The RISKS Digest
Volume 31 Index
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy,
Peter G. Neumann, moderator
- Volume 31 Issue 01 (Friday, 4 January 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 02 (Friday, 11 January 2019)
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- Heathrow flights disrupted by yet another drone
(Ars)
- Gatwick and Heathrow buying anti-drone equipment
(bbc.com)
- Inaccurate Software for Brain Surgery
(Medscape)
- Can't connect to that *.gov website? Here's why…
(Micah Lee via danny burstein)
- Denver was ground zero for CenturyLink's recent network outage … and it can be explained by a Mickey Mouse movie
(Aldo Svladi)
- Astronaut sparks panic after accidentally dialing 911 from space sending NASA security teams into a frenzy
(The Sun)
- USB Type-C Authentication Program Officially Launches
(EWeek)
- Finally, Some Good News About the EU's Horrendous "Right To Be Forgotten" Law
(Lauren Weinstein)
- “Market volatility: Fake news spooks trading algorithms”
(Tom Foremski)
- Is it time for Linux?
(Dave Crooke)
- 'Chipping' Is the Next Frontier for Biohackers
(Fortune)
- Facebook appending ?fbclid to links
(Dan Jacobson)
- US Air Force: 5G Dominance Critical to National Security
(Security Now)
- Marriott Concedes 5 Million Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted
(NYTimes)
- Hackers Leak Details of German Lawmakers, Except Those on Far Right
(NYTimes)
- A DNS hijacking wave is targeting companies at an almost unprecedented scale
(Ars)
- Hot new trading site leaked oodles of user data, including login tokens
(Ars)
- The Risk of Twitter knowing all, telling all
(Taipei Times)
- Chinese phone maker Huawei punishes employees for iPhone tweet blunder
(CNBC)
- Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
(NYTimes)
- Could a Chinese-made Metro car spy on us? Many experts say yes.
(WashPost)
- Alexia really is a spy
(The Register)
- Kingpin Used Spyware to Obsessively Monitor His Wife and Mistress: El Chapo Trial
(NYTimes)
- T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Are Selling Customers' Real-Time Location Data, And It's Falling Into the Wrong Hands
(Motherboard)
- For Owners of Amazon's Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching
(The Intercept)
- Aging In Place Technology Watch
(CES 2019)
- Escalating Value of iOS Bug Bounties Hits $2M Milestone
(EWeek)
- Zeroday Exploit Prices Are Higher Than Ever, Especially for iOS and Messaging Apps
(Dan Goodin)
- Phone-staring warning after Wellingborough 'hit-and-run'
(bbc.com)
- Manafort Accused of Sharing Trump Campaign Data With Russian Associate
(NYTimes)
- Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race
(NYTimes)
- Google search results listings can be manipulated for propaganda
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Disney, Apple and Facebook will be among your new streaming options in 2019
(WashPost)
- What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?
(NYTimes)
- Hackers Target Chromecast Devices, Smart TVs With PewDiePie Message
(Variety)
- Taking the smarts out of smart TVs would make them more expensive
(The Verge)
- Why it pays to declutter your digital life
(bbc.com)
- Is Gamification Working in Security Training?
(Channel Futures)
- U.S. Announces Settlement With Fiat Chrysler Over Emissions
(NYTimes)
- Apple trolls Google at CES 2019 with massive iMessage privacy ad
(Business Insider)
- Re: New Zealand courts banned …
(Dimitri Maziuk)
- Re: Huawei gives the US & allies security nightmares
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea
(Amos Shapir)
- The AI Winter is coming
(Mark Thorson)
- Volume 31 Issue 03 (Thursday, 17 January 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 04 (Monday, 28 January 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 05 (Monday, 4 February 2019)
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- A study of fake news in 2016
(Science via PGN)
- Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security by Robert Chesney, Danielle Keats Citron
(SSRN)
- Japanese government plans to hack into citizens' IoT devices
(ZDNet)
- “This smart light bulb could leak your Wi-Fi password”
(ZDNet via Gene Wirchenko)
- Tech addicts seek solace in 12 steps and rehab
(AP)
- How Machine Learning Could Keep Dangerous DNA Out of Terrorists' Hands
(Scientific American via Richard Stein)
- Taking apart a botnet …
(Naked Security via Rob Slade)
- What If Your Fitbit Could Run on a Wi-Fi Signal?
(SciAm)
- iPhone FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying Was Flagged to Apple Over a Week Ago
(NYTimes)
- Apple revokes Google's ability to use internal iOS apps, just like Facebook
(WashPost)
- Apple hits back at Facebook and revokes a key license
(CNBC)
- Putting the exact size of land in ads
(Dan Jacobson)
- Passwords, escrow, and fallback positions
(CoinDesk via Rob Slade)
- My old RISKS nightmare comes true - partially
(Rex Sanders)
- Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Age of Automation
(DevOps.com)
- ICE set up phony Michigan university in sting operation
(WashPost via Monty Solomon)
- Chinese maker of radios for police, firefighters struggles to outlast Trump trade fight
(WashPost)
- Keyless Cars Are Easy to Steal Using Cheap Theft Equipment
(Fortune via Gabe Goldberg)
- UK auto theft
(Claire Duffin via Chris Drewe)
- Problems with car key fobs
(Gizmodo via Arthur T.)
- Google, you sent this to too many people, so it must be spam
(Dan Jacobson)
- Re: Buy Bitcoin at the Grocery Store via Coinstar
(John Levine)
- Re: Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite
(Henry Baker)
- Re: Is it time for Linux?
(J Coe)
- Re: If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn't It Secure?
(Mark Thorson)
- Re: The Duty to Read the Unreadable
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Risks of Deepfake videos
(Amos Shapir)
- Volume 31 Issue 06 (Wednesday, 13 February 2019)
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- 'A Trail of Decisions Kept Lion Air Pilots in the Dark'
(NYT)
- The infrastructural humiliation of America
(TechCrunch)
- Investigation finds Navy leaders ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades
(ProPublica)
- Spectre: Do Loose Lips Sink Chips?
(Henry Baker)
- Mayhem, the Machine That Finds Software Vulnerabilities, Then Patches Them
(IEEE Spectrum)
- Beware of Cars With Minds of Their Own
(Bloomberg)
- Goodbye trolley problem: This is Silicon Valley's new ethics test
(WashPost)
- A Machine Gets High Marks for Diagnosing Sick Children
(SciAm)
- Where's my paycheck? Wells Fargo customers say direct deposits not showing up after outage
(USA Today)
- Network outage prevents bike rentals
(Jeremy Epstein)
- USB sticks can take it …
(Rob Slade)
- Some AT&T iPhones Displaying Misleading ‘5G E’ Icon in iOS 12.2 Beta 2
(MacRumors)
- Japan gears up for mega hack of its own citizens
(Straits Times)
- Indecent disclosure
(Ars Technica)
- LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice vulnerable to same bug; only one is fixed.
