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Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University made a tool to prot... - 0 views

qz.com/...ficial-intelligence-from-hacks

ITGS ai control security

shared by dr tech on 25 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Sep 16
     
    "To thwart such hackers, Elon Musk's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University released a new tool this week called "cleverhans," that lets artificial intelligence researchers test how vulnerable their AI is to adversarial examples, or purposefully malicious data meant to confuse the algorithms. Once the vulnerability has been found, a defense to the attack can automatically be applied."
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Ransomware creeps steal the entire St Louis library system / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS security library system ransomware

shared by dr tech on 24 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 24 Jan 17
     
    "The criminals who took over the library system want $35,000 in Bitcoin to give it back.The criminals who took over the library system want $35,000 in Bitcoin to give it back. The FBI is investigating. The library does not store sensitive patron data, so the hack does not expose patrons to data-breach risks."
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Biometric recognition at airport border ​​raises privacy concerns, says exper... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...s-privacy-concerns-says-expert

ITGS biometric recognition airport expert privacy security

shared by dr tech on 24 Jan 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 24 Jan 17
     
    "Michael said recent threats to the security of government-held data such as the census failure should raise real concerns about the storage of biometric data en masse. "I am worried about theft, I don't buy the story that your data is safe. I think we've become almost complacent 'oh there's been another data breach. Oh they hacked in and stole the data'," she said. "Is the next phase of rollout going to be 'oh my e-health records were taken', 'oh my biometrics at border control were taken'?""
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$10 router blamed in Bangladesh bank hack - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-36110421

ITGS router bank hack policiesandstandards security policies

shared by dr tech on 23 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Apr 16
     
    "The bank had no firewall and used second-hand routers that cost $10 to connect to global financial networks. Better security and hardware would have hampered the attackers, Reuters said, quoting an official investigator."
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Hacker Claims 7 Million Dropbox Accounts Compromised, Dropbox Denies Hack - 0 views

mashable.com/...dropbox-password-hack

hacker dropbox ITGS security

shared by dr tech on 14 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Oct 14
     
    "Dropbox is at the centre of a leak scandal, following the releasing of 400 usernames and passwords by an anonymous user on Pastebin. The hacker claims the initial dump is just a portion of the 6,937,081 Dropbox accounts he claims to have compromised on Tuesday. He then requested Bitcoins in payment before he would allow access to more accounts."
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How the NSA searches the world's intercepted private communications - Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS nsa searches privacy anonymity policiesandstandards globalisation

shared by dr tech on 03 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Jul 15
     
    "XKEYSCORE is a secret NSA program that indexes data slurped up from covert fiber-taps, hacked systems, and smartphones, including "full take" data and metadata. "
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Twitter Hacked: What a Black Eye [UPDATED] - 0 views

mashable.com/...witter-hacked-what-a-black-eye

twitter plurk ITGS security peopleandmachines politicsandgovernment

shared by dr tech on 18 Dec 09 - Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Dec 09
     
    How fabulous or not - what do you think?
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New cloud hacking service steals Wi-Fi passwords - Techworld.com - 0 views

news.techworld.com/...service-steals-wi-fi-passwords

techworld.com ITGS security encryption wi-fi wpa

shared by dr tech on 13 Dec 09 - Cached
  • dr tech on 13 Dec 09
     
    Yikes this is very scary - lets all jump from WEP, to WPA to WPA 2?
dr tech

Chat with the 17 year old hacker who hacked my blog - 1 views

thenextweb.com/...chat-hacker-hacked-blog

ITGS security weblog hacker blogger

shared by dr tech on 03 Jan 10 - Cached
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  • Buka Zakaraia on 03 Jan 10
     
    Age should'nt relate to wisdom. This is funny, it made me laugh especially the snapshot.
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Hackers Reportedly Exploited Heartbleed Bug to Steal 4.5 Million Patient Records - 0 views

mashable.com/...led-4-5-million-health-records

ITGS bug hackers patient records security

shared by dr tech on 20 Aug 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Aug 14
     
    "The hackers who stole 4.5 million patient records from an American hospital network might have exploited the infamous Heartbleed bug to carry out the hack - the first time the bug has been reported to be at the center of a high-profile breach."
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OK, panic-newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone | Ars Technica - 0 views

arstechnica.com/...mware-is-bad-news-for-everyone

ransomware virus ai security peopleandmachines ITGS

shared by dr tech on 09 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Apr 16
     
    "And that means that there's now a financial incentive for going after just about anything. While the payoff of going after businesses' networks used to depend on the long play-working deep into the network, finding and packaging data, smuggling it back out-ransomware attacks don't require that level of sophistication today. It's now much easier to convert hacks into cash."
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the world wide web turns 30 today and its inventor is worried for the future - 0 views

www.designboom.com/...urns-30-tim-berners-03-12-2019

ITGS www berners-lee internet future people and machines

shared by dr tech on 14 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Mar 19
     
    "he outlines three sources of dysfunction - 'deliberate, malicious intent, such as state-sponsored hacking and attacks, criminal behaviour, and online harassment'; 'system design' which has created 'perverse incentives where user value is sacrificed, such as ad-based revenue models that commercially reward clickbait'; and the 'viral spread of misinformation'. he also calls attention to the 'unintended negative consequences' of the web, which he said had led to 'the outraged and polarised tone and quality of online discourse'."
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DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System - Motherboard - 0 views

motherboard.vice.com/...en-source-secure-voting-system

ITGS e-voting security open-source DARPA politics and government trust control people and machines

shared by dr tech on 17 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Mar 19
     
    "Now they might finally get this thanks to a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking."
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The malware that's pwning the Internet of Things is terrifyingly amateurish / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS DDOS malware internet things security anonymity

shared by dr tech on 05 Oct 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Oct 16
     
    "If mediocre malware can power some of the largest DDoS attacks ever, and considering the sad state of security of the Internet of Things in general, we should probably brace for more cyberattacks powered by our easy-to-hack "smart" Internet of Things, as many, including ourselves, had predicted months ago."
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Couple's Amazon Device Recorded Private Conversation, Sent To Friend « CBS Bo... - 0 views

boston.cbslocal.com/...zon-alexa-records-conversation

ITGS alex amazon ai privacy and anonymity

shared by dr tech on 25 May 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 May 18
     
    ""The person on the other line said, 'unplug your Alexa devices right now,'" Danielle told KIRO. "'You're being hacked.'" The couple had reportedly placed Amazon devices in every room of their house to control the heat, lights, and security system. All of the gadgets were pulled out after their colleague proved they had received the unauthorized recording."
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