Unsupervised Learning: No. 188
Unsupervised Learning29 Heinä 2019

Unsupervised Learning: No. 188

Marcus Hutchins got off with time-served, and people have feelings. The range basically goes from 'he did nothing wrong', to, 'he should rot in prison'. In my mind this outcome was close to perfect. Remember, he went through two years of hell since being brought up charges, he's still a convicted felon, and he also is largely banned from the US. I think it's good that he admitted guilt, faced consequences, and is being offered a chance to continue giving back to the community. More

Attorney General Barr said recently that companies should put backdoors in their products that bypass encryption, or else the government will pass laws that require it. This is unspeakably stupid. Without even getting into the philosophy of whether the internet can host a private conversation (which requires a warrant to tap), we can just start with the fact that backdoors present a clear and present danger to security, right now, due to the weaknesses of those who create them. If the NSA can be hacked or somehow lose its sensitive tools and materials, there's no company this cannot happen to. Purposefully installing backdoors therefore equates (effectively) to giving such access to attackers. Unacceptable. More

Equifax is offering people $125 dollars in reparations for them losing all your data. But to get it, you have to log in and give a bunch of data about yourself. It's hilarious. They made money offering credit protection after the breach, and now they're going to collect updated information on anyone who wants to collect $125. On Twitter I called this a sadder and more permanent form of giving plasma. More

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Unsupervised Learning: No. 82

Unsupervised Learning: No. 82

Live from London, Gamestop hacked, PowerPoint malware, Chinese Apple Hack, XSS, WWDC summary, FDA approves cancer drug, heroin $51B, ideas, discovery, recommendation, aphorism, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 Kesä 201719min

Unsupervised Learning: No. 81

Unsupervised Learning: No. 81

OneLogin, Extortion, Coinbase, Pandemic, Booz, Mobile Apps, Electricity, AI voices, Sheets, Walmart, Karoshi, APIs, discovery, aphorisms, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4 Kesä 201727min

Unsupervised Learning: No 79

Unsupervised Learning: No 79

WannaCry, Intel leaks, DocuSign phishing, cockpit codes, Delta facial recognition, China vs. CIA, WordPress bug bounty, Marines and drones, HPE R&D, Watts, graduates only making 40K, China's DNA project, honeymoons vs. rings, Sherrif Eli, retirees hoarding money, boo restaurant kiosks, investing in employees, discovery, aphorisms, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

23 Touko 201732min

Unsupervised Learning: No. 78

Unsupervised Learning: No. 78

The WannaCry ransomware worm, the president's EO, Macron hacking, HP backdoors, laptop bans, Amazon releases, Chinese online commerce, CRISPR, Germany and renewable energy, beetles, dental health as social indicator, Reading superpowers, Net Neutrality, serverless, deep learning black box, The Three Body Problem, you can now support the site, The Mechanical Universe, TrueCaller, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

14 Touko 201730min

Unsupervised Learning: No.76

Unsupervised Learning: No.76

Verizon's DBIR report, Chipotle (again), USAF bounty, NSA surveillance hampered, Android hacks, Taser and computer vision, Google fights fake news, Exercise types & mental skills, Perfect pitch recording, Lifecasting, RF X-Ray, discovered links, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2 Touko 201717min

Unsupervised Learning: No. 75

Unsupervised Learning: No. 75

DoublePulsar in the wild, vigilante IoT worms, Bose listening headphones, PoS hacking sentence, Google ad blocking, best anti-aging exercises, unqualified Indian engineers, , discovered links, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

23 Huhti 201734min

Unsupervised Learning: No 74

Unsupervised Learning: No 74

Shadow Brokers, fingerprinting Netflix traffic, Magneto vuln, Juniper advisories, Amazon speaker tech, Facebook's 100Gbit optical switches, Google Hire, Minecraft currency, a solar-powered water harvester, OWASP Top 10 draft comments, remote SSH, EC2 and NAT firewalls, deep learning is a black box, discovered links, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

17 Huhti 201752min

Unsupervised Learning: No 73

Unsupervised Learning: No 73

Word 0-day, BrickerBot, iOS GIF, Russian arrested, Tizen, OilRig, APT10 MSPs, Dallas sirens, ATM drilling, Watson golf, Uber Italy, AI memory, links, projects, and more…Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10 Huhti 20171h 16min