CybersecurityBiometric Update
A pair of facial recognition providers have passed Level 3 independent biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Injection Attack Detection (IAD) evaluations by BixeLab among a series of assessments by the Australian lab. Legitimuz Tecnologia LTDA’s IAD product met the test criteria for compliance with CEN/TS 18099, in addition to the company’s LegitFace Android SDK face liveness solution passing assessments against ISO/IEC 30107-3 at PAD Levels 1 , 2 and 3 . Emirates Face Recognition LL
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring a centralized investigative platform that would place generative AI on top of billions of communications, location, financial, social media and digital forensic records, allowing Homeland Security Investigations agents to query and analyze massive datasets using ordinary language. The proposed capability would allow investigators to rapidly generate timelines, maps, relationship graphs and other analytical outputs from information drawn
CybersecurityBleepingComputer
Four cybercriminals were arrested in Brazil, and three others were charged in Europe over allegations that they exploited a vulnerability at a service provider, allowing them to withdraw funds from Commerzbank customers' bank accounts
CybersecurityGovernment Technology
“Business as usual” will not suffice when it comes to cybersecurity in the wide new world of frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos. Here's how state and local governments can prepare
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Courts sentence Com member for sextorting 117 minors, joint advisory warns of Gunra ransomware, and ShieldBreak bypasses MS Defender for SYSTEM access
CybersecurityBiometric Update
Countries in the Caribbean are implementing national digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects with objectives that increasingly go beyond their territorial boundaries. Many of these country-level initiatives are contributing to an emerging shared DPI ecosystem designed to support regional integration , economic activity, and public services. DPI interoperability and digital trust appear to be at the center of these efforts. In recent months, countries have taken concrete steps to connect nat
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India’s Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT) and other biometric surveillance tech by police at protest venues. A report from the Deccan Herald says the writ petition is linked to demonstrations by the Cockroach Janta Party, the student-led movement that has shaken up Indian politics in recent months. The piece names two facial recognition providers, Aditya Infotech Ltd. and Dimension NXG Pvt Ltd., that supported police facial recognition d
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As governments begin treating AI compute as a public resource, identity verification is becoming the mechanism for allocating it. UNICEF Digital Inclusion , the Connect and Compute Foundation , and Self Labs have announced a collaboration to help governments in emerging markets deliver “Universal Basic Compute” – an allowance of AI capacity for citizens, schools, clinics and small businesses. Per an email to Biometric Update , Self’s role in the project is to verify that each allowance reaches o