Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network; leave Read more about Tails 3.0 – anonymous live OS is out[…]
Facebook’s newest patent, granted May 25, aims to monitor users’ typing speed to predict emotions and adapt messages in response. We took a look at some of Facebook’s emotion-based patents to understand how the company is thinking about capturing and responding to people’s emotional reactions, which has been a tricky area for consumer tech companies Read more about Facebook’s Emotion Tech: Patents Show New Ways For Detecting And Responding To Users’ Feelings[…]
A Dutch judge has said that the usenet provider needs to hand over personal details to BREIN (the Dutch version of the RIAA) without any reason other than that BREIN wants them or face a fine of EUR 1000,- per day. It’s pretty bizarre that some commercial entity can raid anyones private data because they Read more about Dutch Usenetprovider Eweka forced by judge to hand over personal details to BREIN without judicial oversight[…]
We present simple tongues consisting of fluorescent polyelectrolytes or chimeric green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) to discriminating 33 different whiskies according to their country of origin (Ireland, US, or Scotland), brand, blend status (blend or single malt), age, and taste (rich or light). The mechanism of action for these tongues is differential quenching of the fluorescence Read more about Artificial tongues can discriminate between whiskeys[…]
Verelox, a provider of dedicated KVM and VPS servers based in The Hague, Netherlands, suffered a catastrophic outage after a former administrator deleted all customer data and wiped most of the company’s servers. Source: Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers of Dutch Hosting Provider
With the Doubleswitch attack, a hijacker takes control of a victim’s account through one of several attack vectors. People who have not enabled an app-based form of multifactor authentication for their accounts are especially vulnerable. For instance, an attacker could trick you into revealing your password through phishing. If you don’t have multifactor authentication, you Read more about The “Doubleswitch” social media attack: how to lock people out of social media accounts and use them to spread fake news[…]
In trials, results have been 80-90% accurate when predicting whether someone will attempt suicide within the next two years, and 92% accurate in predicting whether someone will attempt suicide within the next week. The prediction is based on data that’s widely available from all hospital admissions, including age, gender, zip codes, medications, and prior diagnoses. Read more about Artificial intelligence can now predict suicide risk with remarkable accuracy[…]
A team of researchers from French company P1 Security has detailed a long list of issues with the 4G VoLTE telephony, a protocol that has become quite popular all over the world in recent years and is currently in use in the US, Asia, and most European countries. […] Researchers say that an attacker on Read more about Hackers Can Spoof Phone Numbers, Track Users via 4G VoLTE Mobile Technology[…]
Weg met telemetrie en ruime dataverzameling – het kan dus wel. Source: Wil je privacy? Gebruik dan de Chinese Windows 10! Microsoft has released a version of Windows 10 for the Chinese (!) market that doesn’t send all sorts of telemetry and private data to itself. This version is not available for the rest of Read more about Chinese Windows 10 doesn’t spy on you[…]
“Hier heb ik geen 1000 dollar voor betaald!” Source: Samsung verrast gebruikers met advertenties op Galaxy S8 – Webwereld They come with the gaming service which cannot be disabled or uninstalled unless you’re root. Considering you pay through the nose for the most breakable piece of hardware there is, this sounds like a great reason Read more about Samsung forces unkillable adverts down Galaxy S8 buyers’ throats[…]