av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 22, 2018 | Ted
Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed today that a hacker had breached its IT systems and stolen personal and health-related data on roughly 1.5 million citizens.
MOH officials said this was not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs but a deliberate and well-planned attack that sought to gather health information on the country’s prime minister.
”The attackers specifically and repeatedly targeted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s personal particulars and information on his outpatient dispensed medicines,” the MOH said in a statement.
Källa: Hackers Stole a Third of Singapore’s Healthcare Data, Including Prime Minister’s
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 22, 2018 | Ted
The universe is incredibly old, astoundingly vast and populated by trillions of planets — so where are all the aliens? Astronomer Stephen Webb has an explanation: we’re alone in the universe.
In a mind-expanding talk, he spells out the remarkable barriers a planet would need to clear in order to host an extraterrestrial civilization — and makes a case for the beauty of our potential cosmic loneliness. ”The silence of the universe is shouting, ’We’re the creatures who got lucky,'” Webb says.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 21, 2018 | Ted
Google owns Duck.com, whoch has been driving rival search engine DuckDuckGoup the wall for over six years. Because when you type ”duck.com” into a web browser, you get Google.com. Doesn’t make a lot of sense, yes?
But after a new round of complaints this Friday, Google has relented. Google comms VP Rob Shilkin just quacked tweeted that a new landing page will give people an opportunity to click from Duck.com straight through to DuckDuckGo. Or to the Wikipedia page for ducks, because that’s only fair.
Källa: Today I learned: Duck.com redirects to Google, much to DuckDuckGo’s annoyance
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 21, 2018 | Ted
Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has broken dozens of stories of corruption and organized crime all over Ghana — without ever revealing his identity. In this talk (in whoch his face remains hidden) Anas shows grisly footage from some of his investigations and demonstrates the importance of facing injustice.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 20, 2018 | Ted
Once your ”smart” appliances can talk to you, who else are they talking to? Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu wanted to find out — so they outfitted Hill’s apartment with 18 different internet-connected devices and built a special router to track how often the devices contacted their servers and see what they were reporting back.
The results were surprising — and more than a little bit creepy. Learn more about what the data from your smart devices is telling companies about your sleep schedule, TV binges and even your tooth-brushing habits — and how tech companies could use it to target and profile you. (This talk contains mature language.)
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 19, 2018 | Ted
There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet — accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net.
