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Police said on Friday they detained a man at the Iranian consulate in Paris after responding to a witness report of a suspicious man possibly carrying a grenade and explosives vest, but did they did not immediately confirm finding any weapons. A Paris police official told The Associated Press that officers were verifying the man’s identity and trying to determine whether he had weapons. The official was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to be publicly named under police policy. Some of the police, special agents and firefighters that responded to the incident at the...
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France is testing Artificial Intelligence (AI) based video surveillance on the weekend which could also be used at this summer's Olympics in Paris. The Paris police prefecture has authorised railway company SNCF and transport operators RATP to to analyse images from more than 100 surveillance camera by using intelligent and algorithm-based technology. The test will take place in four stations, around a Black Eyed Peas concert in the Défence Arena and football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyon at Parc des Princes stadium. The software is to recognize people entering non-publi...
DPA Breaking News
By Paul Krill The Rust language team has published a point release of Rust to fix a critical vulnerability to the standard library that could benefit an attacker when using Windows. Rust 1.77.2, published on April 9, includes a fix for CVE-2024-24576. Before this release, Rust’s standard library did not properly escape arguments when invoking batch files with the bat and cmd extensions on Windows using the Command API. An attacker who controlled arguments passed to a spawned process could execute arbitrary shell commands by bypassing the escape. This vulnerability becomes critical if batch fil...
Info World
Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives voted Friday to reauthorize an electronic urveillance program targeting foreigners, a practice officials say is critical to national security but criticized by opponents over concerns for American citizens' privacy. The Republican-controlled House voted to reauthorize a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, widely known as FISA, by a bipartisan vote of 273-147. A part of the program known as Section 702 allows US intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance of foreigners outside the United States. While...
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France has beefed up security around Wednesday's Champions League match between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona, with a reported police force of around 1,000 in place in the wake of a terror threat. This week's quarter-final matches are taking after an Islamic State threat against them via a media outlet linked to the group. Citing police sources, Le Parisien paper said that additional mobile police units and patrols will be in place for the match at Parc des Princes stadium. It said that riot police would be in the vicinity of the venue, with drones and other technology also used to safegua...
DPA Breaking News
By Serdar Yegulalp Over the past decade, Rust has emerged as a language of choice for people who want to write fast, machine-native software that also has strong guarantees for memory safety. Other languages, like C, may run fast and close to the metal, but they lack the language features to ensure program memory is allocated and disposed of properly. As noted recently by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, these shortcomings enable software insecurities and exploits with costly real-world consequences. Languages like Rust, which put memory safety first, are getting more att...
Info World
By Evan Schuman The global outage that last month prevented McDonald's from accepting payments prompted the company to release a lengthy statement that should serve as a master class in how not to report an IT problem. It was vague, misleading and yet the company used language that still allowed many of the technical details to be figured out. (You know you've moved far from home base when Burger King UK makes fun of you— in response to news of the McDonald's outage, Burger King played off its own slogan by posting on LinkedIn: “Not Loving I.T.”) The McDonald's statement was vague about what h...
Computer World
By Jonny Evans Have you ever had an unexpected direct phone call from Apple support? I have not, and if you do ever receive one, you probably aren’t talking to Apple. The company says you should immediately hang up. “If you get an unsolicited or suspicious phone call from someone claiming to be from Apple or Apple Support, just hang up,” the company support website states. Don’t fall for itOther things it warns against are suspicious calendar invitations in Mail or Calendar, annoying pop-ups in the browser, unexpected software download prompts, and fraudulent emails. The company offers up repo...
Computer World
By Paul Krill Java Development Kit (JDK) 22, released by Oracle March 19 as the latest version of standard Java, offers a number of security enhancements, covering areas ranging from an asymmetric key interface to a new security option for -XshowSettings that allows developers to easily display security-related settings. In a March 20 blog post on Oracle’s inside.java web page, Sean Mullan, technical lead of the Java Security libraries team and lead of the OpenJDK Security Group, detailed the security enhancements in JDK 22. The java -Xshowsettings option, which can be used to print system set...
Info World
The French government has promised to "pursue" the perpetrators of the cyber-attack on 50 high schools in the Paris region. In a speech on Thursday, Gabriel Attal said he wanted to "identify the establishments most at risk," and have an appropriate response to each of them. 150 to 200 establishments would currently be affected, said the Prime Minister. On Wednesday, messages were sent through the ENT digital platform that serves as a link between teachers, pupils and parents; internal emails; or the Pronote software used by the education ministry. The messages included threats of terrorist att...
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