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Daily Archives: May 26, 2021

Norway fines Tesla for reducing battery capacities and charging speeds

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A court in Norway has found Tesla guilty after it was sued by owners who complained of reduced battery capacities and charging speeds. It has been ordered to pay 136,000 kroner ($16,000) each to buyers of certain Model S owners, a judgement that could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Nettavisen .

Owners in Norway and elsewhere complained about drops in range of up to 30 miles following a 2019 software update, as Electrek reported. They also noticed reduced DC fast-charging rates at Tesla’s Supercharger stations. The issues reportedly involve 2013-2015 models and Tesla said at the time that the aim was to “protect the battery and improve battery longevity.” The company added that it would only affect “a small percentage of owners.”

Some owners saw precipitous drops in battery capacity of up to 11 percent, compared to the normal gradual declines expected. Those issues have led to lawsuits not only in Norway, but in Denmark, the US and elsewhere.

Tesla reportedly failed to reply to the suit, so the judgement was made in absentia. As a result, the 30 owners behind the lawsuit will be awarded $16,000 each unless Tesla appeals. EVs are huge in Norway, however and Nettavisen notes that there are over 10,000 buyers of the affected models in Norway — as such, the lawsuit could get considerably more expensive.

Source: Norway fines Tesla for reducing battery capacities and charging speeds | Engadget

Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme leaks at least a million citizens’ records

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Indonesia’s government has admitted to leaks of personal data from the agency that runs its national health insurance scheme

On May 20th Kominfo, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, acknowledged it was aware of a post on notorious stolen-data-mart Raidforums offering to sell a million records leaked from the Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS), an agency that runs national health insurance scheme Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN).

The Ministry said it had found leaked data and that the leak was not “massive”.

By May 21st, the Ministry stated it had identified an entity trying to sell the data and found the data itself on three sites – bayfiles.com, mega.nz, and anonfiles.com. The Ministry claimed only the last-named site had not responded to takedown requests, and that it hosted only around 100,000 records.

Later on the 21st a new announcement raised the number of stolen records to a million, said the fields matched those used by the BPJS, and said further investigation is needed to understand the nature of the data and extent of the breach.

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Source: Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme leaks at least a million citizens’ records • The Register

Mobile app developers’ misconfiguration of third party services leave personal data of over 100 million exposed – Check Point Research

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Check Point Research (CPR) recently discovered that in the last few months, many application developers put their data and users’ data at risk. By not following best practices when configuring and integrating 3rd party cloud services into applications, millions of users’ private data was exposed. In some cases, this type of misuse only affects the users, however, the developers were also left vulnerable. The misconfiguration put users’ personal data and developer’s internal resources, such as access to update mechanisms and storage at risk.

In this research, CPR outlines how the misuse of real-time database, notification managers, and storage exposed over 100 million users’ personal data (email, passwords, names, etc.) and left corporate resources vulnerable to malicious actors.

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Source: Mobile app developers’ misconfiguration of third party services leave personal data of over 100 million exposed – Check Point Research

The New Sonos One SL Reminds Us That Smart Devices Have a Shelf Life, forces you to spying S2 update

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if you’re thinking of buying a new One SL, you ought to keep in mind that it’ll only work with the newer Sonos S2 app.

This won’t be a problem for every Sonos owner, especially if you bought all your Sonos devices in the past year or two. It might be an issue, however, if you’re still operating a mix of newer and older Sonos hardware. Namely, the “legacy” Sonos products that were “killed off” last year. Those legacy gadgets will only work with the S1 app, and although Sonos committed to providing updates for these devices, controlling a mix of legacy and current Sonos gadgets isn’t possible on the S2 app.

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Source: The New Sonos One SL Reminds Us That Smart Devices Have a Shelf Life

You can’t roll back from the old update which basically only seems to add rounded corners to backgrounds and break in dark mode – except that you allow Sonos to spy on you through the built in microphone with S2.