Day: December 14, 2018

ZipRecruiter has been flying low: User email addresses exposed to unauthorised accounts

Looking for work? Spammers could well be looking for you Tinder for job-seekers ZipRecruiter has copped to a data breach after the names and email addresses of job-seekers were flung to the wind in a permissions screw-up.… …read more Source:: Register


Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users

A day after hosting a pop-up store in New York City’s Bryant Park to explain how privacy is the “foundation of the company,” Facebook disclosed that a security flaw potentially exposed the public and private photos of as many as 6.8 million users to developers. From a report: On Friday, the Menlo Park, California-based company…


Google brings fossils and artifacts back to life after fire destroys Brazilian museum – CNET

Brazil’s Museu Nacional caught fire in September, destroying millions of historical pieces. …read more Source:: CNet


9 best apps for building presentations in iOS – CNET

You can create presentations from an iPhone or iPad, with nearly all the bells and whistles to make them more visual and less boring. …read more Source:: CNet


Better get cramming… Xamarin University due to close early next year

Orphaned cross-platform code students, your new home is Microsoft Learn Cross-platform dev darling Xamarin is to shutter its online University in favour of Microsoft Learn as its absorption into the Windows giant continues.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Facebook Flaw Exposes Private Photos for 6.8M Users

The bug allowed 1,500 apps built by 876 developers to view users’ unposted “draft” photos. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Nintendo SNES and NES Classic: ‘Once they sell out, they’re gone’ – CNET

Get ’em while you can. …read more Source:: CNet


Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors

Chinese hackers are breaching Navy contractors to steal everything from ship-maintenance data to missile plans, triggering a top-to-bottom review of cyber vulnerabilities, WSJ reported Friday, citing officials and experts. From the report: A series of incidents in the past 18 months has pointed out the service’s weaknesses, highlighting what some officials have described as some…


Anki’s Vector, the adorable mini robot, is getting Alexa – CNET

The software update will arrive on Dec. 17. …read more Source:: CNet


Cloud giants, enterprise refreshes keep storage market poppin’: Global sales up 20% in Q3

IBM and Hitachi fail to surf crest of spending wave as rivals seize the day IDC’s Q3 storage tracker numbers show a tier of the tech industry growing by almost a fifth versus the same period a year ago, though not all of the big players are keeping pace. Looking at you IBM and Hitachi.……