(Ars Technica)
- There's No Good Reason To Trust Blockchain Technology
(Bruce Schneier/WiReD)
- Fire—and lots of it: Berkeley researcher on the only way to fix cryptocurrency
(Ars Technica)
- Navigating Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP: How Google Is Quietly Making Blockchains Searchable
(Forbes)
- Crypto CEO dies holding only passwords that can unlock millions in customer coins
(geoff goodfellow)
- `Zero Trust' AI: Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful
(Henry Baker)
- FDA proposes a supply chain tracking overhaul
(Fortune)
- Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult
(The Verge)
- Situation Normal, All Zucked Up
(Japan News)
- Google Began Censoring Search Results in Russia, Reports Say
(Moscow Times)
- Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure
(SecJuice)
- NSO Group attacking investigators
(Rob Slade)
- How does NYPD surveil thee? Let me count the Waze
(Henry Baker)
- How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones
(Motherboard)
- Airline Passengers Potentially at Risk From Check-In Flaws
(EWeek)
- Privacy, transparency, and increasing digital trust
(David Strom)
- Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
(TechCrunch)
- Apple allows screen captures of evertyhing that you do …
(Rob Slade)
- HP's ink DRM instructs your printer to ignore the ink in your cartridge when you cancel your subscription
(BoingBoing)
- The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser
(TechCommunity)
- Judge orders $150,000 in damages in GTA Online cheating case
(Ars Technica)
- Maybe he'll die of the plague and we can all breathe easier …
(Rob Slade)
- Re: Deep Fakes
(PGN)
- Re: Google, you sent this to too many people, so it must be spam
(Dan Jacobson)
- Re: Passwords, escrow, and fallback positions
(Rob Slade)
- Re: Is it time for Linux?
(Aaron M. Ucko)
- Re: Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Age of Automation
(Mark Brader)
- An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl
(NYTimes)
- Revised UK Code of Practice for testing Automated Vehicles
(Martyn Thomas)
- Volume 31 Issue 07 (Wednesday, 20 February 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 08 (Tuesday, 26 February 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 09 (Sunday, 3 March 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 10 (Thursday, 7 March 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 11 (Tuesday, 12 March 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 12 (Monday, 18 March 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 13 (Thursday, 21 March 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 14 (Tuesday, 26 March 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 15 (Monday, 1 April 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 16 (Saturday, 6 April 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 17 (Tuesday, 9 April 2019)
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- Additional software problem detected in Boeing 737 Max flight control system, officials say
(WashPost)
- Not Just Airplanes: Why The Government Often Lets Industry Regulate Itself
(npr.org)
- Makers of self-driving cars should study Boeing crashes
(The Straits Times)
- Major US airlines hit by delays after glitch at vendor
(The Boston Globe)
- Simulated Engine Failure Led To Crash
(Russ Niles)
- Eyes on the Road: Your Car Is Watching
(NYTimes)
- Covert data-scraping on watch as EU DPA lays down ‘radical’ GDPR red-line
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- Hospital viruses: Fake cancerous nodes in CT scans, created by malware, trick radiologists
(WashPost)
- The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: Deep-Faking Photos of the Earth?
(Defense One)
- Backdoor vulnerability in open-source tool exposes thousands of apps to remote code execution
(Cyberscoope)
- Security analyst finds fake cell carrier apps are tracking iPhone location and listening in on phone calls
(9to5 Mac)
- UK to keep social networks in check with Internet safety regulator
(CNET)
- Should cybersecurity be more chameleon, less rhino?
(bbc.com)
- This is not how the secret service should examine a USB stick
(TechCrunch)
- Report: Official forgot secret arms-deal file at airport
(Times of Israel)
- Hospital says patient info exposed after phishing incident
(Boston Globe)
- DHS tech manager admits stealing data on 150,000 internal investigations, nearly 250,000 workers
(WashPost)
- Online credit-card skimmer
(WarbyParker)
- The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything
(The Economist)
- Social media are divisive
(WSN/NBC poll)
- The future of news is conversation in small groups with trusted voices
(Chikai Ohazama)
- Why It's So Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find You
(NYTimes)
- Identity Theft—Act Now to Protect Yourself
(Kiplinger)
- Re: Are We Ready For An Implant That Can Change Our Moods?
(Wol)
- Re: How a 50-year-old design came back
(Wol)
- Re: New Climate Books Stress We Are Already Far Down The Road To A Different Earth
(Wol, Amos Shapir)
- Re: Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware Amos Shapir)
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- Re: Huawei's code is a steaming pile…
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: According to this bank, password managers are bad
(Andrew Duane)
- Re: Is curing patients, a sustainable business model?
(Toby Douglass, Chris Drewe)
- Volume 31 Issue 18 (Thursday, 11 April 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 19 (Saturday, 20 April 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 20 (Tuesday, 23 April 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 21 (Monday, 29 April 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 22 (Saturday, 4 May 2019)
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- World's Top Internet User Taps Fake News Busters for Elections
(Bloomberg)
- Wells Fargo and Post Office Horizon
(Lindsay Marshall)
- Database Exposes Medical Info, PII Data of 137k People in U.S.
(Bleeping Computer)
- Ladders Data Leak: Over 13M User Records Exposed Due To Cloud Misconfiguration
(IBTimes)
- How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings; UFO information not expected to go to general public, Navy says
(Wash Post)
- This $1,650 pill will tell your doctors whether you've taken it. Is it the future of medicine?
(WashPost)
- “Telecom giants battle bill which bans Internet service throttling for firefighters in emergencies”
(ZDNet)
- UK Police Have a Message for Crime Victims- Hand Over Your Private Data
(NYTimes)
- NSA Reports 75% Increase in Unmasking U.S. Identities…
(WSJ)
- New Documents Reveal DHS Asserting Broad, Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers' Phones and Laptops
(EFF)
- Zero-day attackers deliver a double dose of ransomware—no clicking required?
(Ars Technica)
- Electronic Health Records and Doctor Burnout
(Scientific American)
- Hertz, Accenture, and the blame game
(Browser London)
- Monster screwup on dividends
(Korea Herald)
- NSA-inspired vulnerability found in Huawei laptops
(Bruce Schneier)
- Vodafone found hidden backdoors in Huawei equipment
(Bloomberg)
- Vodafone denies Huawei Italy security risk
(BBC)
- Re: Huawei's code is a steaming pile…
(Keith Thompson, Dmitri Maziuk, phil colbourn)
- Re: Should AI be used to catch shoplifters?
