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Typically, Automatic License Plate Recognition technology is used to search for plates linked to specific crimes. In this case it was used to examine the driving patterns of anyone passing one of Westchester County's 480 cameras over a two-year period.
The overarching mission of the US-based non-profit organization the Tor Project is to advance human rights and make open-source, privacy preserving software available to people globally, so that they can browse the internet privately, protect themselves against surveillance and bypass online censorship. To infosec professionals The Tor Project doesn't need an introduction, but there's always other people out there who have never heard of it.
Apple has warned that it would rather stop offering iMessage and FaceTime services in the U.K. than bowing down to government pressure in response to new proposals that seek to expand digital surveillance powers available to state intelligence agencies. Specifically, the Online Safety Bill requires companies to install technology to scan for child sex exploitation and abuse material and terrorism content in encrypted messaging apps and other services.
DUCK. Yes, the usual large number of bugs fixed. Although Elevation of Privilege usually gets looked down on as lesser than Remote Code Execution, where crooks use the bug to break in in the first place, the problem with EoP has to do with crooks who are already "Loitering with intent" in your network.
While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement and a new method for encroachment on privacy, advocates say. Crisscrossing the city on their routes, self-driving cars capture a wider swath of footage.
The UK government will set a deadline for removing made-in-China surveillance cameras from "Sensitive sites." News of the not-very-imminent deadline came with on Tuesday with the publication of proposed amendments [PDF] to the Procurement Bill - legislation that will reform many aspects of the UK government's practices for buying stuff.
As many as five security flaws have been disclosed in Netgear RAX30 routers that could be chained to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution. "Successful exploits could allow attackers to monitor users' internet activity, hijack internet connections, and redirect traffic to malicious websites or inject malware into network traffic," Claroty security researcher Uri Katz said in a report.
A little-known Russian-speaking cyber-espionage group has been linked to a new politically-motivated surveillance campaign targeting high-ranking government officials, telecom services, and public service infrastructures in Tajikistan. The intrusion set, dubbed Paperbug by Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT, has been attributed to a threat actor known as Nomadic Octopus.
The NYPD has rejected 93 percent of the advice from an independent oversight body, the Department of Investigations' Office of the Inspector General for the force about how to comply with the law. These include recommendations like identifying the organizations with which NYPD shares surveillance data: "NYPD should identify in each IUP each external agency, by name, with which the Department can share surveillance data."
Despite the opposition of 38 civil society groups, the French National Assembly has approved the use of algorithmic video surveillance during the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Thursday, the French National Assembly adopted Article 7 of the pending bill, which authorizes automated analysis of surveillance video from fixed and drone cameras.