The RISKS Digest
Volume 32 Index
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy,
Peter G. Neumann, moderator
- Volume 32 Issue 01 (Tuesday, 16 June 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 02 (Sunday, 21 June 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 03 (Wednesday, 24 June 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 04 (Friday, 26 June 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 05 (Saturday, 27 June 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 06 (Monday, 29 June 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 07 (Friday, 3 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 08 (Tuesday, 7 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 09 (Monday, 13 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 10 (Tuesday, 14 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 11 (Thursday, 16 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 12 (Monday, 20 July 2020)
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- `Friendliest,' not fittest, is key to evolutionary survival, scientists argue in their new book
(The Hour)
- Russian group targeted COVID-19 vaccine research in Canada, U.S. and UK, say intelligence agencies
(CBC)
- Cloudflare DNS goes down, taking a large piece of the Internet with it
(TechCrunch)
- Boeing's future is cloudy as it tries to restore credibility
(WashPost)
- Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking -- yup, you guessed it -- 1.2TB of user logs onto the Internet
(The Register)
- Outlook Woes: I have no email and I must scream
(Computerworld)
- The Anatomy of a Cisco Counterfeit Shows Its Dangerous Potential
(WiReD)
- Bottleneck for U.S. Coronavirus Response: The Fax Machine
(NYTimes)
- The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic
(The Atlantic)
- Machine Learning
(MIT Tech Review)
- Re: The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
(Matthew Kruk)
- Re: An invisible hand: Patients aren't being told about the AI systems advising their care
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: When tax prep is free, you may be paying with your privacy
(Amos Shapir, Chris Drewe)
- Re: Why Some Birds Are Likely To Hit Buildings
(Richard Stein, Craig S. Cottingham)
- Volume 32 Issue 13 (Thursday, 23 July 2020)
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- Russia report reveals UK government failed to investigate Kremlin
(WashPost)
- Iranian state hackers caught with their pants down in intercepted videos
(Ars Technica)
- Crooks have acquired proprietary Diebold software to jackpot ATMs
(Ars Technica)
- Major new climate study rules out less-severe global warming scenarios
(MSN)
- Is it time to reassess our relationship with nature?
(BBC)
- European Public Sphere Towards Digital Sovereignty for Europe
(ACATech)
- How Berkshire Hathaway May Have Been Snookered in Germany
(NYTimes)
- Ongoing Meow attack has nuked >1,000 databases without telling anyone why
(Ars Technica)
- Corporate giants shut down Trump texting program
(Politico)
- Thieves Are Emptying ATMs Using a New Form of Jackpotting
(WIRED)
- AT&T tells customers to change their phones or they won't work anymore
(Android Police)
- CBP does end run around warrants, simply buys license plate-reader data
(Ars Technica)
- Wattpad warns of data breach that stole user info
(CBC-CA)
- There's a reason your inbox has more malicious spam -- Emotet is back
(Ars Technica)
- Hackers use recycled backdoor to keep a hold on hacked e-commerce server
(Ars Technica)
- Uber helping public health officials contact-trace riders and drivers for Covid-19
(Forbes)
- Banks' unique pandemic problem: Now everyone is wearing a mask
(WashPost)
- The Spanish government prepares to implement facial recognition tech
(Voz Populi)
- Phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blocked
(FCC)
- CBP does end run around warrants, simply buys license-plate reader data
(Ars Technica)
- Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside
(NYTimes)
- Re: The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
(Amos Shapir, Amos Shapir, Pete Resiak)
- Re: When tax prep is free, you may be paying with your privacy
(David E. Ross, Pete Resiak, Martin Ward)
- Re: Boeing's future is cloudy as it tries to restore credibility
(Martin Ward, Gabe Goldberg, Martin Ward)
- Re: Darwin's tautology?
