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Infosecurity | February 27, 2020

A controversial facial recognition company has just informed its customers of a data breach in which its entire client list was stolen. Clearview AI leapt to fame in January when a New York Times report claimed that the start-up had scraped up to three billion images from social media sites to add to its database. That makes it a useful resource for its law enforcement clients, which can query images they capture against the trove. The FBI’s own database is said to contain little more than...

Software Security

Windfall | September 02, 2022

Today, Windfall Data, Inc. , the most trusted and accurate provider of insights and democratized intelligence on people, announced that it has once again successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 audit. This certification validates the company’s ongoing commitment to data protection and security. An industry recognized technical audit for technology & service organizations, SOC 2 Type 2 requires companies to establish and follow strict inform...

Cnet | February 05, 2020

Windows 7 is officially dead, now that Microsoft has ended support for the operating system -- which means no more security updates or patches. Despite this, an estimated 200 million devices are still running the out-of-date system, and a malware campaign is targeting IoT devices still using it, according to a new report from TrapX Security. The malware used in the campaign is a self-spreading downloader, which runs malicious scripts as part of the Lemon_Duck PowerShell malware variant family. A...

Data Security

MENTIS | April 01, 2021

MENTIS Inc. today announced the release of MENTIS R21, the latest addition to their data protection platform. This is MENTIS's most important release to date, introducing new and cutting-edge approaches to security, sophisticated technological capabilities, and an enhanced end-user experience. "Product enhancements are driven by customer desires and requests for a self-funded company like MENTIS. We took advantage of the brief lull caused by the pandemic to reconnect with...