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17 ransomware cases flagged to Singapore authorities this year: CSA - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...3394600.html ITGS malware ransomware security privacy policiesandstandards
shared by dr tech on 28 Dec 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Dec 16
     
    "That is when the alarm bells went off for Mr Ang. "I saw that there was a text file inside the encrypted folder that showed that it was ransomware, asking for payment to decrypt the files." The company decided not to pay the ransom of US$1,000 (S$1,447). Instead, it spent a week rebuilding about 3,000 infected files with data of the accounts and stocks from hard copy files."
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Study: File Sharing Leads To More, Not Fewer, Musical Hits Being Written | Techdirt - 0 views

www.techdirt.com/...inal-music-being-created.shtml ITGS intellectualproperty authenticity p2p fileshare
shared by dr tech on 06 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Jan 14
     
    "This study therefore concludes that file sharing has not reduced the creation of new original music. It may have led to fewer works as a result of fewer new artists entering the field, but it was also associated with an increase in output by those artists who chose, despite the lower returns, to devote their talents to making music. Given that file sharing undeniably promotes the broad dissemination of existing works, this conclusion suggests that file sharing is both fully consonant with copyright's constitutionally-delimited purposes and welfare enhancing."
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Google reduces JPEG file size by 35% | Ars Technica UK - 0 views

arstechnica.co.uk/...jpeg-guetzli-encoder-file-size ITGS file jpg algorithm open open source
shared by dr tech on 19 Mar 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 19 Mar 17
     
    "Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent-or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant. Importantly, and unlike some of its other efforts in image compression (WebP, WebM), Google's new JPEGs are completely compatible with existing browsers, devices, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard."
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About 129,000 Singtel customers' personal information, including NRIC details, stolen i... - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...formation-stolen-nric-14219268 ITGS singtel hack data privacy and anonymity security
shared by dr tech on 17 Feb 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Feb 21
     
    "SINGAPORE: Personal information of about 129,000 Singtel customers was stolen after a recent data breach of a third-party file sharing system, the local telco said on Wednesday (Feb 17). Singtel has completed initial investigations into the breach and established which files on the Accellion file transfer appliance (FTA) were accessed illegally, the company said in a news release."
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How Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 Covid tests in England | Health policy | The G... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...f-16000-covid-tests-in-england ITGS politics and government technology tests excel csv reliability protocols
shared by dr tech on 05 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Oct 20
     
    "But while CSV files can be any size, Microsoft Excel files can only be 1,048,576 rows long - or, in older versions which PHE may have still been using, a mere 65,536. When a CSV file longer than that is opened, the bottom rows get cut off and are no longer displayed. That means that, once the lab had performed more than a million tests, it was only a matter of time before its reports failed to be read by PHE."
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Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully 'ingesting' their books | Books | ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...lawfully-ingesting-their-books ITGS DS lawsuit openai chatgpt intellectual property copyright
shared by dr tech on 06 Jul 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Jul 23
     
    "Two authors have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, claiming that the organisation breached copyright law by "training" its model on novels without the permission of authors. Mona Awad, whose books include Bunny and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, and Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World, filed the class action complaint to a San Francisco federal court last week."
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Hide a Wi-Fi Access Point Inside a Pocket Book for Stealthy File Sharing - 0 views

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shared by longspagetti on 08 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • longspagetti on 08 Sep 15
     
    The access point itself will allow multiple devices to hook up to it so they can all share files with each other on a private little network. Then, for fun, the whole thing is shrunk down and stuffed inside a small notebook so you can stealthily share files anywhere. It's a little over the top, but fun nonetheless. Head over to Node for the full guide.
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Ransomware gets a lot faster by encrypting the master file table instead of the filesys... - 0 views

boingboing.net/...mware-gets-a-lot-faster-b.html ITGS master file security ransomware virus
shared by dr tech on 31 Mar 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Mar 16
     
    "In just a few short years, ransomware -- malware that encrypts all the files on the computer and then charges you for a key to restore them -- has gone from a clever literary device for technothrillers to a cottage industry to an epidemic to a public menace. "
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BBC News - NatWest online services hit by cyber attack - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-25262790 ITGS
shared by anonymous on 07 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • ails safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6");
  • Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); hyper-depth-st
  • 's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); Your Savings
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  • and cash machines. Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&amp;A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&amp;A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&amp;A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); <h4 cla
  • It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.
  • On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website
  • Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,
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Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 / Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 18 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Mar 19
     
    "It's been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it, but now they've admitted that all those files are lost: "As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest that you retain your back up copies."
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Creators of MP3 bring it to an end - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...mp3-bring-it-to-an-end-8851990 ITGS mp3 codec proprietary algorithm
shared by dr tech on 16 May 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 16 May 17
     