(John Harper)
- Volume 32 Issue 14 (Sunday, 26 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 15 (Tuesday, 28 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 16 (Thursday, 30 July 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 17 (Saturday, 1 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 18 (Friday, 7 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 19 (Friday, 14 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 20 (Monday, 17 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 21 (Friday, 21 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 22 (Monday, 24 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 23 (Tuesday, 25 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 24 (Saturday, 29 August 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 25 (Monday, 7 September 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 26 (Sunday, 13 September 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 27 (Friday, 18 September 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 28 (Tuesday, 22 September 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 29 (Friday, 25 September 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 30 (Friday, 2 October 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 31 (Saturday, 10 October 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 32 (Thursday, 15 October 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 33 (Saturday, 24 October 2020)
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- Air Force updates code on plane mid-flight
(The Aviationist)
- Alexa Causes Evacuation Panic in Boulder County, Colorado
(William Kucharski)
- Experts: Florida Voting Machines Ripe for Foreign Hackers
(John Pacenti)
- FDA Hid Names of Dietary Supplements Linked to Hundreds of Reports of Harm
(Consumer Reports)
- Censorship or Sensibility?
(The Intercept)
- Six Russians Tied to Hacks Aroound Globe
(NYTimes)
- "We've collected tens of millions of posts to underground crime forums
(Ross Anderson)
- Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
(Google)
- The Contest to Protect Almost Everything on the Internet
(Sara Castellanos)
- Researchers find huge, sophisticated black market for trade in online 'fingerprints'
(techxplore.com)
- Annoying-as-hell ransomware attack in Finland
(mikko)
- Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now
(Ars Technica)
- POTUS Twitter account reportedly hacked by Dutch whitehat
(Volkskrant)
- A shadowy AI service has transformed thousands of women's photos into fake nudes: ``Make fantasy a reality''
(WashPost)
- The AI that spots Alzheimer's from cookie drawing
(bbc.com)
- Twitter is currently down, perhaps globally
(Lauren Weinstein)
- How does Google's monopoly hurt you?
(WashPost)
- DHS, USCIS to Modernize, Define the Collection of Biometrics
(THomas Kuhn)
- Sony PS5 enables voice recording
(The Verge)
- Paleontologists See Stars as Software Bleeps Scientific Terms
(NYTimes)
- Ailments in Covid-19 Trials Raise Questions About Vaccine Method
(Bloomberg)
- Networking Theory and Superspreader Events
(Rob Slade)
- Some notes on publishing
(Rob Slade)
- Cochlear and bone conduction implants to mitigate hearing
(Richard Stein)
- 'E.T.' 1982 Atari Game: The True Story Behind the Worst Video Game Ever
(MelMagazine)
- Re: Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse
(Richard Stein)
- Re: Why cars are more "fragile": more technology has reduced robustness
(Wol)
- Re: SpaceX Is Building a Military Rocket to Ship Weapons Anywhere in the World in 1 hour
(David Alexander, Erling Kristiansen)
- Re: A different way the news is dividing America
(John Levine, Richard Stein, John R. Levine, Steve Bacher)
- Re: Continuous glucose monitoring/insulin dosing systems
(Richard Stein)
- Volume 32 Issue 34 (Tuesday, 27 October 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 35 (Monday, 2 November 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 36 (Sunday, 8 November 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 37 (Friday, 13 November 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 38 (Sunday, 22 November 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 39 (Friday, 4 December 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 40 (Friday, 11 December 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 41 (Saturday, 19 December 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 42 (Friday, 25 December 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 43 (Thursday, 31 December 2020)
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- Volume 32 Issue 44 (Saturday, 9 January 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 45 (Monday, 18 January 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 46 (Monday, 25 January 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 47 (Friday, 29 January 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 48 (Friday, 5 February 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 49 (Friday, 12 February 2021)
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- Someone tried to poison Oldsmar's water
(TampaBay News)
