The RISKS Digest
Volume 30 Index
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy,
Peter G. Neumann, moderator
- Volume 30 Issue 01 (Wednesday, 14 December 2016)
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- Volume 30 Issue 02 (Thursday, 15 December 2016)
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- Volume 30 Issue 03 (Monday, 19 December 2016)
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- Volume 30 Issue 04 (Tuesday, 20 December 2016)
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- Volume 30 Issue 05 (Monday, 26 December 2016)
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- Volume 30 Issue 06 (Friday, 30 December 2016)
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- Volume 30 Issue 07 (Sunday, 8 January 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 08 (Tuesday, 10 January 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 09 (Tuesday, 17 January 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 10 (Sunday, 22 January 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 11 (Saturday, 28 January 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 12 (Wednesday, 1 February 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 13 (Tuesday, 7 February 2017)
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- Russians Engineer A Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat - And Casinos Have No Fix
(WiReD)
- TLS vulnerability in popular iOS apps allows user data to be intercepted in man-in-the-middle attack
(Malcolm Owen)
- Popular apps with 18 million combined downloads in the Apple App Store found vulnerable to silent data interception
(Greg Barbosa)
- “Dozens of iOS apps fail to secure users' data, researcher says”
(Michael Kan)
- Security flaws in Pentagon systems "easily" exploited by hackers
(Zack Whittaker)
- Data from man's pacemaker led to arson charges
(Lauren Pack)
- Vizio to Pay $2.2M to Settle Charges it Illegally Collected Data from TV Owners
(Gabe Goldberg)
- The Truth about Unix—my version, anyway—for comic relief
(Don Norman)
- “Vulnerability in Microsoft SMBv3 protocol crashes Windows PCs”
(Woody Leonhard)
- “GitLab database goes out after spam attack”
(Paul Krill)
- Cisco: Spam is making a big-time comeback
(Tom Greene)
- How WhatsApp is fighting spam after its encryption rollout
(Techcrunch)
- Trump's Vote Fraud Guru is Registered in Three States
(AP)
- Re: Hackers Use New Tactic at Austrian Hotel: Locking the Doors
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Network-enabled ICBMs for the USAF?
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: alt-facts.net site
(AT, LW)
- Re: Nim Language Draws From Best of Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp
(Dimitri Maziuk, Arthur Flatau, Alexander Klimov)
- Re: Quantum Computers Versus Hackers, Round One
(Rob Slade, Werner U)
- Volume 30 Issue 14 (Friday, 17 February 2017)
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- To Lure Moviegoers, 20th Century Fox Dangles Fake News
(Liam Stack and Sapna Maheshwari)
- Fake news is killing people's minds, says Apple boss Tim Cook
(The Telegraph)
- Dutch election will be counted by hand
(The Guardian)
- Forged Racist Emails Cause Stir at University of Michigan
(ABC)
- New Mac malware from Iran targets US defense industry, human rights advocates with fake Flash updates
(Apple)
- Can Foreign Governments Launch Malware Attacks on Americans Without Consequences?
