It didn’t take Jordan Wiens very long to find a vulnerability in United Airlines’ network, but the payoff was huge – one million free air miles for about six hours of work.
Daily Archives: July 13, 2015
Linux creator Linus Torvalds pooh-poohs fears over Artificial Intelligence
The creator of the Linux kernel has joined the all-star cast of tech-somebodies with something to say about Artificial Intelligence but he’s distinctly off message.
WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger could by banned by UK’s newly proposed bill
Newly proposed UK legislation will demand that messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat remove encryption from their apps altogether or see them banned. 
Lad who attacked Spamhaus in DDoS attack avoids prison, given a second chance
The 16-year-old arrested in 2013 with £72,000 in the bank and the smoke from a DDoS attack against Spamhaus in the air, has been sentenced. 
Fed up with losing email to your spam folder? Gmail’s artificial intelligence wants to help
Google is arming bulk email senders with spam smarts so that you get more of the emails you want and spend less time dumpster-diving for missing email.