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Amazon Ring workers fired for accessing user video
The Amazon-owned company Ring, which makes home-security devices, has admitted firing four employees for accessing users' videos.
It was revealed in a letter sent to US senators, in response to questions about the company's security practices. In each case, the employees were authorised to view videos but access "exceeded what was necessary for their job functions". Ring faces questions about the security and privacy of its devices. In November, five Democratic senators sent a letter to Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos with a range of questions about security, including why employees in Ring's Ukrainian office, where it conducts research and development, had access to customer video data. -
https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/aws-issues-urgent-warning-for-database-users-to-update-certs/d/d-id/1336766
AWS Issues 'Urgent' Warning for Database Users to Update Certs
*Users of AWS Aurora, DocumentDB, and RDS databases must download and install a fresh certificate and rotate the certificate authority.Amazon Web Services has issued an "important" warning to users of its Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) databases, urging them to update their certificates by January 14, 2020.*
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who is honestly using SHA1
What do we need to use instead? AES?
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who is honestly using SHA1
What do we need to use instead? AES?
AES, SHA256 or literally anything else that is modern. SHA1 is old and dead like windows 2000.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who is honestly using SHA1
What do we need to use instead? AES?
AES, SHA256 or literally anything else that is modern. SHA1 is old and dead like windows 2000.
XTS-AES 128 is all you need.
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CES 2020: Segway’s prototype wheelchair crashes at tech show
Segway's prototype wheelchair crashed during a demonstration at the CES tech show.
The S-Pod - a self-balancing electric wheelchair - was being tested by a journalist at the time. The rider had accelerated the vehicle before accidently crashing into a wall. Its maximum speed is 24mph (38km/h). The company said no one was injured. The crash made the S-Pod unavailable for further demos, but analysts say the company should not face lasting damage. "In no way is a [malfunction] a total loss. It is still a sign to the public that the company is close to the finished product," said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research. The S-Pod is designed to be driven in enclosed spaces such as airports, theme parks and work campuses. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
CES 2020: Segway’s prototype wheelchair crashes at tech show
Segway's prototype wheelchair crashed during a demonstration at the CES tech show.
The S-Pod - a self-balancing electric wheelchair - was being tested by a journalist at the time. The rider had accelerated the vehicle before accidently crashing into a wall. Its maximum speed is 24mph (38km/h). The company said no one was injured. The crash made the S-Pod unavailable for further demos, but analysts say the company should not face lasting damage. "In no way is a [malfunction] a total loss. It is still a sign to the public that the company is close to the finished product," said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research. The S-Pod is designed to be driven in enclosed spaces such as airports, theme parks and work campuses.Now we are 1 step closer to the vision of the future presented by the movie Wall-E.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
CES 2020: Segway’s prototype wheelchair crashes at tech show
Segway's prototype wheelchair crashed during a demonstration at the CES tech show.
The S-Pod - a self-balancing electric wheelchair - was being tested by a journalist at the time. The rider had accelerated the vehicle before accidently crashing into a wall. Its maximum speed is 24mph (38km/h). The company said no one was injured. The crash made the S-Pod unavailable for further demos, but analysts say the company should not face lasting damage. "In no way is a [malfunction] a total loss. It is still a sign to the public that the company is close to the finished product," said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research. The S-Pod is designed to be driven in enclosed spaces such as airports, theme parks and work campuses.So it works just like all of their other products. Smashing people into walls is like a hallmark of using those things.
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Microsoft ends Windows 7 support: What should you do?
Cyber-security experts are urging Windows 7 users to upgrade their operating system.
Microsoft is going to stop supporting Windows 7 from Tuesday so that it can focus on "newer technologies". As a result, Windows 7 users will no longer receive the all-important security updates and patches that keep their machines safe. One in four Windows users is running Windows 7, according to statistics website StatCounter. It means that Microsoft is ending the cat-and-mouse game with hackers seeking to exploit software bugs in the Windows 7 operating system. If perpetrators find a flaw in Windows 7, Microsoft will not fix it. Without continued software and security updates, Windows 7 machines are more likely to be infected with viruses and malware, Microsoft wrote on its website. -
Grindr and Twitter face 'out of control' complaint
Dating app Grindr and a Twitter-owned advertising-tech firm have been accused of unlawfully sharing users' data.
