Comment Re:I'm so torn (Score -1) 387
Funny how the side of WW2 that complained the loudest about invading other countries just launched a major amphibious invasion in France!
-- Your great grandvater on June 6, 1944.
Comment That's nothing (Score -1) 161
It also promises Unlimited Rice Pudding!
Comment How about psychology? (Score -1) 43
GPT-3 is here to help you.
Say whatever is on your mind freely.
Our conversation will be kept in strict confidence.
Memory contents will be wiped after you leave.
So, tell GPT-3 about your problems.
Comment Re:Remember when (Score 1, Informative) 148
No he wasn't that's a flat out lie that even Snopes admits didn't happen: https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...
Comment Speak Truth to Power! (Score -1) 255
I'm so happy that woke megacorps are speaking truth to power these days! Sure Amazon treats its employees like slaves but it has a woke twitter account that parrots all the best things their consultants tell them to say and Trump is a Notzee so anything is OK and -- [whispering] --
OMG! Those Notzees at Amazon dared to talk back to a Native American Woman US Senator!! BAN THEM IMMEDIATELY!!
Using AI To 'Clap Back' At Phone Scammers (bbc.com) 92
New submitter ytene writes: As covered by a fascinating and hilarious video from the BBC, Twitch Streamer and YouTube star, Kitboga, has teamed up with some software developers to produce an AI that can interact directly with phone scammers. Although only brief samples of the solution at work were shown in the clip, the reporter suggests that it has worked for periods of up to 30 minutes. Will this be enough to finally put an end to the phone scammers, or do you think even more drastic steps will be required?
'A Hacker Got All My Texts For $16' (vice.com) 40
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard, written by Joseph Cox: I didn't expect it to be that quick. While I was on a Google Hangouts call with a colleague, the hacker sent me screenshots of my Bumble and Postmates accounts, which he had broken into. Then he showed he had received texts that were meant for me that he had intercepted. Later he took over my WhatsApp account, too, and texted a friend pretending to be me. Looking down at my phone, there was no sign it had been hacked. I still had reception; the phone said I was still connected to the T-Mobile network. Nothing was unusual there. But the hacker had swiftly, stealthily, and largely effortlessly redirected my text messages to themselves. And all for just $16.
I hadn't been SIM swapped, where hackers trick or bribe telecom employees to port a target's phone number to their own SIM card. Instead, the hacker used a service by a company called Sakari, which helps businesses do SMS marketing and mass messaging, to reroute my messages to him. This overlooked attack vector shows not only how unregulated commercial SMS tools are but also how there are gaping holes in our telecommunications infrastructure, with a hacker sometimes just having to pinky swear they have the consent of the target. "I used a prepaid card to buy their $16 per month plan and then after that was done it let me steal numbers just by filling out LOA info with fake info," said Lucky225, the pseudonymous hacker who carried out the attack, referring to a Letter of Authorization, a document saying that the signer has authority to switch telephone numbers.
In a statement to Motherboard, Senator Ron Wyden said: "It's not hard to see the enormous threat to safety and security this kind of attack poses. The FCC must use its authority to force phone companies to secure their networks from hackers. Former Chairman Pai's approach of industry self-regulation clearly failed."
I hadn't been SIM swapped, where hackers trick or bribe telecom employees to port a target's phone number to their own SIM card. Instead, the hacker used a service by a company called Sakari, which helps businesses do SMS marketing and mass messaging, to reroute my messages to him. This overlooked attack vector shows not only how unregulated commercial SMS tools are but also how there are gaping holes in our telecommunications infrastructure, with a hacker sometimes just having to pinky swear they have the consent of the target. "I used a prepaid card to buy their $16 per month plan and then after that was done it let me steal numbers just by filling out LOA info with fake info," said Lucky225, the pseudonymous hacker who carried out the attack, referring to a Letter of Authorization, a document saying that the signer has authority to switch telephone numbers.
In a statement to Motherboard, Senator Ron Wyden said: "It's not hard to see the enormous threat to safety and security this kind of attack poses. The FCC must use its authority to force phone companies to secure their networks from hackers. Former Chairman Pai's approach of industry self-regulation clearly failed."
Comment Re:Is the US still the devil? (Score -1) 184
Before the election the vaccine couldn't possibly exist in 2020 because SCIENCE and Trump was lying about it / intentionally trying to murder grandma by making an unsafe vaccine.
After the election EVERYBODY knew that the vaccine could have been completed and in mass production in March of last year if Trump hadn't denied SCIENCE and intentionally murdered Grandma by denying her the vaccine. Fortunately Dr. Jill Biden & Kamala personally fixed that.
Comment Re:Is the US still the devil? (Score -1) 184
It was only !zi when the US was denying it under Trump.
Now that they are doing the exact same thing under Biden, it shows that Democrats believe in science and Kamala deserves the Nobel prize in medicine (in addition to her peace prize).
Comment Give her an Emmy with Cuomo! (Score -1, Troll) 272
Not one single story about Cuomo killing people in nursing homes and then *admitting* that he cooked the books and lied to the feds about it on Slashdot but we are still pushing a woman who used her position of authority to sexually assault a student and then stalk him as a hero?
https://news.wjct.org/post/cri... --> Note the anti-DeSantis spin from last year while the same press people were repeating the Big Lie that Cuomo is a saint.
