UK security officials warn of 'new risks' from Huawei
money.cnn.com - Top UK security officials say they can only provide "limited assurance" that telecom equipment provided by Huawei poses no threat to national security.
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People Like Getting Thank You Notes, Research Finds - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - From a report: O.K., it's not that surprising. But what did surprise two psychologist as they attempted to get to bottom of why so few people actually send thank yous is that many people totally "miscalibrate" the effect of an appreciative email. They underestimate the positive feelings it will b...
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Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - All roads may lead to Rome, but once you get there, good luck taking the subway. The sprawling metropolis is expanding its mass transit system -- a sluggish process made even slower as workers keep running into buried ancient ruins. From a report: "I found some gold rings. I found glasswork lamin...
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Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Megan Zahneis, writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education: Academics have traditionally distrusted Wikipedia, citing the inaccuracies that arise from its communally edited design and lamenting students' tendency to sometimes plagiarize assignments from it. Now, LiAnna Davis, director of progra...
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Slashdot Asks: Do You Need To Properly Eject a USB Drive Before Yanking it Out? - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - In a story earlier this week, Popular Science magazine explored an age-old topic: Do people need to safely eject a USB stick before they pull it from their computer? The magazine's take on it -- which is, as soon any ongoing transfer of files is complete, it is safe to yank out the flash drive --...
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Defining Counterintelligence
taosecurity.blogspot.com - I've written about counterintelligence (CI) before, but I realized today that some of my writing, and the writing of others, may be confused as to exactly what CI means. The authoritative place to find an American definition for CI is the United States National Counterintelligence and Security C...
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Bot Tweeted Names And Photos Of Venmo Users Who Bought Drugs - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - Since Venmo's transactions are "public" by default and broadcast on Venmo's API, a Python programmer decided to publicize a few of them, reports the Mercury News: The creator of the bot named "Who's buying drugs on Venmo" under the Twitter handle @venmodrugs says he wanted users to consider their...
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DNS rebinding rerun haunts cyber world
ehackingnews.com - The fear of the rerun of an old attack starts haunting the cyberworld these days forcing the top cyber security experts to come out with a slew of measures to keep the impending vulnerability at bay. Identified as DNS rebinding, the researchers say the attack might infect nearly 500 million sm...
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Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? - Slashdot
ask.slashdot.org - Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino does PHP for a living, but says he's growing "increasingly frustrated with the ignorant and clueless in the vincinity of PHP." Crappy code and baaaaad application setups is one thing, but people refusing to fix them or simply not even understanding the broader ...
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'The Cashless Society is a Con -- and Big Finance is Behind It' - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes this opinion piece by former derivatives broker Brett Scott: Banks are closing ATMs and branches in an attempt to 'nudge' users towards digital services -- and it's all for their own benefit... I recently got a letter from my bank telling me that they are shutting down...
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A Botnet Compromises 18,000 Huawei Routers
ehackingnews.com - A cyber hacker, by the pseudonym Anarchy, claims to have made a botnet within 24 hours by utilizing an old vulnerability that has reportedly compromised 18, 000 routers of Chinese telecom goliath Huawei. As indicated by a report in Bleeping Computer, this new botnet was first recognized in ...
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Uber Bans Driver Who Secretly Livestreamed Hundreds of Passengers - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - Lauren Weinstein tipped us off to this story from Mashable: Hundreds of Uber and Lyft rides have been broadcast live on Twitch by driver Jason Gargac this year, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday, all of them without the passengers' permission. Gargac, who goes by the name JustSmurf on ...
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NetBSD 8.0 Released - Slashdot
linux.slashdot.org - Slashdot reader fisted quotes NetBSD.org: The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.0, the sixteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. This release brings stability improvements, hundreds of bug fixes, and many new features. Some highlights of the NetBSD 8.0 release are: ...
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New Trailers Debuted at Comic-Con Include Aquaman, Shazam, and The Simpsons - Slashdot
entertainment.slashdot.org - Today Comic-Con attendees were treated to new trailers and previews for a slew of upcoming geek-friendly movies. An anonymous reader writes: Besides footage from Wonder Woman 1984, there were also trailers for DC's Aquaman movie, plus a new DC superhero franchise with a lighter tone, Shazam. (...
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Cell Phone Radiation May Affect Memory Performance In Adolescents, Study Finds - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - dryriver quotes Science Daily: Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields may have adverse effects on the development of memory performance of specific brain regions exposed during mobile phone use. These are the findings of a study involving nearly 700 adolescents in Switzerland. The investigation,...
