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Facebook says it’s paused the practice of collecting voice clips and sending them to employees to transcribe and analyze. Continue reading Facebook got humans to listen in on some Messenger voice chats
Politico has a long article making the case that the lead GDPR regulator, Ireland, has too cozy a relationship with Silicon Valley tech companies to effectively regulate their privacy practices. Despite its vows to beef up its threadbare regulatory apparatus, Ireland has a long history of catering to the very companies it is supposed to oversee, having wooed top Silicon… Continue reading Why Isn’t GDPR Being Enforced?
MEP Matt Carthy wondered why the battery life on his laptop was running down so quickly… Continue reading Facial recognition fail allows politician’s kids to access his laptop
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The official website of Luas, a tram and light rail system in Dublin, Ireland was hacked on Thursday, January 3rd after a hacker defaced its homepage and left a message demanding ransom payment of 1 Bitcoin (BTC). In their deface message, an u… Continue reading Irish tram system website hacked; held for 1 BTC ransom
The website of Luas, the tram system operating in Ireland’s capital city of Dublin, has been taken offline this morning after hackers defaced the site and demanded a ransom be paid within five days.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Secu… Continue reading Hackers demand ransom from Dublin’s tram system, after Luas website defaced
What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users. Continue reading LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users
Several commercial airline pilots radioed Shannon air traffic control to report bright, fast-moving lights last Friday. Continue reading Multiple Airline Pilots Report Seeing UFOs Off Irish Coast
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An Irish national Gary Davis, who is also known as Libertas, has pleaded guilty to charges related to drug trafficking and is now facing up to 20 years in prison. Davis is accused of running the infamous marketplace Silk Road and served as for… Continue reading Silk Road Admin Pleads Guilty- Might Receive 20 Years Jail Time
Irish telecoms operator Eir is blaming a “faulty security update” for leaving unencrypted a staff member’s laptop which was subsequently stolen outside of one of its offices.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Unencrypted laptop exposes personal details of 37,000 Eir customers, faulty security update blamed
When on the road, we love to stop by a local hackerspace and connect with the hacker community. On Friday, TOG Hackerspace in Dublin, Ireland opened their doors to host a Bring-a-Hack with Hackaday and Tindie.
The city center of Dublin is anything but a grid. The cobblestone roads meander every which way and are a puzzle of one-way and surprise construction, none of which seemed to faze Google’s navigation algorithms. I was happy to be operating the smartphone instead of the rental vehicle. A big thanks goes to Jenny List for taking on the stress of driving on our …read more