XXongo writes: Monitoring parolees released from prison by an app on their smartphone sounds like a good idea, right? The phone has facial recognition and biometric ID, and a GPS system that knows where it is. But what if the app doesn’t work? In a story on Gizmodo, the [Telmate Guardian] app’s coding is “sloppy” and “irresponsible” and its default privacy…
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Nearly 160,000 Nintendo Accounts Compromised In Massive Hack
Nintendo has confirmed that about 160,000 Nintendo Network ID accounts have been compromised since the beginning of April. Digital Trends reports: The Japan-based video game company says login ID and password information of these profiles were obtained “illegally by some means other than our service” and in response, it’s freezing the ability to log into a Nintendo account through Nintendo Network…
267 Million Facebook Profiles Being Sold For $600 On Dark Web
An anonymous reader shares a report: Threat actors are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for $623 on dark web sites and hacker forums. While none of these records include passwords, they do contain information that could allow attackers to perform spear phishing or SMS attacks to steal credentials. Last month, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an open Elasticsearch database that…
Are We on the Cusp of a Metaverse, the Next Version of the Internet?
The Washington Post describes it as “the next internet.” Wikipedia defines it as “a collective virtual shared space…including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Internet.” But it was Neal Stephenson who named it “the metaverse” in his 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. Are we closer to seeing it happen? The Washington Post reports:
In the past month,…
Apple Music On the Web Exits Beta
The web-based Apple Music experience that launched in beta last September is now available at music.apple.com. MacRumors reports: The previous beta.music.apple.com address automatically forwards to the newly launched version. Once you’re signed into the web version of Apple Music with your Apple ID that has an associated Apple Music subscription, you’ll have access to all of your library and playlist content,…
Apple Introduces New $399 iPhone SE With Touch ID and 4.7″ Screen
Apple today unveiled a new iPhone SE, updating the lineup for the first time in four years. It’s a 4.7″ iPhone with a physical home button, Touch ID, a single rear-facing camera and the A13 Bionic chip on board. With a $399 starting price point, the new SE is aimed squarely at new iPhone users or first time smartphone buyers but…
Apple Opens Access To Mobility Data, Offering Insight Into How COVID-19 is Changing Cities
Apple is providing a data set derived from aggregated, anonymized information taken from users of its Maps navigational app, the company announced today. From a report: The data is collected as a set of “Mobility Trends Reports,” which are updated daily and provide a look at the change in the number of routing requests made within the Maps app, which is…
Would a Post Office Bankruptcy Kill E-Commerce?
MountainLogic writes: With the U.S. Postal Service slated to run out of money this summer, a congressional bailout has become embroiled in the usual, critical and unusual political fights. Every day letter carriers deliver some of our web orders, there are many other functions the post office performs including providing an address validation API that is the core of many shipping…
Apple and Google Are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool
Engineering teams at Apple and Google have banded together to create a decentralized contact tracing tool that will help individuals determine whether they have been exposed to someone with COVID-19. From a report: Contact tracing is a useful tool that helps public health authorities track the spread of the disease and inform the potentially exposed so that they can get tested….
Zoom Will Enable Waiting Rooms By Default To Stop Zoombombing
Zoom is making some much-needed changes to prevent “Zoombombing,” a term used to describe when someone successfully invades a public or private meeting over the videoconferencing platform to broadcast shock videos, pornography, or other disruptive content. The act was recently mentioned on the Department of Justice’s website, warning that users who engage in this sort of video hacking could face fines…