Man pleads guilty to scamming Facebook and Google for over $120 million - CNET
cnet.com - Evaldas Rimasauskas could face up to 30 years in prison for a phishing scheme involving Facebook and Google.
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Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilties? - Slashdot
developers.slashdot.org - A new report from the open source security company WhiteSource asks the question, "Is one programming language more secure than the rest?" An anonymous reader quotes TechRepublic: To answer this question, the report compiled information from WhiteSource's database, which aggregates information ...
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Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? - Slashdot
slashdot.org - "Machines will need to make ethical decisions, and we will be responsible for those decisions," argues Mike Loukides, O'Reilly Media's vice president of content strategy: We are surrounded by systems that make ethical decisions: systems approving loans, trading stocks, forwarding news articles, r...
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Cities In India Ban 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Over Fears It Turns Children Into 'Psychopaths' - Slashdot
games.slashdot.org - Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is facing a "ferocious" backlash in India, Bloomberg reports: Nowhere has resistance to the game been quite like India. Multiple cities have banned PUBG, as it's known, and police in Western India arrested 10 university students for playing. The national child right...
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New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads - Slashdot
entertainment.slashdot.org - MoviePass's original founder and CEO is launching a new company, reports IndieWire, "to score viewers movie tickets for the low, low price of sitting through 15 to 20 minutes of advertisements." Before you point out that everyone already does that when they watch trailers in the theater, know thi...
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Is Social Media Losing Ground To Email Newsletters? - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - "My favorite new social network doesn't incessantly spam me with notifications," brags New York Times technology writer Mike Isaac. "When I post, I'm not bombarded with @mentions from bots and trolls. And after I use it, I don't worry about ads following me around the web. "That's because my ne...
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'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - eatmorekix quotes Vice: It only took around ten seconds. On Wednesday, I created a fresh Instagram account, and followed 'Beware the Needle', a user with 34,000 followers which posts a steady stream of anti-vaccination content. I also followed the user's "backup" account mentioned in its bio, th...
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Outdoor equipment retailer scams hundreds of consumers - whnt.com
whnt.com - The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about Gearow.com, an online store that claims to be operating out of Buffalo, New York. Consumers from across the United States report placing orders with the site, and never receiving the items or any form of correspondence.
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Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - America's recently-appointed Attorney General William Barr has submitted to Congress his summary of the main conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, CNN reports. "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," s...
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Microsoft's Leaked Edge Browser Should Make Google Worry
bleepingcomputer.com - Over the weekend, a leaked build for the Chromium-based Edge browser has been released that is providing users with their first look at the upcoming browser from Microsoft. If you are a Chrome user, reports indicate that this browser feels, performs, and has basically the same features as Google ...
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Microsoft's Leaked Edge Browser Should Make Google Worried
bleepingcomputer.com - Over the weekend, a leaked build for the Chromium-based Edge browser has been released that is providing users with their first look at the upcoming browser from Microsoft. If you are a Chrome user, reports indicate that this browser feels, performs, and has basically the same features as Google ...
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GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes SlashGear: Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has banned campaigns that seek funds for spreading misinformation related to vaccines, the company has revealed. The platform has been used in the past by anti-vaxxers as part of their mission to promote conspiracy theories rela...
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[Heads-up] This Evil New Child Porn Phishing Attack Could Absolutely Ruin Your Life
blog.knowbe4.com - Oh my. Bad guys have come up with a sinister new strain of blackmail/sextortion. Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, the bad guys sink lower. Eric Howes, KnowBe4's Principal Lab Researcher sent me a screenshot of an attack now live out there in the wild. It claims the CIA will bus...
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IRS Urges Taxpayers to Protect Personal Information - Big Island Now
bigislandnow.com - The IRS is urging taxpayers to take steps to ensure the security of their personal, financial and tax information. During tax time, con artists often use scams to capture sensitive information and money from unsuspecting victims. To prevent fraud, taxpayers should be alert to potential scammers ...
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Fermi Satellite Clocks Pulsar Going 2.5 Million Miles Per Hour - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - schwit1 quotes UPI: Astronomers have discovered a pulsar traveling at unprecedented speeds. Observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope suggest the star is moving through space at 2.5 million miles per hour.... "Thanks to its narrow dart-like tail and a fortuitous viewing angle, we c...
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The Washington Post Asks: Should 8chan Be Considered a Terrorist Recuiting Site? - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: As most of the world condemned last week's mass shooting in New Zealand, a contrary story line emerged on 8chan, the online message board where the alleged shooter had announced the attack and urged others to continue the slaughter. "Who should i ki...
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Cyber attack on Dubai school network, parents warned
gulfnews.com - Dubai British School was subjected to a tactic known as ‘password spraying’, a technique that weakens passwords. Image Credit: Supplied DUBAI: A British school in Dubai has warned parents about a cyber attack on its network last week, but has reassured them that necessary action has been taken ...
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Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit To Flint, Michigan Elementary School - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes the Detroit Metro Times: Tech billionaire Elon Musk surprised students at an assembly at Flint's Doyle-Ryder Elementary School on Friday, announcing the creation of a new STEM-focused junior high school and inviting some students to tour his SpaceX rocket factory in Cal...
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Decoding QR Codes with Python, (Sun, Mar 24th)
isc.sans.edu - In diary entry "Sextortion Email Variant: With QR Code", I had to decode a QR code. I didn't mention it in my diary entry, but I used an online service to decode the QR Code (I didn't want to use my smartphone). But what if you don't want to use any online service? You can also use a Python mod...
