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Mimic implements a devilishly sick idea floated on Twitter by Peter Ritchie: “Replace a semicolon (;) with a Greek question mark (;) in your friend’s C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error.” There are quite a few characters in the Unicode character set that look, to some extent or Read more about Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity[…]
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and are fainter than any other galaxy yet uncovered by Hubble. The team has Read more about Galaxies formed just after Big Bang viewed[…]
The EU is offering a 3 month grace period before it starts to enforce the death of safe harbour. No data of EU citizens to repressive regimes! Source: Europe’s top privacy watchdog calls on firms to curb U.S. data transfers
British broadband provider TalkTalk has admitted that all of its 4 million customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and bank details may have stolen by hackers. Source: Huge Hack Hits 4 Million British Broadband Customers
Bitcoin transactions will be exempt from Value Added Tax (VAT), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Source: Bitcoin is Exempt from VAT, Rules European Court of Justice
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have created a process that can manufacture 3D-printed teeth and braces which are actually good for your other teeth, and dental health in general. Source: 3D-printed teeth can kill 99% of bacteria
Light up your house if fire alarm or outage. Prevent break-ins and intrusions by making home look lived-in. Source: Proactive Home Protection: Safety and Security
Let’s Encrypt has received cross-signatures from IdenTrust, which means that our certificates are now trusted by all major browsers. This is a significant milestone since it means that visitors to websites using Let’s Encrypt certificates can enjoy a secure browsing experience with no special configuration required. Source: Let’s Encrypt is Trusted Let’s Encrypt wants to Read more about Let’s Encrypt is Trusted by browsers[…]
Security researchers at Pen Test Partners have found a security vulnerability in the iKettle Wi-Fi Electric Kettle that allows attackers to crack the password of the WiFi network to which the kettle is connected. Researchers say that using this simple trick and information about iKettles, they drove around London, cracked home WiFi networks, and created Read more about Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London[…]
Source: In this zero-index material — made of silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film — there is no phase advance. Instead zero-index material creates a constant phase, stretching out in infinitely long wavelengths.
This rig is able to send radio waves at an iPhone or Android with its headphones still plugged in, using the headphone cable as a receiver that picks up the radio signals and relays them to the operating system’s voice recognition software. Source: Hackers Can Use Radio Waves to Hijack Androids and iPhones via Siri Read more about Hackers Can Use Radio Waves to Hijack Androids and iPhones via Siri and Google Now[…]
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic tests, privacy advocates warned about the creation of giant genetic databases that might one day be used against participants by law enforcement. Source: Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA So, people Read more about Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA[…]
Lockheed Martin claims to have overcome a major obstacle to shooting high-power laser weapons from high-speed aircraft, saying it has successfully completed 60 Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control (ABC) laser turret flight tests over the past year. The turret uses a green, low-power laser to measure the system’s effectiveness at jet cruise speeds and at different Read more about Lockheed fires green lasers from business jets[…]
MIT researchers aim to take the human element out of big-data analysis, with a new system that not only searches for patterns but designs the feature set, too. To test the first prototype of their system, they enrolled it in three data science competitions, in which it competed against human teams to find predictive patterns Read more about Computer uses algorithms to decide what relationships to study in big data sets, outperforms humans[…]
Flat, firewall-free network was a walk in the park, boffins say.[…]They say the casino lacked even basic firewalls around its payment platforms and did not have logging. “It was a very flat network, single domain, with very limited access controls for access to payment systems,” Emmanuel Jean-Georges told the Cyber Defence Summit (formerly Mircon) in Read more about Jackpot: New hacking group steals 150,000 credit cards from casino[…]
“It appears that the focus was to obtain contact information such as names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of current and former subscribers in order to send fraudulent solicitations.”[…]“As part of the investigation to date, we also determined that payment card and contact information for fewer than 3,500 individuals could have been accessed, although Read more about Dow Jones hacked for 3 years, 3500 of 1%ers data taken[…]
We’ve all become used to the idea of ads online — it’s something that has become part and parcel of using the internet — but in Windows? If you’ve updated to build 10565 of Windows 10, you’re in for something of a surprise: the Start menu is now being used to display ads. Source: Microsoft Read more about Microsoft now uses Windows 10’s Start menu to display ads[…]
Source: MPs to hold emergency debate over politicians’ communications being spied upon hahahaha it turns out that they are not exempt from GHCQ spying after all – and now they care!
Stanford sociologist Robb Willer finds that an effective way to persuade people in politics is to reframe arguments to appeal to the moral values of those holding opposing positions.[…]Conservative participants were ultimately persuaded by a patriotism-based argument that “same-sex couples are proud and patriotic Americans … [who] contribute to the American economy and society.”[…]”Moral reframing Read more about To make persuasive political arguments, couple your argument to the opposing moral values[…]
Dridex, which seeks to harvest users’ banking credentials, apparently originates with what the NCA’s release describes as ‘technically skilled cyber criminals in Eastern Europe’, and is said to target both individuals and consumers alike. Losses in the UK to the attacks are currently estimated at £20mn. Source: FBI and NCA join forces against Dridex banking Read more about Dridex banking malware steals GBP 20m +[…]
Source: Positionspapier des ULD zum Safe-Harbor-Urteil des Gerichtshofs der Europäischen Union vom 6. Oktober 2015, C-362/14 – ULD
Depressingly familiar and stupid mistakes in EEG kit, health org’s storage of recorded brains Source: Hackers can steal your BRAIN WAVES EEG results are basically not encrypted or stored or transmitted any way securely, allowing them to be stolen, replayed and altered in transit. It’s not too much of a problem to fix, but it Read more about Hackers can steal your BRAIN WAVES[…]
Top legal experts met this week in Estonia for a drafting session of the substantially expanded and updated edition of the handbook on applicability of international law to the cyber realm. […] The Tallinn Manual process is funded, hosted and facilitated by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Source: Tallinn Manual 2.0 to Read more about Tallinn Manual 2.0 to Be Completed in 2016 | lawyers talking about hackers and calling them mercenaries with no recourse to Geneva conventions[…]
The Myo armband is a gesture control device that lets you take control of your phone, computer, and so much more, touch-free. Source: Myo Gesture Control Armband – Wearable Technology by Thalmic Labs
I know the French were collaborators during WWII, but shouldn’t they have learned their lesson then?! France wants proposed rules applied to EU citizens as well Source: Fingerprints, facial scans, EU border data slurp too tasty for French to resist