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yro.slashdot.org - dryriver shares a report from CNN: About 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in hotel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch, police said Wednesday. Two men have been arrested and another pair investigated in connection with the scandal, whic...
zdnet.com - For some misguided reason, PewDiePie fans seem to believe that making and releasing ransomware is a proper and acceptable method of supporting their idol. OVer the past three months, PewDiePie fans have released at least two PewDiePie-themed ransomware strains, both under the guise of supporting...
checkmarx.com - Security & Quality Software GmbH is a privately held company with customers in all market segments who develop software themselves or rely on a software supply chain. We find security shortcomings and implement tools, processes, solutions and services to incorporate security and quality regul...
gizmodo.com - As phishing attacks become increasingly commonplace, it’s important to know what to look out for. But not all phishing attacks are the same, and some are far more sophisticated than others. Cybersecurity experts say spear phishing, in particular, is on the rise.
science.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Officials in San Francisco have proposed a new law to ban e-cigarette sales until their health effects are evaluated by the U.S. government. The law appears to be the first of its kind in the U.S. and seeks to curb a rising usage by young people. ...
news.slashdot.org - Slashdot reader grasshoppa writes: Kyle Bennett, long-time owner/operator of one of the last independent review sites, HardOCP, announced that effective April 1st he will be leaving it behind to start a new career at Intel. "Effective April 1, 2019 I will be taking on the position of Director of ...
news.slashdot.org - At an Economic Club event in Washington, DC today, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was interrupted on stage by a robocall, pausing an interview in front of dozens of people and driving home that absolutely no one is safe from the spam epidemic. From a report: Over the past few months, regulators ...
straitstimes.com - NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - A Lithuanian man admitted he helped trick Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google into sending US$121 million (S$163 million) through a phishing scheme.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
tech.slashdot.org - Back in 2009, the EU's European Commission said Microsoft was harming competition by bundling its browser -- Internet Explorer -- with Windows. Eventually Microsoft and the European Commission settled on the "browser ballot," a screen that would pop up and give users a choice of browsers. Almost ...
tech.slashdot.org - Volvo is installing cameras and sensors in its cars from the early 2020s, monitoring drivers for signs of being drunk or distracted and intervening to prevent accidents. These new safety features come a couple weeks after the automaker announced it will limit the top speed to 112mph on all its ne...
isc.sans.edu - The extortion attempts haved moved to another step recently. After the “sextortion” emails that are propagating for a while, attackers started to flood people with a new type of fake emails and their imaginnation is endless... I received one two days ago and, this time, they go one step further. ...
info.enterprisemanagement.com - Today, being connected on-line is a foundational aspect of many businesses. Everything from our computers and cars to phones and refrigerators are connected in the race to digital transformation. But it comes with a cost. Every device and application in use increases our cyber-attack surface.
news.slashdot.org - Sherwin Siy and Jan Gerlach, writing for the Wikimedia Foundation: Volunteer editor communities in four language Wikipedias -- German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak -- have decided to black out the sites on 21 March in opposition to the current version of the proposed EU Copyright Directive. Those la...
bleepingcomputer.com - Instagram is currently testing a new feature designed to automatically lock usernames for 14 days after the owners switch to a new handle, as discovered by mobile researcher Jane Manchun Wong in an Alpha version of the platform's Android app.
games.slashdot.org - Microsoft announced its Xcloud game-streaming service last August, with the ambition of streaming console-quality games to gamers wherever they are. Yesterday, Google made its foray into the space with the announcement of Stadia. Google promises that Stadia will be "coming [in] 2019," potentially...
cso.com.au - New guide highlights findings from ISACA phishing survey and offers best practices for improvement Sydney, NSW, AUS (21 March 2019)— Findings from a recent ISACA survey about strategies for phishing defense showed that only 12 per cent of the roughly 1,5000 respondents were completely confiden...
politics.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: A new survey on Europeans' attitudes towards technology found that a quarter of people would prefer it if policy decisions were made by artificial intelligence instead of politicians. The Center for the Governance of Change at Spain's IE University...
bleepingcomputer.com - The latest version of PuTTY SSH and Telnet client adds protection against spoofing the terminal authentication prompt to steal login info. Recently released, the update comes after a 20-month hiatus and fixes a total of eight security issues. An attacker taking advantage of this weakness could a...
hardware.slashdot.org - China's fleet of electric buses appear to be denting oil demand more than electric cars. "By the end of this year, a cumulative 270,000 barrels a day of diesel demand will have been displaced by electric buses, most of it in China," reports Bloomberg, citing a new report published by BloombergNEF...
nola.com - Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency, a fifth-generation New Orleans business on Canal Street, revealed Wednesday (March 20) that a data breach may have exposed personal info for roughly 1,100 customers. The breach involved basic information, including names, birthdates and driver’s license numbers, ta...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Cyber security becomes more complex, more expensive and more frustrating year on year. The threat landscape is changing too fast. The data management and privacy compliance demands are onerous and expensive. The business risks are too high. Companies can simply no longer place the burden of cyber...
ehackingnews.com - After its social media website Google+, the company has announced that they are now shutting down its Inbox app. Google will start notifying all its users about the closure of its Inbox from March 18th through a pop-up screen that will pop up every time users will be on the app. The notificatio...
games.slashdot.org - Oculus VR unveiled the Oculus Rift S, a higher-resolution pair of virtual reality goggles that remove the need for external cameras by incorporating built-in tracking. The company partnered with Lenovo "to help it speed up manufacturing and to improve upon the design of the original Rift," report...
bossierpress.com - Phishing text scam making rounds in Bossier Bossier Press-Tribune Online The Bossier Financial Crimes Task Force is warning residents about a rash of phishing texts reported in the area. The bogus text messages appear to be from ...
ehackingnews.com - Google has been imposed fine of $1.68 billion (1.49 billion euro/1.28billion) by European Union regulators for blocking the advertisement of rival search engine companies. This is the third time in the last two years when the company has been fined multi-billion dollar by the EU antitrust. The...
bleepingcomputer.com - A Lithuanian man pleaded guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and three counts of money laundering, and faces a maximum of 30 years in jail after tricking Google and Facebook employees into wiring over $100 million into bank accounts he controlled.
