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
https is now enabled again! (At long last…)
- 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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