Day: January 28, 2018

Hackers Hijacking CPUs to Mine Cryptocurrency Have Now Invaded YouTube Ads

Posted on by Robin Edgar

As Ars Technica first reported on Friday, users on social media started complaining earlier this week that YouTube ads were triggering their anti-virus software. Specifically, the software was recognizing a script from a service called CoinHive. The script was originally released as a sort of altruistic idea that would allow sites to make a little Read more about Hackers Hijacking CPUs to Mine Cryptocurrency Have Now Invaded YouTube Ads[…]

Thanks to “consent” buried deep in sales agreements, car manufacturers are tracking tens of millions of US and EU cars

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Millions of new cars sold in the US and Europe are “connected,” having some mechanism for exchanging data with their manufacturers after the cars are sold; these cars stream or batch-upload location data and other telemetry to their manufacturers, who argue that they are allowed to do virtually anything they want with this data, thanks Read more about Thanks to “consent” buried deep in sales agreements, car manufacturers are tracking tens of millions of US and EU cars[…]

Researchers find a way to link TOR / Silk Road BTC expenditure to people using two datasets

Posted on by Robin Edgar

To do so, the Qatari researchers first collected dozens of bitcoin addresses used for donations and dealmaking by websites protected by the anonymity software Tor, run by everyone from WikiLeaks to the now-defunct Silk Road. Then they scraped thousands of more widely visible bitcoin addresses from the public accounts of users on Twitter and the Read more about Researchers find a way to link TOR / Silk Road BTC expenditure to people using two datasets[…]