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Amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, secure comms biz Signal has deployed a blur tool in its messaging and calling app to allow users to obscure faces in app-captured snapshots. Since not everyone always does so, the latest versions of Signal for Android and iOS include a blur feature in the image editor menu that can be used to degrade image details.
The application is free and open source, but he still has to pay for a code-signing certificate to avoid potential users being put off by warnings when they try to download and install. Warning or preventing users from installing unverified applications is commonplace in today's operating systems, but does Windows go too far? We counted seven steps needed to download and install the open-source audio package Ardour 6, which is both unsigned and newly released, using the latest Edge and Windows 10.
Facebook will hide ads bought by state-owned media outlets from its US-based users, as part of its plan "To provide an extra layer of protection against various types of foreign influence in the public debate ahead of the November 2020 election in the US.". Explained in a post by head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher, the plan will see The Social Network™ apply labels to content from state-controlled media outlets and any ads they buy, then block the ads in the USA anyway.
A new report from digital identity platform ForgeRock shows how and where data breaches are affecting US businesses and their customers. With more than 5 billion records compromised in 2019, breaches cost US organizations more than $1.2 trillion.
Britain said Friday it was pushing the United States to form a club of 10 nations that could develop its own 5G technology and reduce dependence on China's controversial telecoms giant Huawei. Britain has allowed the Chinese global leader in 5G technology to build up to 35 percent of the infrastructure necessary to roll out its new speedy data network.
Recent versions of the Valak malware have been used in attacks targeting Microsoft Exchange servers at organizations in the United States and Germany, Cybereason's Nocturnus researcher team warns. Discovered in late 2019, when it was used as a loader for malware such as Ursnif and IcedID, Valak has evolved into a sophisticated piece of malware that can be used as an information stealer, targeting individuals and enterprises alike.
COVID-19 phishing emails have been bombarding inboxes since the virus began to spread in December and January. Cybersecurity company INKY pored through the months of coronavirus-themed phishing emails and compiled a report on where most of them were coming from, finding that the majority of IP addresses found in email headers originated from the United States.
United States lawmakers this week will vote on an amendment to the surveillance bill known as the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act that would limit law enforcement access to people's search and browsing histories. Enacted in June 2015, the USA FREEDOM Act amends, among others, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and USA PATRIOT Act, imposing limits on the bulk collection of data on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies.
US lawmakers will get another vote on whether the FBI must get a warrant before agents can search Americans' search and web-browsing histories. One cause for concern is the lack of requirement, in section 215 of the legislation, for the Feds to get a search warrant before requesting access to people's internet activities from their ISPs.