Sound familiar?
Whole Foods
is investigating a credit-card security breach
The grocery chain, which Amazon
acquired for $13.7
billion in late August, announced Thursday it "recently
received information regarding unauthorized access of payment card
information."
People who only shopped for groceries at Whole
Foods should not be affected, according to the company, which said
only venues such as taprooms and table-service restaurants located
within stores — which use a different point-of-sales system —
were affected.
Something for my Computer Security students.
There are a lot – too many – sites where you
can look up individuals’ information.
If you haven’t seen this one already, check out
https://www.truthfinder.com/
and see if you or your family members have personal information
revealed there.
If you find yourself in their records and you want
to get your information OUT of there, see:
Welcome to the “Internet of Advertising.”
I used to love just jumping in the car and heading
out for an open road. At worst, I’d have to worry about radar
traps. Nowadays, it’s smart billboards, license plate readers, and
God knows what else.
Joe Cadillic writes:
Imagine driving down a highway and seeing a personalized billboard ad directed at you. Now imagine advertisers using billboards to send messages to your smartphone.
That’s the future of’ ‘advertised spying’ in America. (Yes, I made that term up.)
An article in McClatchy, warns that a new generation of “smart digital billboards will detect the make, model and year of oncoming vehicles and project ads tailored to the motorist.”
The article ominously warns, that smart billboards can guess a motorist’s home address, age, race and income level based on the vehicle they are driving. And also claims, advertisers will be able to send messages to a person’s smartphone as they pass by a smart billboard.
Read more on MassPrivateI.
We
don’t have enough yet to form a clear picture of the users of
Facebook or Twitter (and what else?) Perhaps it will take a serious
academic study, because the intelligence services aren’t going to
publish their tricks. What? You thought the US was above such
tampering? Silly you!
Twitter
says it has found 201 Russia-linked accounts
Following Facebook’s own disclosure, Twitter
says that it has identified more than 200 accounts on its service
that are linked to Russia. Using the approximately 450 accounts that
Facebook shared as part of its own review, Twitter says it found 201
corresponding accounts on its own service. It has also been
transparent about advertisements purchased by the Russian publication
Russia Today (RT).
… In addition, Twitter says that post-Soviet
states and Russia have long been responsible for the majority of
spammy and automated content on its platform. The company has
automated systems in place to try to catch this kind of content, and
it takes down in excess of 3.2 million of these accounts across the
world every week. However, Twitter says that it is planning to roll
out several changes to the ways it detects suspicious and otherwise
spam-ish activity on the service.
(Related). Are all of these Twitter users
Russians or merely Russian dupes?
During the height of the 2016 campaign, Twitter
users shared more “misinformation, polarizing and conspiratorial
content,” than actual news stories, an Oxford University study
released Thursday says.
Researchers
found that voters on Twitter shared large amounts of content
linked to Russia, Wikileaks and other “junk news sources,” with
the help of bots — automated Twitter accounts, programmed to simple
tasks like spread news.
The study also found that levels of misinformation
on Twitter were higher on average in swing states than in than in
uncontested states. Researchers culled the information from
22,117,221 tweets collected between Nov. 1 and Nov. 11.
… The Senate
Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Mark
Warner (Va.) ripped
Twitter after the
company shared its analysis with the committee.
“Their
response was frankly inadequate on almost every level,” he said
after the briefings.
Understand what you regulate? Not in this
administration.
FCC
Chairman wants Apple to enable FM in iPhones for emergencies (update)
… FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is asking Apple to
activate these FM chips already in iPhones. "Apple is the one
major phone manufacturer that has resisted (activating the chips),"
said Pai in a statement.
"But I hope the company will reconsider its position, given the
devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria."
… Update: Apple has responded
to Pai's request with the statement below, claiming that its most
recent models don't actually have FM capability which exec Phil
Schiller also noted in a tweet.
To inspire my students.
How Sarahah
became one of the most popular iPhone apps in the world
The App Store's most
popular free app isn't what you think it is.
It's called Sarahah,
and in the past week, it's surged to the top of the App Store in
regions like Australia, Ireland, the U.S, and the UK.
Created by Saudi Arabian developer Zain al-Abidin
Tawfiq, the app is essentially a social network that lets you send
and receive anonymous messages.
This records only what you click on, so it might
be useful to demo selected features of a website.
Webrecorder
– Create high-fidelity, interactive web archives of any web site
you browse
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Sep 28, 2017
“Webrecorder
is both a tool to create high-fidelity, interactive web archives of
any web site you browse and a platform to make those recordings
accessible.”
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