Posted Sunday, July 1, 2018 6:00 am By ROBERT STEVENS Associated Press LONDON (AP) – Is the web browser on your phone slower than usual? It could be mining Bitcoin for criminals. As the popularity of virtual currencies has grown, hackers are focusing on a new type of heist: putting...
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Researchers just proved why it’s so scary that digital assistants are always listening
BY KARISSA BELL As if we needed more reasons to be freaked out by increasingly powerful digital assistants, there’s a new nightmare scenario: The music you listen to or conversations you hear on TV could hijack your digital assistant with commands undetectable to human ears. This is known as a...
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Stephen Hawking
With much sadness we acknowledge the passing of Stephen Hawking, and the loss a a great mind. The like of which is hard to imagine an equal. His death on March 14 or “pi” day seems sadly fitting. March 14 or 3-14 has been taken to refer to the numeric...
Hackers hijack government websites to mine crypto-cash
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) took down its website after a warning that hackers were taking control of visitors’ computers to mine cryptocurrency. Security researcher Scott Helme said more than 4,000 websites, including many government ones, were affected. He said the affected code had now been disabled and visitors were...