Day: September 19, 2019

Smart TVs, smart-home devices found to be leaking sensitive user data to all kinds of companies

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Smart-home devices, such as televisions and streaming boxes, are collecting reams of data — including sensitive information such as device locations — that is then being sent to third parties like advertisers and major tech companies, researchers said Tuesday. As the findings show, even as privacy concerns have become a part of the discussion around Read more about Smart TVs, smart-home devices found to be leaking sensitive user data to all kinds of companies[…]

A Moon Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible and Inexpensive: Study

Posted on by Robin Edgar

In a paper published on the online research archive arXiv in August, Columbia astronomy students Zephyr Penoyre and Emily Sandford proposed the idea of a “lunar space elevator,” which is exactly what it sounds like—a very long elevator connecting the moon and our planet. The concept of a moon elevator isn’t new. In the 1970s, Read more about A Moon Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible and Inexpensive: Study[…]

Scotiabank slammed for ‘muppet-grade security’ after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Scotiabank leaked online a trove of its internal source code, as well as some of its private login keys to backend systems, The Register can reveal. Over the past 24 hours, the Canadian financial giant has torn down GitHub repositories, inadvertently left open to the public, that contained this sensitive information, after The Register raised Read more about Scotiabank slammed for ‘muppet-grade security’ after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet[…]