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Submission + - SPAM: Another Porn Site Says Banks Forced It to Stop Paying Sex Workers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: AVN Stars, a platform where sex workers can sell porn clips, announced on Wednesday that it will no longer allow creators to monetize their content on the site beginning January 1. In a press release, Adult Video News wrote that discrimination from banks forced the decision. “Unfortunately, AVN and GayVN Stars has not been immune to the banking discrimination that so many of our industry friends have also encountered recently,” AVN Media Network CEO Tony Rios said in the press release. “We have had numerous corporate accounts shuttered in the past year alone.” Throughout December, models can keep selling content as usual. On January 1, however, all content on the site will be free.

“We lost probably 16 bank accounts this year. It's just exhausting,” Rios told me in a phone call. “The adult industry has always had banking problems. I can think back to losing my first bank account in like, 1996. It's just par for the course. But I think that at this point, the stakes are so much higher, when you're talking 10’s of 1000’s of creators that really rely on this,” he said. "You have these people that sit in these offices that are really disconnected from the banking relationships, that are just looking at patterns of transactions. They see, ‘oh you sent $50,000 from here to Europe or whatever, what is this about?’ And then they start Googling around and then they figure out it’s the adult industry. Depending on that one person's judgment call, [platforms have to] start to tighten things down, and ultimately [banks] shut the account down. And then we just get a letter that says, ‘We're sorry, we’ve made the decision to close your account.’”
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Submission + - Ubiquity "Hack" Perhaps Really an Internal Extortion Attempt (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by tinskip
tinskip writes: According to BleepingComputer "Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged today with data theft and attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and an anonymous hacker.

As alleged, Nickolas Sharp exploited his access as a trusted insider to steal gigabytes of confidential data from his employer, then, posing as an anonymous hacker, sent the company a nearly $2 million ransom demand," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said today."

Comment genius (Score 3, Interesting) 40

Think about it, people will get hungry or need to use the rest room. They will have a convenience snacks right there with a quick checkout line just for the drive in and bam making bank. Combine that with them cooking from the deli or making large amounts of popcorn and it will drive people into the building.

Submission + - Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer With Low Error Rates (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google announced a 72-qubit universal quantum computer that promises the same low error rates the company saw in its first 9-qubit quantum computer. Google believes that this quantum computer, called Bristlecone, will be able to bring us to an age of quantum supremacy.

In a recent announcement, Google said: "If a quantum processor can be operated with low enough error, it would be able to outperform a classical supercomputer on a well-defined computer science problem, an achievement known as quantum supremacy. These random circuits must be large in both number of qubits as well as computational length (depth). Although no one has achieved this goal yet, we calculate quantum supremacy can be comfortably demonstrated with 49 qubits, a circuit depth exceeding 40, and a two-qubit error below 0.5%. We believe the experimental demonstration of a quantum processor outperforming a supercomputer would be a watershed moment for our field, and remains one of our key objectives."

Submission + - New LTE Attacks Can Snoop On Messages, Track Locations, Spoof Emergency Alert (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A slew of newly discovered vulnerabilities can wreak havoc on 4G LTE network users by eavesdropping on phone calls and text messages, knocking devices offline, and even spoofing emergency alerts. Ten attacks detailed in a new paper by researchers at Purdue University and the University of Iowa expose weaknesses in three critical protocol operations of the cellular network, such as securely attaching a device to the network and maintaining a connection to receive calls and messages. Those flaws can allow authentication relay attacks that can allow an adversary to connect to a 4G LTE network by impersonating an existing user — such as a phone number. Although authentication relay attacks aren't new, this latest research shows that they can be used to intercept message, track a user's location, and stop a phone from connecting to the network. By using common software-defined radio devices and open source 4G LTE protocol software, anyone can build the tool to carry out attacks for as little as $1,300 to $3,900, making the cost low enough for most adversaries. The researchers aren't releasing the proof-of-concept code until the flaws are fixed, however.

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