(EFF)
- Cooperative Bank sends a text with a dyn.co link
(Martin Ward)
- Toyota recalls all the Mirais for software bug
(Andrew Krok)
- Majority of Android VPNs can't be trusted to make users more secure
(Ars Technica)
- “Flaw in Intel Atom chip could crash servers, networking gear”
(Agam Shah)
- “S. Korea plans to tighten battery regulations after Note 7 crisis”
(John Ribeiro)
- 'Xagent' malware arrives on Mac, steals passwords, screenshots,
(Ars Technica)
- Yahoo sends new security warning to users
(Chicago Tribune)
- “Microsoft re-releases snooping patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978”
(Woody Leonhard)
- “Microsoft Explains Why Windows Drivers Are Dated 21 June 2006”
(Matthew Humphries)
- Why you can't depend on antivirus software anymore
(Slate)
- The Internet of Evil Things
(Tim Johnson)
- Security and the Internet of Things
(Bruce Schneier)
- Supporters of Mexico's Soda Tax Targeted With NSO Exploit Links
(Citizen Lab)
- How do destroy a web form and the risks
(Paul Robinson)
- Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone
(WiReD)
- The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class
(WiReD)
- Google is spying on my photos
(Geoff Kuenning, Lauren Weinstein)
- Re: D-Wave and quantum computer architecture
(Rodney Van Meter)
- Re: quantum communications via plane and satellite
(Rodney Van Meter)
- Re: Rob Slade on quantum computing
(Rodney Van Meter)
- Re: Quantum Cryptography
(Paul E. Black)
- Re: "The missile may have veered … towards the United States"
(Michael Black)
- Re: Nim Language Draws From Best of Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: The Truth About UNIX…
(Paul Robinson))
- *WiReD* in RISKS-30.13
(Dave Horsfall)
- The ‘March for Science’ is gaining mainstream momentum
(Joel Achenbach via Dewayne Hendricks)
- Stein Schjolberg: The History of Cybercrime
(PGN)
- Volume 30 Issue 15 (Tuesday, 21 February 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 16 (Sunday, 26 February 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 17 (Saturday, 4 March 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 18 (Wednesday, 15 March 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 19 (Tuesday, 21 March 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 20 (Thursday, 30 March 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 21 (Saturday, 1 April 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 22 (Monday, 3 April 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 23 (Thursday, 6 April 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 24 (Saturday, 15 April 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 25 (Tuesday, 18 April 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 26 (Sunday, 30 April 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 27 (Friday, 5 May 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 28 (Tuesday, 9 May 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 29 (Saturday, 13 May 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 30 (Monday, 5 June 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 31 (Thursday, 8 June 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 32 (Saturday, 10 June 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 33 (Wednesday, 14 June 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 34 (Saturday, 24 June 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 35 (Wednesday, 28 June 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 36 (Friday, 7 July 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 37 (Friday, 14 July 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 38 (Monday, 17 July 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 39 (Saturday, 22 July 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 40 (Friday, 28 July 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 41 (Tuesday, 1 August 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 42 (Monday, 7 August 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 43 (Monday, 14 August 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 44 (Thursday, 31 August 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 45 (Tuesday, 5 September 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 46 (Monday, 11 September 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 47 (Friday, 29 September 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 48 (Thursday, 19 October 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 49 (Tuesday, 7 November 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 50 (Wednesday, 22 November 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 51 (Wednesday, 20 December 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 52 (Tuesday, 26 December 2017)
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- Volume 30 Issue 53 (Thursday, 18 January 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 54 (Saturday, 10 February 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 55 (Saturday, 17 February 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 56 (Tuesday, 27 February 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 57 (Thursday, 1 March 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 58 (Thursday, 15 March 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 59 (Saturday, 17 March 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 60 (Tuesday, 20 March 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 61 (Tuesday, 27 March 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 62 (Friday, 30 March 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 63 (Sunday, 1 April 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 64 (Monday, 2 April 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 65 (Saturday, 14 April 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 66 (Sunday, 22 April 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 67 (Sunday, 29 April 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 68 (Saturday, 5 May 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 69 (Wednesday, 16 May 2018)
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- America continues to ignore the risks of election hacking
(The New Yorker)
- Russia Tried to Undermine Confidence in Voting Systems, Senators Say
(NYTimes)
- Virginia election officials assigned 26 voters to the wrong district
(WashPo)
- Securing Elections
(Bruce Schneier)
- Australian Emergency Calls Fail due to lightning strike
(ABC AU)
- Self-driving cars' shortcomings revealed in DMV reports
(Merc)
- VW bugs: "Unpatchable" remote code pwnage
(TechBeacon)
- Software bug led to death in Uber's self-driving crash
(Ars Technica)
- Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll
(NYT)
- The risk from robot weapons
(via The Statesman/Asia News Network, published in The Straits Times)
- Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?
