https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-can-clone-millions-of-toyota-hyundai-kia-keys/
Encryption flaws in a common anti-theft feature expose vehicles from major manufacturers.
chip-enabled mechanical keys
their technique likely isn’t as easy to pull off as the “relay” attacks that thieves have repeatedly used to steal luxury cars and SUVs. Those generally require only a pair of radio devices to extend the range of a key fob to open and start a victim’s car. You can pull them off from a fair distance, even through the walls of a building.
By contrast, the cloning attack the Birmingham and KU Leuven researchers developed requires that a thief scan a target key fob with an RFID reader from just an inch or two away
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21165087/ios-apple-push-notification-advertising-marketing-now-allowed-app-store
long as users agree to receive the ads first.
The change follows a couple incidents over the past two years in which Apple bent its own rules by sending out push notifications that read a lot like ads. Since other companies’ apps could be banned or have their push notification privileges revoked for that behavior, the moves were criticized as another example of Apple getting away with special treatment because it controls the platform.
https://www.wired.com/story/botnet-social-network-where-everyones-influencer/
a faux-social network called Botnet, which is free for anyone to download as an app. Botnet looks like a stripped-down Facebook Newsfeed, where the only posts you can see are your own. It’s just you and the bots, who like and comment on your posts with reckless abandon.
Botnet is designed to simulate the experience of mega-fame on the internet
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/qwake-c-thru-ar-hud-firefighters/
This augmented reality feed presents them with a video stream taken from an on-board thermal camera. It then uses some smart artificial intelligence image recognition to show the outlines of objects and people in green; giving the firefighters the ability to see what they’re doing even in the smokiest of rooms.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51658111
The attack allowed hackers to gain access to its client list but it said its servers had not been breached.
Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have all demanded it stop using photos on their platforms.
But Clearview AI chief executive Hoan Ton-That told the CBS This Morning programme it was his First Amendment right to collect public photos.
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/17/tesla-autopilot-saved-8-lives-in-storm-dennis/
https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-trick-tesla-accelerating-85mph-using-tape-2020-2
The researchers elongated the middle line in the “3” by 2 inches.
http://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-0220
A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
https://www.zdnet.com/article/israeli-military-tricked-into-installing-malware-by-hamas-agents-posing-as-women/
Members of the Hamas Palestinian militant group have posed as young teenage girls to lure Israeli soldiers into installing malware-infected apps on their phones, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said today.
Some soldiers fell for the scam, but IDF said they detected the infections, tracked down the malware, and then took down Hamas’ hacking infrastructure.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51564905
A malicious link sent to staff at the facility eventually caused the shutdown “of the entire pipeline asset”.
It was so severe in part because the organisation was not prepared for such an attack, the DHS statement said.
Often, the “operational network” which runs computers in the factory is separated from the office IT – but not in this case, meaning the ransomware infection was allowed to spread.
https://holzschu.github.io/Carnets_Jupyter/
A standalone Jupyter notebooks implementation for iOS.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51520622
A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/why-you-cant-bank-on-backups-to-fight-ransomware-anymore/
https://www.bt.no/nyheter/i/8morAx/databrudd-stenger-janusfabrikken
For andre dag på rad står produksjonen på tekstilfabrikken i Arna etter et kabelbrudd hos IT-leverandøren Evry.
Hele produksjonen er avhengig av serverne som tekstilbedriften nå har mistet kontakten med.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a30784690/chernobyl-fungus/
How can this fungus process radiation in this way? Because it has tons of very dark melanin pigment that absorbs radiation and processes it in a harmless way to produce energy.
https://www.techmeme.com/200206/p26#a200206p26
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21123491/philips-hue-bulb-hack-hub-firmware-patch-update
Might want to check if you’ve got firmware 1935144040
https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-backdoor-mechanism-discovered-in-devices-using-hisilicon-chips/
https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/sport/2020/02/05/195647027/opplysninger-om-over-tre-millioner-medlemmer-av-norsk-idrett-la-tilgjengelige-pa-nett
etter en IT-feil hos Idrettsforbundet. Datatilsynet prioriterer saken høyt.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/london-to-deploy-live-facial-recognition-to-find-wanted-faces-in-crowd/
Tech from NEC aimed at spotting wanted persons on the streets to alert officers.