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Researchers Use GPU Fingerprinting to Track Users Online A team of researchers from French, Israeli, and Australian universities has explored the possibility of using people’s GPUs to create unique fingerprints and use them for persistent web tracking. The results of their large-scale experiment involving 2,550 devices with 1,605 distinct CPU configurations show that their technique,
FTC: Americans Lost $770 million from Social Media Fraud Surge Americans are increasingly targeted by scammers on social media, according to tens of thousands of reports received by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2021. As revealed by the FTC, over 95,000 US consumers reported losses of roughly $770 million after getting scammed on
Managing employee data in Singapore Singapore enacted the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in 2012, which went into effect in stages; the data protection regulations went into effect on July 2, 2014. The PDPA applies to any organization that collects, uses, and discloses personal data (in electronic and non-electronic formats) from Singapore residents, whether the
Windows Vulnerability with New Public Exploits Lets you Become Admin A security researcher has publicly disclosed an exploit for a Windows local privilege elevation vulnerability that allows anyone to gain admin privileges in Windows 10. Using this vulnerability, threat actors with limited access to a compromised device can easily elevate their privileges to help spread