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IRS Facial Recognition Backlash Highlights Broader Privacy Concerns

Facial recognition technology is coming under fire for privacy concerns around how biometrics data is collected, stored and used.

Facial Recognition, Privacy

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 2/18

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources.

Podcast, Source Code

New FBI Unit Will Focus on Cryptocurrency Exploitation

The FBI is forming a new Virtual Asset Exploitation unit to trace cryptocurrency crimes and ransomware profits.

Government, Ransomware

Threat Actor Exploits Log4j Flaw in VMware Horizon

Researchers said an Iran-linked threat actor was exploiting the Log4j vulnerability in order to deploy backdoors, harvest credentials and other malicious activities.

Log4j, Vmware

CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Exploited Google, Adobe Flaws

Federal agencies have until March 1 to fix a pair of actively exploited flaws in Google Chrome and Adobe's Commerce and Magento platforms.

CISA, Google, Google Chrome, Zero Day