(WashPo)
- 2,000 wrongly matched with possible criminals at Champions League
(BBC AU)
- KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerability can expose medical devices, patient records
(Osborne, R 30 68)
- Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever
(WiReD)
- Dark code
(DW)
- Postmortem of Fortnite Service Outage
(Epic Games)
- Collateral damage
(538)
- Dozens of security cameras hacked in Japan
(Mainichi)
- Technology turns our cities into spies for ICE, whether we like it or not
(LATimes)
- The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
(The New Yorker)
- Bring in the Nerds: EFF Introduces Actual Encryption Experts to U.S. Senate Staff
(EFF)
- Email Encryption Tools Are No Longer Safe, Researchers Say
(Fortune)
- Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw
(EFF)
- Once Again, Activists Must Beg the Government to Preserve the Right to Repair
(Motherboard)
- Widespread Misunderstanding of x86-64 Privileged Instruction Leads to Widespread Escalation Hazard
(MITRE CVE 2018-8897)
- Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command Audio Attacks
(NYTimes)
- Buckle Up, Prime Members: Amazon Launches In-Car Delivery
(Business Wire)
- Meant to Monitor Inmates' Calls Could Track You Too
(NYTimes)
- Cell Phone Location data reportedly available to law enforcement without verification/process
(Ars Technica)
- During disasters, active Twitter users likely to spread falsehoods: Study examines Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy; also finds most users fail to correct misinformation
(Science Daily)
- Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'
(BBC.com)
- Intel Documentation Blamed for Multiple Operating System Security Flaws
(IT Pro)
- The Problem with Chinese GPS
(Now I Know)
- U.S. identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools
(WashPo)
- Volume 30 Issue 70 (Saturday, 26 May 2018)
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- Boy, 9, dies in accident involving motorized room partition at his Fairfax school
(WashPo)
- Don't Put That in My Heart Until You're Sure It Really Works
(NYT)
- "Ex-Intel security expert: This new Spectre attack can even reveal firmware secrets"
(Liam Tung)
- "This malware is harvesting saved credentials in Chrome, Firefox browsers"
(ZDNet)
- Student awarded $36,000 for remote execution flaw in Google App Engine
(Charlie Osborne)
- "This cryptocurrency phishing attack uses new trick to drain wallets"
(Danny Palmer)
- Ex-JPMorgan Chase Blockchain Duo Unveil New Startup Clovyr
(Fortune)
- ICE abandons its dream of ‘extreme vetting’ software that could predict whether a foreign visitor would become a terrorist
(WashPo)
- E-Mail Clients are Insecure, PGP and S/MIME 100% secure
(Keith Medcalf)
- E-mail Encryption Tools Are No Longer Safe, Researchers Say
(Fortune)
- Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw
(EFF)
- "T-Mobile bug let anyone see any customer's account details"
(Zack Whittaker)
- "Senator wants to know how police can locate any phone in seconds without a warrant"
(Zach Whittaker)
- US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data
(Zach Whittaker)
- Hundreds of Apps Can Empower Stalkers to Track Their Victims
(NYTimes)
- "Voice squatting attacks: Hacks turn Amazon Alexa, Google Home into secret eavesdroppers"
(CSO Online)
- So, Umm, Google Duplex's Chatter Is Not Quite Human
(Scientific American)
- Henry Kissinger Is Scared of 'Unstable' Artificial Intelligence
(The Wrap)
- Service Meant to Monitor Inmates' Calls Could Track You, Too
(NYT)
- Gunshot Sensors Pinpoint Destructive Fish Bombs
(SciAm)
- Most GDPR emails unnecessary and some illegal, say experts
(The Guardian)
- The Pentagon Has a Big Plan to Solve Identity Verification in Two Years
(Defense One)
- Unplug Your Echo!
(Ars Technica)
- FBI dramatically overstates how many phones they can't get into
(WaPo)
- "Google to remove "secure" indicator from HTTPS pages on Chrome"
(ZDNet)
- Google's Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering
(The Verge)
- "A flaw in a connected alarm system exposed vehicles to remote hacking"
(ZDNet)
- Syrian hackers who tricked reporters indicted
(WashPo)
- Cisco critical flaw warning: These 10/10 severity bugs need patching now
(ZDNet)
- Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?