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A Fifth Undocumented Cisco Backdoor Has Been Discovered - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - Cisco released 25 security updates Wednesday, including a critical patch removing an undocumented password for "root" accounts of Cisco Policy Suite (sold to ISPs and large corporate clients). "The vulnerability received a rare severity score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSSv3 scale," ...
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The Tech Industry's War On Kids - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - Long-time Slashdot reader RoccamOccam summarizes an article now circulating on the web sites of several schools: Child and adolescent psychologist Richard Freed writes, "...parents have no idea that lurking behind their kids' screens and phones are a multitude of psychologists, neuroscientists, ...
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Lawmakers Call On Amazon and Google To Reconsider Ban On Domain Fronting - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes CyberScoop: Amazon and Google face sharp questions from a bipartisan pair of U.S. senators over the tech giants' decisions to ban domain fronting, a technique used to circumvent censorship and surveillance around the world. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Marco Rubio, ...
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LambdaMOO, MUDs, and 'When the Internet Was Young' - Slashdot
games.slashdot.org - Slashdot reader travers_r shares "a peek into the early days of internet culture and multiplayer gaming." (Apparently this MOO has been running continuously for 28 years.) "From the looks of it, squatters run it now..." LambdaMOO was different from the earliest MUDs, which were Tolkienesqu...
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Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries - Slashdot
developers.slashdot.org - "Bing has launched a new intelligent search feature which provides the exact piece of code a developer is looking for," writes Search Engine Journal. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The code snippet will appear right on the search results page itself, which means users will not have to ...
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State Senator Wants A Law Forcing Bots To Admit They're Not Human - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader writes: Several commentators are calling for a law that requires bots to admit they are not human. There is a bill in California that would do just that. A new paper argues that these laws may look Constitutional but actually raise First Amendment issues. The New York Times ...
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Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Ecuador is planning to hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to UK authorities in the "coming weeks or even days," RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said, citing her own sources. Simonyan reported the news in a recent tweet, which was reposted by WikiLeaks. Slashdot reader Okian Warrior ...
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Hello Games Received Death Threats Over 'No Man's Sky' - Slashdot
games.slashdot.org - The Guardian revisits the disastrous 2016 launch of the massive open-universe videogame No Man's Sky, in a new interview with company director Sean Murray: "I've never liked talking to the press. I didn't enjoy it when I had to do it, and when I did it, I was naive and overly excited about my gam...
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Hackers Net Almost $1m In Russian Bank Raid
bbc.com - Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Russian banks have been hit several times by the MoneyTaker hacking gang A notorious hacking gang has struck again, stealing almost 700,000 ($910,000) from a Russian bank, reports a cyber-security company. Group-IB was called in to help Russia's PIR Ba...
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Hackers Targeting US Mid-Term Elections
bbc.com - Image copyright AFP Image caption The US mid-term elections will take place on 6 November At least three congressional candidates have been targeted by hackers ahead of the US mid-term elections, according to Microsoft. Tom Burt, an executive at the firm, made the revelation during a security c...
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Is Python the Future of Programming? - Slashdot
developers.slashdot.org - The Economist argues that Guido Van Rossum resembled the reluctant Messiah in Monty Python's Life of Brian. An anonymous reader quotes their report: "I certainly didn't set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption," he explains. But in the past 12 months Google users in Am...
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Equador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Ecuador is planning to hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to UK authorities in the "coming weeks or even days," RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said, citing her own sources. Simonyan reported the news in a recent tweet, which was reposted by WikiLeaks. Slashdot reader Okian Warrior ...
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Ukraine Police Detain Hacker Who Distributed A Crypto-Mining Malware
ehackingnews.com - On 18 July, the Investigation Department and the Cyber Police of the Lugansk region detained a resident of Rubezhny (Ukraine), who created a Crypto-mining malware and distributed it in Internet. The hacker is only 20 years old, however, he is well versed in computer programming and development. ...
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Nanoengineer Finds New Way To Recycle Lithium-Ion Batteries - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - Zheng Chen, a 31-year-old nanoengineer at UC San Diego, says he has developed a way to recycle used cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries and restore them to a like-new condition. The cathodes in some lithium-ion batteries are made of metal oxides that contain cobalt, a metal found in finite ...