(Richard Stein)
- Re: A video showed a parked Tesla Model S exploding in Shanghai
(Roger Bell-West)
- Re: A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
(Dan Jacobson)
- Re: An Interesting Juxtaposition
(Gene Wirchenko)
- Re: Gregory Travis' article on the 737 MAX
(Gregory Travis)
- Digital health …
(Rob Slade)
- Re: Is curing patients, a sustainable business model?
(Toby Douglass)
- “Bernie Sanders wants you to expose your friends, Facebook-style”
(ZDNet)
- Volume 31 Issue 23 (Thursday, 9 May 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 24 (Tuesday, 14 May 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 25 (Friday, 17 May 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 26 (Saturday, 25 May 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 27 (Friday, 31 May 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 28 (Friday, 7 June 2019)
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- SpaceX's Starlink Could Change The Night Sky Forever, And Astronomers Are Not Happy
(Forbes.com)
- Quest Diagnostics Says Up to 12 Million Patients May Have Had Financial, Medical, Personal Information Breached
(NBC-NY)
- 885 Million Records Exposed Online- Bank Transactions, Social Security Numbers, and More
(Topic Box)
- Networking issues take down Google Cloud in parts of the U.S. and Europe, YouTube and Snspchat also affected
(GeekWire)
- New RCE vulnerability impacts nearly half of the Internet's email servers
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Millions of machines affected by command execution flaw in Exim mail server
(Ars Technica)
- With Technology, Institutions Have Made 'Most Effective Means of Social Control in the History of Our Species'
(Edward Snowden)
- Schools Are Deploying Massive Digital Surveillance Systems. The Results Are Alarming
(EdWeek)
- Warnings of world-wide worm attacks are the real deal, new exploit shows
(Ars Technica)
- Microsoft deprecates passwords
(Ars Technica)
- US Army testing jam-resistant GPS in Europe
(Joe Gould)
- Flying Robotaxis Prepare for Takeoff
(Bloomberg)
- The richest 10% of households now represent 70% of all U.S. wealth
(Market Watch)
- GitHub shocks top developer: Access to 5 years' work inexplicably blocked
(Liam Tung)
- Former Head of Pentagon's Secret UFO Program Has Some Strange Stories to Tell
(Live Science)
- Deaths on Mt. Everest; Is social media partly to blame?
(The Atlantic)
- U.S. Visa Applicants Required To Turn Over Social Media
(The Hill)
- One way to tackle the nuclear waste prob: redefine the labels
(danny burstein)
- FCC Affirms Robocall Blocking By Default to Protect Consumers
(FCC)
- Privacy Fears Split German Government on Use of Alexa Data as Evidence
(Fortune)
- Apple's ‘Find My’ Feature Uses Some Very Clever Cryptography
(WiReD)
- 'Sign In With Apple' Protects You in Ways Google and Facebook Don't
(WiReD)
- NSA warns Microsoft Windows users to update systems to protect against cyber-vulnerability
(The Hill)
- US visas now need five years of your social media …
(Rob Slade)
- What He Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns
(Idle Words)
- Trump urges customers to drop AT&T to punish CNN over its coverage of him
(WashPost)
- How Limbic Capitalism Preys on Our Addicted Brains
(Quillette)
- This ID Scanner Company is Collecting Sensitive Data on Millions of Bar-goers
(Medium)
- VR Systems remotely accessed Durham county computer before 2016 election
(Kim Zetter)
- Election Rules Are an Obstacle to Cybersecurity of Presidential Campaigns
(NYTimes)
- More on Mueller and Interference
(Time)
- Phishing calls
(Rob Slade)
- Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late
(NYTimes)
- Re: 737 MAX AoA Indications
(Ladkin, Karish, Ladkin)
- Re: 737 MAX: Boeing dodges responsibility, with help from the FAA
(Karish)
- Re: GM Gives All Its Vehicles a New Soul
(Jared Gottlieb)
- Volume 31 Issue 29 (Tuesday, 11 June 2019)
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- U.S. Customs and Border Protection says photos of travelers into and out of the country were recently taken in a data breach
(WashPost)
- How AI Could Be Weaponized to Spread Disinformation
(NYTimes)
- Major HSM vulnerabilities impact banks, cloud providers, governments
(ZDNet)
- Hawaiian Airlines' software glitch blamed for flight delays, cancellations
(Hawaii News Now)
- GPS Degraded Across Much of U.S., ADS-B Impacted
(rntfnd)
- The Catch-22 that broke the Internet
(Brian Barrett)
- For two hours, a large chunk of European mobile traffic was rerouted through China
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Spam, Anti-Spam, Data, and Drugs
(Paul Vixie)
- Amazon's Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements
(Vice)
- Project ExplAIn - interim report Rob Slade)
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- Facial recognition in schools: keep them safe?
(NYTimes)
- Database of 3D objects stolen
(The Register)
- Careless bitcoin blackmail
(Jose Maria Mateos)
- Google has warned U.S. of security risks from banning Huawei
(ISC2)
- Some Real News About Fake News
(David A. Graham, Dave Crocker)
- Re: U.S. visas now need five years of your social media
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Phishing calls
(Dmitri Maziuk, John Levine)
- Volume 31 Issue 30 (Friday, 21 June 2019)
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- Pilots fret over fire safety of Dreamliner planes, also used by El AL
(The Times of Israel)
- Top AI researchers race to detect deepfake videos: “We are outgunned.”
(Drew Harwell)
- Zuckerfake
(Vice)
- Hackers behind dangerous oil and gas intrusions are probing US power grid
(Ars Technica)
- Chinese Cyberattack Hits Telegram, App Used by Hong Kong Protesters
(NYTimes)
- Auto-renting bugs
(Amos Shapir)
- Google: Our way or the Huawei!
(Henry Baker)
- Android/iPhone fun—security, risks…
(ToI and UK Mirror)
- New security warning issued for Google's 1.5B Gmail/Calendar Users
(Forbes)
- How spammers use Google services
(Kaspersky)
- This ‘most dangerous’ hacking group is now probing power grids
(Steve Ranger)
- Masters ticket lottery scheme involved identity theft, millions of emails
(WashPost)
- Facial Recognition: How Emotion Reading Software Will Change Driving
(Fortune)
- DJI's New Drone for Kids Is a $500 Tank That Fires Lasers and Pellets
(Bloomberg)
- Your Cadillac Can Now Drive Itself More Places
(WiReD)
- Four Ways to Avoid Facial Recognition Online and in Public
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Breaking ground, IBM Haifa team holds live robot debate fed by crowd arguments
(The Times of Israel)
- Apple spent $10,000 repairing his MacBook Pro. There was nothing wrong with it.
