Bank of Russia disclaims reports hackers steal 2bln rubles
from its correspondent accounts
The Bank of Russia (central bank) has disclaimed the
reports hackers stole two billion rubles ($30.8 million) from its correspondent
accounts.
"The reports about stolen two billion rubles from the
Bank of Russia’s correspondent accounts in a hacker attack are not true to
life," the regulator’s press service told TASS on Saturday. "The review of financial stability, which
was presented on Friday evening, the Bank reported the losses commercial banks
and their clients suffered in hacker attacks during the year 2016."
It’s never ‘opt-in’ is it.
Uber Now Tracks You After Your Ride: Here's How to Stop That
Uber is now tracking your location even after you leave
the car. A location-tracking feature
that the ride-sharing company proposed last year has gone live, despite fierce
opposition from privacy advocates.
The good news is that you can turn it off; the bad news is
that the process is trickier than it should be.
The Naked Security blog from Sophos, a British security
firm, has all the details.
Does this suggest they have not been sharing information
the Philippines needs?
Philippines Asks for $81 Million Cyber Heist Probe Results
The Philippines asked Bangladesh for the results of its
investigation into a $81 million cyber heist as it commits to help the
Bangladesh central bank recover stolen reserves, Finance Secretary Carlos
Dominguez said in a statement.
… “We are pursuing
lawsuits on your behalf, actually, as vigorously as we can.”
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Governor Nestor
Espenilla asked Bangladesh officials for a full report on the investigation to
strengthen the Philippine government’s position on behalf of Bangladesh in the
court proceedings, the Department of Finance said in the statement. The Bangladesh officials have committed to
sending updates on the probe, it said.
For my Governance and Architecture students:
“We carefully tested their software and we now conclude
that our test was not very careful.”
“We took their word for it but ow we are taking Google’s
word for it.”
Android phone maker Blu pledges to replace Chinese software
that stole user data
Blu, the Florida-based maker of budget Android phones,
says it’s swapping out the Chinese update software that stole user data for
Google-approved software, according to a report
in PCMag. The issue, first unveiled
last month by security firm Kryptowire, was a firmware-updating application
that monitored user communications and even sent back text messages to a
keyword-searchable archive on a Chinese server.
… According to Blu
CEO Sammy Ohev-Zion, the company will "not install third-party
applications where we don't have the source code and don't understand the
behavior.” Blu is also planning on
updating its privacy policy to clarify the type of data its firmware-updating
tools gather. Shanghai Adups Technology
Co., the Chinese app maker in question, claims its data collection tool was not
designed for US phones, and that the data has since been deleted.
Muslims today, ______________ tomorrow. (Pick anything, you won’t be wrong for long.)
Sam Biddle reports:
Every American corporation, from
the largest conglomerate to the smallest firm, should ask itself right now:
Will we do business with the Trump administration to further its most extreme,
draconian goals? Or will we resist?
This question is perhaps most
important for the country’s tech companies, which are
particularly valuable partners for a budding authoritarian. The Intercept contacted nine of the
most prominent such firms, from Facebook to Booz Allen Hamilton, to ask if they
would sell their services to help create a national Muslim registry, an idea
recently resurfaced by Donald Trump’s transition team. Only Twitter said no.
Read more on The
Intercept.
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