The language we use could be indicators of disease and, with patient consent, could be monitored just like physical symptoms.
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Microsoft uses AI to push Windows 10 upgrade to users
From November, users running some versions of Windows 10 will be required to upgrade or find themselves unable to receive security updates.
Used Nest cams were letting previous owners spy on you
Google says it’s fixed the issue, but we haven’t heard details on how many, and which, products were affected.
Florida city will pay over $600,000 to ransomware attackers
Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay attackers over $600,000 three weeks after its systems were crippled by ransomware.
Government is exposing identities of child abuse victims
DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records – IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages.
Update Firefox now! Zero-day found in the wild
Mozilla has fixed a critical zero-day bug in the latest point releases of the Firefox web browser.
Google launches new Chrome protection from bad URLs
The “Suspicious Site Reporter” extension lets users easily report dubious sites, while a new warning flags potential typosquatting pages.
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is big news but will it be secure?
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know that earlier this week Facebook announced plans for a new global cryptocurrency for absolutely everyone called Libra.
“Deeply personal medical” records exposed online
The Facebook ad agency xSocialMedia exposed 150K medical histories, along with identifying information for the people involved.
Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD
Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-service by clogging networking I/O.