Email was once the mainmethod for delivering ransomware. Now familiar and new forms of ransomware are using it again. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Month: June 2020
São Paulo subway facial recognition system slammed over user data security and privacy
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•A new surveillance system is deemed “inefficient and dangerous” as it fails to protect the personal information of 4 million daily users, associations say. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Australian government sinks AU$19 million into AI health research projects
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•The funding will be divvied up between five research projects. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Energy to join banking sector under Australia’s Consumer Data Right
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•Touted as giving consumers more power to compare and switch providers to lower their energy bills by formally applying the Consumer Data Right regime to the energy sector. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Facebook Inc says it does not have contractual relationship with Australian users
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•It said only Facebook Ireland carried on business in Australia when local users’ data were collected as part of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. …read more Source:: Legal
Apple strong-arms entire CA industry into one-year certificate lifespans
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•Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Microsoft Edge is stealing Chrome users’ data? I asked Microsoft if it’s true
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•Some Chrome and Firefox users are unhappy that Microsoft’s new browser appears to help itself to their current default browser data. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Surveilling the virus: unprecedented amounts of genetic data and smart software are tracking how COVID-19 metamorphoses around the world
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•With access to tens of thousands of virus samples, COVID-19 researchers are constructing family tress that show the virus’s rapid spread, an unprecedented view of disease. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Surveilling the virus: With unprecedented amounts of genetic data, researchers are tracking how COVID-19 is evolving around the world
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•With access to tens of thousands of virus samples, COVID-19 researchers are constructing family trees that show the virus’s rapid spread, an unprecedented view of disease. …read more Source:: Open Source S
At Amazon, it’s a ‘hands-off’ approach to continuous integration and continuous deployment of software
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•Amazon has mastered the art and science of automating software deployments, to the point where they don’t have to be actively watched — here’s how it’s done. …read more Source:: Open Source S