(ZDNet)
- Autonomous vehicles don't need provisions and protocols?
(Rob Slade)
- Info stealing Android apps can grab one time passwords to evade 2FA protections
(ZDNet)
- Facebook Plans Global Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency
(NYTimes)
- Libra
(Rob Slade)
- Porn trolling mastermind Paul Hansmeier gets 14 years in prison.
(Ars Technica)
- Mudslide warning system depends on proper boundary file
(Dan Jacobson)
- Mom used phone tracking app after daughter missed curfew, found her pinned under car 7 hours later
(FoxNews)
- In Stores, Secret Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move
(NYTimes)
- Was your flight delay due to an IT outage? What a new report on airline IT tells us.
(ZDNet)
- Patients frustrated over computer system outage at Abrazo Health Hospitals
(AZFamily)
- Power outage at Greensboro apartments has unintended consequence, reveals alleged Medicaid scheme
(Monty Solomon)
- Is Target still down? Chain says registers working now after outage.
(USA Today)
- Spotify outage not related to today's update, company is working on a fix - TechCrunch
(Monty Solomon)
- Instagram Outage Follows Disruption To PlayStation Network
(Deadline)
- The PlayStation Network Is Back Up. Here's the Latest on the PSN Outage
(Digital Trends)
- In the Wiggle of an Ear, a Surprising Insight into Bat Sonar
(Scientific American)
- 'RAMBleed' Rowhammer attack can now steal data, not just alter it
(ZDNet)
- Ransomware halts production for days at major airplane parts manufacturer
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1 billion per day
(Ars Technica)
- Re: GPS Degraded Across Much of U.S
(jared gottlieb)
- Did I Tweet that?
(Rob Slade)
- Bull and backdoors
(Rob Slade)
- Ross Anderson's non-visa
(Rob Slade)
- Volume 31 Issue 31 (Friday, 28 June 2019)
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- Slugfest
(BBC)
- Inside the West's failed fight against China's Cloud Hopper hackers
(Reuters)
- Iranian hackers step up cyber-efforts, impersonate email from president's office
(The Times of Israel)
- US-Israeli cyber firm uncovers huge global telecom hack, apparently by China
(The Times of Israel)
- China's big brother casinos can spot who's most likely to lose big
(Bloomberg)
- Large scale government IT efforts do not have great track records
(Reuters)
- AI rejects scientific article, flagging literature citations as plagiarism
(J.F.Bonnefon)
- Cybercriminals Targeting Americans Planning Summer Vacations
(McAfee)
- Riviera Beach $600k data ransom
(Tony Doris)
- Rolos Unveils New Cryptocurrency Exclusively For Rolos Customers
(The Onion)
- Facebook Libra: Three things we don't know about the digital currency
(TechReview)
- Man's $1M Life Savings Stolen as Cell Number Is Hijacked
(NBC Bay Area)
- Flaws in self-encrypting SSDs let attackers bypass disk encryption
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Here's how I survived a SIM swap attack after T-Mobile failed me— twice
(Matthew Miller)
- Your iPhone is not secure: Cellebrite UFED Premium is here
(TechBeacon)
- New vulnerabilities may let hackers remotely SACK Linux and FreeBSD systems
(Ars Technica)
- Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows
(Ars Technica)
- Oracle issues emergency update to patch actively exploited WebLogic flaw
(Ars Technica)
- Cloudflare aims to make HTTPS certificates safe from BGP hijacking attacks
(Ars Technica)
- Jibo
(The Verge)
- Computer problems may have led to miscarriages of justice in Denmark
(Zap Katakonk)
- C, Fortran, and single-character strings
(Thomas Koenig)
- How to: Reset C by GE Light Bulbs
(YouTu)
- Too many name collisions
(JEremy Epstein)
- Re: Ross Anderson's non-visa
(John Levine)
- Oh, darn, maybe cell phones don't really make you grow horns
(John Levine)
- Re: Info stealing Android apps can grab one time passwords to evade 2FA protections
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Auto-renting bugs
(Martin Ward)
- Re: In Stores, Secret Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move
(Toebs Douglass)
- Volume 31 Issue 32 (Friday, 5 July 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 33 (Monday, 15 July 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 34 (Thursday, 25 July 2019)
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- Senate Intelligence report on election integrity
(NYTimes)
- Nuclear industry pushing for fewer inspections at plants
(NBC)
- Tesla floats fully self-driving cars as soon as this year. Many are worried about what that will unleash.
(WashPost)
- Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours
(The Register)
- Home elevator deaths
(WashPost)
- Numerous airport passengers hijacked by robots
(JXM)
- Satellite Outage Serves as a Warning
(WiReD)
- 'Dumb' robot ants are alarmingly smart—and strong—working together
(Geoff Goodfellow)
- The AI Metamorphosis
(The Atlantic)
- Cylances AI-based AV easily spoofed
(SkylightCyber)
- AI Could Escalate New Type Of Voice Phishing Cyber Attacks
(CSHub)
- Uber glitch charges passengers 100 times the advertised price, resulting in crosstown fares in the thousands of dollars
(WashPost)
- “Google says leaked assistant recordings are a violation of data security policies”
(Asha Barbaschow)
- U.S. Companies Learn to Defend Themselves in Cyberspace
(WSJ)
- Agora farewell
(Rob Slade)
- NYC Subway Service Is Suspended on Several Lines, MTA Says
(NYTimes)
- Brazil is at the forefront of a new type of router attack
(ZDNet)
- My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users
(Ars Technica)
- Amazon Prime Day Glitch Let People Buy $13,000 Camera Gear for $94
(Gizmodo)
- Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears
(Cathrin Schaer)
- Sweden and UK's surveillance programs on trial at the European Court of Human Rights
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Bluetooth exploit can track and identify iOS, Microsoft mobile device users
(ZDNet)
- Clean Energy Regulator, WA Mines Department, and Vet Surgeons Board trying to access metadata
(Comms Alliance)
- Permission-greedy apps delayed Android 6 upgrade so they could harvest more user data
(ZDNet)
- Do drivers think you're a Ridezilla'? Better check your Uber rating.
(WashPost)
- London Police Twitter feed was hacked; then Trump got in on the act
(WashPost)
- Car locks itself, trapping toddler inside
(DerWesten)
- Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more
(Catalin Cimpanu)
- Facebook's Libra currency spawns a wave of fakes, including on Facebook itself
(WashPost)
- Facebook Stock: Facebook's Libra Surrenders to Authority
(InvestorPlace)
- Tether's $5B error exposes cryptocurrency market fragility
(WSJ)
- College student was late returning a textbook to Amazon, so the company took $3,800 from her father
(Libercus)
- Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved.