(WashPo)
- Massachusetts ponders hiring a computer to grade MCAS essays. What could go wrong?
(The Boston Globe)
- Grocery store censors cake with request for 'summa cum laude'
(The Boston Globe)
- The surprising return of the repo man
(WashPo)
- Trump feels presidential smartphone security is too inconvenient
(Ars Technica)
- Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election
(NY Times)
- Re: Securing Elections
(Mark E. Smith)
- Re: Dark code
(Kelly Bert Manning, Richard O'Keefe)
- Fitness App Leads To Arrest For Attack On McLean Cyclist
(McLean VA Patch)
- Man Is Charged With Hacking West Point and Government Websites
(NYT)
- Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting
(WashPo)
- Re: "Warning: Dangerous Fake Emails About Google Privacy Changes"
(Wol)
- Re: Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw
(Yooly)
- Re: Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll
(NYT)
- Re: Chinese GPS
(Dimitri Maziuk)
- Re: The risk from robot weapons
(Amos Shapir)
- Will You Be My Emergency Contact Takes On a Whole New Meaning
(NYT)
- This fertility doctor is pushing the boundaries of human reproduction -- with little regulation
(WashPo)
- As DIY Gene Editing Gains Popularity, `Someone Is Going to Get Hurt'
(Monty Solomon)
- Volume 30 Issue 71 (Tuesday, 5 June 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 72 (Tuesday, 12 June 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 73 (Tuesday, 26 June 2018)
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- Tim Cook on Why Apple News Needs Human Editors
(The Wrap)
- Facial Recognition Company Kairos CEO argues that technology's bias and capacity for abuse make it too dangerous for use by law enforcement
(Slashdot)
- Police Use of Facial Recognition With License Databases Spur Privacy Concerns
(WSJ via WaPo)
- Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
(NYTimes)
- Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data
(arxiv.org)
- When the Robot Doesn't See Dark Skin
(NY Times)
- Having better risk-based analysis for your banks and credit cards
(Rex Sanders)
- It's time to stop laughing at Nigerian scammers, because they're stealing billions of dollars
(Cleve R. Wootson Jr.)
- Those Chinese-language robocalls are a scam to get your bank information, officials say
(WashPo)
- How a company outed China's spies: David Sanger
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Chinese Fans Paid Dearly for World Cup Tickets That Never Materialized.
(NYTimes)
- Germany becomes the last big Western power to buy killer robots
(Innocence lost—The Economist)
- Orlando Airport Becomes 1st In US To Require Face Scan Of All International Travelers
(Talking Points Memo)
- Cryptocurrency exchange hacks in 2018
(Taipei Times)
- Bitcoin Could Break the Internet, Central Banks' Overseer Says
(Bloomberg)
- West Virginia Becomes First State to Test Mobile Voting by Blockchain in a Federal Election
(GovTech)
- The Tractors that Turn Farmers into Hackers
(Now I Know)
- “Three-month-old Drupal vulnerability is being used to deploy cryptojacking malware”
(Danny Palmer)
- Hacker figured out how to brute-force iPhone passcode
(ZDNet)
- Supreme Court says police need a warrant for historical cell location records
(Zach Whittaker)
- Why Hackers Aren't Afraid of Us
(David E. Sanger)
- Beijing subways to get bio-ID system
(StraitsTimes)
- Scanning immigrants old fingerprints, U.S. threatens to strip thousands of citizenship
(WashPo)
- M&A isn't what it used to be
(Fortune)
- A new way to do big data with entity resolution
(Web Informant)
- Tesla sues former employee for allegedly stealing gigabytes of data, making false claims to media.
