On his blog, Troy Hunt has announced a major milestone in the ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ project, thanks to the contributions…
Tag: database
What is facial recognition?
Facebook recently announced it would give up on its facial recognition system. Facebook, or Meta, was using software to automatically identify…
The slow trend away from facial recognition technology
It’s been a busy few weeks for facial recognition technology. Its oft-maligned abilities frequently wind up in tales of privacy invasion,…
Spotify resets some user logins after hacker database found floating online
A team of researchers working for vpnMentor has found a treasure trove in the form of an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing…
Mysterious database exposed personal information of 80 million US households
Word has broken of yet another massive data trove exposed for anyone to see. A research team from vpnMentor discovered an…
Location data leaks from family tracking app database
An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of…