- Water supply control system breached and adjusted to dangerous PH level
(YouTube)
- Dangerous Stuff: Hackers Tried to Poison Water Supply of Florida Town
(NYTimes)
- Poor Password Security Led to Recent Water Treatment Facility Hack
(The Hacker News)
- Air pollution linked to irreversible sight loss: study
(AFP)
- Brain-altering bioweapons' to DNA surveillance: Experts already preparing for next biological threat
(StudyFinds)
- NPR covid variants
(NPR)
- Cannon Salute at Baby Shower Ends in Death, Police Say
(NYTimes)
- Scientists propose lithium to cope with high-risk condition in future fusion facilities
(phys.org)
- Doorbell Security Cameras Are Easily Hackable, Researchers Find
(Jim Wayner)
- Cities Sell Data From 'Smart' Streetlights
(Bloomberg)
- 'Matrix'-style bracelets turn humans into batteries
(Reuters)
- There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere -- and Now They Share a Brain
(geoff goodfellow, Gabe Goldberg)
- EAC Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0
(WashPost)
- How a Dated Cyber-Attack Brought a Stock Exchange to its Knees
(Dave Farber)
- AA21-042A: Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility
(US-CERT)
- NSA at Amazon
(Matthew D Green)
- Key TCP/IP Stacks Found Faulty, Vulnerable
(Ars Technica)
- New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Update Immediately
(Chrome Releases)
- Over a dozen Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google search results for millions
(The Hacker News)
- New version of Uptane Standard clarifies protection strategies for vulnerable vehicles
(NYU Tandon School of Engineering)
- A Bigger Risk Than GameStop? Beware the Ponzi Scheme Next Door
(NYTimes)
- Section 230 reform SAFE TECH act would shut down paid Internet services
(Gizmodo and Techdirt)
- The SAFE TECH Act would overhaul Section 230, but law's defenders warn of major side effects
(TechCrunch)
- Where in the world is mobile data?
(Andrew Yeomans)
- Beware: New Matryosh DDoS Botnet Targeting Android-Based Devices
(The Hacker News)
- British police arrest man over offensive Captain Moore tweet, giving it a vast international audience
(BoingBoing)
- Calling All Ham Radio Operators
(Rebecca Mercuri)
- You cannot be serious: electronic line judges make Grand Slam debut
(AFP)
- AI and the List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words
(WiReD)
- Data fallacies: Cherry Picking, Data Dredging...
(Dan Jacobson)
- Quantum computing hash function reversal
(Bloomberg)
- The Battery Is Ready to Power the World
(WSJ)
- Fairfax County vs Virginia on vaccinations
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: Terraria port to Google Stadia sunk by bad Google support
(Eli Griffin)
- Re: The `Dumb Money' Outfoxing Wall Street Titans
(Isaac Morland)
- Re: The calculus really is complex
(Wol)
- Re: The calculus really is complex
(Wol)
- Volume 32 Issue 50 (Friday, 19 February 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 51 (Monday, 22 February 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 52 (Saturday, 6 March 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 53 (Friday, 12 February 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 54 (Saturday, 13 March 2021)
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- Faulty Software Snarls Sign-Ups for Vaccinations
(Kellen Browning)
- Security startup Verkada hack exposes 150,000 security cameras in Tesla factories, jails, hospitals, hospitals, etc.
(Bloomberg)
- Kia Recalls 380,000 Vehicles Over Fire Risk
(NYIimes)
- Coors long outage due to ransomware
(ZDNet via Tom Van Vleck)
- CRA to lock over 800,000 taxpayers out of online accounts tomorrow
(CBC)
- Linus Torvalds fixes 'double ungood' Linux kernel bug
(ZDNet)
- The Accellion breach keeps getting worse and more expensive
(WiReD)
- T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers
(WSJ)
- Experts brace for wave of hacks tied to Microsoft email vulnerabilities
(Trust.org)
- Microsoft took nearly two months to issue a patch after hearing of Exchange Server's flaws, even as a mass-hack unfolded; some of the flaws were 10+ years old
(Krebs on Security)
- Man Sues Hertz Over Lost Receipt That Was His Murder Alibi
(NYTimes)
- Four new hacking groups have joined an ongoing offensive against Microsoft's email servers
(Technology Review)
- Study of auto recalls shows carmakers delay announcements until they 'hide in the herd'
(Techxplore)
- How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you
(Technology Review)
- Pandemic Forces FDA to Sharply Curtail Drug Company Inspections
(NYTimes)
- Russian Disinformation Campaign Aims to Undermine Confidence in Pfizer, Other Covid-19 Vaccines, U.S. Officials Say
(WSJ)
- Some turned away from Danvers mass vaccination site because of glitch
(The Boston Globe)
- Introducing Deep Nostalgia: Animate the Faces in Your Family Photos
(MyHeritage)
- Re: Software Bug Keeping Hundreds Of Inmates In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Israel adopts law allowing names of unvaccinated to be shared
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Computers get Sundays off?