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82-Year-Old Pope Francis Is 'First Pope To Write a Line of Code' - Slashdot
developers.slashdot.org - Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: After seeing to it that UK Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau all received (widely-publicized) coding lessons, Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi noted in late 2016 that he was "still working on Pope ...
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More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - Zorro (Slashdot reader #15,797) quotes Live Science: Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can -- at the quantum level, that is. Researchers recently conducted experiments to answer a decades-old theoretical physics question about dueling realities. This tric...
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Zero-day Stored XSS Vulnerability Allowed Attackers to Compromise 70,000 Websites
ehackingnews.com - Researchers found out that "Social Warfare", a social sharing plug-in powered by Warfare Plugins is infected with a critical Stored XSS Zero-day flaw which allows cybercriminals to place malicious scripts and conquer the assailable WordPress websites. 'Social Warfare' is a social sharing plugin ...
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U S disaster relief agency leaks private data of hurricane survivors
ehackingnews.com - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is activating a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Mozambique to lead the U.S. Government's response to Cyclone Idai, which has caused catastrophic flooding, killed hundreds of people, and affected hundreds of thousands of others in M...
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What If Your Electronic Parts Were More Like Legos? - Slashdot
build.slashdot.org - Long-time Slashdot reader beckman101 writes: This week Electric Dollar Store opened its doors, selling interchangeable postage-stamp sized I2C-based modules for prices between $1.00 and $1.80. The modules include lights, buzzers, counters and sensors — the range is aimed at electronic makers....
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That “Florida Man Challenge:” Phish or menace? - Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Enlarge / "Fun" as in "fund transfer" This week, a viral "challenge" took Twitter and other social media by storm. The "Florida Man Challenge" called for people to: Google "Florida Man" and their birthdate,Find a headline about the activities of a "Florida Man" that matched their birthdate, and...
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Watchdog: FEMA Wrongly Released Personal Data of Victims
securityweek.com - The Federal Emergency Management Agency wrongly released to a contractor the personal information of 2.3 million survivors of devastating 2017 hurricanes and wildfires, potentially exposing the victims to identity fraud and theft.
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Airline Passenger Walked Past Security With a Loaded Gun Magazine - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - An airline passenger "passed a security checkpoint with a loaded gun magazine," reports the Associated Press, citing information from an airport duty manager: Bob Rotiski said the passenger who apparently had visited a shooting range packed a loaded magazine in his carry-on bag. He said an office...
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Facebook Now 'Vulnerable' To Government Regulators, Analysts Warn - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - Citing new warnings from several analysts, Fortune reports that Facebook's business model now faces threats from "a growing array of bi-partisan criticism and fresh regulatory issues." Analysts are now flagging an opinion piece in The New York Times, by Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, a Democ...
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'Your AirPods Will Die Soon' -- The Shrinking Charge Capacities of Lithium-Ion Batteries - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - Some of the same podcasters who first extolled AirPods are now complaining about them, reports the Atlantic: The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say, rendering them functionally useless. Apple bloggers agree: "AirPods are starting to show their age for early adopters," Zac Hall, an edit...
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How The FBI Easily Retrieved Michael Cohen's Data From Both Apple and Google - Slashdot
apple.slashdot.org - Court documents unsealed Tuesday showed just how much information America's FBI was able to gather on Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen -- from both Google and Apple products. An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Notably, the FBI made use of Cohen's use of Touch ID and Face ID on his Apple devices...
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Routers and IoT proven path to hacking insecure smart homes and businesses - FutureIoT
futureiot.tech - Routers and IoT proven path to hacking insecure smart homes and businesses FutureIoT Fans of the Die Hard franchise will recall that in the fourth instalment, Live Free or Die Hard, an attack was made against American public infrastructure.
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Pwn2Own Competitors Crack Tesla, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 10 - Slashdot
it.slashdot.org - A research duo who hacked a Tesla were the big winners at the annual Pwn2Own white hat security contest, reports ZDNet. "The duo earned $375,000 in prize money, of the total of $545,000 awarded during the whole three-day competition... They also get to keep the car." Team Fluoroacetate -- made u...
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Cringely Pans Self-Driving Car Hype, Says They're Years Away - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - In what may be his final year of technology predictions, columnist Robert X. Cringely argues "I can't say that we're going to see anything beyond more beta tests of self-driving cars in 2019... We simply aren't ready and probably won't be for years to come...." "The problem isn't with the self-d...
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DSA-4415 passenger - security update
debian.org - An arbitrary file read vulnerability was discovered in passenger, a web application server. A local user allowed to deploy an application to passenger, can take advantage of this flaw by creating a symlink from the REVISION file to an arbitrary file on the system and have its content displayed th...
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"VelvetSweatshop" Maldocs, (Sat, Mar 23rd)
isc.sans.edu - Encrypted Excel documents can be opened without entering a password, provided the password is "VelvetSweatshop". There was a new wave of Excel maldocs encrypted with this password. MD5 3e55d5355bb56f5a5d91dd6961fa232a is one of them. Looking a encrypted Office documents with oledump.py, you'll ...
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Florida Citrus Trees To Be Sprayed With Thousands of Kilograms of Antiobiotics - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Long-time Slashdot reader memnock quotes Nature: In the next month or so, orange trees across Florida will erupt in white blossoms, signalling the start of another citrus season. But this year, something different will be blowing in the winds. Farmers are preparing to spray their trees with hundr...