RJ Marquez reports:
Frost Bank is investigating a breach after the company discovered unauthorized access to digital images stored in those customers’ commercial image archives.The San Antonio based-bank issued a statement that said Frost detected the unauthorized access to a third-party lockbox software program earlier this week and immediately launched an investigation.The software allowed unauthorized users to view and copy images of checks stored electronically.Read more on KSAT.
news.slashdot.org - According to a new study by the JPMorgan Chase Instittue, drivers who transport people via apps (e.g. Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Postmates) made 53 percent less in 2017 than they did in 2013. Recode reports: The average monthly payments to those who worked for a transportation app in a given month d...
news.slashdot.org - Greece is reportedly using drones to fly over boats running day trips on the Aegean in an effort to crack down on rampant tax evasion at holiday hotspots. Channel NewsAsia reports: With the black economy by some accounts representing about a quarter of national output in a country which depends ...
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Google parent Alphabet and the other four dominant U.S. technology companies -- Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook -- are fast becoming industrial giants. They spent a combined $80 billion in the last year on big-ticket physical assets, incl...
ehackingnews.com - Micro-blogging site Twitter announced they have patched a bug that affected one of its "Account Activity Application Programming Interface" (AAAPI) which sent user's private direct messages to third-party developers who were not authorized to receive them. The bug ran from May 2017 but was fixe...
apple.slashdot.org - Apple has successfully completed its $400 million acquisition of Shazam, and the company announced it will be removing all ads from the app "soon." The Verge reports: The acquisition was temporarily held up because of an investigation by the European Union, which scrutinized the deal over potent...
zdnet.com - The domain of India-based software provider Zoho, one of the largest tech companies in the world, was taken offline today for around two hours after the domain registrar overstepped its attributes and took Zoho.com down following a banale phishing complaint. The downtime resulted in nearly 30 m...
slashdot.org - A visual prank exposes an Achilles' heel of computer vision systems: Unlike humans, they can't do a double take. From a report: In a new study [PDF], computer scientists found that artificial intelligence systems fail a vision test a child could accomplish with ease. "It's a clever and important ...