personlig hadde jeg aldri dratt til Qatar med mobiltelefonen min. Det sier NRKs sikkerhetssjef Øyvind Vasaasen etter en grundig gjennomgang av VM-appene.
– De kan rett og slett endre innholdet i hele telefonen din og ha fri kontroll på den informasjonen som er der, er konklusjonen til NRKs sikkerhetssjef.
New iPhones which can detect car crashes and notify emergency services appear confused by thrill rides
Two-thirds of respondents in the Ponemon study who had experienced ransomware attacks said they disrupted patient care, and 59% of them found they increased the length of patients’ stays, straining resources. Almost one-quarter said they led to increased mortality rates at their facilities.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown
Apple has completely redesigned the internals of the iPhone 14 to make it easier to repair.
https://apnews.com/article/nato-technology-iran-middle-east-6be153b291f42bd549d5ecce5941c32a
Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country’s embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago that was allegedly carried out by Tehran on Albanian government websites, the prime minister said Wednesday.
The move by NATO member Albania was the first known case of a country cutting diplomatic relations over a cyberattack.
Jackets and vests with the cooling technology, used for years by Japanese construction workers, are being redesigned as casual wear and marketed to general consumers as heat waves grow more frequent and intense. Although often dubbed “air-conditioned clothing,” that’s something of a misnomer, because there’s usually only a fan and nothing to actually cool the air.
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Fans work by accelerating airflow to dry perspiration
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/09/a-simple-paint-job-can-save-birds-from-wind-turbines/
A small study in Norway showed that painting one blade of a wind turbine black reduced bird mortality by over 70%.
https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-tractor-jailbreak-defcon-2022/
FARMERS AROUND THE world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, this allows farmers to modify and repair the expensive equipment that’s vital to their work, the way they could with analog tractors. At the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, the hacker known as Sick Codes is presenting a new jailbreak for John Deere & Co. tractors that allows him to take control of multiple models through their touchscreens.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anonymous-poop-gifting-site-hacked-customers-exposed/
ShitExpress, a web service that lets you send a box of feces along with a personalized message to friends and enemies, has been breached