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Major corporations teamed up to fight AI bias

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyDecember 13, 2021

American corporations have teamed up to form the Data & Trust Alliance, which has developed a software assessment system to fight AI bias. When hiring employees, HR departments are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for help. With their

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Though 2020 is ending, the list of worst passwords is still topes “123456”

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyNovember 19, 2020

The end of the year is approaching, and the developers of the password manager NordPass have once again published a list of the most popular and weak passwords of 2020. The worst password in 2020 is still the same “123456”. Unfortunately, over the past 12 months, password

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HIBP (Have I Been Pwned?) leak aggregator opens the source code

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 11, 2020

Founder of Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) Troy Hunt announced that after a series of unsuccessful attempts to sell the project, about which he talked this spring, he decided to open the source code. Let I remind you that HIBP, founded in 2013, is a service for verifying

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Once more about data breaches

ByPolina LisovskayaJanuary 25, 2017

One of the biggest breaches of databases happened recently – personal information on nearly 50 thousand users was stolen and replaced by random files with instructions on how to get the data back. Even those users who paid never got their information back. Why? Because it is

Tips & Tricks

How can hackers crack your router?

ByPolina LisovskayaJanuary 14, 2017

Do you think that you are protected from hackers? Of course, you are using a wireless access point with an encryption. You are wrong! pull your password from the air! There are 4 things, that hackers hope you won’t find out WEP encryption is unworkable for protecting your

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Top-6 biggest tech failures of 2016

ByPolina LisovskayaDecember 29, 2016

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 The biggest failure of Samsung for all history is Galaxy Note 7. Smartphones started exploding, that caused a stoppage in production and users were forbidden from taking them on airplanes. It will take a lot of time to clear the PR debacle from this