Security & Privacy – Page 18

Software sucks. Says @zeynep

“Why the Great Glitch of July 8th Should Scare You.” When United had to ground its fleet, the NYSE and WSJ were down. Because of software.

July 9, 2015

Research to ensure A.I. doesn’t turn out evil

Yep, right. People are researching AI, but those that won’t kill you later on.

a $7 million research grant, funded in part by Elon Musk, will go to 37 projects devoted to ensuring that artificial intelligence doesn’t turn out evil.

Quelle: These are the research projects Elon Musk is funding to ensure A.I. doesn’t turn out evil

July 8, 2015

Politik: Wir und die anderen. #VDS

Das ist sicher nicht so gemeint von der Politik, das gibt sicher einen vollkommen nachvollziehbaren Grund.

https://twitter.com/MarianSteinbach/status/612326357339652096

via: Schlecky Silberstein

June 23, 2015

Sascha Lobo zersägt einen Tweet zur #vds

Sascha Lobo äußert sich ausführlich zu dem Tweet des Baden-Württembergischen SPD Innenminister Reinhold Gall.

June 22, 2015

Escaping VMware Workstation through COM1

A bug in VMWare’s vprintproxy.exe process allows the guest OS to escape it’s environment through the COM1 serial port.

via: Escaping VMware Workstation through COM1

June 22, 2015

Who Has Your Back?

Who has your back? Electronic Frontier Foundation updated their scorecard of practices of major Internet companies, with regards to their publicly available policies for 2015.

via: Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2015 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

June 20, 2015

49 suspected members of cybercriminal group arrested in Europe

Don’t really want to have a category called “cyber”, but some of the headlines ask for it. The arrested persons are suspected of committing financial fraud through email scamming. That qualifies as “cyber”.