Here is an in depth report from some folks at the University of Toronto, about a “hack-for-hire operation” called “Dark Basin”
IBM has faced facts and is ending “all facial recognition business”
Bonus: “CEO calls out bias and inequality”
Because you need one more thing to panic about on the internet today here is news that a “severe vulnerability resides in a core protocol found in almost all internet of things (IoT) devices.”
Attention online gamers:
There is now a point-and-click RPG about “going around the local neighbourhood buying groceries and performing other small errands, while trying to avoid social distancing officers”
Complete certain tasks!
Win free masks!
Here is a report on a “little-known Indian IT firm” whose spying and hacking “targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States”
But wait, there’s more: “over a period of seven years.”
Earlier reports that “160,000 Nintendo Network ID (NNID) accounts were broken into as part of a hacking attempt” have been upgraded to “300,000 Nintendo Network ID (NNID) accounts were broken into as part of a hacking attempt”
Yesterday’s news: A smartphone app error.
Today’s topic: A smartphone “app error allowed U.K. users to watch videos of other patients’ private doctor visits”
If you guessed Florence, Ala. to be the latest US community to be “infiltrated by hackers who specialize in deploying ransomware” step right up and learn more about the “metropolitan area perhaps best known for the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
THIS REPORT SAYS THAT “Google Meet’s new background noise cancellation feature” HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS IMPRESSIVE.
