An attack against Instagram rather than random
users?
A weird
Instagram hack is locking users out of their accounts and people are
furious
Instagram users are complaining on Twitter about a
bizarre hack that locks them out of their accounts, and then changes
the username, image, and associated email address.
According to numerous complaints on Twitter, first
spotted by Mashable, Instagram users are finding that they can no
longer access their account because the login details have changed.
They also report the hackers changing their
profile pictures to animated stills from Disney or Pixar films, or
just deleting the accounts altogether. In some cases, hackers
changed the associated email to one with Russia's .ru domain.
Instagram said
in a blog post on Tuesday that it is investigating the issue, and
advised users to keep a strong password.
… Multiple users complained that Instagram
isn't doing enough to help them. Because their login credentials
have changed, it's difficult for the users to recover their accounts.
Are they saying that Arab Spring has mutated into
Russian meddling in our elections? (Yes, they are.)
How social
media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
To understand how
digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to
weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies
themselves.
Cooperate or else?
Tech Giants
Face Hefty Fines Under Australia Cyber Laws
Tech
companies could face fines of up to Aus$10 million (US$7.3 million)
if they fail to hand over customer information or data to Australian
police under tough cyber laws unveiled Tuesday.
The
government is updating its communication laws to compel local and
international providers to co-operate with law enforcement agencies,
saying criminals were using technology, including encryption, to hide
their activities.
The
legislation, first canvassed by Canberra last year, will take into
account privacy concerns by "expressly" preventing the
weakening of encryption or the introduction of so-called backdoors,
Cyber Security Minister Angus Taylor said.
Taylor
said over the past year, some 200 operations involving serious
criminal and terrorism-related investigations were negatively
impacted by the current laws.
"We
know that more than 90 percent of data lawfully intercepted by the
Australian Federal Police now uses some form of encryption,"
he added in a statement.
… The
type of help that could be requested by Canberra will include asking
a provider to remove electronic protections, concealing covert
operations by government agencies, and helping with access to devices
or services.
Because someone could hijack a subway car and fly
it into a building? If there is a real threat, shouldn’t they tell
people about it? Why aren’t reporters the least bit curious?
The agency in charge of Los Angeles’ subways
announced at a press conference today that it is working with the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to install body scanners
in the city’s metro system. The plan to scan the bodies of
passengers for “concealed threats” is said to be the first of its
kind in the U.S.
Perhaps a tool for my researching students…
Browser
plug-in organizes and contextualizes big news stories for readers
MIT
newsroom: “The explosion of digital content has made it hard to
navigate news today. This startup’s plug-in will cut down on time
and browser tabs, while readers search for information. Acciyo’s
name might draw from fiction, but the purpose of the search engine
extension is firmly rooted in fact. “When I was first figuring out
what we wanted to call it, I went through a list of Harry Potter
spells,” said co-founder Anum Hussain, MBA ’18. “Acciyo
was very fitting because what we’re doing is summoning information
from across the web and making it easier for you, in a similar
fashion to how that spell [in the book series, ‘accio’]
works, to be able to summon anything you need. We’re just doing
that in the context of news.” Acciyo, Hussain said, is a Google
Chrome extension that appears to the right of a screen like a
bookmark, and presents the user with an “interactive, movable
timeline of articles previously published on the subject you’re
currently reading.” The plug-in pulls from wire content — the
Associated Press and Reuters — and automatically pops open on major
U.S. news
sites. Hussain said as the company evolves they will explore
other news sources to pull from. Because the stories are from the
wire, Hussain explained, they tend to be bigger stories that would
likely be found on a publication’s front page. For example: the
nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United
States. The plug-in would include stories on Kavanaugh’s
background, his nomination, as well as earlier stories about other
candidates considered for the role…”
Some people just have to ace every test.
Spanish
driver tests positive for every drug in test
A driver in northeastern Spain has tested positive
for ‘every possible kind of drug’ after being pulled over by
police on Saturday.
Police found high levels of cannabis,
amphetamines/methamphetamine, cocaine, opiates; as well as alcohol,
with a rate of 0,60 mg/l.
I teach classes for 11 of these. Perhaps I should
ask for a raise?
The 25
Highest-Paying Jobs In America In 2018
Glassdoor.com,
one of the leading job and recruiting websites in the world, recently
published a report
on the highest-paying jobs of 2018.
… The findings of the report indicate that a
career in the healthcare or technology industries will earn you the
heftiest paycheck. Thirteen out of the 25 jobs on the list were in
the tech industry and five out of 25 of the jobs were in the
healthcare industry.
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