It is part of a wider investigation by the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) into the "out of control" advertising industry and profiling of customers. Along with four other ad-tech companies, they face huge fines if found to be in breach of EU data laws. Grindr has yet to respond but Twitter said it had temporarily disabled the relevant account. "We are currently investigating this issue to understand the sufficiency of Grindr's consent mechanism. In the meantime, we have disabled Grindr's MoPub account," it told BBC News. -
Trump launches fresh attack on Apple over privacy
US President Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Apple.
He tweeted that the company was refusing to unlock iPhones "used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements". On Monday US Attorney General William Barr accused Apple of not being helpful in an inquiry into a shooting that is being treated as a terrorist act. It is the latest in a series of clashes between the White House and technology giants over access to data. Mr Trump accused Apple of refusing to co-operate with investigators despite his administration helping the company on trade and other issues. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Trump launches fresh attack on Apple over privacy
US President Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Apple.
He tweeted that the company was refusing to unlock iPhones "used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements". On Monday US Attorney General William Barr accused Apple of not being helpful in an inquiry into a shooting that is being treated as a terrorist act. It is the latest in a series of clashes between the White House and technology giants over access to data. Mr Trump accused Apple of refusing to co-operate with investigators despite his administration helping the company on trade and other issues.Does anyone actually expect the President of the US or William Barr to understand how encryption works? Trump doesn't understand how umbrella's work. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Trump launches fresh attack on Apple over privacy
US President Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Apple.
He tweeted that the company was refusing to unlock iPhones "used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements". On Monday US Attorney General William Barr accused Apple of not being helpful in an inquiry into a shooting that is being treated as a terrorist act. It is the latest in a series of clashes between the White House and technology giants over access to data. Mr Trump accused Apple of refusing to co-operate with investigators despite his administration helping the company on trade and other issues.Does anyone actually expect the President of the US or William Barr to understand how encryption works? Trump doesn't understand how umbrella's work. . .
fail - lol - I was fully expecting to see him fail at trying to close it - in this case, he was simply lazy, or smart enough to know he doesn't know how to close it - and therefore instead of looking a fool, it was better to simply look lazy.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Trump launches fresh attack on Apple over privacy
US President Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Apple.
He tweeted that the company was refusing to unlock iPhones "used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements". On Monday US Attorney General William Barr accused Apple of not being helpful in an inquiry into a shooting that is being treated as a terrorist act. It is the latest in a series of clashes between the White House and technology giants over access to data. Mr Trump accused Apple of refusing to co-operate with investigators despite his administration helping the company on trade and other issues.Does anyone actually expect the President of the US or William Barr to understand how encryption works? Trump doesn't understand how umbrella's work. . .
fail - lol - I was fully expecting to see him fail at trying to close it - in this case, he was simply lazy, or smart enough to know he doesn't know how to close it - and therefore instead of looking a fool, it was better to simply look lazy.
That would be one thing if he acted like a boss and just dropped it and kept on walking, instead he stands there holding onto it for a bit too long like "Should I really just leave this here as I have no clue how it works?"
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Did anyone else notice the little hand-rail tapping thing he did there as he was walking up the stairs too. What was that about?
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Did anyone else notice the little hand-rail tapping thing he did there as he was walking up the stairs too. What was that about?
singing hail to the chief to himself..
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Did anyone else notice the little hand-rail tapping thing he did there as he was walking up the stairs too. What was that about?
singing hail to the chief to himself..
haha
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Turkey's Wikipedia ban ends after almost three years
Turkey is restoring access to Wikipedia after a ban that lasted almost three years.
The country's Constitutional Court ruled that the ban violated freedom of expression, the pro-government newspaper Milliyet reported. The online encyclopaedia was blocked in Turkey in April 2017, after it refused to delete articles critical of the country's government. The ban lasted 991 days, said internet-monitoring organisation NetBlocks.org.The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the service, had refused to remove articles that said Turkey's government had cooperated with the so-called Islamic State (IS) group and al-Qaeda in Syria. -
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