Not sure if this was the result of another
phishing scam or if the hackers simply guessed someone's email
password. (Or someone reused a password compromised elsewhere)
How embarrassing would it be to have a firm
named OpSec Security that advertises it’s “trusted by over 400
companies and 50 government agencies” – and then it falls for a
phishing scheme?
Tim Stuhldreher reports:
In the wake of a data breach, an anti-counterfeiting company with local sales and manufacturing operations is advising its employees to be on the alert for identity theft, according to correspondence obtained by LNP.
In early March, “hackers accessed an email containing an attachment which included 2015 W-2 tax forms for all salaried and hourly employees, including some former employees,” reads an email sent to people working for OpSec Security.
Read more on Lancaster
Online.
A new
oxymoron: “Driving a self-driving car.” (Like “dialing” a
phone.)
People Will
Still Have to Learn How to Drive Self-Driving Cars
In a matter
of days after Tesla first introduced Model S owners to a lane
assistance feature called autopilot, videos of owners
sitting in the back seat of cars while they were operating began
popping up on YouTube. The root of the problem was clear: Humans
made cars unsafe. But just last month, one of Google’s fully
autonomous cars was not only involved in an accident but was the
cause of it for the first time. The question, then, is which of
these is the safer approach?
There are two schools of thought. The first, and
the approach many automakers have already begun to take, is releasing
semi-autonomous features incrementally in new generations of
vehicles. The second, which closely matches Google’s current
strategy, is that combining human and semi-autonomous control can be
counterintuitive and that a car should be controlled by either one or
the other and never both.
But in either case, there is a learning curve.
… Car makers are still learning how people
interact with both semi-autonomous and fully self-driving cars, and
rolling out semi-autonomous vehicles enables companies to do just
that. That’s why they’ve started outfitting new and existing
lines with data-gathering technology.
With all the best intentions…
Facebook
'Safety Check' Glitch Asks Users Far From Lahore, Pakistan If They
Are Safe After Explosion
After a deadly explosion in Lahore, Pakistan on
Sunday, Facebook activated its ‘Safety Check’ feature for the
eighth time this year. However, a bug caused many users
thousands of miles away from the apparent suicide bombing to
mistakenly ask whether or not they were safe.
Users in locations such as London, New York and
Washington D.C. took to social media to express confusion, annoyance
and in some cases, alarm, after erroneously receiving ‘Safety
Check’ texts or notifications. Some
text alerts referenced an explosion without stating its location,
leading some users to fear that an attack had occurred near them that
they weren’t aware of. Smartphone alerts referenced Lahore. “This
really freaked me out until I realized that Facebook thought I was in
Pakistan,” a Facebook user said on Twitter.
Background. You can't tell the players without a
scorecard.
Searching
for Sundar Pichai
You may not know him by name just yet, but he’s
one of the most powerful people alive. Google’s new CEO
Sundar Pichai wants to bring the internet to the rest of the world,
all while winning back your trust.
If nothing else, a really interesting graphic
showing income from oil vs other sources.
What Low
Oil Prices Really Mean
… What is surprising though, is the
fundamental shift we think is happening. The current low oil price
environment is not an “oil bust” that will be followed by an “oil
boom” in the near future. Instead, it looks as if we have entered
a new normal of lower oil prices that will impact not just oil and
gas producers but also every nation, company, and person depending on
it.
This new normal is the result of the oil business
being disrupted.
… during the past decade, American shale oil
and gas producers pioneered
a new business model that shattered the incumbents’ approach.
U.S.-based shale oil producers have improved their drilling and
fracturing technology, and they can ramp up production in an
appraised field in as few as six months at a small fraction of the
capital investment required by their conventional rivals. As a
result, shale oil has soared from about 10% of total U.S. crude oil
production to about 50%.
Tools & Techniques
How to
Archive All the New Tweets Sent Out by Anyone
While you can request your entire archive of
tweets from Twitter,
using a simple IFTTT recipe will allow you to keep track of your own
tweets, or the tweets of any user of your choice.
This could save hours of debate among the members
of the Movie Club.
How to Find
a Movie’s Name From Vague Details About It
Most
people enjoy watching movies, but there are so many out there
that it can be hard to remember all of them clearly. With ways
to rent movies for free online and new movies coming out all the
time, your internal movie database probably grows by the hundreds
every year.
If you’ve ever failed to recall a movie’s name
but remember plot details or actor names, a new engine called Valossa
at WhatIsMyMovie.com is here to help. You can give it
details about a specific film and it will try to match your query
with a movie, or type a description like “adventure movies about
pirates” to get a list of similar movies.
Perhaps a
new textbook for my Ethical Hacking class? “Take Ethical Hacking,
drive the car(s) of your dreams!”
The Car
Hacker’s Handbook isn’t a guide, it’s a wake-up call to
automakers
Craig Smith
readily admits that he’s paranoid by nature. As a digital security
professional, paranoia is part of the job description. But unlike
most security professionals, Smith is committed to unlocking secrets
and demystifying what goes on in your car’s operating software.
The theory goes that the best way to improve the code that keeps your
car running is to get it out in the open and let everyone take a
whack at it.
To help enthusiasts who want to know what’s
really going on under the hood, Smith has written The
Car Hacker’s Handbook, available now in both
paperback and e-book editions from No Starch Press. The book is
currently the top seller in its category on amazon.com.
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