United Airlines seems to be lurching from one bad PR story to the another. This time, a United Airlines flight attendant accidentally posted the keypad access codes for airplane cockpit doors on a public website. The Wall Street Journal revealed the story, but did not identify the website or online forum where the codes were … Read More.
The U.S. Congress has passed the repeal of the broadband carrier privacy rules that required ISPs to seek consumer consent before selling Web browsing and app usage data to advertisers. The law was approved by the Obama administration and scheduled to take effect by the end of this year. It means that ISPs are legally … Read More.
Senior members of the Trump administration have resorted to encrypted communication apps amid email hacking concerns that disrupted Hilary Clinton’s presidential election campaign and exposed sensitive conversations of Democratic National Committee (DNC) members to WikiLeaks. The use of encrypted and disappearing messaging apps at the White House may violate the Presidential Records Act , which … Read More.
About 700 million Android phones were sending the contents to a server address in China every 72 hours. The owners of the phones had no idea it was happening. The data known to be extracted included: Location information (where you were, at all times) Call logs (who you spoke with) Text messages (including deleted messages) … Read More.
You may not have heard of the Google Brain team. They are a pretty fringe department, based out of Mountain View, California. Google Brain is, as the name suggests, all about A.I. development. Specifically, A.I. functionality achieved using neural networking. Recently Google Brain took it’s 3 resident neural networks named Eve, Bob and Alice and … Read More.
Yahoo suffered a major security breach, affecting hundreds of millions of users - but we only found out about it 2 years later. This incident, combined with the 2012 DropBox breach, demonstrates the harsh reality of internet security: most breaches either go undetected, or unreported, for years . The background to Yahoo’s security breach Yahoo … Read More.