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Report: Australian intelligence knows Huawei was used in espionage - Axios
“Chinese espionage services used telecommunications giant Huawei’s staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network.”
The attack took place within the last two years.
Vil la e-tjenesten lagre nordmenns nett-trafikk – NRK
https://www.nrk.no/norge/vil-la-e-tjenesten-lagre-nordmenns-nett-trafikk-1.14291174
Mulighetene for masseovervåking av den norske nettrafikken nærmer seg dermed det Snowden-saken avslørte at amerikanske etterretningstjenester gjør i USA, sier fagdirektør Torgeir Waterhouse i […] IKT Norge.
Amazon asked to share Echo data in US murder case - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46181800
A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died.
Burned to death because of a rumour on WhatsApp – BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986
Rumours of child abductors spread through WhatsApp in a small town in Mexico. The rumours were fake, but a mob burned two men to death before anyone checked.
Children’s Commissioner calls for transparency on data gathered from children
A new report says children’s digital footprints are growing and more must be done to educate them about data security.
Security flaw in DJI’s website and apps exposed accounts to hackers and drone live feeds – TechCrunch
It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps
‘Bionic mushrooms’ that generate electricity created by scientists – The Independent
A regular shop-bought mushroom has been turned into an electricity generator in a process scientists hope will one day be used to power devices.
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html
But the report fails to look closely at how Facebook employees missed a crescendo of posts and misinformation that helped to fuel modern ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Hackers breach StatCounter, injecting its analytics script with malicious code that currently targets users of crypto exchange Gate.io to hijack BTC withdrawals – ZDNet
Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought - MIT Technology Review
With nothing but a smartphone and some clever computation, researchers can exploit ambient signals to track individuals in their own homes.
China is exporting the Great Firewall as internet freedom declines around the world
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/01/asia/internet-freedom-china-censorship-intl/index.html
the internet is an excellent tool for social control, enabling surveillance and guiding of public opinion that would have been impossible in the past.
Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46065796
Facebook said its security had not been compromised.
And the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions.
Social platforms and Silicon Valley Funders operate with sloppy disregard of the consequences of hate speech, unwilling to lose users and hurt their bottom line
Eurostar resets customer passwords after hack attack - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46048597
Eurostar has reset its customers’ login passwords after detecting attempts to break into an unspecified number of accounts.
Samsung agrees to payouts after worker deaths - BBC News
Another Tesla with Autopilot crashed into a stationary object
These systems are not sophisticated enough to distinguish a stationary object on the road from one that’s next to or above the road. To make the problem easier to handle, the cars may just ignore stationary objects
iPhones are Allergic to Helium – iFixit
https://ifixit.org/blog/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium/
Like an incredibly tiny grain of sand, the helium molecules are small enough to get inside the device, physically stop the clock, and turn your phone temporarily into a paperweight.