Hackers Can Listen In on Your Skype Calls
… Patrick Wardle,
the director of research at a cybersecurity company called Synack, showed how
hackers might do this at a cybersecurity conference called Virus Bulletin on
Thursday. (Wardle used to work for NASA
and the NSA.) He calls the technique
“piggybacking,” because it relies on a computer’s user to do most of the
legwork: Instead of secretly turning on the webcam without the user’s
permission, piggybacking malware simply waits until the webcam is active, and
then records everything it sees.
The piggybacking process is simple: A malware program
quietly running in the background of a computer checks periodically to see if
someone has activated the camera. When
the camera is turned on, the malware starts recording, too, alongside Skype or
FaceTime, and stops recording when the session ends. Finally, the malware sends the recording to
the attacker.
Would this be a bad thing? Is it worth $3 per user each month?
Facebook's Workplace Could Replace All Emails Within Your
Company
For years, Facebook has been synonymous with after-work
banter, funny cat videos, and pictures of baby antics. That is about to change. On Monday, the company launched Workplace, which offers
the same look, feel, and features as the popular platform but aims to expand
its services into the workplace.
[I’m not
sure I understand all of this:
https://fbatwork.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/workplace_3min_tour.mp4
Doesn’t the constitution ban cruel and unusual punishment?
Clinton campaign launches bot that texts you Donald
Trump quotes
A couple of things for my Architects. Inadequate testing? Slow to react when reports started
arriving? Inadequate testing of the
replacements?
Samsung Officially Scraps The Galaxy Note 7
It’s a wrap for the Galaxy Note 7.
In the space of one day, Samsung has gone from saying it was “temporarily
adjusting” the phone’s production schedule, to permanently ending it. The company has taken the unprecedented step
of scrapping its latest, flagship line of phones after a spate of
battery fires sparked a botched recall of 2.5 million units, deeply damaging the company’s reputation and the Galaxy brand
name.
… Tuesday’s announcement sent
Samsung’s shares down by 7.5% in Seoul, wiping out many of the gains the
stock has made over the last month over a separate proposal by a U.S. hedge fund
to restructure Samsung.
(Related) Politicians understand neither technology nor
technology users. Decisions based on how
much someone contributed to your last campaign are always suspect.
France’s Government-Backed Uber Replacement Should Thrill
Uber
France's ailing
taxi industry is supposed to benefit from a new government-funded mobile
platform designed to help traditional cabs compete with ride-hailing
service Uber.
France has a long
history of economic protectionism, and for several years now, politicians
here have tried to put the brakes on Uber's popularity through regulation, and
now by bolstering private taxi services with taxpayer money. These efforts so far have largely failed.
Early indications are that the state's new attempts to Uber-ize taxis will meet
the same fate.
On Tuesday, France's transportation department officially
launched Le.Taxi, a service designed to enable
people to electronically hail traditional French cabs via the Internet, similar
to how customers get rides from Uber. Le.Taxi uses geolocation technology to
generate a nationwide database of the whereabouts of taxis, and lets people
across the country select the nearest ride.
The thing is, any comparison to Uber's service is likely
to be unflattering for Le.Taxi.
The number of users is one measure of a company’s
value. What do you do when users start
abandoning you in droves?
Yahoo just made it a lot harder to quit Yahoo Mail
Yahoo has not had a good month.
Since Verizon said it
would buy the aging internet giant last summer, it's been
revealed that it was breached in a
massive hack, in which over 500 million user account details were
stolen.
Last week, The New York Times also reported that the
company installed tools that surveilled
all incoming email traffic on behalf of the US Government.
It's enough to make a loyal Yahoo Mail user look for
alternatives, like Google Gmail, or Microsoft's Outlook. But Yahoo quietly made a change in the past
month that will make it significantly harder to transition to another email
provider.
Yahoo no longer offers the option to automatically forward
email to another email address, although the setting was available earlier this
year.
Perspective. I
would not have guessed that. Is it a
definition thing?
'Gig' economy all right for some as up to 30% work this way
… The McKinsey
Global Institute (MGI) estimates that the independent workforce is some 162
million people, up to 30% of the working-age population in the United States
and most of Europe . Official UK figures bear this out, with almost five
million people in the UK employed in this way.
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