Risks Digest 31.19

Saturday, 20th April 2019

• AA 300 JFK-LAX incident
• 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
• Contractor identifies new problems with phase 2 of the Silver Line
• “Fallible machines, fallible humans”
• A computerized YouTube fact-checking tool goes very wrong: In flaming Notre Dame, it somehow sees 9/11 tragedy
• Election systems in 50 states were targeted in 2016
• Mysterious operative haunted Kaspersky critics
• Samsung's $2,000 folding phone is breaking for some users after two days
• Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
• Man Bites Dog Dept: MSFT supports human rights!!
• Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support
• As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned A Blind Eye
• Wipro customers hacked, says Krebs. Nothing to see here, says Wipro
• Facebook has admitted to unintentionally uploading the address books of 1.5 million users without consent
• Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole
• AppleWatch or AnkleMonitor: You Decide
• Fintech fiddles as home burns: 97% of apps lack basic security