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas's Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Vintage technology: 'It sounds so much cleaner'
(David Damerell, Martin Ward, A Micael W Bacon)
- Re: Incorrect train simulator a factor in train crash
(Clive Page)
- Re: Spy agencies have big hopes for AI
(Henry Baker)
- Re: Farms are going to need different kinds of robots
(Martyn Thomas, Henry Baker, Richard Stein)
- Re: Google will remove *facts* if they think they're harmful
(Henry Baker)
- Re: Too much choice is hurting America
(henry Baker, Richard Stein)
- Re: Boeing 777 PW4000 engine problems
(Peter Bernard Ladkin)
- Allan McDonald Dies at 83; Tried to Stop the Challenger Launch
(NYTimes)
- Volume 32 Issue 55 (Tuesday, 16 March 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 56 (Friday, 19 March 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 57 (Tuesday, 23 March 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 58 (Thursday, 1 April 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 59 (Sunday, 4 April 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 60 (Saturday, 17 April 2021)
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- National Weather Service Internet systems crumbling as key platforms fail
(WashPost)
- 737 MAX recidivus
(Rob Slade)
- Cosmic rays causing 30,000 network malfunctions in Japan each year
(The Japan Times)
- 100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed and They Won't Be the Last
(WiReD)
- GPS is endangered by a misguided FCC decision made during the Trump administration
(WashPost)
- Windows, Ubuntu, Zoom, Safari, MS Exchange Hacked at Pwn2Own 2021
(Zero Day Initiative)
- A Casino Gets Hacked Through a Fish-Tank Thermometer
(Entrepeneur)
- Millions of Devices at Risk From NAME:WRECK DNS Bugs
(Alex Scroxton)
- Remote exploitation of a man-in-the-disk vulnerability in WhatsApp
(CVE-2021-24027)
- ``How can a democracy function if we can't talk to one another?'' U.S. justices ask
(Reuters)
- Texas Man Charged With Planning To Blow Up Ashburn Data Center
(Arlington VA Patch)
- NYPD's Robot Dog Returns to Work, Touching Off a Backlash
(NYTimes)
- The Perils of Overhyping Artificial Intelligence For AI to Succeed, It First Must Be Able to Fail
(Foreign Affairs)
- Microchip security continues to confound Pentagon
(Techxplorre)
- 'Miss'taken assumptions lead to plane incident
(The Guardian)
- The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption
(WiReD)
- Coinbase Makes Its Debut -- and Bitcoin Arrives on Wall Street
(WiReD)
- My email account needs blockchain maintenance?
(Rob Slade)
- Scientists studying solar try solving a dusty problem
(techxplore.com)
- Plan to install green energy storage on Williamsburg roof raises tenants' ire
(Bklyner)
- Understanding fruit fly behavior may be next step toward autonomous vehicles
(techxplore.com)
- Self-driving vehicles
(Car and Driver via Richard Stein)
- Supreme Court & Facebook Unwanted Automated Texts
(Consumer Reports)
- Foreign intel services could abuse ad networks for spying
(Henry Baker)
- NJ town: Our IT vendor ate our e-mails
(North Jersey)
- Loot boxes in video games deemed close enough to gambling to warrant regulation
(medicalxpress.com)
- "Work From Home" being blamed for security risks
(Rob Slade)
- He Built a $10 Billion Investment Firm. It Fell Apart in Days.
