Hacking a Brand New Mac Remotely, Right Out of the Box – WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/mac-remote-hack-wifi-enterprise/
targets enterprise Macs that use Apple’s Device Enrollment Program and its Mobile Device Management platform.
BitPaymer Ransomware Infection Forces Alaskan Town to Use Typewriters for a Week
How a Hacker Allegedly Stole Millions by Hijacking Phone Numbers - Motherboard
tricking a provider like AT&T into transferring the target’s phone number to a SIM card controlled by the criminal.
reset the victims’ passwords and break into their online accounts
Wells Fargo says hundreds of customers lost homes after computer glitch – CNN
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/04/news/companies/wells-fargo-mortgage-modification/index.html
Hundreds of people had their homes foreclosed on after software used by Wells Fargo incorrectly denied them mortgage modifications.
GPS på ville veier
https://nrkbeta.no/2018/08/05/gps-pa-ville-veier/
GPS-manipulasjonen som fant sted ved Svartehavet er av typen som påvirker alle GPS-mottakere i området
Det nylig demonstrerte angrepet er annerledes, og kan brukes målrettet mot enkeltindivider.
Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication — Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/reddit-breach-highlights-limits-of-sms-based-authentication/
Of particular note is that although the Reddit employee accounts tied to the breach were protected by SMS-based two-factor authentication, the intruder(s) managed to intercept that second factor.
Data Breaches Keep Happening. So Why Don’t You Do Something? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/data-breaches.html
Don’t reuse passwords, rely on two-factor verification, install software only from trusted sources, question any alert that pops up on your screen and get a password manager.
French lawmakers ban smartphones in schools – ABS-CBN News
http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/07/31/18/bawal-na-french-lawmakers-ban-smartphones-in-schools
French schoolchildren will have to leave their smartphones switched off or at home as the new academic year begins in September, after lawmakers voted for a ban on Monday.
How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/30/technology/robot-hands.html
Robotic hands could only do what vast teams of engineers programmed them to do. Now they can learn more complex tasks on their own.
Power Causes Brain Damage - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
IQ testing digital AI assistants
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/25/siri-on-ios-latest-test/
Google Assistant answered 85.5 % … correctly and understood all of them, Siri answered 78.5 % correctly and misunderstood 11. Alexa correctly answered 61.4 % and misunderstood 13, while Cortana correctly answered 52.4 % and misunderstood 19.
‘Big Red Flag’: Automakers’ Trade Secrets Exposed in Data Leak - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/business/suppliers-data-leak-automakers.html
… the inadvertent exposure of customers’ data illustrates a problem confounding businesses: Some of their biggest security risks come from their suppliers and contractors.
“Confidential Mode” feature in Gmail is misleading because the emails are not end-to-end encrypted and “expired” messages can be retrieved via the sent folder - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? - Motherboard
Type the word “dog” into Google Translate 19 times, request that the nonsensical message be flipped from Maori into English, and out pops what appears to be a garbled religious prophecy.
Project ‘Fuchsia’: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android - Bloomberg
There’s already been at least one clash between advertising and engineering over security and privacy features … The ad team prevailed
How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First - Bloomberg
A homegrown app called Whim turns the act of getting around a city—by bus, train, bike, taxi or borrowed car—into a monthly subscription.
Thousands of patient records held for ransom in Ontario home care data breach, attackers claim - CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/carepartners-data-breach-ransom-patients-medical-records-1.4749515
The attackers told CBC News in an encrypted message that they discovered vulnerable software on CarePartners’ network that had not been updated in two years
Airbnb warned it breaches EU rules over pricing policy - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/16/airbnb-eu-pricing-accommodation-fees-charges
The commissioner said the prices displayed to those using the Airbnb website fail to reflect the fees and charges later passed on to the consumer, including cleaning costs.
How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/11/how-minecraft-is-helping-kids-fall-in-love-with-books
Ever wanted to explore Treasure Island or pretend to be Robinson Crusoe? Minecraft is now being used to create an ‘immersive experience’ to engage reluctant readers
U.K. data watchdog’s report on Facebook shenanigans is far more shocking than $664,000 fine - VentureBeat
Trust and confidence in the integrity of our democratic processes risk being disrupted because the average voter has little idea of what is going on behind the scenes.