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science.slashdot.org - Imagine a laboratory growing human hearts - and imagine that laboratory floating in space hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth. That may sound like science fiction, but bizarre as it seems, it could bring new hope for transplant patients within the next decade. From a report: While ab...
blog.knowbe4.com - KnowBe4 reports every quarter on the top-clicked phishing email subjects, here we have the results for Q4 2018. We track three different categories: general email subjects, those related to social media and 'in the wild' attacks. Find out what your users are most likely to click on!
bleepingcomputer.com - Apple announced the rollout of its Apple Pay mobile contactless payment system to the Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee, and Jack in the Box US retailers, now covering 74 of the top 100 US merchants and approximately 65 percent of all retail locations across the country
informationsecuritybuzz.com - CNIL, the French data protection watchdog, issued its first GDPR fine of $57 million to Google, claiming that they failed to comply with GDPR when new Android users set up a new phone and follow Android’s onboarding process. The era of #GDPR enforcement is upon us ! #France @CNIL kicks it off. #G...
cnet.com - Facebook and Twitter have failed to satisfy Russian telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor. Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Russia's telecom regulator on Monday opened a civil case against Facebook and Twitter over their alleged failure to explain how they'll comply with data laws. ...
tech.slashdot.org - The snow-dusted peak of Mount Wilson in California has been home to many famous observatories. Until 1949, its 100-inch (2.5-meter) Hooker telescope was the largest aperture telescope in the world, and in 2004, its CHARA array became the world's largest optical interferometer. Now, two new observ...
blog.trendmicro.com - In our predictions report for 2019, “Mapping the Future: Dealing with Pervasive and Persistent Threats,” we foresaw an increase in the rate of BEC (business email compromise) attacks: “Business email compromise will go two levels down in the org chart.” From the report: “Business email comp...
securityweek.com - Russia's media watchdog Roskomnadzor launched "administrative proceedings" Monday against US social media giants Facebook and Twitter, accusing them of not complying with Russian law, news agencies reported.
mobile.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Over the weekend, four commits were posted to various parts of Android's Gerrit source code management, all entitled "Carrier restriction enhancements for Android Q." In them, we see that network carriers will have more fine-grained control ove...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Research conducted by Kenna Security and Cyentia Institute demonstrates companies can be smarter and more efficient in their security efforts “In our ongoing mission to apply the tenets of data science to cybersecurity, we have begun to benchmark the realities of vulnerability remediation strate...
schneier.com - Construction cranes are vulnerable to hacking: In our research and vulnerability discoveries, we found that weaknesses in the controllers can be (easily) taken advantage of to move full-sized machines such as cranes used in construction sites and factories. In the different attack classes that we...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - ZDNet reported that a password-less ElasticSearch server belonging to a variety of online casinos has compromised the information on over 108 million bets, including customers’ payment card info, full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, site usernames, account bala...
zdnet.com - DJI has revealed a case of fraud within its own walls with estimated damages of up to 1 billion yuan ($150 million) expected due to a covert scam conducted by employees designed to line their own pockets. A recent internal probe unearthed the inflation of costs for parts and materials for "certa...
straitstimes.com - SINGAPORE - There has been a resurgence of phishing SMSes purportedly sent by DBS or POSB, the police said in a joint statement with DBS Bank on Tuesday (Jan 22).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
mobile.slashdot.org - TechCrunch's Devin Coldeway picks apart a new study by Oxford scientists that questions the basis of thousands of papers and analyses with conflicting conclusions on the effect of screen time on well-being. "The researchers claim is that the science doesn't agree because it's bad science," Coldew...
zdnet.com - The man responsible for stealing millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency mining equipment in Iceland has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail for his crimes. According to local media reports published this week, Sindri Þór Stefánsson was awarded his jail term after being returned...
