ITV News reports:
Tesco Bank has
blocked some customers’ cards
after fraudsters seemingly targeted the banks customers.
Thousands of accounts were
reportedly affected, with many people taking to social media to alert the bank
to suspicious activity.
One man tweeted his available
balance had dropped by £700 without him making a transaction while another said
the disruption had left her “unable to feed my kids in school tomorrow”.
Read more on ITV
News.
In their coverage, BBC reports that “less than
10,000” of the bank’s customers are affected and that they had all been sent
alerts to notify them. So far, none of
the news outlets reporting on this have indicated how the fraud
occurred.
Is Russia this subtle? Possibly.
Is the FBI’s explanation credible?
If the Tweets were limited to the Hillary files as this article suggests,
no. "Never
attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice." "Heinlein's Razor"
An odd thing occurred on the FBI’s Record Vault Twitter account on October 31st,
drawing conspiracy theorists out of the woodwork. After months of being almost dormant, the
bot-powered account started firing out tweets related to various Clinton
scandals. Now, the FBI has launched an
internal review to determine how its procedures went wrong.
Specifically, the Twitter bot managed to choose this week
as the perfect time to remind people about a 15-year-old investigation into the
Clinton Foundation and to post the FBI’s file on Hillary Clinton. The first document is the most problematic. It relates to an investigation into the
Clinton Foundation and Marc Rich, who was controversially pardoned by President
Bill Clinton in his final days of office.
… The FBI says
that the timing of the tweets is purely coincidental. In response to request for comment, an agency
spokesman explained to Ars Technica that:
The problem was traced back to the software that handles
automated Twitter posts within the FBI Vault site’s content management system. The documents linked in the Twitter posts that
were already queued for posting dated back several months. When the software was updated, the backlog was suddenly,
automatically, cleared in a spew of tweets.
(Related)
Meet the Activist Who Smelled Something Fishy With the FBI's
Anti-Clinton Records Dump, and Got Internal Watchdogs Investigating
… Amid a flurry of
ho-hum releases (including the Bureau's own ethics handbook) over the next two
days, two stood out: a nothing-burger on Fred Trump, the father of the
Republican presidential nominee; and heavily redacted documents from a
15-year-old closed investigation into President Bill Clinton’s pardon of
financier Marc Rich, and the William J. Clinton Foundation.
Why is everything automatically connected to the
elections? Makes a more dramatic
story? Russia is probing
everywhere. Does anyone expect it to
stop after the elections?
Russia's Fancy Bear Attacks Microsoft, Adobe as Election
Nears
Microsoft earlier this week said it had fallen victim to
"Strontium," its code name for the Russian hacking group also known
as "Fancy Bear," which has been linked to recent attacks on
Democratic Party systems.
The group launched a spear phishing attack that targeted
vulnerabilities in both the Windows operating system and Adobe Flash, according
to Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Devices
Group.
The attack, first identified by Google's Threat Analysis
Group, involved two zero-day vulnerabilities in Flash and the down level
Windows kernel, he explained. It used
the Flash exploit to gain control over browsers, elevate privileges to escape
the browser sandbox and install a backdoor to gain access to a user's computer.
Is this based on the political divide or has social media just
pointed out that your “friend” is a complete idiot
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton supporters are unfriending
each other on Facebook
The very definition of a strategy of cheating is that you
must cheat wherever and whenever you can.
CARB Finds New Audi Defeat Device, German Paper Digs Up
Smoking Gun Document
Engineers at the California regulator CARB found another,
previously unreported defeat device, German tabloid Bild am Sonntag [paywall] reports. The paper also found a document that is bound
to affect the career of Volkswagen Group powertrain chief Axel Eiser. For
Volkswagen, the find comes at an inopportune moment. The company wants to cut a deal with the U.S.
Department of Justice, and it recently reported progress in the negotiations. The new affair “clouds the prospects” for a
deal, the paper says. The scandal also
puts Audi in the cross-hairs of European tax collectors, who usually are less
understanding than the EU’s paper tiger automotive regulators.
Boy, do I have a project for my geeks!
Christmas shopping will begin sooner than anyone wants it
to and there is no better gift to get your DIY dad than a Big Mouth Billy Bass
hooked up to Amazon’s personal assistant, Alexa—especially if you hate your
father.
Brian Kane
is a developer and artist who specializes in humorous projects. For his latest work, he’s modded up the
venerable novelty item and instead of hearing Alexa’s calming voice coming from
an innocuous glowing hockey puck, you get to look at a reanimated piece of
plastic taxidermy mouth the weather report.
Kane hasn’t given a tutorial on how he approached the
Bass/Assistant horror hybrid but Amazon does have an API available that allows users to embed the
tech in third party devices.
Why great ideas seldom make it into production?
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