Ask,
“Who benefits?” It's election time again here in the US too.
Will we see the electronic version of “hanging chad?”
Hackers
Target Ukraine's Election Website
Hackers
attacked Ukraine's election commission website Saturday on the eve of
parliamentary polls, officials said, but they denied Russian reports
that the vote counting system itself had been put out of action.
…
A
report on Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti quoted a statement
on the personal website of the Ukrainian prosecutor general saying
that the electronic vote counting system was out of order and that
Sunday's ballots would have to be counted by hand.
The
commission spokesman, Kostyantyn Khivrenko, called the RIA Novosti
report a "fake".
…
In
another possible sign of cyber tensions, the Ukrainska Pravda news
website on Friday reported that outdoor video screens across Kiev
were briefly hacked.
The
screens, which are used for advertising, including pre-election
political ads, reportedly started to display "scary and horrible
images," the report said.
Engineers
went out "to physically unplug" the screens, according to
the report.
The
report could not be confirmed, but footage on YouTube purporting to
capture the incident showed a street screen abruptly switching to
footage of destroyed buildings and dead bodies, as well as the images
of two nationalist politicians running for parliament, with the words
"war criminals".
Yet
another reason to avoid PowerPoint.
Security
Flaw in PowerPoint Allows Hackers to Gain Control
A
security flaw has been found in Microsofts’ PowerPoint after
hackers exploited the service to gain control of computer systems.
A security advisor on Microsofts website stated that so far the
attacks have been limited however, those who have been affected have
lost control of their computers completely.
…
For the hackers to have
access, users have to open the corrupted file which is most often
downloaded from the web. Currently, Microsoft are warning
people to not download any Power point presentations at this time.
Can't
wait to Google your house!
Google's
Nest Acquires Smart Home Hub Startup Revolv To Control Every Device
In Your Home
Nest,
best known for its “learning thermostat,” has made another step
into being the center of the smart home world. Today it announced it
has acquired smart home hub startup Revolv.
…
Colorado-based Revolv made
a hardware hub with a bunch of radios packed inside to make all the
various smart home devices talk to each other. Through the Revolv
app, you could sync up smart home interactions.
“Nest
bought a team of people knowledgable in the interoperability of a
wide variety of radio technology and software protocols in order to
make integration easier for partners and customers,” said Forrester
analyst Frank Gillett.
…
These new partnerships will do things like allow Nest to better know
when family members are
away from home with family app Life360 or control
your thermostat from your Pebble watch.
Business
opportunity! Drone swatters (repackaged flyswatters) This one has
an umbilical cord, so it can't fly to Afghanistan and back, but
should be fine for SWAT or special forces.
New
Drone Fits in Your Pocket, Flies for Two Hours
Anybody
who's ever flown a rotary wing drone will look at the stats of CyPhy
Works' new Pocket Flyer drone and be amazed. It fits in your pocket
and weights a mere 80 grams. It'll fly continuously for two hours
or more, sending back high quality HD video the entire time. What's
the catch? There isn't one, except for the
clever thing that grants all of CyPhy's UAVs their special powers:
a microfilament tether that unspools the drone and keeps it
constantly connected to communications and power.
For
my student game addicts...
Waste
Away Your Life Playing All The Games On Pong.com
…
Pong.com wants to be the new home
of browser-based games, those free Flash games which are currently
spread across the Web without any sense of order or meaning. Pong
acts as a Pinterest-like
platform, with users invited to create boards and add games from
around the Web to these categorized collections.
Anyone
can play the games posted to Pong, without any need to sign up for an
account. These passing visitors can simply click on the game they
want to play and, assuming they have Adobe
Flash Player installed, they can play away to their heart’s
content.
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