An old laptop or desktop computer that’s seen better days might still have a little bit of use left in it for a dedicated task. Grabbing a lightweight flavor of Linux and running a web server, firewall, or Super Nintendo emulator might get a few more years out of it. You can also get pretty…
New side-channel leak: Boffins bash operating system page caches until they spill secrets
Novel data-siphoning attack is hardware agnostic Some of the computer security boffins who revealed last year’s data-leaking speculative-execution holes have identified yet another side-channel attack that can bypass security protections in modern systems.… …read more Source:: Register
Pepsi Is Testing a Snack Delivery Robot On Select College Campuses
MojoKid writes: College students used to have to fend for themselves at the campus convenient store but soon may have the snacks coming to them courtesy of a new delivery service. The PepsiCo Hello Goodness Snackbot, an autonomous delivery robot, will now run snacks around select college campuses to satiate whatever case of the munchies…
Apple support phishing scams are getting really good – CNET
Be warned. …read more Source:: CNet
Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service
Researchers at the University of Maryland have managed to trick Google’s reCaptcha system by using Google’s own speech-to-text service. “[The researchers] claim that their CAPTCHA-fooling method, unCaptcha, can fool Google’s reCaptcha, one of the most popular CAPTCHA systems currently used by hundreds of thousands of websites, with a 90 percent success rate,” reports Motherboard. From…
California makes it illegal to charge more for car insurance based on gender – Roadshow
This legislation follows in the footsteps of similar laws put on the books in the state for healthcare a decade ago. …read more Source:: CNet
Amazon has sold more than 100 million Alexa devices – CNET
Holiday sales of the Echo Dot also exceeded Amazon’s expectations. …read more Source:: CNet
YouTube’s Biggest Stars Are Pushing a Shady Polish Gambling Site
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: Untold riches are promised on Mystery Brand, a website that sells prize-filled “mystery boxes.” If you buy one of the digital boxes, some of which cost hundreds of dollars, you might only get a fidget spinner — or you might get a luxury sports car….
A Foggy Lightsaber Build
Lightsabers have enchanted audiences since their appearance in the very first Star Wars film in 1977. Unfortunately, George Lucas hasn’t shared the technology in the years since then with the broader public, so we’re left to subsist on pale imitations. This is just such a build. The closest human analog to Jedi technology is the…
Fake ‘U’s! Phishing creeps use homebrew fonts as message ciphers to evade filters
fg xjc dua ihut vyfq, xjc uih jci sfat jg mjggfa A new phishing campaign that uses a custom font to hide its tracks and evade detection has been uncovered.… …read more Source:: Register
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