Be careful what you install, even if it’s from the official app/repository store. This also goes for browser extensions, docker images, Notepad++ add-ons, etc.
Oh, snap! Just because some packages are available to install directly from the Ubuntu Software Center doesn’t make them safe. This is proved by a recent discovery of malware in some snap packages from the Ubuntu Snaps Store.
Source: Malware Found In The Ubuntu Snap Store – Linux Uprising Blog
This is the classic DDoS attack, but with a twist. Instead of spamming servers through the Internet, someone is spamming phone lines through a phone botnet. Similar to DDoS, this makes it difficult for legitimate calls to go through.
Candidates for Malaysia’s 14th general election have claimed that their phones have been hacked and spammed with calls from overseas numbers.
Source: Malaysia general election candidates slam ‘dirty trick’ spam calls; Najib orders action
Your mobile phone may be hacked when visiting a hostile website. Researchers have used the Rowhammer attack to successfully run unauthorized code.
JavaScript based GLitch pwns browsers by flipping bits inside memory chips.
Source: Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Android phone
I’ve been saying this for ages. iOS privacy and app permission handling is superior to Android from the start.
Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.
Source: Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
Great news for web security. There’s no excuse not to adopt HTTPS for your website. We have reached the tipping point for HTTPS adoption and hopefully this will encourage the rest to do so.
I totally agree with this article. Email is fine as-is. There’s no need to make it more “interactive” or “engaging” – we have the web for that. Email is one of the last vestige of the open internet that hasn’t been locked down into a walled garden. Please keep it that way.
Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.” Does that sound like a terrible idea to..
Source: AMP for email is a terrible idea
A heroic effort by the IT team from Maersk. But this just goes to show the huge impact that randomware can have on today’s businesses.
The world’s largest container shipping company —A.P. Møller-Maersk— said it recovered from the NotPetya ransomware incident by reinstalling over 4,000 servers, 45,000 PCs, and 2500 applications over the course of ten days in late June and early July 2017.
Source: Maersk Reinstalled 45,000 PCs and 4,000 Servers to Recover From NotPetya Attack
The dust has yet to settle on WebGL2 and we’re already looking at a replacement…
Apple is pushing for WebGPU, which is modelled after Metal, their graphics library for iOS and macOS.
Here’s another view about what’s wrong with WebGL/WebGL2.
Source: WebGPU demos
Whoever thought it’s a good idea to put 2 vastly different scenarios next to each other with similar looking text.
Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: “Test missile alert” and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert.
Source: Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic
Unicorn as in the mythical creature, not what VC’s think about.
Like every sentence that has the word “just”, this is at best horribly simplistic but mostly plain wrong. Let’s dive in more detail into this. If you look up simple Makefiles on the Internet, you might find something like this page. It starts with a very simple (but useless) Makefile and eventually improves it to this:
Source: Nibble Stew – a gathering of development thoughts: “A simple makefile” is a unicorn