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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/between-you-me-and-google-problems-gmails-confidential-mode
‘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.
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
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
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.
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.
Polar is Revealing the Homes of Soldiers and Spies - bellingcat
the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, military bases, nuclear weapons storage sites
8500 Schibsted-kunder berørt av datalekkasje - Aftenposten
https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/L0xOAV/8500-Schibsted-kunder-berort-av-datalekkasje
Brukere av Aftenposten og Bergens Tidende har fått informasjon lekket i et hackerangrep mot tredjepartsløsningen Typeform.
Every Android Device Since 2012 Impacted by Vulnerability
get hold of secrets stored in the device.
passwords, your personal photos, emails, instant messages