A new poll has revealed what Americans really think about UFOs, Area 51 and government cover-ups. Last month we reported that the UK’s Royal Air Force… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334540/61-of-americans-want-full-ufo-disclosure…
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YouTube Reveals Revenue For First Time: $15.1 Billion In 2019
For the first time, Google revealed that YouTube generated $15.1 billion in ad revenue in fiscal 2019, including $4.7 billion in the fourth quarter. The company disclosed the numbers in its quarterly earnings report, which also included fiscal 2019. From The Hollywood Reporter: Until now, Google and parent company Alphabet had folded YouTube’s revenue in with Google. “To provide further insight…
IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO, Replacing Ginni Rometty
An anonymous reader writes: IBM named Arvind Krishna as chief executive officer, replacing longtime CEO Virginia Rometty. Krishna, 57, is currently the head of IBM’s cloud and cognitive software unit and was a principal architect of the company’s purchase of Red Hat, which was completed last year. Rometty, 62, will continue as executive chairman and serve through the end of the…
Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs on Security: In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from…
Do Proof-of-Concept Exploits Do More Harm Than Good?
secwatcher writes:
When it comes to the release of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits, more security experts agree that the positives outweigh the negatives, according to a recent and informal Threatpost poll. In fact, almost 60 percent of 230 security pundits thought it was a “good idea” to publish PoC code for zero days. Up to 38 percent of respondents, meanwhile, argued it wasn’t…
Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos’ Phone ‘Hacked By Saudi Crown Prince’
According to the Guardian, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had his phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. From the report: The encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman is believed to have included a malicious file that infiltrated the phone of the world’s richest man,…
Microsoft Patches Major Windows 10 Vulnerability After NSA Warning
Microsoft on Tuesday patched an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. The vulnerability was spotted and reported by the NSA. CNBC reports: The flaw affected encryption of digital signatures used to authenticate content, including software or files. If exploited, the flaw could allow criminals to send malicious content with fake signatures that…
Starbucks Devs Leave API Key in GitHub Public Repo
“One misstep from developers at Starbucks left exposed an API key that could be used by an attacker to access internal systems and manipulate the list of authorized users,” reports Bleeping Computer: Vulnerability hunter Vinoth Kumar reported the oversight on October 17 and close to three weeks later Starbucks responded it demonstrated “significant information disclosure” and that it qualified for a…
Full UFO disclosure ‘in 2020’, claims activist
Disclosure activist Stephen Bassett claims that the US government will reveal all on alien visitation next year. Founder and executive director of the… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333378/full-ufo-disclosure-in-2020-claims-activist…
UK Government Accidentally Doxxes Award Winners
More than 1,000 celebrities, government employees and politicians recognized in the U.K.’s traditional New Year’s Honours list this year “have had their home and work addresses posted on a government website,” reports the Guradian. Shimbo (Slashdot reader #100,005) quotes their report:
The accidental disclosure of the tranche of personal details is likely to be considered a significant security breach, particularly as senior…