Monthly Archives: August 2022
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity (Part 2)
The first article in this series provided a clear definition of what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is and an overview of its use in Cybersecurity....
Indonesia Celebrates its 77th Anniversary with New Banknotes
Bank Indonesia put into circulation a new series of banknotes on 17 August 2022, the 77th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of...
eID-Me Digital Identity App for Canadians [Updated]
A new digital identity app called eID-Me was launched in Canada in 2020. The app was developed by Ottowa-based Bluink, thanks to $1.2 million...
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity (Part 1)
One thing that Corporate America can be certain of in the future is that Cyberthreats and their attackers will abound, stealthier and more covert...
Uzbekistan’s Central Bank Issues 200,000-Som Banknote
The Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan began issuing a new higher denomination of 200,000 Soms on 15 July 2022. Before the new note was launched,...
United Arab Emirates to Issue New Generation Passport
The United Arab Emirates Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Ports Security has announced that the new generation Emirati Passport will be issued...
UAE Issues New 5- and 10-Dirham Polymer Banknotes [Updated]
The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) introduced two new 5- and 10-Dirham banknotes, on 21 April 2022 and 26 April 2022,...
Sierra Leone Issues Revised Banknotes—and a New Denomination
The Central Bank of Sierra Leone has issued a new, re-denominated banknote series—a move intended to restore confidence in the national currency hit hard...
The Impacts of Compromised Credentials
The password has always been an attractive target to the Cyberattacker. But given today’s Cybersecurity threat landscape, Cyberattackers are after much more than passwords...
SIA urges better forecasts of raw materials for ID documents
The Secure Identity Alliance has called for an easing of identity supply chain tensions through more effective forecasting strategies.
The non-profit association, which focuses on the implementation...
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]
As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...