Here are this week\u2019s top stories, news and updates from the world of computer security.<\/p>\n
Cover your face as much as you want to. Facebook can still identify you<\/strong> FBI Report: CryptoWall ransomware cost US victims $18 million<\/strong> Sent an Email by Mistake? Thanks to Gmail, you can UNDO that<\/strong> Radio Waves Generated by Laptops can Leak Encryption Keys to Hacker Here are this week\u2019s top stories, news and updates from the world of computer security. Cover your face as much as you want to. Facebook can still identify you Facebook is experimenting with a new technology that can enable people to identify you in photos even if your face is hidden. Reportedly, this facial recognition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":80330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1266,65,99],"class_list":["post-82614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crytowall","tag-facebook-privacy","tag-gmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFacebook is experimenting with a new technology that can enable people to identify you in photos even if your face is hidden. Reportedly, this facial recognition algorithm is known to gather information from hairstyle, body shape, clothing, and other such characteristics to identify you. What\u2019s more interesting about this is that, this algorithm is being said to be 83% accurate. Know more about this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), since April 2014, US victims of the CryptoWall ransomware have lost a whopping $18 million. The FBI rates it as \u201cthe most current and significant ransomware threat targeting U.S. individuals and businesses.\u201d CryptoWall ransomware is a malicious program that enters targeted machines via fake downloads and infected email messages. Upon successful infection, it encrypts all types of files and documents available on the machine, and then demands a ransom to release them. Read the complete story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nIf you have sent an email inadvertently or without reading it carefully, then Gmail can buy you some time to undo your mistake. Gmail has introduced a new feature that lets you halt an \u2018already sent email\u2019 for some time for you to rectify it before it reaches the recipient. Read more about how you can use this feature from Google\u2019s official page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>By using a gadget so small that it can be fit inside a pita bread, hackers can scoop out encryption keys of a laptop from the system’s radio signals. Developed by Daniel Genkin and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University, this gadget can analyze the patterns of radio activity that takes place in a computer during its various operations. Read about how this is done here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"