Weekly Axis Of Easy #35 In this issue: YAAF0D: Yet Another Adobe Flash 0-Day Firefox flaw allows remote code execution Privacy app Telegram dropped from iTunes Store after content violation Bell Canada Data Breach (again) Google abandons “Fact Checking” system Cargill invests in facial recognition software – for bovines Welcome to Bitcoin’s Trough of Disillusionment […]
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Supervillain Blofeld Warns: Facebook And Google Are A Menace To Society
Weekly Axis Of Easy #34 In this issue: Supervillain Blofeld warns: Facebook and Google are a menace to humanity Should you be worried about being killed by a Slaughterbot? NSA deletes “honesty” from its list of core values Macleans: 2018 will be the year of cyberwar Canadian privacy watchdog on your rights to dispute search […]
NSA Has Deleted Data It Was Supposed To Preserve For A Lawsuit
Weekly Axis Of Easy #33 In this issue: NSA has deleted data it was supposed to preserve for a lawsuit Twitter notifies 677,775 users that they’ve interacted with Russian bots during election Concerns mounting over social media addictiveness and censorship Amazon opens first fully automated, unmanned grocery store City of Toronto counsellor advocates accepting Bitcoin […]
Senate Votes Today On Bill Extension That Enables Warrantless Spying
Weekly Axis Of Easy #32 In this issue: DNS Leak Disclosure Facebook to prioritize “trustworthy” news Iranian government in Chinese-style internet crackdown “Swat Call” prankster charged with Involuntary Manslaughter FBI Chief calls “unbreakable encryption” an urgent public safety issue Senate votes today on bill extension that enables warrantless spying DNS Leak Disclosure Over the summer […]
Iran Cuts Off Internet And Shuts Down Social Networks
Weekly Axis Of Easy #31 In this issue: Iran cuts off Internet and shuts down social networks Kansas man killed in “Swatting” prank UK to Google & Facebook: Hand over customer data or face higher taxes New US border rules limit scope of searches on your mobile device Review: Intel Meltdown / Spectre chip flaws […]
Special Update on the Spectre/Meltdown Intel Chipset Vulnerability
Axis Of Easy Special Update In this issue: The Intel chipset bug What and who is affected What to do about it The Intel chipset bug A security research team discovered two separate vulnerabilities in Intel chips that exploit weaknesses in the isolation between the operating system and the application layer in one […]
