The Coolest Talk at Defcon 25 That No One is Writing About
… one talk blew my
mind, and its surprising that no one’s been writing about it. The room was packed for “CableTap:
Wireless Tapping Your Home Network.” I was expecting it to be a DIY class that
could help hobby hackers see what’s happening on their home networks (because
Comcast doesn’t provide a way). Instead,
the scope of the talk was much, much broader and more entertaining.
Three researchers, Marc Newlin and Logan Lamb, with Bastille
Networks and Christopher Grayson with Web Sight, found 26 vulnerabilities
within ISP network devices that would have given them remote admin access to
the majority of home networks in the United States.
It’s all in the timing. Will anyone wait (or come back) to see if an
article gets challenged? On the other
hand, these jobs might help employ people fired because computers now do their
jobs.
Facebook Expands Fight Against Fake News With Automatic,
Related Articles
… On Thursday,
Facebook announced it is more broadly rolling out and improving its “Related
Articles” feature to help minimize the circulation and impact of false and
misleading stories in peoples' news feeds. Using updated machine learning technology,
Facebook said it can now identify a higher volume of potential hoaxes on the
social network and direct them more quickly to a group of third-party fact
checkers. If fact checkers review a story, Facebook may proactively show
users a unit of related articles below the original post that debunks its
claims or offers relevant context. The
related articles may also include a post
written by a third-party fact checker critiquing or contextualizing
the original story. The feature is now
rolling out more broadly within the U.S. and is extending to Germany, France
and the Netherlands. Facebook said it may expand the tool further depending on
individual countries’ needs.
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