2020-08-27 - Version 2 Limited

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – August 6, 2020 – CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer in AI and facial recognition technologies, partnered with NTT DATA to deploy a remote retail solution at an unstaffed concept store with Tokyu Hands in Shibuya. Powered by CyberLink’s FaceMe® facial recognition engine, the concept store is a smart retail pilot project being tested for real-world application from June 1^st to 15^th, 2020. The integrated solution combines remote serving services, digital information monitors and the use of anonymized AI data analytics to drive a stronger self-service customer experience. FaceMe® supports the pilot program by identifying the age, gender and facial emotion data of customers inside the retail environment to assist in measuring the effectiveness of project, paving the way for a brilliant, cashier-less retail solution.

NTT DATA is one of the world’s top IT services provider and the most substantial information systems integration firm in Japan. Due to the growing decline of Japan’s labor force and the increased health risk posed by COVID-19 from physical interactions, Japan’s retail sector, like most, has suffered from retail expansion difficulties. NTT DATA’s concept in the Tokyu Hands store (Scramble Square, Shibuya), collects live customer data to demonstrate how retail locations that are both employee-less and touchless can thrive.

The solution provides customers with guest guidance using interactive monitors and displays to facilitate touchless customer transactions. Sales consultants at the Shinjuku office use virtual avatars to offer brand instructions and product recommendations. In which way, retailers can optimize the resource of sales consultants who are specialized in product knowledge, and flexibly serve different store locations disregard of geographic limitations. In-store cameras use FaceMe® to identify age, gender and emotional data, combining with NTT Data’s voice-to-text technology, the collected data can be used in the future to further improvement of customer service quality, product development and estimate the return of investment of promotional events.

The NTT DATA pilot project provides a proof-of-concept on the FaceMe® AI facial recognition engine’s ease of integration and powerful capabilities. FaceMe®‘s edge-based architecture offers fast and efficient processing with higher accuracy and speed than other cloud-based solutions. FaceMe® supports more than ten operating systems, including Windows, Android, iOS, and various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu x86, Ubuntu ARM, RedHat, CentOS, Yocto, Debian and JetPack. FaceMe® can run on low-power CPUs to enable facial recognition on cost-effective IoT/AIoT devices and the ability to integrate with high-end servers, workstations, and personal computers equipped with a GPU, providing highly efficient performance. FaceMe®‘s high accuracy, flexibility, and security make it the leading facial recognition engine available on the market today.

About Version 2 Limited
Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About CyberLink
Founded in 1996, CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW) is the world leader in multimedia software and AI facial recognition technology. CyberLink addresses the demands of consumer, commercial and education markets through a wide range of solutions, covering digital content creation, multimedia playback, video conferencing, live casting, mobile applications and AI facial recognition. CyberLink has shipped several hundred million copies of its multimedia software and apps, including the award-winning PowerDirector, PhotoDirector, and PowerDVD. With years of research in the fields of artificial intelligence and facial recognition, CyberLink has developed the FaceMe® Facial Recognition Engine. Powered by deep learning algorithms, FaceMe® delivers the reliable, high-precision, and real-time facial recognition that is critical to AIoT applications such as smart retail, smart security, and surveillance, smart city and smart home. For more information about CyberLink, please visit the official website at www.cyberlink.com

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BRATISLAVA – ESET, a global leader in IT security, will highlight its latest research during Black Hat USA 2020. ESET researchers Robert Lipovský, Štefan Svorenčík and Vladislav Hrčka will present this Thursday, August 6, on “KrØØk: Serious Vulnerability Affected Encryption of Billion+ Wi-Fi Devices” and “Stantinko Deobfuscation Arsenal.” Black Hat is the world’s leading information security event, which is being held completely virtually this year due to the COVID-19 crisis. After the conclusion of the event, ESET will make the findings available to the research community, media and the general public.

The presentation about KrØØk by Robert Lipovský and Štefan Svorenčík will take place on Thursday, August 6, at 12:30 – 1:10 PDT (21:30 – 22:10 CEST). The talk will disclose the most recent discoveries that more Wi-Fi chip manufacturers, specifically Qualcomm and Mediatek, have also been affected by variants of the KrØØk vulnerability.

KrØØk is a vulnerability originally discovered in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic. Exploiting KrØØk allows adversaries to intercept and decrypt (potentially sensitive) data, but with a significant advantage for the attackers: While they need to be in range of the Wi-Fi signal, they do not need to be authenticated and associated to the WLAN. In other words, the attackers do not need to know the Wi-Fi password.
The KrØØk findings were first presented at the RSA Conference 2020 in February. After publication, the vulnerability was brought to the attention of many more chipset and device manufacturers. Some manufacturers have since discovered their products to be vulnerable and have deployed patches.

The second talk will aid malware researchers and reverse engineers to analyze Stantinko, a botnet performing click fraud, ad injection, social network fraud, password stealing attacks and cryptomining. The Black Hat Arsenal format will predominantly focus on Stadeo, a set of tools we developed primarily to facilitate the analysis of Stantinko but that can also be helpful when analyzing other malware strains utilizing similar techniques, including the infamous Emotet crimeware. Stadeo will be demonstrated for the first time at Black Hat USA 2020 and subsequently published for free use. 

The demo will be provided by ESET researcher Vladislav Hrčka on Thursday, August 6, at 11:00 – 12:00 PDT (20:00 – 21:00 CEST).

For more information, visit Black Hat USA and WeLiveSecurity, where the research will be subsequently published. Make sure to follow ESET research on Twitter for the latest news from ESET Research.

About ESET
For 30 years, ESET® has been developing industry-leading IT security software and services for businesses and consumers worldwide. With solutions ranging from endpoint security to encryption and two-factor authentication, ESET’s high-performing, easy-to-use products give individuals and businesses the peace of mind to enjoy the full potential of their technology. ESET unobtrusively protects and monitors 24/7, updating defenses in real time to keep users safe and businesses running without interruption. Evolving threats require an evolving IT security company. Backed by R&D facilities worldwide, ESET became the first IT security company to earn 100 Virus Bulletin VB100 awards, identifying every single “in-the-wild” malware without interruption since 2003.

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