Collaborate Disseminate
The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers breached two state election databases in recent weeks, and it has warned election officials across the country to some measures to step up the security of their computer systems. The Guardian reports:… Continue reading FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems
Less than a week after Facebook announced that it is changing the way it handles the Trending Topics section on the social networking website, a fake article about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was found trending on Facebook. The article, headlined “Brea… Continue reading Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics
An anonymous reader writes: Pressure from Apple to lower costs is driving worsening conditions for workers at the company’s manufacturing partners.This according to watchdog group China Labor Watch, which says that under CEO Tim Cook, the Cupertino gia… Continue reading Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories
An anonymous reader writes: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), on Sunday, successfully tested two indigenous scramjet engines. India has become the fourth country to demonstrate the flight testing of scramjet engine after the US, Russia and Eur… Continue reading ISRO Successfully Test-fires Scramjet Rocket Engine
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: Tens of thousands of subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground. Infowars, created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, produces radio, documentar… Continue reading Tens of Thousands of Infowars Accounts Hacked
An anonymous reader shares a BGR report: Cyber threats today are no longer restricted to a company’s communications and IT domains, calling for more than just technical controls to avert attacks and protect the business from future risks and breaches, … Continue reading Cyber Security Should Be Expanded To Departments Other Than IT: CII-KPMG
An anonymous reader writes: Someone broke into Opera’s servers. The Opera browser has a handy feature for synchronizing browsing data across different devices. Unfortunately, some of the passwords and login information used to enable the feature may ha… Continue reading Opera Sync Users May Have Been Compromised In Server Breach
Following a former Facebook journalist’s report that the company’s workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s Trending Topics section, the company has been in damage control mode. First, the … Continue reading Facebook Says Humans Won’t Write Its Trending Topic Descriptions Anymore
Sprint has a new “unlimited” data plan for users that want to watch videos in full-HD (1080p) screen resolution. Dubbed “Unlimited Freedom Premium” plan, it offers the same features as the “Unlimited Freedom” plan with the bonus of allowing users to st… Continue reading Sprint Charging ‘Unlimited’ Users $20 More for Unthrottled Video
Amazon is planning a pilot program in which a select group of workers will need to work for 30 hours a week, instead of the usual 40 to 70 hours, and make 75 percent of the salary + benefits (alternate source). From the report:Currently, the pilot prog… Continue reading Amazon Is Testing a 30-Hour, 75% Salary Workweek