https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/business/georgia-bitcoin-blockchain-bitfury.html
Tax breaks, land deals and cheap energy have spurred cryptocurrency mining in Georgia, which wants to be a digital data leader.
https://www.grahamcluley.com/automated-phishing-attack-tool-bypasses-2fa-protection/
but don’t let Modlishka make you give up on 2FA just yet…
https://www.zdnet.com/article/west-african-banks-hit-by-multiple-hacking-waves-last-year/
Banks and financial institutions in West Africa have been hit by four different hacking campaigns last year, according to a report published today by US cyber-security giant Symantec.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-wordpress-plugin-hacked-by-angry-former-employee/
Hacker defaced the company’s website and sent a mass email to all its customers, alleging unpatched security holes.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortnite-security-issue-would-have-granted-hackers-access-to-accounts/
Check Point recommends that Fortnite players enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for their accounts.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612775/algorithms-criminal-justice-ai/
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past.
[You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It – By Tim Cook
http://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502591/tim-cook-data-privacy/ – Time.com]
We think every user should have the chance to say, “Wait a minute. That’s my information that you’re selling, and I didn’t consent.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.
An open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security. Check things off to keep track as you go.
Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste (PST) mener at selskaper fra land Norge ikke har sikkerhetspolitisk samarbeid med, bør begrenses fra å jobbe med ekomnett
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18177305/ring-employees-unencrypted-customer-video-amazon
Smart doorbell company Ring allowed employees to share unencrypted customer videos with each other
https://www.nrk.no/norge/huawei-kan-bli-utestengt-fra-norsk-5g-utbygging-1.14373969
Han sier Norge vurderer å slutte seg til andre vestlige land og nekte kinesiske Huawei å bygge infrastruktur for 5G-nettet, den neste generasjonen mobilnett.
https://www.itpro.co.uk/privacy/32634/android-apps-share-data-facebook-without-user
The social media giant’s third-party tracking via the Facebook SDK may constitute a GDPR breach
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/technology/weather-channel-app-lawsuit.html
The […] app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers, the city attorney of Los Angeles said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/12/14/youtube-is-reading-text-in-users-videos/
Google keeps tabs on much of your activity, including your browsing history and your location. Now, it turns out that its YouTube service is also reading what’s in your videos, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/asia/china-change-4-moon.html
landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in history
A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in “a nearly imperceptible […] signal.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/waymo-self-driving-cars-arizona-attacks.html
Some people have pelted Waymo vans with rocks, according to police reports. Others have repeatedly tried to run the vehicles off the road.