av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 20, 2018 | Ted
Den snurrade runt ute på nätet i mer än ett år innan den upptäcktes och det tog lång tid innan säkerhetsforskare visste vad programmet gjorde eller vad som var syftet med all denna kod.
Till slut kunde en av världens mest sofistikerade datamaskar analyseras och det visade sig vara ett välskrivet och genomtänkt program med ett enda syfte – slå ut Irans kärnkrafts- och kärnvapenprogram.
Läs den fascinerande historien om Stuxnet, en datamask som inte bara hade extremt välanpassade funktioner utan som också kan vara världens mest välskrivna kod.
What is the most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written?
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 20, 2018 | Ted
”The computer is an incredibly powerful means of creative expression,” says designer and TED Fellow James Patten. But right now, we interact with computers, mainly, by typing and tapping. In this nifty talk and demo,
Patten imagines a more visceral, physical way to bring your thoughts and ideas to life in the digital world, taking the computer interface off the screen and putting it into your hands.
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 20, 2018 | Ted
Researchers said a team of hackers tied to North Korea recently managed to get the Google Playmarket to host at least three Android apps designed to surreptitiously steal personal information from defectors of the isolated nation.
The three apps first appeared in the official Android marketplace in January and weren’t removed until March when Google was privately notified. That’s according to a blog post published Thursday by researchers from security company McAfee.
Källa: North Korea-tied hackers used Google Play and Facebook to infect defectors
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 19, 2018 | Ted
Bill Gates has previously said President Donald Trump tried to hire him as the White House science adviser. A new clip of Gates talking about his first two meetings with Trump, obtained by MSNBC, may show why the tech innovator turned down the role.
Among other anecdotes, Gates is seen telling an audience about how, in both of his meetings with Trump, the president asked if there’s a difference between HIV and HPV. The crowd was of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation employees, according to MSNBC.
”He wanted to know if there was a difference between HPV and HIV,” Gates is seen saying, ”so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other.”
Källa: Bill Gates said Trump didn’t know the difference between HIV and HPV
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 19, 2018 | Ted
LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site — without the need for any password or other form of authentication or authorization — KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company took the vulnerable service offline early this afternoon after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, whoch verified that it could be used to reveal the location of any AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon phone in the United States to an accuracy of within a few hundred yards.
Krebs on Security
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 18, 2018 | Ted
Google during its keynote speech at the annual I/O developer conference last week stunned onlookers with a demonstration of its Google Assistant calling local businesses and conducting natural conversation to carry out “real world” tasks on behalf of users. It’s called Google Duplex and if you missed the demos, they’re certainly worth checking out.
Google CEO Sundar Pochai insisted that the pre-recorded calls real calls. “What you’re going to hear is the Google Assistant actually calling a real salon to schedule an appointment for you,” Pochai said of one of the calls.
But was Google being entirely truthful about the presentation? Axios has some questions.
Källa: Did Google fake its Google Duplex AI demo?