(NYTimes)
- One in five US tech employees abuse pain relief drugs, reveals study
(Eileen Brown)
- Here's The Story Behind That Photo Of A Waterfall Inside A Metro Car
(Dcist)
- Stallone in Terminator 2? How one deepfake prankster is changing cinema history
(Digital Trends)
- Cellphone WiFi auto-connect identifies vandals
(Boston Globe)
- Risks of an untimely text
(Boston Globe)
- Minister apologizes for text alert
(Taipei Times)
- Re: Line just went Orwellian on Japanese users with its social, credit-scoring system
(Brian Inglis)
- Re: Galileo sat-nav system experiences service outage
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: How Fake News Could Lead to Real War
(Dick Mills)
- Re: London commuters Wi-FiTube being tracked
(Chris Drewe)
- Volume 31 Issue 35 (Tuesday, 6 August 2019)
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- One reason for the 737 Max disaster? Avoiding software complexity
(Thomas Koenig)
- Warning over auto cyberattacks
(Eric D. Lawrence)
- Tesla hit with another lawsuit over a fatal Autopilot crash
(The Verge)
- This Satellite Image Shows Everything Wrong With Greenland Right Now
(Gizmodo)
- North Korea took $2 billion in cyberattacks to fund weapons program
(U.N.)
- How China Weaponized the Global Supply Chain
(National Review)
- China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.
(MIT Tech Review)
- 44 people in China were injured when a water park wave machine launched a crushing tsunami
(WashPost)
- In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons
(NYTimes)
- Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement
(VICE)
- Apple's Siri overhears your drug deals and sexual activity, whistleblower says
(Charlie Osborne)
- Capital One data breach compromises tens of millions of credit card applications, FBI says
(WashPost)
- California State Bar accidentally leaks details of upcoming exam
(NBC News)
- Russian hackers are infiltrating companies via the office printer
(MIT Tech Review)
- A VxWorks Operating System Bug Exposes 200 Million Critical Devices
(WiReD)
- Capital One Systems Breached by Seattle Woman, U.S. Says
(Bloomberg)
- Another Breach: What Capital One Could Have Learned from Google's "BeyondCorp"
()
- Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
(NYTimes)
- Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit
(Ted)
- The scramble to secure America's voting machines
(Politico)
- The state of our elections security
(Web Informant)
- A lawmaker wants to end social media addiction by killing features that enable mindless scrolling
(WashPost)
- Cisco in Whistleblower Payoff and PR Doublespeak Row
(Security Boulevard)
- Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology, or SMART, Act
(Fortune)
- 200-million devices some mission-critical vulnerable to remote takeover
(Ars Technica)
- Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets
(ZDNet)
- People forged judges' signatures to trick Google into changing results
(Ars Technica)
- Partial hashes broadcast in Bluetooth can be converted to phone numbers
(Ars Technica)
- Apple suspends human eavesdropping through Siri
(Taipei Times)
- Why People Should Care About Quantum Computing
(Fortune)
- Your Train Is Delayed. Why?
(NYTimes)
- Barr Revives Encryption Debate, Calling on Tech Firms to Allow for Law Enforcement
(NYTimes)
- Dark Web Consequences Increase from Global Rise of Police-Friendly Laws
(Channel Futures)
- The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
(The New Yorker)
- We Tested Europe’s New Digital Lie Detector. It Failed.
(The Intercept)
- AI Predictive Policing
(Daily Mail)
- Guardian Firewall iOS App Automatically Blocks the Trackers on Your Phone
(WiReD)
- Google researchers disclose vulnerabilities for ‘interactionless’ iOS attacks
(ZDNet)
- Another Breach: What Capital One Could Have Learned from Google's "BeyondCorp"
(Lauren's Blog)
- "A data breach forced this family to move home and change their names
(ZDNet)
- Brazilian president’s cellphone hacked as Car Wash scandal intrigue widens
(WashPost)
- Malicious ‘Google’ domains used in Magento card card skimmer attacks
(ZDNet)
- MyDoom: The 15-year-old malware that's still being used in phishing attacks in 2019
(ZDNet)
- StockX was hacked, exposing millions ofcustomers'_data
(TechCrunch)
- Ikea says sorry for customer data breach
(Straits Times)
- Refunds for Global Access Technical Support customers
(Consumer Information)
- Business Continuity?: Kyoto Anime recovers digital recordings
(Chiaki Ishikawa)
- Colorado gov't. email account for reporting child abuse goes unchecked for 4 years
(WashPost)
- Re: "Mortgage Provider Tells Savers of Zero Balances"
(Chris Drewe)
- Volume 31 Issue 36 (Monday, 12 August 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 37 (Monday, 19 August 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 38 (Saturday, 24 August 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 39 (Thursday, 29 August 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 40 (Thursday, 5 September 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 41 (Monday, 9 September 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 42 (Friday, 13 September 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 43 (Wednesday, 25 September 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 44 (Wednesday, 2 October 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 45 (Monday, 7 October 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 46 (Monday, 21 October 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 47 (Tuesday, 12 November 2019)
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- Galileo satellite system failure
(The Register)
- Boeing Shaped a Law to Its Liking. Weeks Later, a 737 Max Crashed.
(NYTimes)
- Illegal drones ground water-dropping helicopters at critical moment in Maria fire battle
(LA Times)
- Drones Used in Crime Fly Under the Law's Radar
(NYTimes)
- Kiwibot delivery bots drones
(NYTimes)
- AT&T claims a weeks-long voicemail outage will be fixed with a single device update
(The Verge)
- Wrong-way driverless Tesla Model 3
(Geoff Goodfellow)
- Uber self-driving car involved in fatal crash couldn't detect jaywalkers
(Engadget)
- Testing Cars That Help Drivers Steer Clear of Pedestrians
(NYTimes)
- How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit: Cash, Trolls and a Cult Leader
(NYTimes)
- Russia Will Test Its Ability to Disconnect from the Internet
(via GeoffG)
- Brian Kernighan: Unix: A History and a Memoir
(PGN)
- GitHub blocking: vandal's dream
(Dan Jacobson)
- PSA: Turning off silent macros in Office for Mac leaves users wide open to silent macro attacks
(The Register)
- Large Bitcoin Player Manipulated Price Sharply Higher, Study Says
(WSJ)
- Inside the Icelandic Facility Where Bitcoin Is Mined
(WiReD)
- Amazon blames ‘error’ for blocking Nintendo resellers from listing products
(The Verge)
- What happens if your mind lives for ever on the Internet?
