Miscellaneous Tech News
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Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
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iOS apps used Touch ID feature to trick users into paying hefty fees
Apple gives two scam apps the boot after they come to light.
The offending “Fitness Balance app” and “Calories Tracker app” promised to calculate body mass index, monitor calorie intake, and provide other health-related services. With no advanced warning, according to Reddit posts here and here, the apps charged users fees of $99.99, $119, or 139 Euros, depending on the country of the user. Users who had a credit or debit card connected to their Apple account were immediately billed.
The scam worked by displaying a message as soon as the app was opened. It told users to scan their fingerprint to view a calorie tracker or receive another personal service. When users complied, the apps displayed a popup window that said they had been charged a fee. Less than two seconds later, the popup disappeared, but by then it was too late for many users. Anyone with a card linked to their Apple account was already charged.
“So what it does is ask you to keep your finger at the fingerprint, and then the popup for paying for the app shows up,” a Reddit user with the handle kristikoroveshi94 reported. “Since you have already your finger there, the payment continues. And damn what a price this shitty app has. Luckily I don’t have a linked card or paying account.”
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AT&T makes it more expensive to cancel DirecTV or Internet service
AT&T: No more prorated final bills when you cancel DirecTV, Internet, or phone.
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CentOS Linux 7 (1810)
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox 5.3
https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-ve-5-3They're still going? Makes me wonder about their customers sometimes.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox 5.3
https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-ve-5-3They're still going? Makes me wonder about their customers sometimes.
I was reading this blog post and they gloat about having something like 230,000 installations, and over 13,000 customers.
Seems like an odd thing to gloat about as that is less than 1% of 1% of the market.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
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Necuno is a New Open Source Smartphone Running KDE
It’s been more than two years since Ubuntu’s dream of creating a Linux smartphone was shattered. But it hasn’t discouraged others from trying their own hands on a Linux-based smartphone. Librem 5, the privacy-focused Linux-based smartphone, should be arriving in 2019. Even Pine64 is aiming for a budget Linux smartphone. And now one more player has joined the party.
Finland based Necuno Solutions has announced that it is collaborating with KDE to bring Plasma Mobile to the Necuno Mobile.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox 5.3
https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-ve-5-3They're still going? Makes me wonder about their customers sometimes.
I was reading this blog post and they gloat about having something like 230,000 installations, and over 13,000 customers.
Seems like an odd thing to gloat about as that is less than 1% of 1% of the market.
I did use ProxMox at one time. That was before XenServer was made open source. Was very not impressed with them at the time. They insisted that software RAID is always bad, and tried to remove the option from their installer. Thankfully, there was no possible way for them to remove it from the kernel!
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
I've heard of SQRL before. It's an interesting concept if nothing else...
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm has a good explanation of it. -
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
I've heard of SQRL before. It's an interesting concept if nothing else...
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm has a good explanation of it.Steve Gibson has been working on it for I don't know how many years now. While he's not the greatest person to take security advice from, he's an excellent programmer with a large support base which should eventually release a great tool in SQRL.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
I've heard of SQRL before. It's an interesting concept if nothing else...
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm has a good explanation of it.Steve Gibson has been working on it for I don't know how many years now. While he's not the greatest person to take security advice from, he's an excellent programmer with a large support base which should eventually release a great tool in SQRL.
Purely out of curiosity, what makes us feel he is a great programmer? That's pretty hard to judge even when a programmer works for you, let alone from the outside. Have you been to his website? Doesn't give a "real programmer" feel to it.
Dont' get me wrong, he might be amazing. But just from looking at his career and what his company has produced, none of it is necessarily tied to him. It's hard to tell if he's even been a programmer himself post 1980. He owns a company that makes software. Or at least founded it. But you can't tell if he's programming it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
I've heard of SQRL before. It's an interesting concept if nothing else...
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm has a good explanation of it.Steve Gibson has been working on it for I don't know how many years now. While he's not the greatest person to take security advice from, he's an excellent programmer with a large support base which should eventually release a great tool in SQRL.
Purely out of curiosity, what makes us feel he is a great programmer? That's pretty hard to judge even when a programmer works for you, let alone from the outside. Have you been to his website? Doesn't give a "real programmer" feel to it.
He's had lots of code freely available for longer than I can remember, go review it.
Ah, the website. Being a good programmer doesn't mean you're a good designer/artist. I'm with you on the website, it's just sad.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
I've heard of SQRL before. It's an interesting concept if nothing else...