(NYTimes)
- Marylanders could soon be fined $100 for intentionally releasing balloons
(DCist)
- She called off her Wedding. The Internet will never forget
(WiReD)
- Scientists Create Online Games to Show Risks of AI Emotion Recognition
(Nicola Davis)
- AI Comes to Car Repair, and Body Shop Owners Aren't Happy
(WiReD)
- The Foundations of AI Are Riddled With Errors
(WiReD)
- We tested the first state's vaccine passport: Here's what to expect
(WashPost)
- GoToMeeting/GoToWebinar
(Rob Slade)
- Re: Antiscience Movement Is ... Killing Thousands
(Jose Maria Meteos, Amos Shapir)
- People Count: People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health
(Susan Landau, MIT Press 2021)
- Volume 32 Issue 61 (Friday, 23 April 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 62 (Sunday, 25 April 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 63 (Friday, 30 April 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 64 (Tuesday, 4 May 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 65 (Sunday, 9 May 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 66 (Wednesday, 12 May 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 67 (Thursday, 13 May 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 68 (Friday, 21 May 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 69 (Sunday, 30 May 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 70 (Saturday, 5 June 2021)
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- WARNING to RISKS readers
(PGN)
- Tesla activates in-car camera to monitor drivers using Autopilot
(TechCrunch)
- Tesla brings the strategies pioneered by Apple to the auto industry
(WashPost)
- Tesla apologizes after man in S.China locked in his car due to power failure
(Global Times)
- A "lethal" weaponized drone "hunted down a human target" without being told to for the first time
(Business Insider)
- AI in medicine
(Statnews via Wendy Grossman)
- AI Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says
(NYTimes)
- Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame
(WiReD)
- Bug in Siemens PLCs....
(The Hacker News bia Robert Mathews)
- Cyberattack closes JBS meat-packing facilities in Canada, U.S. and Australia
(CBC)
- How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers
(The New Yorker)
- Malware Can Use This Trick to Bypass Ransomware Defense in Antivirus Solutions
(The Hacker News)
- This $5 billion insurance company likes to talk up its AI. Now it's in a mess over it.
(cnn.com)
- Steamship authority targeted in ransomware attack
(The Martha's Vineyard Times)
- Cybersecurity insurance, if you can get it
(knowbe4)
- Supreme Court narrows cybercrime law
(The Hill)
- High-tech policing: Suspect identified after posting pic of his hand holding cheese
(LinkedIn)
- Our digital pasts weren't supposed to be weaponized like this
(NYTimes)
- Will the Excelsior Pass, New York's Vaccine Passport, CatchOn?
(NYTimes)
- How do you know this isn't a fake posting?
(Rob Slade)
- Amazon "stealing" your data is not the same as what Comcast is doingxo
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Amazon Sidewalk Poised to Sweep You Into Its Mesh
(ThreatPost)
- Emergency Amazon
(Rob Slade)
- Amazon home devices may now use part of your WAN uplink for a mesh network with neighbors' Amazon Devices
(Newser)
- FCC's emergency connectivity funds ineligible for school and library self-provisioned networks
(Broadband Breakfast)
- E-Commerce liability cases could open floodgates for lawsuites, panelists agree
(Broadband Breakfast)
- Norton Antivirus Is Now a Cryptominer; Wait, what
(Review Geek)
- The Mayor of Reno Is Betting Big on the Blockchain
(WiReD)
- Oximeters used to be designed for equity. What happened?
(WiReD)
- One blessing of the Cybersecurity Executive Order
(Hagai Bar-El)
- CDC loosened mask guidance to encourage vaccination -- it failed spectacularly
(Beth Mole, Ars Technica)
- Deter prying eyes by locking your own letters
(Atlas Obscura)
- Facebook systematically censoring "vaccine concerns", regardless of truthfulness
(Project Veritas)
- Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years in response to Oversight Board ruling
(WashPost)
- Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
(Business Insider)
- Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
(Ross Anderson, reviewed by Sven Dietrich)
- Re: Risks: Colonial Pipeline accused of negligence in proposed class action
(John Bechtel)
- Re: Florida governor signs law to block *deplatforming* of Florida politicians
(San Steingold)
- Re: Irish Health Service hit by ransomware
(Patrick O'Beirne)
- Re: Why GitHub Refuses to Provide Key Evidence to a Man on Death Row
(Stephen E. Bacher)
- Re: NoScript is immoral?