(The Guardian)
- 1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to NY Streets
(NYTimes)
- Security Researchers Warn of Online Voting Risks
(Computerworld)
- Calculation gives different results on different operating systems
(Techxplore)
- Microsoft's Secured-Core PC Feature Protects Critical Code
(WiReD)
- The rise of microchipping: are we ready for technology to get under the skin?
(The Guardian)
- Saudi Arabia recruited Twitter workers to spy on users, feds say
(CBS News)
- U.S. Charges Former Twitter Employees With Spying for Saudi Arabia
(WSJ)
- The Internet is tilting toward tyranny
(WashPost)
- Network Solutions: Important Security Information re: Breach
(via GabeG)
- Radios do interfere with garage-door openers!
(fauquiernow)
- Automatic bug tracker issue closers
(stalebot)
- Robinhood Markets—rob the poor to feed the rich?
(Bloomberg)
- Apps track students from the classroom to bathroom, and parents are struggling to keep up
(WashPost)
- At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
(WiReD)
- Researchers hack Siri, Alexa, and Google Home by shining lasers at them
(Ars Technica)
- Insanely humanlike androids have entered the workplace and soon may take your job
(CNBC)
- HireVue's AI face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job
(Wash Post)
- Screen time is actually good for kids!
(Oxford)
- Risks of posting the wrong emoji
(Dan Jacobson)
- We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe
(Scientific American Blog Network)
- She Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
(VICE)
- Expanded testbed in Singapore for autonomous vehicles a big boost for research and developers
(The Straits Times)
- Coalfire CEO statement
(via Gabe Goldberg)
- Cirrus' $2 Million Vision Jet Now Lands Itself, No Pilot Needed
(WiReD)
- These Machines Can Put You in Jail. Don't Trust Them.
(NYTimes)
- Trolling Is Now Mainstream Political Discourse
(WiReD)
- Video giant Twitch pushes Trump rallies and mass violence into the live-stream age
(WashPost)
- Text messages delayed from February were mysteriously sent overnight
(The Verge)
- Netflix to stop supporting older devices from Samsung, Roku, and Vizio in December
(The Verge)
- Members of violent white supremacist website exposed in massive data dump
(Ars Technica)
- Re: Mountain village begs tourists not to follow Google Maps and get stuck
(Dan Jacobson)
- Volume 31 Issue 48 (Monday, 25 November 2019)
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- Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
(MIT Technology Review)
- GPS is easy to hack, and the US has no backup
(Scientific American)
- European Council approves plans to make new car safety features mandatory
(INews)
- Non-urgent alarms are drowning out real ones in hospitals
(WashPost)
- Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed
(The Register)
- How dumb design wwii plane led macintosh
(WiReD)
- Accidental evacuation warning
(Peter H. Gregory)
- 6 Tips for Windows 7 End of Life and Support (MakeUseOf}
()
- Microsoft restores services after it experienced a large global outage across numerous platforms
(Business Insider)
- Someone Got Access to Their Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.
(NYTimes)
- Could Salesforce Blockchain Cut Cancer Drug Development Costs in Half?
(Fortune)
- China is Pushing Toward Global Blockchain Dominance
(WiReD)
- Burglars Really Do Use Bluetooth Scanners to Find Laptops Phones
(WiReD)
- Disruption Mitigation Systems for Fusion Demonstration at ITER
(Richard Stein)
- Law enforcement can plunder DNA profile database, judge rules
(ZDNet)
- How to Opt Out of the Sites That Sell Your Personal Data
(WiReD)
- Privacy not included
(Mozilla)
- 146 New Vulnerabilities All Come Preinstalled on Android Phones
(WiReD)
- Uber safety push includes plans to start audio recording rides in the U.S.
(WashPost)
- Nikki Haley Used System for Unclassified Material to Send `Confidential' Information
(The Daily Beast)
- Official Monero website is hacked to deliver currency-stealing malware
(Ars Technica)
- UK Conservative Party Scolded for Rebranding Twitter Account
(NYTimes)
- AI future or follies?
(Fortune magazine email)
- The Downside of Tech Hype
(Scientific American)
- Best Buy Made These Smart Home Gadgets Dumb Again
(WiReD)
- Officials Warn of "Juice Jacking" Scams at USB Charging Stations
(LA County)
- Artificial Intelligence Discovers Tool Use in Hide-and-Seek Games
(NYTimes)
- After False Drug Test, He Was in Solitary Confinement for 120 Days
()
- NoiseAware - proprietary algorithm for noise detection in rental properties
(The Verge)
- A hypothesis on the immediate future of audio scams
(CBC)
- How to prevent a data breach, lessons learned from the infosec vendors themselves
(Web Informant)
- Someone Got Access to Their Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.
(NYTimes)
- Iowa hired cyberhackers, then arrested them
(TechSpot)
- Mastercard vs. mistakes and fraud
(Fortune)
- As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge
(WiReD)
- Re: The rise of microchipping: are we ready for technology to get under the skin?
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: What happens if your mind lives for ever on the Internet?
(John R. Levine)
- Volume 31 Issue 49 (Wednesday, 27 November 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 50 (Thursday, 12 December 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 51 (Wednesday, 18 December 2019)
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- Volume 31 Issue 52 (Thursday, 2 January 2020)
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- China flight systems jammed by pig farm's African swine fever defences
(SCMP)
- Boeing spacecraft lands safely in New Mexico desert, a successful end to a flawed test mission
(The Washington Post)
- Laser-based attacks for controlling voice-activated systems such as Amazon's Alexa
(Light Commands)
- Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work
(The NY Times)
- Bumble blocked Sharon Stone, thinking she was a fake
(WashPost)
- U.S. Coast Guard discloses Ryuk ransomware infection at maritime facility
(DCO)
- CIA devised way to restrict missiles given to allies, researcher says
(Reuters)
- Chinese Cloud Hopper hacking campaign is worse than thought
(The Verge)
- Wawa Data Breach: DC, VA Customers Could Be Affected
(Patch)
- Hackers steal data for 15 million patients, then sell it back to lab that lost it
(Ars Technica)
- Executive dies, taking investor cryptocurrency with him. Now they want the body exhumed
(Charlie Osborne)
- Driving surveillance: What does your car know about you? We hacked a 2017 Chevy to find out.
