Meta Glasses can be used to dox strangers via facial recognition

Two Harvard students have created a privacy nightmare, according to 404 Media. Real-time facial recognition smart glasses, which pull up names, contacts, addresses, and more about a complete stranger just by looking at them. The students – AnhPhu Nguyen and Read More …

“Simply staggering” surveillance conducted by social media and streaming services, FTC finds

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services, finding that the companies engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their Read More …

Missing tycoon’s co-defendant fatally struck by car

The co-defendant of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – who is currently missing in Italy – has died after being hit by a car. Stephen Chamberlain, 52, was Mr Lynch’s co-defendant in his US fraud trial in which both men Read More …

Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware

Cloud data analysis company Snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts, as its corporate customers scramble to understand if their stores of cloud data have been compromised. Snowflake helps some of the largest global Read More …

AI and the Five Phases of the Threat Intelligence Lifecycle

Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) can help threat intelligence teams to detect and understand novel threats at scale, reduce burnout-inducing toil, and grow their existing talent by democratizing access to subject matter expertise. However, broad access to Read More …

China used stolen data to expose CIA operatives in Africa and Europe

Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence, according to three former U.S. officials. The surveillance by Read More …

UK: Police anti-terror IT system was ‘not fit for purpose’ – former officer

A key intelligence database used by police to investigate extremists was “not fit for purpose” when introduced in 2014, a former counter-terrorism officer has told the BBC. The officer, who retired in 2018, says the National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA) Read More …

23 IS conducts virtual PAI training

Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 23rd Intelligence Squadron organized and executed a first-ever, unit-wide Publicly Available Information (PAI) training session June 6, 2020. The goal of the training was to educate 23 IS Airmen with PAI best practices and highlight Read More …