av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 19, 2018 | Lästips

Bill Gates has previously said President Donald Trump tried to hire him as the White House science adviser. A new clip of Gates talking about his first two meetings with Trump, obtained by MSNBC, may show why the tech innovator turned down the role.
Among other anecdotes, Gates is seen telling an audience about how, in both of his meetings with Trump, the president asked if there’s a difference between HIV and HPV. The crowd was of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation employees, according to MSNBC.
”He wanted to know if there was a difference between HPV and HIV,” Gates is seen saying, ”so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other.”
Källa: Bill Gates said Trump didn’t know the difference between HIV and HPV
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 19, 2018 | Lästips
LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site — without the need for any password or other form of authentication or authorization — KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company took the vulnerable service offline early this afternoon after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, whoch verified that it could be used to reveal the location of any AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon phone in the United States to an accuracy of within a few hundred yards.
Krebs on Security
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 18, 2018 | Lästips
Google during its keynote speech at the annual I/O developer conference last week stunned onlookers with a demonstration of its Google Assistant calling local businesses and conducting natural conversation to carry out “real world” tasks on behalf of users. It’s called Google Duplex and if you missed the demos, they’re certainly worth checking out.
Google CEO Sundar Pochai insisted that the pre-recorded calls real calls. “What you’re going to hear is the Google Assistant actually calling a real salon to schedule an appointment for you,” Pochai said of one of the calls.
But was Google being entirely truthful about the presentation? Axios has some questions.
Källa: Did Google fake its Google Duplex AI demo?
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 18, 2018 | Lästips
Researchers devise new two new attacks — voice squatting and voice masquerading — on Amazon Alexa and Google Home, allowing adversaries to steal personal information or silently eavesdrop.
Oh, goody, Amazon Alexa and/or Google Home could be hit with remote, large-scale “voice squatting” and “voice masquerading” attacks to steal sensitive user information or eavesdrop on conversations.
Källa: Hacks turn Amazon Alexa and Google Home into secret eavesdroppers
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 18, 2018 | Lästips
There are certain issues that concern Steve Wozniak, and certain issues that don’t.
In a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider out Thursday, the Apple co-founder said it bothers him when technology goes bad. These days, that means privacy — or a lack thereof.
”We lost our security a long time ago. We’ve lost our privacy and it’s been abused,” he said.
Källa: Steve Wozniak says we’ve lost our privacy
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 18, 2018 | Lästips
Signal Desktop suffered from two similar remote code execution bugs activated when the attacker sends malicious HTML code.
Källa: Signal Desktop Affected By Two Similar Remote Code Execution Bugs