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm has a good explanation of it.Steve Gibson has been working on it for I don't know how many years now. While he's not the greatest person to take security advice from, he's an excellent programmer with a large support base which should eventually release a great tool in SQRL.
Purely out of curiosity, what makes us feel he is a great programmer? That's pretty hard to judge even when a programmer works for you, let alone from the outside. Have you been to his website? Doesn't give a "real programmer" feel to it.
He's had lots of code freely available for longer than I can remember, go review it.
Did YOU review it? If not, what's the basis for the claim?
And you are sure it's his, not his company's?
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"Sure" meaning... it has his name on it, not just something his company released?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
I've heard of SQRL before. It's an interesting concept if nothing else...
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm has a good explanation of it.Steve Gibson has been working on it for I don't know how many years now. While he's not the greatest person to take security advice from, he's an excellent programmer with a large support base which should eventually release a great tool in SQRL.
Purely out of curiosity, what makes us feel he is a great programmer? That's pretty hard to judge even when a programmer works for you, let alone from the outside. Have you been to his website? Doesn't give a "real programmer" feel to it.
He's had lots of code freely available for longer than I can remember, go review it.
Did YOU review it? If not, what's the basis for the claim?
Some of it, yes. Been years ago now, when I actually knew enough about assembly to know what I was doing.
And you are sure it's his, not his company's?
The two are the same thing. He's to much of a control freak to run a company larger than he can control everything at. Gibson Research Corporation consists of less than 5 people (I don't remember the exact count.)
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The two are the same thing. He's to much of a control freak to run a company larger than he can control everything at. Gibson Research Corporation consists of less than 5 people (I don't remember the exact count.)
That really means nothing good. Two main things...
- Control Freak doesn't make someone good at anything, it makes one unable to scale.
- No amount of your perception of him as being a bad businessman or manager really means that the code of his people reflects his ability to code, that's a misconception of coding.
So basically, we have no reason to feel he is good or bad at programming, and likely no reason to believe that he is or isn't actively programming. Basically we know nothing about the situation, just like any normal programmer, and shouldn't assign him great credit purely based on being famous.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The two are the same thing. He's to much of a control freak to run a company larger than he can control everything at. Gibson Research Corporation consists of less than 5 people (I don't remember the exact count.)
That really means nothing good. Two main things...
- Control Freak doesn't make someone good at anything, it makes one unable to scale.
- No amount of your perception of him as being a bad businessman or manager really means that the code of his people reflects his ability to code, that's a misconception of coding.
So basically, we have no reason to feel he is good or bad at programming, and likely no reason to believe that he is or isn't actively programming. Basically we know nothing about the situation, just like any normal programmer, and shouldn't assign him great credit purely based on being famous.
I'll grant you that I went back and edited a previous post... I have looked at his code, and his code is good. I agree that everything else he has done is all trading on being well known, I'd argue it's well short of being famous tho.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users
Other stolen personal data includes names, email addresses, and direct messages.
Brace yourself for yet another massive data breach. Quora.com, a site where people ask and answer questions on a range of topics, said hackers breached its computer network and accessed a variety of potentially sensitive personal data for about 100 million users.
Man - we really need to move to a system that doesn't require websites to have any private data on them, or at least very little.
I really hope SQRL takes hold - getting rid of at least the password would be a great start.
I've heard of SQRL before. It's an interesting concept if nothing else...
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm has a good explanation of it.Steve Gibson has been working on it for I don't know how many years now. While he's not the greatest person to take security advice from, he's an excellent programmer with a large support base which should eventually release a great tool in SQRL.
Purely out of curiosity, what makes us feel he is a great programmer? That's pretty hard to judge even when a programmer works for you, let alone from the outside. Have you been to his website? Doesn't give a "real programmer" feel to it.
He's had lots of code freely available for longer than I can remember, go review it.
Did YOU review it? If not, what's the basis for the claim?
Some of it, yes. Been years ago now, when I actually knew enough about assembly to know what I was doing.
And you are sure it's his, not his company's?
The two are the same thing. He's to much of a control freak to run a company larger than he can control everything at. Gibson Research Corporation consists of less than 5 people (I don't remember the exact count.)
I think today it's 3 - Steve and two people who handle support for SpinRite (mostly through email). I'm also guessing these two are likely part time.
