https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/dataangrep-mot-sykehuset-innlandet-1.15132961

Analyser viser at det kan ha blitt hentet ut personsensitive data.

https://m-cacm.acm.org/news/246744-picking-locks-with-audio-technology/fulltext

researchers have discovered that the sound of your key being inserted into the lock gives attackers all they need to make a working copy of your front door key.

https://apnews.com/270e93e985733a4d086c06a01375cea0

Production of Kirin chips designed by Huawei’s own engineers will stop Sept. 15 because they are made by contractors that need U.S. manufacturing technology, said Richard Yu, president of the company’s consumer unit. He said Huawei lacks the ability to make its own chips.

https://source.wustl.edu/2020/08/researchers-one-step-closer-to-bomb-sniffing-cyborg-locusts/

they were able to hijack a locust’s olfactory system to both detect and discriminate between different explosive scents — all within a few hundred milliseconds of exposure.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-indonesia-exclusive-idUSKCN2591ML

local moderators were instructed by a team from ByteDance’s Beijing headquarters to delete articles seen as “negative” about Chinese authorities

https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/leder/i/wP7BB5/datainnbrotet-ved-nhh-viser-kor-viktig-det-er-aa-halde-seg-oppdatert-paa

Norges Handelshøyskole har latt døra til internett stå ulåst

Feilen vart retta for meir enn eitt år sidan, men NHH installerte aldri oppdateringa.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200731-how-to-build-a-nuclear-warning-for-10000-years-time

The nuclear waste buried far beneath the earth will be toxic for thousands of years. How do you build a warning now that can be understood in the far future?

https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/

Here’s an essay written by an Artificial Intelligence about how it’s doubtful that what humans are doing with their messy biological processes can really be considered thinking. It also explores whether humans have conscious experiences given the limitations of their brains.

https://nrkbeta.no/2020/08/06/nhh-utsatt-for-datainnbrudd-over-300-studenter-og-ansatte-rammet/

NRKs gjennomgang av datalekkasjen tilsier at over 300 studenter og ansatte er kompromittert.

Det skal ha skjedd etter et større internasjonal datainnbrudd som har påvirket flere hundre organisasjoner.
Ifølge teknologinettstedet ZDNet skal 900 VPN-servere være rammet.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/silver-bullet-mass-arrests-after-blackberry-cracked-five-years-after-seizure-20200731-p55hbq.html

In April, new technology “capabilities” allowed authorities to probe the encrypted device