[ad_1] After laying out his relationship with technology and offering a few examples where innovation has had unintended negative consequences, Pichai makes the case that while AI is powerful and useful, we must balance its “potential harms… with social opportunities.” Of course, this call for “balance” leaves some questions about how tight of regulation Pichai […]
Category: Security
FBI seizes site dedicated to selling data breach information
[ad_1] WeLeakInfo claimed to have over 12 billion usernames and passwords siphoned from around 10,300 breaches at various companies and websites. It had organized that information into an easily searchable database, letting users look up someone’s email address to find out what passwords, names, phone numbers and IP addresses were linked. The site offered access […]
Microsoft will fix an Internet Explorer security flaw under active attack
[ad_1] The issue is significant enough that Homeland Security issued an advisory encouraging people to both be aware of the flaw and consider implementing workarounds, including temporarily restricting access to jscript.dll. Unlike the Firefox bug, though, you’ll have to wait a while for a patch. Microsoft said it wasn’t likely to provide its fix until […]
Hitting the Books: Hackers can convince your IoT devices to betray you
[ad_1] Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terroristsby Audrey Kurth Cronin The internet is all around us — in our phones, our homes, our cars, and even our toaster ovens for some reason. Problem is, the adoption of this ubiquitous connectivity has far outpaced our efforts to secure those systems […]
Apple tests UWB switch to keep the iPhone 11 from tracking your location
[ad_1] While Apple emphasized that the company isn’t collecting location data and that the UWB checks take place “entirely on the device,” it promised to roll out a dedicated toggle for the chip to assuage people’s fears. YouTube creator Brandon Butch has just spotted that feature in the latest iOS 13.3.1 beta. So iOS 13.3.1 […]
Your online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’
[ad_1] Despite that, Instagram kicked her off all three accounts, saying her behavior on Twitter violated Instagram’s sexually suggestive content guidelines. On Twitter, Ms. Ward — as The Naked Philanthropist — offered a privately-sent nude photo to those who provided verifiable proof of donation to organizations including Australian Red Cross and The Koala Hospital. Her […]
Porn cam network leaked sensitive data for thousands of models
[ad_1] Data leaks by their nature subject people to some kind of unnecessary risk, but this latest could be genuinely dangerous. Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered that a porn cam affiliate network, PussyCash, left nearly 20GB of models’ extremely sensitive data exposed in an Amazon S3 bucket. The repository included not only 875,000 keys for […]
Scottish Police bought a fleet of devices for smartphone data-mining
[ad_1] The kiosks are not able to save any data — they can only display it to an investigating officer. The only information the kiosks retain is details on how they have been used — by whom and at what times. The software is also able to segregate data based on type (such as messages […]
Search warrant suggests FBI pulled data from a locked iPhone 11 Pro Max
[ad_1] The phone belonged to Baris Ali Koch, who helped his brother convicted of hate crime escape the country. Koch’s lawyer confirmed to Forbes that the phone was locked and that authorities didn’t have access to the passcode. They also didn’t force Koch to use FaceID. Under “inventory” in the warrant, a handwritten note says […]
Wikipedia comes back online in Turkey after multi-year ban
[ad_1] However, the decision was reversed in December last year by Turkey’s Constitutional Court — the highest court in the country. The court deemed the ban unconstitutional, and ruled that the restriction violated free speech. Local reports say that access to Wikipedia is now being restored across the country, although some users will be able […]