Not every post fits under a technology. Here you will find opinion pieces, event reports, methodology and a look at life at dbi services: conference takeaways, cyber security awareness, ways of working and the people behind the projects.
Free to download, expensive to run Open source is not free! The licence is, but the hours your team spends making it work are not. At dbi services we love open source. We run PostgreSQL, Kafka and Kubernetes for many customers and we contribute where we can. But over the last years I see the same story again and again:…
Continuation of our series on facial recognition. After defining facial recognition among the biometric processes (see here), let’s see the techniques used for its application. State of the art of the techniques used for its application The technology on this topic is constantly evolving, driven in particular by the web giants, who directly publish their theoretical discoveries in the areas…
Last part of our series on facial recognition (first part here, second part here and third part here). Let’s see if there are countermeasures and how to implement them if they do exist… Countermeasures and proposals for implementation in a defensive context The invasive nature of FRTs has motivated a growing number of attempts to counter it, addressing various stages…
Continuation of this series on facial recognition. After having defined facial recognition among the biometric processes (see here) and seen the techniques used for its application (see here), let’s see what the current laws say about it now… Facial recognition in the face of the law The fields of application Facial recognition techniques (FRTs) are used in more and more…
Among today’s biometric applications, one in particular is the subject of much controversy and discussion: facial recognition. One of the most controversial applications of facial recognition is face recognition based on a photograph, as done by the company Clearview AI to name one. After defining facial recognition among the biometric processes in this article, we will give an overview of…
The Swiss Cyber Security Days (SCSD) took place on March 10 and 11, 2021 The largest event in Switzerland entirely dedicated to cyber security took place on March 10 and 11, in a 100% digital form. Despite the health measures related to the coronavirus pandemic, the third edition of the Swiss Cyber Security Days was maintained. Indeed, cyber threats do…
Have you ever had this unhealthy sensation of being accused of facts that do not concern you? To feel helpless in the face of an accusing mail, which, because of its imperative and accusing tone, has the gift of throwing us the opprobrium? This is the purpose of this particular kind of sextortion mail that uses spoofing, to try to…