P.S. --> This isn't "whataboutism". DeSantis literally did nothing wrong. Look it up, this woman literally committed felonies in order to violate CDC-approved reporting guidelines. Florida's response blew away New York's in every metric imaginable unless you want to count killing people in nursing homes as "good".
Microsoft Criticized For Removing Exchange Exploit From GitHub (inside.com) 40
"Microsoft-owned GitHub has removed a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for critical ProxyLogon bugs in Microsoft Exchange, causing a backlash from security researchers," reports Inside.com's Developer newsletter:
The exploit has recently led to infections of as many as 100,000 servers. Microsoft rushed out patches last week for the vulnerabilities in response to a number of Chinese groups exploiting the bugs.
"This is huge, removing a security researcher's code from GitHub against their own product and which has already been patched. This is not good," Dave Kennedy, founder of TrustedSec, tweeted.
"It's unfortunate that there's no way to share research and tools with professionals without also sharing them with attackers, but many people (like me) believe the benefits outweigh the risks," tweeted Tavis Ormandy, a member of Google's Project Zero.
"This is huge, removing a security researcher's code from GitHub against their own product and which has already been patched. This is not good," Dave Kennedy, founder of TrustedSec, tweeted.
"It's unfortunate that there's no way to share research and tools with professionals without also sharing them with attackers, but many people (like me) believe the benefits outweigh the risks," tweeted Tavis Ormandy, a member of Google's Project Zero.
Comment And they're doing it with Squarespace! (Score -1) 91
And they are doing it with today's sponsor: Squarespace!
-- Seen on a million youtube videos.
Brave Privacy Bug Exposed Tor Onion URLs To Your DNS Provider (bleepingcomputer.com) 16
Brave Browser had a privacy issue that leaked the Tor onion URL addresses you visited to your locally configured DNS server, "exposing the dark web websites you visit...", writes Bleeping Computer.
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes their report: To access Tor onion URLs, Brave added a "Private Window with Tor" mode that acts as a proxy to the Tor network. When you attempt to connect to an onion URL, your request is proxied through volunteer-run Tor nodes who make the request for you and send back the returned HTML. Due to this proxy implementation, Brave's Tor mode does not directly provide the same level of privacy as using the Tor Browser.
When using Brave's Tor mode, it should forward all requests to the Tor proxies and not send any information to any non-Tor Internet devices to increase privacy. However, a bug in Brave's "Private window with Tor" mode is causing the onion URL for any Tor address you visit to also be sent as a standard DNS query to your machine's configured DNS server. This bug was first reported in a Reddit post and later confirmed by James Kettle, the Director of Research at PortSwigger. BleepingComputer has also verified the claims by using Wireshark to view DNS traffic while using Brave's Tor mode.
Brave has since released an update which fixes the bug.
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes their report: To access Tor onion URLs, Brave added a "Private Window with Tor" mode that acts as a proxy to the Tor network. When you attempt to connect to an onion URL, your request is proxied through volunteer-run Tor nodes who make the request for you and send back the returned HTML. Due to this proxy implementation, Brave's Tor mode does not directly provide the same level of privacy as using the Tor Browser.
When using Brave's Tor mode, it should forward all requests to the Tor proxies and not send any information to any non-Tor Internet devices to increase privacy. However, a bug in Brave's "Private window with Tor" mode is causing the onion URL for any Tor address you visit to also be sent as a standard DNS query to your machine's configured DNS server. This bug was first reported in a Reddit post and later confirmed by James Kettle, the Director of Research at PortSwigger. BleepingComputer has also verified the claims by using Wireshark to view DNS traffic while using Brave's Tor mode.
Brave has since released an update which fixes the bug.
Verizon Leads 5G Airwave Bidding With Record $45 Billion Splurge (bloomberg.com) 25
Verizon Communications committed $45 billion for 5G wireless airwaves in a government auction that attracted record bidding as the largest U.S. mobile carriers race to build faster networks. From a report: At $23 billion, AT&T was the second-highest bidder, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which ran the auction. Participants also included T-Mobile US Inc. and pay-TV providers such as Dish Network, Comcast and Charter Communications. Some have already tapped the debt market to help pay the tab. The auction started in December, and within days the tally exceeded analysts' estimates of $47 billion before settling at $81.2 billion. The budget-stretching bidding underscores how crucial these so-called midband frequencies are to companies trying to seize global leadership in emerging 5G technology. The airwaves are prized for their combined ability to travel far and carry lots of data. They are expected to drive years of growth when deployed for next-generation mobile devices, autonomous vehicles, health-care equipment and manufacturing facilities.
Comment Re:Sometimes We Find Our Unicorn (Score 0) 107
Nobody said that 10 years ago.
Or even 30 years ago when the LHC was being conceived as a way to experimentally validate what everybody already thought was true where the only surprise would be if the Higgs particle was *not* confirmed.
Literally nobody thought what you said in your strawman.
