Hackers appears to have stolen $28,200 from users’ accounts after phishing login credentials and 2FA one-time codes. …read more Source:: ZDNet
Amazon Is Pushing Facial Recognition Tech That a Study Says Could Be Biased
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Over the last two years, Amazon has aggressively marketed its facial recognition technology to police departments and federal agencies as a service to help law enforcement identify suspects more quickly. Now a new study from researchers at the M.I.T. Media Lab has found that…
WWE Royal Rumble 2019: Start time, how to watch, confirmed entrants, full match card and more – CNET
The Royal Rumble is this weekend. Here’s every confirmed match and Rumble entrant. …read more Source:: CNet
Harvey Weinstein documentary Untouchable lets women tell their stories – CNET
A new documentary at Sundance shows the women allegedly abused by Harvey Weinstein speak directly to us. …read more Source:: CNet
WordPress sites under attack via zero-day in abandoned plugin
Developers of Total Donations plugin have gone missing, leaving former customers open to attacks. …read more Source:: ZDNet
Pentagon Documents the Military’s Growing Domestic Drone Use
New data on the Pentagon’s domestic drone use documents 11 missions during the 2018 fiscal year. That’s up from 11 missions over the entire span of 2011 through 2017, as noted by Dan Gettinger, co-director of Bard College’s Center for the Study of the Drone. ZDNet reports: Most of the military’s 2018 missions fell under…
Is the iPhone SE the ‘Best Minimalist Phone’ Right Now?
With Apple offering a clearance sale on the iPhone SE earlier this week, The Verge’s Nick Statt decided that it was “the appropriate moment to hop on the backup phone bandwagon” and pick one up. He writes: I’ve always appreciated the classic 5S design, with its overtly rounded corners and its sturdy, not-so-delicate dimensions. It…
Open Source Fader Bank Modulates our Hearts
Here at Hackaday, we love knobs and buttons. So what could be better than one button? How about 16! No deep philosophy about the true nature of Making here; [infovore], [tehn], and [shellfritsch] put together a very slick, very adaptable bank of 16 analog faders for controlling music synthesis. If you don’t recognize those names…
Japanese government plans to hack into citizens’ IoT devices
Japanese government wants to secure IoT devices before Tokyo 2020 Olympics and avoid Olympic Destroyer and VPNFilter-like attacks. …read more Source:: ZDNet
Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: U.S. cable Internet customers are using an average of 268.7GB per month, and 4.1 percent of households use at least 1TB, according to new research by the vendor OpenVault. Households that use at least 1TB a month are at risk of paying overage fees because of…
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