Étiquette : security (Page 2 of 20)

Une entreprise française remporte un concours mondial de la reconnaissance faciale

5 mars 2023 / noflux

“Spécialisée dans la biométrie et notamment la reconnaissance faciale, l’entreprise française Idemia vient de remporter le concours international Face Recognition Vendor Test, organisé par les États-Unis. Elle a devancé 270 concurrents européens, chinois ou américains comme Microsoft.
Le concours consistait à montrer la photo d’un visage à notre algorithme pour qu’il la retrouve au milieu d’une base de plus d’un million d’autres. Notre technologie, qui s’appuie sur une expérience de plusieurs décennies, s’est révélé la meilleure, avec un taux d’erreur ridiculement faible. Nous sommes très fiers de ce résultat obtenu par nos équipes de recherche et développement.”

Source : Nouveau monde. Une entreprise française remporte un concours mondial de la reconnaissance faciale

New iPhone emergency feature helped save California couple after crash

23 décembre 2022 / noflux

“Gilbert said his team had been alerted by the new Apple feature three times before, though rescuers weren’t needed in the earlier instances, which included an accidental activation and a routine car crash. But Gilbert knew the coordinates from Fields’s phone were inside the canyon, meaning the phone’s owner was likely in danger. Without the alert from the phone, Gilbert said Fields and Zelada may have been stranded. “It’s going to be a game changer,” Gilbert said. “There are many incidents where we’re an hour to an hour-and-a half behind the original emergency before we’re even notified.””

Source : New iPhone emergency feature helped save California couple after crash – The Washington Post

La vidéosurveillance intelligente fera ses premiers pas aux JO et sera expérimentée jusqu’en juin 2025

23 décembre 2022 / noflux

“Le texte du projet de loi précise en l’occurrence qu’il s’agit, avec ces traitements algorithmiques, de procéder « exclusivement à un signalement d’attention, strictement limité à l’indication du ou des événements qu’ils ont été programmés pour détecter ». L’utilisation de cet outil ne pourra déboucher sur « aucune décision individuelle ou acte de poursuite ». Si Mme Oudéa-Castéra a assuré que ces dispositifs devront être examinés par la Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés et le Conseil d’Etat, ils apparaissent tout aussi « graves » que la reconnaissance faciale, en matière de libertés publiques, aux yeux de certains spécialistes de ce sujet.”

Source : La vidéosurveillance intelligente fera ses premiers pas aux JO et sera expérimentée jusqu’en juin 2025

6 décembre 2022 / noflux

“San Francisco’s police will be allowed to use remote-controlled robots to kill suspects. The city’s board of supervisors last night approved a controversial policy that lets police robots “be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available.”
The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) said it does not own any pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm its current machines, reports Sky News. As SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie explained in a statement, the department’s robots can now be equipped with explosives “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” in “extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives.””

Source : San Francisco approves use of remote-controlled robots to kill suspects – The Verge

Intel Introduces Real-Time Deepfake Detector

23 novembre 2022 / noflux

“As part of Intel’s Responsible AI work, the company has productized FakeCatcher, a technology that can detect fake videos with a 96% accuracy rate. Intel’s deepfake detection platform is the world’s first real-time deepfake detector that returns results in milliseconds.
Most deep learning-based detectors look at raw data to try to find signs of inauthenticity and identify what is wrong with a video. In contrast, FakeCatcher looks for authentic clues in real videos, by assessing what makes us human— subtle “blood flow” in the pixels of a video. When our hearts pump blood, our veins change color. These blood flow signals are collected from all over the face and algorithms translate these signals into spatiotemporal maps. Then, using deep learning, we can instantly detect whether a video is real or fake. ”

Source : Intel Introduces Real-Time Deepfake Detector

Emergency SOS via satellite made possible by $450M Apple investment

11 novembre 2022 / noflux

“A $450 million investment from Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund provides the critical infrastructure that supports Emergency SOS via satellite for iPhone 14 models. Available to customers in the US and Canada beginning later this month, the new service will allow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models to connect directly to a satellite, enabling messaging with emergency services when outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. A majority of the funding goes to Globalstar, a global satellite service headquartered in Covington, Louisiana, with facilities across the US. Apple’s investment provides critical enhancements to Globalstar’s satellite network and ground stations, ensuring iPhone 14 users are able to connect to emergency services when off the grid. At Globalstar, more than 300 employees support the new service.”

Source : Emergency SOS via satellite made possible by $450M Apple investment – Apple

11 avril 2022 / noflux

“Google has yanked dozens of apps from its Google Play store after determining that they include a software element that surreptitiously harvests data.The Panamanian company that wrote the code, Measurement Systems S. de R.L., is linked through corporate records and web registrations to a Virginia defense contractor that does cyberintelligence, network-defense and intelligence-intercept work for U.S. national-security agencies.The code ran on millions of Android devices and has been found inside several Muslim prayer apps that have been downloaded more than 10 million times, as well as a highway-speed-trap detection app, a QR-code reading app and a number of other popular consumer apps, according to two researchers who discovered the behavior of the code in the course of auditing work they do searching for vulnerabilities in Android apps. They shared their findings with Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., federal privacy regulators and The Wall Street Journal.”

Source : Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software – WSJ

Les smartphones n’ont plus le choix : il leur faut être compatible avec Galileo

27 mars 2022 / noflux

“La différence de précision est phénoménale. Un appel en direction du 112 (qui est le numéro d’appel d’urgence européen) reposait précédemment sur une technologie d’identification basée sur la zone de couverture d’une tour de réseau cellulaire (cell-ID) pour ce qui est de la géolocalisation de l’appelant. Or, son exactitude était toute relative, allant de 2 à 10 km.”

Source : Les smartphones n’ont plus le choix : il leur faut être compatible avec Galileo – Numerama

Messages, Dialer apps sent text, call info to Google

27 mars 2022 / noflux

“According to a research paper, « What Data Do The Google Dialer and Messages Apps On Android Send to Google? » [PDF], by Trinity College Dublin computer science professor Douglas Leith, Google Messages (for text messaging) and Google Dialer (for phone calls) have been sending data about user communications to the Google Play Services Clearcut logger service and to Google’s Firebase Analytics service. « The data sent by Google Messages includes a hash of the message text, allowing linking of sender and receiver in a message exchange, » the paper says. « The data sent by Google Dialer includes the call time and duration, again allowing linking of the two handsets engaged in a phone call. Phone numbers are also sent to Google. »”

Source : Messages, Dialer apps sent text, call info to Google • The Register

The U.S. warns companies to stay on guard for possible Russian cyberattacks

22 mars 2022 / noflux

“The White House is warning companies that Russia could be planning to launch cyberattacks against critical U.S. infrastructure. The U.S. has previously warned about the Russian government’s capabilities to digitally attack U.S. companies, but President Biden reiterated the message on Monday, saying in a statement that « evolving intelligence » showed Russia is « exploring options for potential cyberattacks. »”

Source : The U.S. warns companies to stay on guard for possible Russian cyberattacks : NPR