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.
“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.
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.
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.
It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps
A new report says children’s digital footprints are growing and more must be done to educate them about data security.
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.
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.
With nothing but a smartphone and some clever computation, researchers can exploit ambient signals to track individuals in their own homes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/opinion/cesar-sayoc-robert-bowers-social-media.html
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/technology/earthquake-predictions-artificial-intelligence.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45980863
The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries.