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Cybercriminals have devised a creative way to attempt to scam money from people: They use a feature of Google Forms quizzes to generate spam messages, researchers found. Abuse of Google Forms — part of the company’s free Workspace suite — has been tracked for several years, but the use of a specific feature within quizzes is a recent trend, according to the cybersecurity firm Cisco Talos, which…

A group of academic researchers has devised a technique to extract sounds from still images captured using smartphone cameras with rolling shutter and movable lens structures. The movement of camera hardware, such as the Complementary Metal-oxide–Semiconductor (CMOS) rolling shutters and the moving lenses used for Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and Auto Focus (AF), create sounds that are…