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The basic deal offered by social media companies to their users runs like this: “We give you tools to publish whatever you want, and then we take the revenues that result from that. You get the personal satisfaction and the warm glow that comes from seeing your holiday pictures, your home movies or your cute cats online, and we bank the cash we earn from selling your data-trails and profiles to advertisers.”
AtHome Camera is “a remote video surveillance app which turns your personal computer, smart TV/set-top box, smart phone, and tablet into a professional video monitoring system in a minute.”
The vulnerabilities found are:
Hard-coded username and password – telnet
Hard-coded username and password – Web server
Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Die Moral der Geschichte besteht natürlich darin, dass man sich – ganz besonders als politischer Entscheidungsträger – keinesfalls von der 99,5%igen Trefferquote blenden lassen darf, sondern sich vielmehr bewusst machen sollte, dass es bei jeder Form anlassloser Massenüberwachung allein aufgrund des extremen Missverhältnisses zwischen gesetzestreuen Bürgern und Straftätern unausweichlich ist, dass viele, viele Unbescholtene ins Visier von Behörden geraten. Selbst dann, wenn das System nahezu fehlerfrei (99,5%!) funktioniert.
Digital. Einfach. Sicher: So soll das besondere elektronische Anwaltspostfach funktionieren. Die Sicherheit des Systems wurde durch einen schweren Fehler ausgehebelt.
Brüssel sagt dem digitalen Proletariat den Kampf an: Arbeiter, die über Online-Plattformen wie Uber, "Mechanical Turk" oder Deliveroo "auf Abruf" beschäftigt sind, sollen mehr Rechte erhalten
Ein Bündnis aus 15 Bürgerrechtsorganisationen, Datenschutzinitiativen, Parteien und Demokratieprojekten fordert in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung die Grünen und den gesamten Hessischen Landtag auf, der Reform des Verfassungsschutzgesetzes in der derzeitigen Form nicht zuzustimmen.
Das geplante Verfassungsschutzgesetz für Hessen sei die freiheitsfeindlichste Regelung zur Arbeit eines Geheimdiensts in Deutschland, heißt es in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung. Mit Befremden habe das Bündnis zur Kenntnis genommen, dass die Grünen-Fraktion das Gesetz im Landtag vorantreibe, obwohl die Landesmitgliederversammlung der Partei noch im November das Gesetz abgelehnt habe.
Ein Zertifikat, dass vom Localhost signiert wird: Blizzard installiert ein Zertifikat mit Root-Rechten auf den Rechern seiner Nutzer - ohne Begründung oder Information. Auf Reddit erhitzten sich die Gemüter, sodass Blizzard sich doch noch erklären musste.
Der Chinese verkaufte die Tunnelverbindungen an Tausende Kunden. Die harsche Strafe ist der Höhepunkt einer Kampagne der chinesischen Regierung, das Internet völlig zu kontrollieren.
That being said if even humans can’t necessarily always agree with what makes a good photo, can AI do a better job? That’s something that Google wants to try and figure out, by using convolution neural networks to help AI identify photos that we humans rate as good or attractive.
According to Google, “Our proposed network can be used to not only score images reliably and with high correlation to human perception, but also it is useful for a variety of labor intensive and subjective tasks such as intelligent photo editing, optimizing visual quality for increased user engagement, or minimizing perceived visual errors in an imaging pipeline
Nissan Canada's vehicle-financing wing has been hacked, putting personal information on as many as 1.13 million customers in the hands of miscreants
Two of the five unnamed individuals cuffed this monthin Romania on suspicion of spreading ransomware face US computer crime charges – for their alleged role in taking over 123 out of 187 networked computers that control Washington DC's CCTV cameras earlier this year.…
Homeland Security’s controversial airport face-scanners could be inaccurate or unlawful, report says
The report, from Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology, criticizes the scope and execution of Homeland Security’s biometric exit pilot program. The program, currently running at nine airports around the country, uses facial recognition technology to identify passengers leaving on international flights. Homeland Security says the program, which it plans to expand, can catch travelers fraudulently using another person’s personal documents.
The Australian government's open data initiative is in the laudable business of publishing publicly accessible data about the government's actions and spending, in order to help scholars, businesses and officials understand and improve its processes.
Facebook has announced it will no longer use Disputed Flags to identify false news. Starting from today, the company will use its Related Articles tool instead to combat misinformation in the News Feed, which it says gives people more context about the story, with the added benefit of reducing the frequency a hoax article is shared.
Facebook has just come under even more scrutiny today for its lack of oversight into algorithmic ad targeting following a new joint investigation from The New York Times and ProPublica, this time focused on potential age discrimination. Similar to how ProPublica illustrated last year and again just last month how housing ads on Facebook could exclude users by so-called “ethnic” and “multicultural” affinities, this new report shows how the social network also lets advertisers exclude certain age groups for job ads
study published this year traces policing outcomes in Las Vegas between Sept 2014 and Oct 2015, comparing the conduct of 200 officers who wore bodycams and 200 who did no
One of the NSA’s most important surveillance authorizations is set to expire on December 31st, and all year, reformers have been looking at the reauthorization as a way to pare back the agency’s powers. But after months of negotiating terms, Congress is now preparing a bill with none of the proposed limits, and a number of troubling new measures that say could greatly expand the agency’s power.
Google is way ahead of the competition when it comes to the detail and complexity of its maps, writes Justin O’Beirne, and its thanks to a relentless program of turning satellite and street view imagery into accurate 3D models of buildings. It knows where your rooftop AC units are, and it's showing them to the world. And it's now calculating the most interesting groups of buildings and depicting them as algorithmically-generated "areas of interest."
In CaliBurger-Restaurants können Mitglieder des Treueprogramms Bestellungen an Automaten mit Gesichtserkennung aufgeben und bezahlen.
Der Skandal um entzogene Akkreditierungen von Journalisten, die über den G20-Gipfel in Hamburg berichten wollten, zieht eine gründliche Überprüfung nach sich. Ersten Prüfergebnisse zu Folge war das Vorgehen der Polizeibehörden rechtswidrig.