Google today announced a series of privacy focused changes that will soon come to Google Assistant. The goal is to address recent concerns about how the company was processing data of users of that service. In the past Google used contractors to listen to portions of customers’ conversations with their voice assistants. The company used this […]
On September 17th, OpenAI released their latest project; an AI that can play hide and seek. By playing hundreds of millions of games of hide and seek, two opposing teams of AI characters developed complex strategies. The characters learned to use tools and team work, basically they became toddlers, and learned to take advantage of loopholes […]
After getting roasted widely since yesterday’s announcement that the platform would be removing verification from a lot of creators. YouTube announced one day later that it won’t be de-verifying currently verified creators. “We heard loud and clear how much the badge means to you […] Channels that already have the verification badge will now keep it […]
Thousands of internet connected devices, including, printers, cameras, DVRs, and other IoT gadgets can be used to amplify DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. These devices are misconfigured to listen for, and respond to WS-Discovery protocol requests. WS-Discovery (WSD) is a communications protocol used to automatically discover internet connected devices inside of networks. Most automated service discovery […]
A team of researchers from Northeastern University and the Imperial College of London found a variety of IoT devices are collecting and sharing data. The devices the research claim are collecting users data like smart TVs and set top boxes for streaming, are also sharing data with third parties including Netflix, Google and Facebook. The […]
A hacker has published the entire user database of Lumin PDF, this contains more than 24 million users records. According to ZDNet the hacker resorted to releasing user records after Lumin PDF administrators didn’t respond to numerous queries over the past several months. Lumin PDF is a cloud-based service letting users view, edit, and share PDF […]
Et tu, LastPass? The popular password manager LastPass released an update last week fixing a security flaw that exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites. The bug was discovered last month by Project Zero, on August 29th. Project Zero is a white hat hacking team at Google who look for security flaws in consumer products. […]
On September 9, French police arrested a 20-year-old man for blackmailing thousands of people, both in France and internationally with so-called “sextortion” emails over the past few months. While his name has not yet been made public. Local French media report the man is a French citizen living in Ukraine. He’s now been placed under […]
YouTube has become a cultural measure of a songs popularity. It’s something fans, artists and labels all point to as a sign of success. Yesterday, the company made changes to the YouTube Music Charts, including how videos make it to the top of 24-hour debuts. YouTube Music Charts will no longer count paid advertising views towards the […]
Jeremiah Fowler, a researcher at Security Discovery, made a security discovery found that 198 million records from Dealer Leads were exposed to the public in a non password protected database. The exposed data is comprised of names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses and identifiable information, including data purchased from other venders. Fowler says […]