Phishing
for phun and prophit.
YouTube
Security Warning For 23 Million Creators As ‘Massive’ Hack Attack
Confirmed
… According
to the ZDNet investigation, many accounts belonging to well-known
YouTubers within the car community have been hijacked. However, it
would appear the attack itself has been directed mostly towards
"influencers" across many YouTube channel genres.
… The
investigation by Cimpanu points clearly towards a coordinated
phishing campaign.
… The
attack methodology would appear to be nothing out of the ordinary,
truth be told.
Bad
computers!
The
7 Most Dangerous Technology Trends In 2020 Everyone Should Know About
As we enter new frontiers with the latest
technology trends and enjoy the many positive impacts and benefits it
can have on the way we work, play and live, we must always be mindful
and prepare for possible negative impacts and potential misuse of the
technology. Here are seven of the most dangerous technology trends:
1. Drone Swarms
2. Spying Smart Home
Devices
3. Facial Recognition
4. AI Cloning
5. Ransomware, AI and
Bot-enabled Blackmailing and Hacking
6. Smart Dust
7. Fake News Bots
Who can share this data?
Secret
F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies
The
New York Times –
“The
F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far
more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents
show.
The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to its
counterterrorism efforts, have raised privacy concerns for years but
have been associated mainly with tech companies. Now, records show
how far beyond Silicon Valley the practice extends — encompassing
scores of banks, credit agencies, cellphone carriers and even
universities. The demands can scoop up a variety of information,
including usernames, locations, IP addresses and records of
purchases. They
don’t require a judge’s approval and usually come with a gag
order,
leaving them shrouded in secrecy. Fewer than 20 entities, most of
them tech companies, have ever revealed that they’ve received the
subpoenas, known as national security letters. The documents,
obtained by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation through
a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and shared with The New York
Times, shed light on the scope of the demands — more than 120
companies and other entities were included in the filing — and
raise questions about the effectiveness of a 2015 law that was
intended to increase transparency around them…”
Privacy analysis.
Whenever you
sign up for a new app or service you probably are also agreeing to a
new privacy policy. You know, that incredibly long block of text you
scroll quickly by without reading?
Guard
is
a site that uses AI to read epically long privacy policies and then
highlight any aspects of them that might be problematic.
… For now,
you’re limited to seeing ratings for only services Guard has
decided to analyze, which includes most of the major apps out there
like youTube, Reddit, Spotify, and Instagram. However, if you’re
interested in a rating for a particular app you can submit it to the
service and ask it to be done.
Denver didn’t
make the list?
The
world’s most-surveilled cities
Comparitech:
“Cities in China are under the heaviest CCTV surveillance in the
world, according to a new
analysis by Comparitech [along
with the companion
spreadhseet ].
However, some residents living in cities across the US [like DC and
Chicago], UK, UAE, Australia, and India will also find themselves
surrounded by a large number of watchful eyes, as our look at the
number of public CCTV cameras in 120 cities worldwide found.
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras serve many purposes, ranging
from crime prevention to traffic monitoring to observing industrial
operations in environments not suitable for humans. The digital age
has boosted the prevalence of CCTV surveillance. Cameras are getting
better and cheaper, while live video streams can be remotely
accessed, stored on the internet, and passed around. The adoption of
face recognition technology makes it possible for both public and
private entities to instantly check the identity of anyone who passes
by a CCTV camera. Depending on whom you ask, the increased
prevalence and capabilities of CCTV surveillance could make society
safer and more efficient, could trample on our rights to privacy and
freedom of movement, or both. No matter which side you argue, the
fact is that live video surveillance is ramping up worldwide.
Comparitech researchers collated a number of data resources and
reports, including government reports, police websites, and news
articles, to get some idea of the number of CCTV cameras in use in
120 major cities across the globe. We focused primarily on public
CCTV—cameras used by government entities such as law enforcement…”
Architecture and some new terms.
Building a
Foundation for “Smart” Steel Factories with Fog Computing, the
Cloud and Cybersecurity
Digital
technologies have been transforming our world for the past few
decades. For instance, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud
computing
have induced an evolution in the way we as society live our everyday
lives as well as how many enterprises conduct business. This
evolution has started to enter the industrial realm, most notably the
Industrial
Internet of Things (IIoT)
and Industry
4.0 and
how these forces have driven other innovative ideas such as smart
factories.
Smart
factories can achieve significant advancements with IIoT and cloud
technologies. For example, predictive analytics using data from the
IIoT and processed in the cloud enable optimizations of various
processes for smart factories. However, many industrial
organizations, including those in the steel industry, have systems
with more stringent requirements, such as real-time computational and
communication constraints, that cannot be offered by the cloud.
To
address these limitations, fog computing has emerged. It is a new
paradigm of computing that will provide significant benefits to
industry.
… A
solution to this problem, as well as various others, is fog
computing. According to the OpenFog
Consortium,
fog computing “is
a system-level horizontal architecture that distributes resources and
services of computing, storage, control and networking anywhere along
the Cloud-to-Thing continuum.”
All’s
fair in competitor bashing? Is this ‘fake news?’
A
‘Grass Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded by Amazon’s
Biggest Rivals
Walmart,
Oracle and mall owner Simon Property Group are secret funders behind
a nonprofit that has been highly critical of the e-commerce giant
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