Face Recognition Glasses Augment China’s Railway Cops
Railway police in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan province, are the first in the country to start using facial recognition eyewear to screen passengers.
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Crime
Are programs better than people at predicting reoffending?
IN AMERICA, computers have been used to assist bail and sentencing decisions for years.
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New AI tells masterpieces from forgeries by only looking at brush strokes
AIs might not know much about art, but they can easily tell apart one style from the other — even when they’re terribly similar.
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Robocops can’t tackle online crime without human assistance | VentureBeat
Cybercrime is on the rise and organizations across a wide variety of industries — from financial institutions to insurance, to healthcare providers, and large e-retailers — are rightfully worried.
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How artificial intelligence is becoming a key weapon in the cyber security war
In the last 12 months, 60% of Australian organisations experienced a ransomware attack. This is according to Telstra’s Cyber Security Report 2017, which also found that ransomware was the number one type of malware downloaded in the Asia Pacific region during 2017.
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Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks
Mining social networks for every scrap of information about our online lives is now common practice for marketers, academics, government agencies, and so on.
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Exposed IoT servers let hackers unlock prison cells, modify pacemakers | ZDNet
Lucas Lundgren sat at his desk as he watched prison cell doors hundreds of miles away from him opening and closing.
He could see the various commands floating across his screen in unencrypted plain text.
‘Petya’ ransomware attack: what is it and how can it be stopped?
Many organizations in Europe and the US have been crippled by a ransomware attack known as “Petya”. The malicious software has spread through large firms including the advertiser WPP, food company Mondelez, legal firm DLA Piper and Danish shipping and transport firm Maersk, leading to PCs and data being locked up and held for ransom.
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Trump’s cybersecurity executive order: 4 things you need to know – TechRepublic
Donald Trump signed an executive order on cybersecurity last month, outlining plans to address the cybersecurity of federal networks, the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure , the cybersecurity of the nation as a whole, and how to ensure that the United States achieves long-term excellence in cybersecurity.
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How Israel spots lone-wolf attackers
HIS last Facebook post was the only clue of Raed Jaradat’s yearning for vengeance: it showed a Palestinian teenager lying dead with her headscarf soaked in blood and the message “Imagine if this were your sister.” Dania Irsheid had been shot by Israeli security forces in October 2015 at the entrance to the Ibrahimi mosque.
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Tech giants are under fire for facilitating terrorism
AFTER last weekend’s terrorist attack in London Theresa May, declared that “enough is enough.” She was not suggesting that some reasonable amount of terrorism had now been exceeded; rather, that extremism had been too readily tolerated in the past. She specifically criticised the big internet firms.
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