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