Transport for London officials say they “cannot be confident that similar issues won’t happen again in [the] future.”
Officials in London said on Monday they won’t renew Uber’s license to operate in the city, citing a “pattern of failures,” such as unauthorized drivers taking the wheel in at least 14,000 trips. Driver impersonation is a recurring problem for the company around the world, one that has proven difficult to solve.
They allegedly used malware to steal victims’ bank account credentials and transfer funds without permission.
The Justice Department unveiled charges today against the leaders of a Russian hacking group called Evil Corp (yes, the name of the company from Mr. Robot) that’s alleged to have used malware to steal more than $100 million from bank accounts around the world.
Artists fed up with T-shirt vendors stealing their work tricked their automated systems into generating shirts with characters such as Mickey Mouse, Pikachu, and Bart Simpson.
Online artists say unscrupulous T-shirt vendors are using bots to search social media for comments such as “I want that on a shirt.” When the bots find them, they quickly take images from the original posts and upload them to T-shirt marketplace sites without regard for copyright or artist credit.
Amazon claims its cloud technology is superior, but that the president interfered in the $10 billion contract award process out of bias against Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos.
Amazon on Sunday formally protested the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, saying in a court filing it was “the result of improper pressure from President Donald J. Trump” to deny Amazon the deal.
The civil liberties group is suing the Homeland Security agencies after they refused to turn over data on how they use Stingray cellphone surveillance equipment.
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, alleging the two agencies failed to turn over data on how they’re using cellphone surveillance technology.
The city told employees to power down and unplug their computers after signs of a “potential” cyberattack were spotted.
New Orleans city employees were told to shut down and unplug their computers Friday after a “potential cyberattack” was detected, officials said on an official city Twitter account.
Ransomware attackers are beginning to leak information about companies that don’t pay up, including some stolen data.
Ransomware attacks are already a nightmare for many businesses and government agencies, and now security journalist Brian Krebs reports that some attackers are using another tool to make victims pay up: Publishing names and even sample stolen data from businesses that won’t pay the ransom.
A NIST study found false matches for people of color among many facial recognition algorithms.
A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology confirmed what other research has previously shown: Many facial recognition algorithms perform better on white people than on people of color.
As one researcher showed on Twitter, there are sometime ways to spot fake, computer-generated faces.
Facebook and Twitter today took down hundreds of apparently bogus accounts linked to the Epoch Media Group—the Falun Gong-tied organization that supports Trump and opposes the Chinese government—and one particular detail about the coordinated campaign was especially eye-raising: Many of the bogus accounts featured profile pictures generated by artificial intelligence. In other words, the faces in the photos were fake.
President Trump has threatened to bomb Iranian cultural sites in the event of an attack on the United States, but that would likely violate international law.
President Trump has repeatedly said that he may order an attack on Iranian cultural sites if the country retaliates against the United States for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani.
Officials have advised residents to report sightings to law enforcement for further investigation. The FAA is investigating.
For the past few weeks, residents and law enforcement agencies have spotted mysterious drones flying, often in grid-like formation, over rural parts of Northeastern Colorado and Western Nebraska.
The Trump campaign finally went too far for Facebook, but not over politics.
After the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, an official Trump campaign committee took to Facebook with thousands of targeted ads alluding to the killing by U.S. forces.
A video that circulated on social media and the messaging app Telegram appears to be authentic.
A video that initially circulated on social media and the messaging app Telegram has been verified by the New York Times and appears to show a missile strike a Ukrainian airliner above Iran.
Prepared by the law firm Goodwin Procter, it appears to absolve many of MIT’s top leaders, while revealing new information about Professor Seth Lloyd’s deep involvement with the convicted sex offender.
MIT president L. Rafael Reif apologized Friday as the institution released a report outlining the $850,000 in donations the institution received from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein between 2012 and 2017. The report investigates the ties between the late financier and two of MIT’s luminaries, professor Seth Lloyd and Media Lab director Joi Ito, who has since resigned.
Steph Korey has announced that she is staying on as co-CEO and that the company is working with law firm Clare Locke regarding alleged “lies and distortions” in a critical article.
After a report in The Verge described an allegedly “toxic work environment” at trendy luggage startup Away, the company has hired a law firm known for high-profile battles against major media outlets.
The worst-case scenarios may sound like science fiction. But it wouldn’t take millions of deaths for an attack to have devastating consequences.
One afternoon in late December, a team of hackers surreptitiously entered the computer network of a western Ukrainian power company, Prykarpattyaoblenergo, and began taking control of critical circuit breakers across the region. Employees watched in horror as the cursors on their computer monitors began moving on their own, opening and executing commands at will. One by one, the hackers took electrical substations offline, injecting malware as they went that rendered the entire power grid inoperable. For several hours, some 230,000 people were plunged back into the Stone Age.
Senate candidate Mark Kelly is suddenly in the spotlight after his Republican opponent, Martha McSally, called a CNN reporter a “liberal hack.”
After Arizona’s Martha McSally, a Republican, called CNN reporter Manu Raju a “liberal hack,” her Democratic opponent, Mark Kelly, tweeted about his history of listening to science.
An organization intends to sell the .org domain name, predominantly used by nonprofits, to a private equity group—and nonprofits are protesting.
In an era of powerful search engines, you seldom need to type in or remember the addresses of the websites you’re visiting. Often, you may not even remember if a business’s website ends in .com, .biz, or something zanier—like .pizza.
In a bankruptcy court filing, the defunct movie subscription service disclosed the email addresses of numerous customers owed money.
In a Tuesday bankruptcy filing, the once-trendy cinema subscription service MoviePass listed more than 12,000 subscribers who are owed money by the company, which CNN reports is expected to enter into litigation. The service, which allowed subscribers to pay a fixed monthly fee to see movies at theaters, with exact terms changing over the course of its operation, shut down in September after numerous reports that it was effectively buying movie tickets and giving them to subscribers at a loss.
The Coalition for Better Ads, which Chrome uses to decide which sites’ ads to display, has set new guidelines for ads on short videos.
If you’re an advertiser or run a website that displays ads, it’s important to know that Google’s Chrome browser may not display ads on any site that doesn’t meet guidelines set by the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group with Google as a member.