    "Two decades on, the institute has decided to terminate the licensing programme for some MP3-related patents which effectively halts industry support. Although users can still listen to their MP3 files, inventors of new technologies will probably not include the file format in their blueprints as they turn to more advanced alternatives."
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'Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...618350 ITGS memory internet delete people and machines knowledge
shared by dr tech on 23 Mar 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Mar 21
     
    "At the same time, the internet is constantly disappearing. It's a world of broken links and missing files-often because the people in charge cast things off on a whim. In 2019, MySpace lost 50 million music files and apologized for "the inconvenience." Around the same time, Flickr started deleting photos at random. Even though many of Vine's most unnerving or charming or "iconic" six-second videos have been preserved, its community was shattered when the platform was shut down. It doesn't help that the internet has no attention span and no loyalty: What isn't erased or deleted can still be quickly forgotten, buried under a pile of new platforms, new subcultures, and new joke formats. The feed refreshes, and so does the entire topography of the web."
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Google will let publishers hide their content from its insatiable AI - 0 views

www.engadget.com/s-insatiable-ai-202015557.html ITGS DS generative ai intellectual property bard google content
shared by dr tech on 30 Sep 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Sep 23
     
    "Google has announced a new control in its robots.txt indexing file that would let publishers decide whether their content will "help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs, including future generations of models that power those products." The control is a crawler called Google-Extended, and publishers can add it to the file in their site's documentation to tell Google not to use it for those two APIs. In its announcement, the company's vice president of "Trust" Danielle Romain said it's "heard from web publishers that they want greater choice and control over how their content is used for emerging generative AI use cases.""
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North Korea's paranoid GNU/Linux watermarks every file / Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 28 Dec 15 - Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Dec 15
     
    "The OS is a marvel of paranoid terribleness, with lots of marvellously bad features. The one I was most interested in is its covert insertion of watermarks into every file that it touches, either on the OS's launch disk or removable USB sticks."
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MarsJoke ransomware threatens to permanently encrypt files if a ransom is not paid - 0 views

www.neowin.net/...-files-if-a-ransom-is-not-paid ITGS malware security control system ransomware
shared by dr tech on 29 Sep 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 29 Sep 16
     
    "A new strain of ransomware has been targeting government agencies and educational institutions in the United States, through scam emails that pretend to be something important. The malware, dubbed as 'MarsJoke' by Proofpoint security researchers, reportedly began a large-scale email campaign which distributed the cryptomalware last week. The developers are sending out emails which seems to be masked as a message from an airline company."
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An &quot;ahem&quot; detector that uses deep learning to auto-clean recordings of speech / Boing B... - 0 views

boingboing.net/...n-ahem-detector-that-uses.html ITGS algorithm ai deep learning ahem
shared by dr tech on 12 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Nov 16
     
    "Train the Deep Learning Ahem Detector with two sets of audio files, "a negative sample with clean voice/sound" (minimum 3 minutes) and "a positive one with 'ahem' sounds concatenated" (minimum 10s) and it will detect "ahems" in any voice sample thereafter."
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Ransomware hackers steal a hospital. Again. / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...mware-hackers-steal-a-hos.html ITGS hackers hospital security ransomware virus
shared by dr tech on 25 Mar 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Mar 16
     
    "A month after a hospital in Hollywood was shut down by a ransomware infection that encrypted all the files on its computers and computer-controlled instruments and systems, another hospital, this one in Kentucky, has suffered a similar fate. "
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UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source | Technology | theguard... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ce-from-microsoft-office-suite ITGS policiesandstandards peopleandmachines opensource openoffice
shared by dr tech on 04 Feb 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Feb 14
     
    "Some £200m has been spent by the public sector on the computer giant's Office suite alone since 2010. But the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude believes a significant proportion of that outlay could be cut by switching to software which can produce open-source files in the "open document format" (ODF), such as OpenOffice and Google Docs."
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Wristband Lets Users Unlock Bitcoin Wallets With Heartbeats | Singularity Hub - 0 views

singularityhub.com/...itcoin-wallets-with-heartbeats ITGS security wallets bitcoin
shared by dr tech on 14 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Feb 14
     
    "We're tempted to file this one under "the more things change, the more they stay the same." A wristband, called Nymi, that taps the user's heartbeat as a biometric marker, will also double as a bitcoin wallet."
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Eye-tracker lets you drag and drop files with a glance - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...-drop-files-with-a-glance.html ITGS
shared by julia barr on 11 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • julia barr on 11 Dec 13
     
    A system called EyeDrop uses a head-mounted eye tracker that simultaneously records your field of view so it knows where you are looking on the screen. Gazing at an object - a photo, say - and then pressing a key, selects that object. It can then be moved from the screen to a tablet or smartphone just by glancing at the second device, as long as the two are connected wirelessly.
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