Monthly Archives: February 2025

How to secure Notes on iOS and macOS

Apple allows you to lock your notes using your iPhone passcode or a separate password, ensuring your private information stays protected across all your Apple devices, including iOS and macOS. Whether you’re using your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, here’s how to ensure your notes stay safe and accessible to you. How to lock Notes on macOS Set up a password Open the Notes app on your Mac. Go to Notes, then click Settings in the … More → The post How to secure Notes on iOS and macOS appeared first on Help Net Security.
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New infosec products of the week: February 21, 2025

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from 1Password, Fortinet, Pangea, Privacera, and Veeam Software. Fortinet enhances FortiAnalyzer to deliver accelerated threat hunting and incident response FortiAnalyzer offers a streamlined entry point to scale an organization’s security operations center (SOC), providing broad coverage for both on-premises and cloud environments from a single platform. With ready-to-deploy capabilities that deliver complete control with centralized visibility, advanced threat detection, and automated … More → The post New infosec products of the week: February 21, 2025 appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Deep Nanometry reveals hidden nanoparticles

Researchers have developed Deep Nanometry, an analytical technique combining advanced optical equipment with a noise removal algorithm based on unsupervised deep learning. Deep Nanometry can analyze nanoparticles in medical samples at high speed, making it possible to accurately detect even trace amounts of rare particles. This has proven its potential for detecting extracellular vesicles indicating early signs of colon cancer, and it is hoped that it can be applied to other medical and industrial fields.
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, February 21st, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9334, (Fri, Feb 21st)

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Researchers develop novel computational approach for identifying synergistic drug combinations

Researchers have developed a powerful computational tool, named iDOMO, to improve the prediction of drug synergy and accelerate the development of combination therapies for complex diseases. The study highlights iDOMO’s ability to identify synergistic drug combinations using gene expression data, outperforming existing methods.
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Revolutionizing dynamic facial projection mapping: A leap forward in augmented reality

Dynamic facial projection mapping (DFPM) has reached new heights in speed and accuracy, with the development of a state-of-the-art system with groundbreaking innovations. The first breakthrough involved a hybrid detection technique combining different methods to detect facial landmarks in just 0.107 milliseconds. The researchers also proposed a way to simulate high-frame-rate video annotations to train their models and introduced a lens-shift co-axial projector-camera setup to reduce alignment errors, enabling smoother and more immersive projections.
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Tool update: sigs.py – added check mode, (Fri, Feb 21st)

Over the years, I've written a number of scripts to make my life easier. One of those tools was sigs.py (which was a rewrite of an old perl script sigs.pl) to hash files. I wanted something portable that could potentially be a drop-in replacement for things like md5sum, sha1sum, etc. (and can do hashes like sha512, sha3-224, and sha3-384). I've even had cases where my python script ran faster than those Linux tools. Anyway, in some recent cases I've been working on, I've been getting manifests with hashes and to validate that I got good copies, I wanted to verify the hashes. Sometimes I was getting md5s, sometimes, sha1s, sometimes sha256s. On Linux, md5sum, sha1sum, sha256sum, etc. have the -c switch to do the checking, but my script did not have that, so I took an hour over a weekend recently and I added that capability. The script determines which hash to use based on the length of the hash it finds in the text file, so it can check any of the hashes it can calculate.
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Presidential Management Fellows ‘at a loss’ after Trump orders program’s elimination

Terminating the Presidential Management Fellows program is one of the latest steps in the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal workforce. The post Presidential Management Fellows ‘at a loss’ after Trump orders program’s elimination first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Presidential Management Fellows ‘at a loss’ after Trump orders program’s elimination

Terminating the Presidential Management Fellows program is one of the latest steps in the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal workforce. The post Presidential Management Fellows ‘at a loss’ after Trump orders program’s elimination first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Federal firings: You couldn’t make this up

The reduction of the federal workforce has proven chaotic. Worse, it fails to enlist the knowledge of the very people who could help boost efficiency. The post Federal firings: You couldn’t make this up first appeared on Federal News Network.
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