(WashPost)
- Cars towed in South End due to city error
(The Boston Globe)
- How tourists take their lives into their own hands
(WashPost)
- Some junk for sale on Amazon is very literally garbage, report finds
(ArsTechnica)
- This alleged Bitcoin scam looked a lot like a pyramid scheme
(WiReD)
- Apple's new Screen Time Communication Limits are easily beaten with a bug
(ArsTechnica)
- 2019 Apple Platform Security guide shows what it is doing to ‘push the boundaries’ of security and privacy
(9to5Mac)
- Wave of Ring surveillance camera hacks tied to podcast, report finds
(Ars Technica)
- How to Track President Trump
(The New York Times)
- India's Internet shutdown shows normal practice for sovereign countries
(Prashanth Mundkur)
- Resignation of Board Members from Verified Voting
(Rebecca Mercuri)
- Meet Cliff Stoll, the Mad Scientist Who Invented the Art of Hunting Hackers
(WiReD)
- Planned Obsolescence
(npr.org)
- Re: Human error installing SCADA system leads to 7.5 million gallons of, raw sewage dumped in Valdosta, GA
(Martin Ward)
- Re: What happens if your mind lives forever on the Internet?
(Amos Shapir, Roderick Rees)
- Re: Bates v Post Office litigation: reliability of computers
(Kelly Bert Manning)
- Re: Risks-31.51
(Don Poitras)
- Volume 31 Issue 53 (Monday, 6 January 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 54 (Tuesday, 28 January 2020)
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- Boeing 737s can't land facing west
(FAA via Clive D.W. Feather)
- GPS jamming expected in southeast during military exercise
(AOPA)
- Election Security At The Chip Level
(SemiEngineering)
- Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment
(Nicole Perlroth and Matthew Rosenberg)
- Scientists Deliver, Once Again, a Horrifying Report About How Hot Earth Is Getting
(VICE)
- Ransomware attack forces cancer patients to re-schedule
(CBC Web)
- An Avenue by Which It Might Be Technically Possible to Give an iPhone The Software Equivalent of Cancer
(Pixel Envy)
- Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to Our Cell Phones
(WIRED)
- Update Firefox now, says Homeland Security, to block attacks
(9to5mac)
- A field guide to Iran's hacking groups
(Web Informant)
- Iran hackers have been password-spraying the U.S. electric grid
(WiReD)
- Re: The shooting down of flight PS752 in Iran
(Martyn Thomas)
- In a desperate bid to stay relevant in 2020's geopolitical upheaval, N. Korea upgrades its Apple Jeus macOS malware
(The Register)
- Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network
(ProPublica)
- Feds Are Content to Let Cars Drive, and Regulate, Themselves
(WIRED)
- Should Automakers Be Responsible for Accidents?
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Paul Krugman's no-good, very bad Internet day
(Ars Techica)
- Hackers Cripple Airport Currency Exchanges, Seeking $6 Million Ransom
(NYTimes)
- Hacker offers for sale 49M user records from US data broker LimeLeads
(Security Affairs)
- Over two dozen encryption experts call on India to rethink changes to its intermediary liability rules
(Tech Crunch)
- Chosen-Prefix attack against SHA-1 Reported
(Ars Technica)
- Patch Tuesday, January 2020
(Rapid7)
- Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years
(WiReD)
- China's new Cryptolaw
(Cointelegraph)
- Some consumers have noticed that computerization isn't always the answer
(Star Tribune)
- At Mayo Clinic AI engineers face an acid test: Will their algorithms help real patients?
(StatNews)
- AI Comes to the Operating Room
(The New York Times)
- A Very Real Potential for Abuse: Using AI to Score Video Interviews
(CNN)
- 5G, AI, blockchain, quantum, …
(Marketoonist)
- Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Over .Org
(Steve Lohr)
- A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now
(New Scientist)
- When 2 < 7 => failure
(Ars Technica via Jeremy Epstein)
- Make It Your New Year's Resolution Not to Share Misinformation
(Mother Jones)
- Inside the Feds' Battle Against Huawei
(WiReD)
- Apple Is Bullying a Security Company with a Dangerous DMCA Lawsuit
(iFixit)
- How to Protect Yourself From Real Estate Scams
(NYTimes)
- Dutch Artists Celebrate George Orwell's Birthday By Putting Party Hats On Surveillance Cameras
(BuzzFeed News)
- Re: reliability of computers
(Chris Drewe)
- Volume 31 Issue 55 (Friday, 31 January 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 56 (Tuesday, 4 February 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 57 (Monday, 10 February 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 58 (Saturday, 15 February 2020)
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- The Intelligence Coup of the Century: For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries
(Greg Miller)
- The US Fears Huawei Because It Knows How Tempting Backdoors Are
(WIRED)
- U.S. Charges Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hacking
(NYTimes)
- Voatz: Ballots, Blockchains, and Boo-boos?
(MIT via PGN retitling)
- Lax FAA oversight allowed Southwest to put millions of passengers at risk, IG says
(WashPost)
- Pentagon ordered to halt work on Microsoft's JEDI cloud contract after Amazon protests
(WashPost)
- Linux is ready for the end of time
(ZDNet)
- Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who's looking
(WashPost)
- Car renter paired car to FordPass, could still control car long after return
(ZDNet)
- European Parliament urges oversight for AI
(Politico Europe)
- AI can create new problems as it solves old ones
(Fortune)
- AI and Ethics
(NJ Tech Weekly)
- The future of software testing in 2020: Here's what's coming
(Functionize)
- Will Past Criminals Reoffend? Humans Are Terrible at Guessing, and Computers Aren't Much Better
(Scientific American)
- Apple joins FIDO Alliance, commits to getting rid of passwords
(ZDNet)
- IRS paper forms vs. COVID-19
(Dan Jacobson)
- The Politics of Epistemic Fragmentation
(Medium)
- Why Is Social Media So Addictive?
(Mark D. Griffiths)
- The high cost of a free coding bootcamp
(The Verge)
- Debunking the lone woodpecker theory
(Ed Ravin)
- Re: Benjamin Netanyahu's election app potentially exposed data for every Israeli voter
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Backhoes, squirrels, and woodpeckers as DoS vectors
(Tom Russ)
- Re: A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers, now
(Martin Ward)
- Re: Autonomous vehicles
(Stephen Mason)
- Volume 31 Issue 59 (Friday, 21 February 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 60 (Friday, 6 March 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 61 (Sunday, 15 March 2020)
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- A lawsuit against ICE reveals the danger of government-by-algorithm
(WashPost)
- This Unpatchable Flaw Affects All Intel CPUs Released in Last 5 Years
(PTSecurity)
- How the Cloud Has Opened Doors for Hackers
(WashPost)
- Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys
(WiReD)
- Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich
(The New York Times)
- How Hackers and Spies Could Sabotage the Coronavirus Fight
(Bruce Schneier and Margaret Bourdeaux, Foreign Policy)
- Cybersecurity label for smart home devices
(The Straits Times)
- South Korea warns when potential virus carriers are near
(BBC)
- COVID-19, toilet paper, hoarding, and emergency preparedness
(Rob Slade)
- U.S. Treasury Sanctions Individuals Laundering Cryptocurrency for Lazarus Group
(Treasury via geoff goodfellow)
- Black Market White Washing- Why You Shouldn't Take Legal Advice From Criminals
(Disruptive Labs)
- Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists?