(Eli the Bearded, Kaufmann, John Levine)
- Re: Security of the IMPs
(Henry Baker)
- Re: Truth, Lies, and Automation
(Toebs Douglass)
- Volume 32 Issue 71 (Saturday, 12 June 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 72 (Tuesday, 22 June 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 73 (Tuesday, 29 June 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 74 (Wednesday, 30 June 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 75 (Sunday, 4 July 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 76 (Saturday, 10 July 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 77 (Thursday, 22 July 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 78 (Tuesday, 27 July 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 79 (Monday, 2 August 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 80 (Thursday, 5 August 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 81 (Saturday, 7 August 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 82 (Friday, 13 August 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 83 (Thursday, 19 August 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 84 (Thursday, 26 August 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 85 (Wednesday, 1 September 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 86 (Sunday, 5 September 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 87 (Saturday, 11 September 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 88 (Saturday, 18 September 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 89 (Sunday, 3 October 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 90 (Sunday, 17 October 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 91 (Saturday, 30 October 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 92 (Saturday, 6 November 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 93 (Monday, 22 November 2021)
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- FBI e-mail system breach
(Reuters)
- Do-It-Yourself artificial pancreas given approval by team of experts
(MedicalXpress.com)
- International Space Station nearly struck by Chinese satellite debris
(JPost)
- DoS Sabotage by Telegram
(Bertrand Meyer)
- Palestinians Were Targeted by Israeli Firm’s Spyware, Experts Say
(NYTimes via Jan Wolitzky)
- Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving
(techxplore.com)
- Thermal Grease Degradation is an underappreciated hazard
(Bob Gezelter)
- Unconsidered automatic filtering creates damaging side-effects
(Bob Gezelter)
- QR codes, URL's, and restaurants
(Jerry Leichter)
- "Political Ads During 2020 Presidential Election Cycle Collected Personal Information, Spread Misleading Information"
(UWash)
- Algorithmic Tracking 'Damaging Mental Health' of UK Workers
(Dan Milmo)
- Scammers impersonate guest editors to get sham papers published
(Nature)
- Ransomware operators have a compliance department
(Matt Levine)
- Bipartisan bill would force Big Tech to offer algorithm-free feeds, search results
(Ars Technica via Lauren Weinstein)
- Edge and Windows 11 — the return of Microsoft's IE fiasco?
(Computerworld)
- Google 2021 AI Principles Progress Update
(Googleleapis)
- You've Got an Enemy at Chase!
(Paul Robinson)
- UK regulator seeks to improve the privacy of video conferencing
(Peter Houppermans)
- Cryptocurrency, NTFs or other such digital assets faces a quantum computing problem
(CNET)
- These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops
(WiReD)
- Cars Are Going Electric. What Happens to the Used Batteries?
(WiReD)
- Open Source Doesn't Mean More Software Is Better Software
(WiReD)
- The Era Of D.C.’s New (771) Area Code Has Begun
(DCist)
- Hackers Targeted Apple Devices in Hong Kong for Widespread Attack
(WiReD)
- This Company Tapped AI for Its Website—and Landed in Court
(WiReD)
- Contract lawyers face a growing invasion of surveillance programs that monitor their work
(WashPost)
- The next normal: Algorithms will take over college, from admissions to advising
(WashPost)
- Google loses appeal against $2.7 billion antitrust fine over its comparison-shopping practices in Europe
(Fortune)
- Caller ID fun
(Comcast)
- Debris From Test of Russian Antisatellite Weapon Forces Astronauts to Shelter
(NYTimes)
- Apple announces-Self Service Repair
(Apple via Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: Trojan Source Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
(Henry Baker)
- Re: SpaceX Under Fire After Autonomous Rocket Hits Pedestrian
(Mark Brader, Scott Dorsey)
- Re: spider bites, or Using Google search to deliver customers or worse
(John Levine)
- Facebook 3rd party single-sign-on failure
(Paul Robinson)
- After a pandemic, fire season, and now floods, are you ready to get trained for emergencies and disasters?
(Rob Slade)
- Volume 32 Issue 94 (Wednesday, 1 December 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 95 (Tuesday, 14 December 2021)
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- Volume 32 Issue 96 (Tuesday, 28 December 2021)
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