PayPal for iOS now lets you send and request money through Siri
Publicly traded online payment company PayPal today is
announcing that its app for devices running iOS 10 now lets users tell the
built-in Siri virtual assistant to send or ask other people for money through
PayPal.
“Simply say, ‘Hey Siri, send Bill $50 using PayPal.’ Voila!” Meron Colbeci, senior director of core
consumer products at PayPal, wrote in a blog
post.
Still no indication of how this was done?
Anthony Spadafora reports:
Tesco Bank has released more
details regarding the cyber attack that took control of its online accounts and
led the bank to freeze all of its users online transactions.
Over the weekend the bank was hit by an attack that it
initially thought affected 20,000 customers. However, Tesco Bank has now revealed that only
9,000 accounts were compromised by the security breach. Though the amount of customers affected is
lower than first reported, some of those whose accounts were accessed during
the attack lost as much as £2,000.
On Tuesday, Tesco Bank announced
that it had refunded £2.5 million to all of those affected by the breach and
guaranteed that no personal data was obtained during the attack.
Read more on ITProPortal.
(Related) The bank itself says…
What you need to know
Should I change all of my online banking and personal
details that you hold?
Tesco Bank has not been subject to a security compromise and
it is not necessary for customers to change their login or password details. To stay safe online we do recommend that
customers regularly change their passwords.
(Related) The BBC
speculates…
Tesco Bank attack: What do we know?
… Tesco did not
use the "H" word in its statement and in interviews its chief
executive and other people speaking on behalf of the company have been careful
in their choice of language.
It has said
that the attack was "sophisticated" and that
an initial investigation had revealed exactly what had happened.
So far, it has not shared that information but Tesco's
actions in the wake of the weekend's events do help to narrow down the possibilities.
By letting customers withdraw cash from ATMs, use cards in
shops and pay bills, it suggests that whatever went wrong does not involve the
core computer systems underpinning Tesco bank. These systems used to be run by RBS but since
2008 Tesco has operated independently.
Security expert James Maude, from software company Avecto,
said Tesco's decision to suspend online
transactions combined with the information that so many people were hit at once
clearly suggests problems with its website.
All too often, he said, maintenance or website updates can
introduce errors and bugs that were not present before. Cyber-thieves are constantly scanning valuable
websites to spot changes and will swoop if one emerges.
It might also be the case that a third party connected to
Tesco had a security issue and attackers got in via that route, which has
happened in some of the biggest attacks in recent memory.
A heads-up for about a third of my students.
KKTV reports:
More than 2,100 Colorado veterans
may have had their personal information compromised, the VA Eastern Colorado
Health Care System (ECHCS) said Wednesday.
At risk are the veterans’ names,
the last four digits of their Social Security number and their diagnoses. According to the ECHCS, the information may
have been compromised when a VA employee emailed unencrypted documents to their
personal email account.
Read more on KKTV.
An update. Was
anyone at Yahoo managing?
Yahoo Looking to Determine If Hacker Has Access to User
Accounts
Yahoo Inc. is
evaluating whether an unidentified hacker has access to its user account data,
following a 2014 hack that resulted in the theft of more than 500
million user account records.
In a regulatory filing Wednesday, Yahoo said
law-enforcement authorities on Monday “began sharing certain data that they
indicated was provided by a hacker who claimed the information was Yahoo user
account data.” Yahoo said it would
“analyze and investigate the hacker’s claim.”
… The data could
shed some light on what may be the largest theft of consumer data ever. Yahoo has said previously that it believes its
networks were compromised in late 2014
by “state-sponsored” hackers who stole names, email addresses, telephone
numbers and dates of birth of more than 500 million users. But information-security firm InfoArmor Inc.
later said the data had been stolen by criminals, rather than a state-sponsored
group.
… The company is
facing 23 class-action lawsuits following the hack, the filing said.
Next week I lecture on outsourcing to my IT Governance
class, but I may post this for my Software Architecture students as well.
Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing to India, China
and the Philippines
(Related)
Machine intelligence makes human
morals more important
Machine intelligence is here, and we're already using it
to make subjective decisions. But the
complex way AI grows and improves makes it hard to understand and even harder
to control. In this cautionary talk,
techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci explains how intelligent machines can fail in
ways that don't fit human error patterns — and in ways we won't expect or be
prepared for.
Try. Long before
age 13, some kids will be able to bypass any restrictions – and I think that’s
fine!
Irish Legal News reports:
The Department of
Justice has launched a consultation on the statutory “age of
digital consent” to be applied in Ireland as part of the EU
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Article 8 of the GDPR provides
that, in the case of information society services offered directly to a child,
parental consent is required where personal information of a child under 16 is
collected and shared with other service providers. Service providers are required to make
reasonable efforts to verify that parental consent is given in each case.
However, member states are
allowed to adopt a lower age threshold, which cannot be lower than 13.
Read more on Irish
Legal News.
Designer pop stars? Would they recognize another Mozart if they
saw one?
K-Pop’s Global Success Didn’t Happen by Accident
In July 2016, the mega-hit “Gangnam Style” by South
Korean singer PSY surpassed 2.6 billion views on YouTube. Big Bang, a Korean pop (K-Pop) boy band,
earned $44 million in 2015, making it among the highest paid in the industry. Is K-Pop just a passing fad — a matter of a
few songs going viral? The answer is no.
The global
success of K-Pop did not happen by accident, nor is it simply an
interesting cultural phenomenon.
A statistical analysis.
What A Difference 2 Percentage Points Makes
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