(NYTimes)
- Risks of publishing web browser screenshots
(MarketWatch)
- China's Geely invests $326M to build satellites for autonomous cars
(Reuters)
- Congress Must Stop the Graham-Blumenthal Anti-Security Bill
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Empty Promises Won't Save the .ORG Takeover
(Gabe Goldberg)
- How to clean up the mess we've made that's orbiting the Earth
(The Hill)
- How fake audio, such as deepfakes, could plague business, politics
(Bakersfield)
- Ransomware Attacks Prompt Tough Question for Local Officials:: To Pay or Not to Pay?
(Pew)
- Through apps, not warrants, Locate X allows federal law enforcement to track phones
(Protocol)
- A hybrid AI model lets it reason about the world's physics like a child
(MIT Tech Review)
- This Satellite Startup Raised $110 Million To Make Your Cellphone Work Everywhere
(Forbes)
- Your smartphone is dirtier than a toilet seat. Here's how to disinfect it.
(Mashable)
- PCI Fireside Chat: Vint Cerf and Ian Bremmer
(The Unstable Globe)
- Volume 31 Issue 62 (Saturday, 21 March 2020)
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- Many to blame in fatal crash of a Tesla
(Tom Krisher via PGN)
- His Tesla was in a hit and run. It recorded the whole thing.
(WashPost)
- NASA shows it's lost confidence in Boeing's ability to police its own work on Starliner space capsule
(WashPost)
- Boeing Culture Concealment 747 Max report
(The Guardian)
- Bad Air: Pilots worldwide complain of unsafe cabin fumes
(Politico)
- Former acting Homeland Security inspector general indicted in data theft of 250,000 workers
(WashPost)
- Let's Encrypt discovers CAA bug, must revoke customer certificates
(WiReD)
- The EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption
(WiReD)
- Wash Your Hands—but Beware the Electric Hand Dryer
(WiReD)
- Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware
(Krebs)
- The Economic Ramifications of COVID-19
(Medium)
- DA suspends most inspections of foreign drug, device and food manufacturers
(WashPost)
- Downloading Zoom for work raises employee privacy concerns
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Scam call centre owner in custody after BBC investigation
(BBC News)
- Are AI baby monitors designed to save lives or just prey on parents' anxieties?
(WashPost)
- In search of better browser privacy options
(Web Informant)
- Assigning liability when medical AI is used
(StatNews)
- Most Medical Imaging Devices Run Outdated Operating Systems
(WiReD)
- Come on, Microsoft! Is it really that hard to update Windows 10 right?
(Computerworld)
- A Botnet Is Taken Down in an Operation by Microsoft, Not the Government
(NYTimes)
- Fuzzy matching vs. marlberries
(Dan Jacobson)
- Giant Report Lays Anvil on US Cyber Policy
(WiReD)
- Google tracked his bike ride past burglarized home, which made him a suspect
(NBC News)
- Crimea, Kashmir, Korea—Google redraws disputed borders, depending on who's looking
(WashPost)
- What happens when Google loses your address? You cease to exist.
(WashPost)
- Legislators Want to Block TikTok From Goverment Phones
(LifeWire)
- H.R. 5680, Cybersecurity Vulnerability Identification and Notification Act of 2020
(Congressional Budget Office)
- Whisper left sensitive user data exposed online
(WashPost)
- As the U.S. spied on the world, the CIA and NSA bickered
(WashPost)
- Re: Mysterious GPS outages are wracking the shipping industry
(Dmitri Maziuk)
- Re: ElectionGuard
(John Levine)
- Re: What to do about artificially intelligent government
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: 911 operators couldn't trace the location of a dying student's phone
(John Levine)
- Re: Risks of Leap Years and Dumb Digital Watches
(Amos Shapir, Terje Mathisen)
- Re: Risks of Leap Years …., and depending on WWVB
(Bob Wilson)
- Volume 31 Issue 63 (Tuesday, 31 March 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 64 (Wednesday, 1 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 65 (Thursday, 9 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 66 (Friday, 10 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 67 (Saturday, 11 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 68 (Friday, 17 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 69 (Monday, 20 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 70 (Tuesday, 21 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 71 (Wednesday, 22 April 2020)
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- Google's auto-complete for speech can cover up glitches in video call
(MIT Technology Review)
- Nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and others are dumped online
(WashPost)
- Zero-Day Warning: It's Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Email
(The Hacker News)
- How NASA does software testing and QA
(Functionize)
- Leaked pics from Amazon Ring show potential new surveillance features
(Ars Technica)
- A notable quote for scientists and academics
(Dave Farber)
- You can now receive 3 free credit reports each week for the next year
(CNBC)
- Anti-lockdown protester who said it was a ‘political ploy’ is killed by coronavirus
(Metro)
- Chinese Agents Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S.
(NYTimes)
- Las Vegas Mayor: Assume everyone has COVID-19, reopen the casinos, and let the chips fall where they may
(WashPost)
- TN Anti-lockdown protester spotted with vile poster saying ‘Sacrifice the weak’ to coronavirus
(Metro)
- Coronavirus is largely spread by people without symptoms
(Inquirer)
- Spam filter censoring COVID content
(Henry Baker)
- Lego is producing 13,000 face visors a day for healthcare workers amid coronavirus pandemic
(USA Today)
- Re: Australian Government proposes to distribute Coronavirus App
(Amos Shapir, Michael Bacon)
- Re: More on COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker"
(Chris Drewe)
- Re: Internet Usage update
(Martin Ward, Dmitri Maziuk, Barry Gold, JCHolleran)
- Re: Anti-Asian Zoombombing at Newton South High School
(Phil Nasadowski)
- Volume 31 Issue 72 (Saturday, 25 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 73 (Sunday, 26 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 74 (Monday, 27 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 75 (Tuesday, 28 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 76 (Wednesday, 29 April 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 77 (Friday, 1 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 78 (Saturday, 2 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 79 (Monday, 4 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 80 (Wednesday, 6 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 81 (Friday, 8 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 82 (Wednesday, 13 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 83 (Saturday, 16 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 84 (Wednesday, 20 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 85 (Friday, 22 May 2020)
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- Volume 31 Issue 86 (Sunday, 24 May 2020)
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