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Technology companies continue to see customer interest in cybersecurity, cloud computing and other areas, perhaps indicating that the business environment is stabilizing, according to a new survey by CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the global tech industry. Among US companies surveyed 44% have applied for a Payment Protection Program loan from the Small Business Administration.
A federal judge has convicted a Chinese national of economic espionage, stealing trade secrets and engaging in a conspiracy for the benefit of his country's government. The decision comes five years after Zhang was indicted on charges of conspiring to steal technology from two companies shortly after graduating from the University of Southern California.
South Wales Police and the UK Home Office "Fundamentally disagree" that automated facial recognition software is as intrusive as collecting fingerprints or DNA, a barrister for the force told the Court of Appeal yesterday. Jason Beer QC, representing the South Wales Police also blamed the Information Commissioner's Office for "Dragging" the court into the topic of whether the police force's use of the creepy cameras complied with the Data Protection Act.
Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Wells Fargo, Salesforce, and IBM have continued to hire in cities across the country despite the economic downturn. Amazon, Deloitte, Bloomberg, and Wells Fargo were all hiring widely for tech positions in New York city.
Microsoft president Brad Smith on Tuesday said Europe was the global leader on setting rules for big tech, two years after the EU implemented the GDPR, its landmark data privacy law. Smith spoke at an online debate with European Commission vice president Vera Jourova, the top EU official who was in charge of the data privacy rules when they became reality in 2018.
Automated facial recognition use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff. Squires is barrister for one Ed Bridges, who, backed by human rights pressure group Liberty, wants to overturn a judicial review ruling from 2019 which failed to halt facial recognition tech use against him by South Wales Police.
Unbound Tech announced the advancement of its Crypto-of-Things solution - an endpoint security solution which removes dependence on traditional authentication methods, based on Unbound's NextGen Key Orchestration Platform. Now, businesses relying on hardware tokens, software tokens, and passwords can secure high-risk operations and authenticate transaction approvals without the typical security, usability, and cost trade-offs associated with those methods.
Intel on Monday unveiled a new security technology for its processors that will help protect systems against attack methods commonly used by malware. Intel CET has two main components: indirect branch tracking, which should provide protection against jump oriented programming and call oriented programming attacks; and shadow stack, which provides return address protection against return-oriented programming attacks.
Known as Control Flow Enforcement Technology, or CET, the protections are designed to prevent miscreants from exploiting certain programming bugs to execute malicious code that infects systems with malware, steals data, spies on victims, and so on. There are various mitigations in place on modern systems, such as Data Execution Prevention, that stop hackers from injecting and executing malicious code into a program when a victim opens a specially crafted document or connects to a remote service.
Microsoft is joining Amazon and IBM when it comes to halting the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments. "We will not sell facial recognition tech to police in the U.S. until there is a national law in place We must pursue a national law to govern facial recognition grounded in the protection of human rights," Smith said during a virtual event hosted by the Washington Post.