(CNBC)
- Show me the money
(Fortune)
- Visa fingers ‘very rare’ datacentre switch glitch for payment meltdown
(The Register)
- Recounting Horror Stories? Over Guitar Center's Warranties
(NYTimes)
- The Guy Who Robbed Someone at Gunpoint for a Domain Name Is Getting 20 Years in Jail
(Motherboard)
- Clarinetist discovers his ex-girlfriend faked a rejection letter from his dream school
(The Washington Post)
- Internet TV firmware update/soft power-switch failure
(Richard M Stein)
- Ghost Cytometry May Improve Cancer Detection, Enable New Experiments
(SciAm)
- Creating bizarre interfaces
(Rob Slade)
- More dodgy numbers - LinkedIn this time
(Tony Harminc)
- Maybe they'll accept postcard calls for help
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: Another risk of driverless cars
(Ed Ravin)
- Re: Microsoft, Github, & distributed revision control
(Wol)
- Re: Florida skips gun background checks for a year after employee
(R A Lichtensteiger, Gabe Goldberg)
- Volume 30 Issue 74 (Thursday, 5 July 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 75 (Saturday, 14 July 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 76 (Friday, 20 July 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 77 (Monday, 30 July 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 78 (Wednesday, 1 August 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 79 (Wednesday, 8 August 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 80 (Saturday, 18 August 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 81 (Saturday, 25 August 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 82 (Tuesday, 4 September 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 83 (Thursday, 13 September 2018)
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- Takeaways from Bruce Schneier's new book
(Tim Starks)
- How to Rig an Election
(Victoria Collier - Harpers)
- John Kerry: 2004 Vote Tampering in Ohio?
(PGN)
- Crypto Wars, Again—and again, and again, and again …
(Rob Slade)
- MSpy, Which Builds Software To Spy On Phones, Allegedly Leaked Millions Of Records
(Gizmodo Australia)
- Officials unveil new facial recognition system at Dulles International Airport
(WashPost)
- Israel's National Insurance suspends plan for spy system
(Haaretz)
- Your canines' barks may be worse then their bites
(DefenseOne)
- Japan Embraces eVTOL Vision
(Mary Grady)
- “Tesla sued: Woman wants $300k for crashing on Autopilot while reading phone”
(Liam Tung)
- Driver: GPS Made Me Go Wrong Way Onto I-93, Crash
(Patch)
- Wireshark fixes serious security flaws that can crash systems
(Charlie Osborne)
- “Premera Blue Cross accused of destroying evidence in data breach lawsuit”
(ZDnet)
- Vicious Rumors Spread Like Wildfire On WhatsApp—And Destroyed A Village
(Buzzfeed)
- “Vodafone: You used 1234 as your password and were hacked? You cover the cost”
(Charlie Osborne)
- “MEGA.nz Chrome extension caught stealing passwords, cryptocurrency private keys”
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Tens of iOS apps caught collecting and selling location data
(ZDNet)
- The EU's copyright plans will let anyone mass-censor the Internet
(Boingboing)
- The story of why Chrome and Firefox will soon block sites with certain SSL certificates
(Templarbit)
- While Cybercriminals Continue To Target Real Estate Transactions, Take These Protective Measures
(Forbes)
- The explosive problem with recycling old electronics
(WashPo)
- Didi Chuxing introduces new safety measures after passenger death
(Cyrus Lee)
- Are Digital Devices Altering Our Brains?
(Scientific American)
- These People Were Just Trying To Get To Maui When They Got On Horrible Flight Where Everything Went Wrong
(Buzzfeed)
- BA Hack Leaves Airline Open to Fines Under Tough Data Rules
(Bloomberg)
- New Home Dream Destroyed: Fraud Victims Fighting Back After Losing $89,000
(NBC Bay Area)
- Google's Doors Hacked Wide Open By Own Employee
(Forbes)
- S
(Angelica Mari)
- Frustration and Finger-Pointing as GOP Pulls Out of Deal Talks on Hacked Materials
(NYTimes)
- Huawei busted for cheating over P20, Honor Play performance benchmarks
(Liam Tung)
- A stranger meant to donate $15 to a GoFundMe page. He accidentally gave more than $15,000
(WashPost)
- “'Father of Zeus' Kronos malware exploits Office bug to hijack your bank account”
(Charlie Osborne)
- Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media
(The Guardian)
- Watch: Rascally Rat Jumps and Pulls Fire Alarm at DC Condo
(NBC DC)
- Two Daily WTF Comments
(Gene Wirchenko)
- Re: How FireEye Helped Facebook Spot a Disinformation Campaign
(Richard Stein)
- Re: How do you get people to trust autonomous vehicles?
