Month: August 2024
How to Watch and Stream the 2024 Italian GP
The F1 circus heads to the home of Ferrari as the drivers take on the iconic Monza circuit.
The F1 circus heads to the home of Ferrari as the drivers take on the iconic Monza circuit.
Latest Inflation Report Trends as Expected. Get Ready for Fed Rate Cuts
Signs of a cooling economy could mean we finally get some relief from historically high borrowing rates.
Signs of a cooling economy could mean we finally get some relief from historically high borrowing rates.
Ransomware group Brain Cipher take responsibility for French National Museum cyberattack
Brain Cipher have taken responsibility for the attack on the Olympic venue, and threaten to leak stolen data.
Ransomware group Brain Cipher have taken responsibility for a cyberattack on dozens of French National Museums during the Olympic Games earlier this month. The group have said they will leak 300 GB of stolen data, but have revealed nothing about the nature of the information.
Institutions overseen by Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais (RMN-GP) were targeted by an attack which allegedly stole data from the system used by the organization to ‘centralize financial data’.
A countdown has been posted on Brain Cipher’s blog post to indicate the leak will take place at 20:00 UTC.
Brain Cipher Group
There were no reported disruptions to the Olympic events hosted by the institution, which included taekwondo and fencing and the organization confirmed that no operational impact, encrypted systems, or extracted data was detected.
The French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) confirmed it was alerted to the attacks and provided assistance to RMN-GP, but asserted that the incident did not affect systems related to the Olympic Games.
The group taking credit for the attack only emerged in June of this year, but have previously targeted a number of industries, including medical, educational, and manufacturing organizations, as well as Indonesian government servers.
The group apologized for any disruption caused by the attack on the Indonesian servers, claiming that it was acting as a penetration tester, and that it released a decryptor to restore locked files without pressure from the government.
Researchers believe the group developed its ransomware payload based on the Lockbit 3.0 builder (also known as LockBit Black) which is well known and easily deployed, but in turn can be easily detected and mitigated.
Via The Register
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How to use iOS’s Live Text feature
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge
I’m something of a hoarder when it comes to interesting facts — I’ll see something online or in a photo, and a small voice in my brain says, “You’ll be able to use that reference somewhere, somehow. Save it so you can find it later!” Which is fine if it’s just a line or two of text, but what if that info is within an image — a photo, say, or even a drawing?
Luckily, back in 2021, Apple introduced a feature in iOS 15 called Live Text, which makes it possible for iPhone users to grab text, email addresses, phone numbers, and more from images. Live Text works with both handwritten and typed text and supports a variety of languages.
Once you’ve captured text from an image, you can paste it into a document, an email, a text message, etc., just as you would any copied text. (A suggestion: you might want to proofread it before you send or post it, especially if you’ve copied handwritten text — Live Text is pretty good, but it’s not perfect.) Just press on the selected text and choose Copy. You can also select Translate if you want to translate it to another language or Look Up to get more information.
You can use Live Text with your camera app or directly from Photos or Safari. Here’s how to capture the text in these three apps.
Capture text using the camera app
One of the handiest ways of using Live Text is on documents or objects that are around you in real time. If you have an iPhone XS or later, you can use the camera app to quickly grab some text — say, the name on a product label, or of a book you want to remember to buy — and drop it into another app. You don’t even have to snap a photo. It’s very easy:
Open the camera app and point it at the text you want to copy. You’ll see a faint outline around the text, and a live text button will appear in the corner of the viewfinder.
Hit the button, and you’ll get a pop-up with the text inside. Highlight the part of the text you want to copy (or hit Select All) and choose Copy.
If there is an email address, phone number, or link, you will be given the option of interacting with it directly.
Screenshot: Apple
When you point the camera at some text, it will be outlined; use the symbol in the lower right corner to grab it.
Screenshot: Apple
If the text has an email address or phone number, you can use it to send an email or a text message.
Capture text from photos
If you’re viewing any pictures with text in the Photos app, you can select and interact with text there. It works just like selecting actual text anywhere else on iOS: tap and hold on the text in an image and you’ll see the familiar-looking blue highlights pop up.
The search bar in Photos will also search for text within images in your photo library, which is handy if you know you took a screenshot or photo of a receipt and just aren’t sure when. Once you find it, you can copy it using the steps above.
Screenshot: Apple
You can capture text from photos….
Screenshot: Apple
…or from screenshots
Capture from web images in Safari
Text can also be selected directly from images on the web in Safari. To grab text, just highlight the text in the image as you would any text, and hit the Copy button.
Update, August 30th, 2024: This article was originally published on July 1st, 2021, and has been updated to account for changes in the OS.
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge
I’m something of a hoarder when it comes to interesting facts — I’ll see something online or in a photo, and a small voice in my brain says, “You’ll be able to use that reference somewhere, somehow. Save it so you can find it later!” Which is fine if it’s just a line or two of text, but what if that info is within an image — a photo, say, or even a drawing?
Luckily, back in 2021, Apple introduced a feature in iOS 15 called Live Text, which makes it possible for iPhone users to grab text, email addresses, phone numbers, and more from images. Live Text works with both handwritten and typed text and supports a variety of languages.
Once you’ve captured text from an image, you can paste it into a document, an email, a text message, etc., just as you would any copied text. (A suggestion: you might want to proofread it before you send or post it, especially if you’ve copied handwritten text — Live Text is pretty good, but it’s not perfect.) Just press on the selected text and choose Copy. You can also select Translate if you want to translate it to another language or Look Up to get more information.
You can use Live Text with your camera app or directly from Photos or Safari. Here’s how to capture the text in these three apps.
Capture text using the camera app
One of the handiest ways of using Live Text is on documents or objects that are around you in real time. If you have an iPhone XS or later, you can use the camera app to quickly grab some text — say, the name on a product label, or of a book you want to remember to buy — and drop it into another app. You don’t even have to snap a photo. It’s very easy:
Open the camera app and point it at the text you want to copy. You’ll see a faint outline around the text, and a live text button will appear in the corner of the viewfinder.
Hit the button, and you’ll get a pop-up with the text inside. Highlight the part of the text you want to copy (or hit Select All) and choose Copy.
If there is an email address, phone number, or link, you will be given the option of interacting with it directly.
Screenshot: Apple
When you point the camera at some text, it will be outlined; use the symbol in the lower right corner to grab it.
Screenshot: Apple
If the text has an email address or phone number, you can use it to send an email or a text message.
Capture text from photos
If you’re viewing any pictures with text in the Photos app, you can select and interact with text there. It works just like selecting actual text anywhere else on iOS: tap and hold on the text in an image and you’ll see the familiar-looking blue highlights pop up.
The search bar in Photos will also search for text within images in your photo library, which is handy if you know you took a screenshot or photo of a receipt and just aren’t sure when. Once you find it, you can copy it using the steps above.
Screenshot: Apple
You can capture text from photos….
Screenshot: Apple
…or from screenshots
Capture from web images in Safari
Text can also be selected directly from images on the web in Safari. To grab text, just highlight the text in the image as you would any text, and hit the Copy button.
Update, August 30th, 2024: This article was originally published on July 1st, 2021, and has been updated to account for changes in the OS.