A Tampa-bound JetBlue flight waiting for takeoff at Newark Airport was evacuated after members of the crew and some passengers received a photo of a suicide vest via Apple’s AirDrop. Although the source of the photo is unknown, someone nearby – potentially a passenger, according to a report in the New York Daily News –…
Protest continue after inflammatory and derogatory messages from Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s private group chats were leaked and published by The Center for Investigative Journalism using Telegram. The nearly 900 pages of exchanges published in an incident dubbed “Rickygate” are laced with homophobic remarks, including some aimed at singer Ricky Martin, and insulting comments…
Pioneering computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató, regarded as the inventor of the computer password and a key contributor in the development of time-sharing computer systems, died last Friday, July 12, in Newburyport, Massachusetts at the age of 93. Corbató’s Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) allowed multiple users to work on a computer simultaneously, according to an…
Facebook said in the spring it expected to pay a $5 billion fine to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and it now looks like the company will do just that in after the commission approved settlement with the social media giant for violating a 2011 consent decree.…
Driver’s license photos have been used, without users’ permission, by agents with the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for facial recognition searches. While their efforts were ostensibly aimed at tracking criminals, the information could be used on citizens who have not committed crime. “Law enforcement’s access of state databases” is “often done in…
Fear that the government will draw facial recognition technology from its arsenal of digital surveillance tools to identify protesters in Hong Kong has prompted some to take evasive action to diminish or eliminate their digital footprints. Some protesters are deleting posts on social media as well as shutting off their phones’ location tracking features, even…
More than two billion user logs containing information on Chinese home solutions company Orvibo’s customers were leaked after a database was left exposed. The company sells a portfolio of 100 smart solutions to manage energy and security systems, such as lighting systems, home entertainment devices and HVAC, in homes, offices and hotel rooms via a…
The makers of the gay dating app Jack’d was fined $240,000 by the New York Attorney General’s Office for leaking private data and nude photos. Online Buddies, Inc. was charged with failure to protect private photos of users of its ‘Jack’d’ dating application, and the nude images of approximately 1,900 users in the gay, bisexual,…
Hackers accessed emails and file sharing systems of some customers of cloud provider PCM Inc. During a May 2019 intrusion, hackers nicked administrative credentials that the cloud vendor uses for managing customer accounts in Microsoft Office365 and appeared to want to use stolen information to perpetrate gift card fraud in a scheme that resembled a…
Mozilla Firefox 69 is expected to launch a random password generator, similar to the one used in Chrome, this fall. The Firefox update is scheduled to release in early September, roughly a year following the release of Chrome 69. A random password generator is currently available in Firefox Nightly, the pilot version of Firefox used…