(Martyn Thomas)
- Re: What3words: putting geographical addresses behind a closed API
(Dan Jacobson)
- Re: Personal domain names
(Keith F. Lynch)
- Re: The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
(Dan Jacobson)
- Volume 30 Issue 84 (Friday, 28 September 2018)
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- The Plot to Subvert an Election
(NYTimes)
- In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting
(WashPo)
- Wisconsin Officials Prepare for Potential Election Hackers
(USNews)
- Here's the science behind the Brexit vote and Trump's rise
(Michele Gelfand - The Guardian)
- Democrat pushes changes to protect senators' personal accounts from continued threats
(WashPo)
- Electronic temporary registration
(Phil Smith III)
- GM Recalls One Million Pickups and SUVs in U.S. for Crash Risk
(WSJ)
- How Can AI Help to Prepare for Floods in a Climate-Changed World
(SciAm)
- Major Japanese ramen chain's logo confuses Honda cars' AI
(Master Blaster)
- Florence: At least 13 deaths reported as storm slogs across Carolinas
(WashPo)
- EU Preliminarily Passes Horrific Articles 11 & 13
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Seeing Is Now Not Believing Anymore: Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method
(Gizmodo)
- Google Knows Where You've Been, but Does It Know Who You Are?
(NYT)
- Uber Glitch Stops Payments To Drivers, Prices Surge
(Slashdot)
- Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns
(TechCrunch)
- Elon Musk said a Tesla could drive itself across the country by 2018. One just crashed backing out of a garage
(LATimes)
- Phishing attacks are targeting students' financial aid, officials say
(WashPo)
- Stealing From a Cashierless Store—Without You, or the Cameras, Knowing It
(New York Times)
- New Research Can Identify Extremists Online, Even Before They Post Dangerous Content
(ForensicMag)
- Weather Channel: Seeing Is Not Believing, Take 2
(GatewayPundit)
- Bug in Bitcoin code also opens smaller cryptocurrencies to attacks
(ZDNet)
- Quantum computing may *not* be better …
(Rob Slade)
- What cardiologists think about the Apple Watch's heart-tracking feature
(WashPo)
- “This Windows file may be secretly hoarding your passwords and emails”
(ZDnet)
- Bloat
(Rob Slade)
- How to Keep Forever the Music, Movies or Ebooks You ‘Buy’ on Amazon or iTunes
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: "Are Digital Devices Altering Our Brains?
