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AI Harvesting Personal Data
A recent AI trend is the creation of personalised doll images. On the surface this is a fun spin off of AI although some …
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Digital Gift Card Issues
Both Apple and Google offer gift card services for use on their App stores. Just as it states on the tin the card can …
Push Notifications
Push Notifications are primarily seen as a marketing or advertising tool. Another popular use is within chat applications; ensuring that subscribers keep up with …
EU Digital Services Act Implications
Kindus has already outlined the EU Digital Markets Act. The Digital Services Act is another EU law that came into force on all platforms …
Biometric Security Hacks
Biometric security may not be the bulletproof security system that it appears to be. The theory is that information such as fingerprints or facial …
Web Browser Privacy
Various services offer the concept of private browsing. In most cases this means that browsing history is kept secret from other users of the …
SMS Authentication Pitfalls
SMS is promoted as a reliable way to authenticate users. A message is sent to a mobile number with a one-time passcode (OTP) that …
Data Poisoning
Data Poisoning is an attempt to fool a system by inserting rogue data. It could be a threat to AI systems because they build …
Link Cloaking
In the ideal world every web page will be linked to a url that clearly and accurately describes the purpose of that page. Unfortunately …
Email Security
Email has been around since 1971 and still fulfills its basic purpose of sending a message between two computers. The concept of keeping any …
AI Coding Pitfalls
The Feeling of Power is a 1958 Science Fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It proposes a world that relies on computers to construct …
Weak Passwords
Recent studies show that easily guessed passwords are still in frequent use and that these passwords are not as obvious as they might appear. …
Disguised Phishing Links
The Cloudflare 2023 Phishing Threats Report highlights the tactic of indirectly linking to malware. This can involve the target receiving an email, text or …
IoT Device Vulnerabilities
Kindus has previously discussed how IoT devices have become targets for hacker attacks. The 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report highlights further issues caused by …
Ad Blocking at the Office
The vast majority of sites and services on the web are free to use. Many of those are supported by advertising but that advertising …
UK 2G/3G Switch Off
UK Mobile Network operators have agreed to sunset (switch off) 2G and 3G by 2033. The current situation is that 3G is being switched …
SIM Swapping
Our everyday activities have become increasingly reliant on mobile phone connectivity. Even where a phone is not directly involved in a transaction it may …
AI In The Office
The growth of AI has been so fast that it is becoming part of the computerised workplace mainstream more quickly than its impact can …
SIM Farms
A UK government consultation paper of May 2023 proposes to ban the manufacture, import, sale, hire, possession and/or use of SIM farms regardless of …
Voice Clone Scams
Scammers are making use of widely available and relatively cheap voice cloning software to create believable requests to send them money. The principle is …
Cookie Theft
Cookie theft has been associated with the takeover of Facebook accounts by criminals based in Vietnam. In 2021 Google cited cookie theft for the …
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