(Natural News) In its battle against the deadly Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), South Korea has increasingly adopted digital tools to keep its outbreak under control. However, one of the tools it is using was found to have several major security flaws that have made users’ private information vulnerable to hackers. Though the defects have since been fixed, […]

(Natural News) In a happy marriage of old Captcha and new biometric techniques, researchers have devised a new verification methodology called Real-Time Captcha. It presents real-time puzzles that will throw artificial intelligence for a loop and protect the accounts of human users, reported a ScienceDaily article. Real-Time Captcha is a logical evolution of current biometric techniques based on […]

(Natural News) Fitness trackers like Fitbit pose a major privacy and security risk to users, warns a new report from the Centre for Digital Democracy. Fitness trackers and smart watches, which are sold by companies including Fitbit, Apple, Jawbone, Misfit and Samsung, collect a wide range of personal, physical and health data about users. Companies […]