Day: March 5, 2019

When 2FA means sweet FA privacy: Facebook admits it slurps mobe numbers for more than just profile security

Posted on by Robin Edgar

This time, the Silicon Valley giant has been caught red-handed using people’s cellphone numbers, provided exclusively for two-factor authentication, for targeted advertising and search – after it previously insinuated it wouldn’t do that. Folks handing over their mobile numbers to protect their accounts from takeovers and hijackings thought the contact detail would be used for Read more about When 2FA means sweet FA privacy: Facebook admits it slurps mobe numbers for more than just profile security[…]

Welding glass to metal breakthrough could transform manufacturing

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry. Various optical materials such as quartz, borosilicate glass and even sapphire were all successfully welded to metals like aluminium, titanium and stainless steel using the Heriot-Watt laser system, which provides very short, picosecond Read more about Welding glass to metal breakthrough could transform manufacturing[…]

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Further demonstrating the computational risks of looking into the future, boffins have found another way to abuse speculative execution in Intel CPUs to steal secrets and other data from running applications. This security shortcoming can be potentially exploited by malicious JavaScript within a web browser tab, or malware running on a system, or rogue logged-in Read more about SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability[…]