security
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France’s Parliament Approves Age-Verification for Pornography Websites
The French Parliament this week approved legislation for requiring age-verification protocols for pornography websites, a system approved and later abandoned by the U.K. following technical setbacks and privacy concerns.
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Credit Card Skimmers Can Hide in an Icon’s Metadata
In the midst of a news cycle filled with stories of the chaotic global pandemic and mass civil unrest raging around us right now, I personally find solace in stories about the constants we can rely on: Stories of brands continuing to show their arse on social media. Stories about budged art restorations continuing to be…
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SDCC Halts Eisner Awards Voting Due to Weird Security Screw-Up
The ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic forced seemingly extended, however, a number of people realised something was amiss with their accounts.
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Report: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro for Child Predator Sting
Facebook security personnel and engineers helped the FBI track down a notorious child predator by helping a third-party company develop an exploit in a security-focused version of the Linux operating system, Tails, per a Wednesday report by Vice. But they did so quietly and without notifying the developers of Tails afterwards of the major security…