Risks Digest 30.38

Monday, 17th July 2017

• A Solar Eclipse Could Wipe Out 9,000 Megawatts of Power Supplies
• Massachusetts tax system blocks payments, sends refunds in error
• The AlphaBay Takedown Sends Dark Web Markets Reeling
• Cloud Leak: How A Verizon Partner Exposed Millions of Customer Accounts
• How Fake News Goes Viral—Here's the Math
• While Some Cry ‘Fake,’ Spotify Sees No Need to Apologize
• Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in 'One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network'
• Elon Musk says preventing a ‘fleet-wide hack’ is Tesla's top security priority
• Weekend Video Extra: A Prescient Warning re: AI and Robotics, from 1956!
• Your pacemaker is spying on you
• Leaping Kangaroos
• Paper ballots
• To avoid cyberattacks, Israel urged to manually count election results
• UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking regional upheaval, according to U.S. intelligence officials
• Re: Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cybersecrets
• Re: DIY devices let car owners add autonomous features to vehicles
• Re: Funny how these articles are all the same
• Re: Press kits or other publications on thumb drives?
• Review: "Twitter and Tear Gas," by Zeynep Tufekci