(Gene Wirchenko)
- Volume 30 Issue 85 (Tuesday, 2 October 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 86 (Thursday, 11 October 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 87 (Friday, 19 October 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 88 (Tuesday, 23 October 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 89 (Tuesday, 30 October 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 90 (Friday, 2 November 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 91 (Tuesday, 6 November 2018)
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- Volume 30 Issue 92 (Wednesday, 21 November 2018)
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- Commentary on Florida Election Recounts
(Rebecca Mercuri)
- 670 ballots in a precinct with 276 voters, and other tales from Georgia's primary
(MSN)
- Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords
(Kim Zetter)
- Electionland/ProPublica had a lovely collection of election problems already in the wee hours of election evening
(PGN)
- At Doomed Flight's Helm, Pilots May Have Been Overwhelmed in Seconds
(NYTimes)
- Boeing issues warning on potential instrument malfunction after Indonesia crash
(WashPost)
- A Runway Train Traveled 57 Miles Through Australia's Outback
(WiReD)
- Rules of the Road Evade Driverless Cars
(WashPost)
- Siri Shortcuts can now be used with the VW Car-Net app to remotely control a vehicle
(AppleInsider)
- Russia suspected of jamming GPS signal in Finland
(BBC)
- Why Google Internet Traffic Rerouted Through China and Russia
(WiReD)
- Operation Infektion
(The New York Times)
- GPS week field roll-over
(David Magda)
- System error: Japan cybersecurity minister admits he has never used a computer
(TheGuardian.com)
- Tech CEOs Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer
(Nellie Bowles)
- “IoT botnet infects 100,000 routers to send Hotmail, Outlook, and Yahoo spam”
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Buffer Overflows and Spectre
(Henry Baker)
- Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app
(Ars Technica)
- Guns, drones, and surveillance equipment: Big Brother steps out in Tel Aviv
(The Times of Israel)
- The House That Spied on me
(Gizmodo)
- A DJI Bug Exposed Drone Photos and User Data
(WiReD)
- Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones in biometric systems
(The Guardian)
- Public Attitudes Toward Computer Algorithms
(Pew Research Center)
- Guarding Against Backdoors and Malicious Hardware
(Security Boulevard)
- U.S. Declines to Sign Declaration Discouraging Use of Cyberattacks
(NYTimes)
- 'The Cleaners' Looks At Who Cleans Up The Internet's Toxic Content
(npr.org)
- HealthCare.gov breach compromised applicants' financial, immigration data
(Washington Times)
- Apple IDs locked for unknown reasons for a number of iPhone users
(Apple Insider)
- Debate in Germany over allowing Chinese to bid on 5G
(Taipei Times)
- Bug bounty
(Fortune)
- A thing to worry about: sleep study
(Tom Van Vleck)
- A robot scientist will dream up new materials to advance computing and fight pollution
(MIT Technology Review)
- AI News Anchor Makes Debut In China
(npr.org)
- 3 Crazy Excel Formulas That Do Amazing Things
(MakeUseOf)
- Dementia risk: Five-minute scan 'can predict cognitive decline'
(bbc.com)
- MAS issues principles to guide use of AI, data analytics in finance
(The Straits Times)
- Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI— hoping to raise awareness
(David Dao)
- Google accused of ‘trust demolition’ over health app
(BBC)
- AI Could Make Cyberattacks More Dangerous, Harder to Detect
(WSJ)
- AmazonBasics Microwave Review: It's a Little Undercooked
(WiReD)
- Elon Musk's SpaceX wins FCC approval to put Starlink Internet satellites into orbit
(WashPost)
- Customer Complains About Tesla Forums, Tesla Accidentally Gives Him Control Over Them
(Motherboard)
- Google had a secret bug
(WashPost)
- For the first time, researchers say Facebook can cause depression
(Brett Arends)
- Mozilla - *privacy not included
(Gabe Goldberg)
- The digital epidemic killing Indians
(bbc.com)
- Police: Woman remotely wipes phone in evidence after shooting
(The Daily Gazette)
- He Helped People Cheat at Grand Theft Auto. Then His Home Was Raided.
(NYTimes)
- MoneyGram agrees to pay $125 million for failing to crack down on fraudulent money transfers
(WashPost)
- Report: Could Your Online Behavior Affect What You Pay for Car Insurance?
(San Antonio Business Journal)
- Couple, homeless man in viral GoFundMe charged
(BostonGlobe)
- The Dating Brokers
(TacticalTech)
- Osaka woman terrifyingly attacked by intruder while playing video games in her home late at night
(Sora News)
- Re: EMV card fraud statistics
(David Alexander)
- Re: Ethics of whom to kill
(Arthur T.)
- Re: Tesla
(Wol)
- Re: Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud, Survey Shows
(Phil Smith III)
- Re: Risks in Using Social Media to Spot Signs of Mental Distress
(Richard Stein)
- Book review: You'll see this message when it is too late, by Josephine Wolff
(Web Informant)
- Book review: You'll see this message when it is too late, by Josephine Wolff
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