Zombie army of devices
“Attackers could severely disrupt America’s 911 system, a new report suggests. A botnet of 400,000 infected phones could basically disable 911 nationwide. All the [...]
Cybersecurity
No need to fake-enhance the pictures, sorry CSI
“Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits of standard [...]
A more neutral Internet?
“For years, the net neutrality debate has been at an impasse: either the internet is open or preferences are allowed. But the Stanford engineers – Professor Nick McKeown, [...]
Questionable parenting practices
As The Next Web writes: “It makes sense that an 18-year-old woman in Carinthia, Austria is actually suing her parents to get such photos taken down. “They knew no shame [...]
DELETED FOR “GOOD”? Professionals in trouble
Ars Technica writes: “One-quarter of all body-worn camera footage from the Oakland, California, police was accidentally deleted in October 2014, according to the head of [...]
DELETED FOR "GOOD"? Professionals in trouble
Ars Technica writes: “One-quarter of all body-worn camera footage from the Oakland, California, police was accidentally deleted in October 2014, according to the head of [...]
Facebook and Twitter joins the fight against fake news
I would say that using news companies to tackle the problem of fake news is really just one side of the story. I think the way ahead could be to use news and report services [...]
THE IMPERFECT SECRET premiers at ITBN CONF-EXPO 2016!
The Cyber-Secret Futurist 