/Facebook to disable facial recnogition feature and delete faceprints.
August 2021
August 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 32
Robin’s Newsletter #164
Apple's plans to have iPhone continuously scan for child sexual abuse material are ripe for abuse.
March 2021
March 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #143
Criminals jump on Hafnium/ProxyLogon. Hacktivists breach Verkada's 150K facial recognition cams. Apple's IP theft lawsuit. Google's Spectre exploit.
April 2020
April 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 4
Robin’s Newsletter #84
Jeff Bezos' phone hacking; Microsoft's elastic search snafu; ClearView.AI and facial recognition tech.