There are far, far too many defunct DIY security companies and products. Guardzilla is the latest. The company, which offered a lineup of DIY security cameras with a live 360° view, appears to have gone out of business. Guardzilla’s homepage is now blank except for a message that reads, “We deeply regret that these troubling times have […]
Facial recognition is being floated as a technology that could help in the wake of the coronavirus, but some major cities aren’t sold on the technology. Now, you can add Boston to that list. The capital of Massachusetts just became the second largest community in the world to ban the use of facial recognition surveillance […]
Amazon says it won’t allow law enforcement to use Rekognition, its facial recognition technology, for a year. “We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,” Amazon said in a blog post Wednesday. “We hope […]
Video and audio communications solution provider Lifesize has announced a new native integration with Alexa for Business, bringing Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) intelligent assistant to the conference room in a play designed to help offices reopen with hands-free technology after the coronavirus-induced lockdown. The integration – which Lifesize says is an industry first – brings a […]
A group of hackers affiliated with the Russian government has exploited flaws in an email software, according to the National Security Agency. Their recent advisory said the group, called “Sandworm team,” is a part of Russia’s military intelligence agency that exploited a vulnerability in Exim Mail Transfer Agent since last August. More from a recent […]
This week, April 20-24, 2020: making sure students and faculty don’t fall for phishing attacks, database software for SMBs, Zoom and AWS updates, and more.
A recent article from the BBC on Zoom fatigue has made its way around the technology sphere, but I wonder if it’s a bit overblown.
Videoconferencing platform Zoom is continuing to roll out security upgrades, the most recent being new data routing options that give paid customers the ability to customer their data center settings. This new feature began April 18 and allows users with paid subscriptions to customer which data center regions their account can use for its real-time […]
Tailscale, a Toronto-based company founded by former Google engineers claiming its new virtual private network can be set up for remote workers in just minutes, has officially launched with a $3 million seed round. According to a press release, the VPN is based on Google’s zero-trust BeyondCorp architecture and was built using the WireGuard protocol, […]
While Google doesn’t specifically sell users’ data, it participates in the process through real-time-bidding.
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