Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, has released the results of Sophos X-Ops research on a new type of threat: quishing. This new attack vector involves the use of fraudulent QR codes, emailed by threat actors, to bypass the phishing security measures put in place by companies. This fraudulent QR…
Amy Adams Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SCAD Andy Samberg has claimed that Amy Adams declined to perform a “very dirty” song on Saturday Night Live in order to protect young fans of the film Enchanted. Samberg, 46, spoke about the song during the Monday, November 4, episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast,”…
A financial expert, Dr Kingsley Chibuzor Aguoru, has called for the adoption of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) to protect Nigerians against online fraud. He spoke in a statement in Owerri titled: “The Need for Uniform Payment Security Standards in Nigeria: A Call for MasterCard and Visa Accountability.” According to Aguoru, “We demand that MasterCard and…
You’ve likely heard that the accumulation of tau and amyloid beta proteins in the brain cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, emerging evidence suggests these proteins may be protective responses to underlying issues, rather than the root cause of the disease. Research published in Nature Neuroscience adds additional insight to the role of tau protein in brain…
A recent study in South Korea has explored the use of a cryptographic scheme widely used in secure elections to protect patient data used in training AI models. Researchers from Asan Medical Center have applied homomorphic encryption (HE) to big data gathered from multiple institutions to test a predictive AI model. HE is an encryption method that allows computations…
