Summertiiiiime And the tech news is … well not easy so much as enjoyable. Lots of room to take longer more introspective looks at stories. Not as many “big announcements’ so we can fit in more science tech and trends stories. Hope you’re enjoying it as much as we are.
And of course that means more chances to talk about food on Good day Internet. Like we needed more chances.
We’ve also got some interesting interviews to come so be on the lookout for that too!
by Shannon Morse, Threatwire
On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration issued a news release on their website detailing warnings about Medtronic insulin pumps. These are small computerized devices that deliver insulin to patients throughout the day in specific doses. People with certain types of diabetes usually need these to maintain acceptable blood glucose levels.
The insulin pumps have brought up c...
2019-07-02 18:38:13 +0000 UTC View PostHappy July! Thanks so much for being part fo the DTNS crew! Here are all the things you need to know to get your just rewards.
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2019-07-01 16:50:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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2019-06-25 04:58:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out what we covered with everyone in out DTNS 2019 Q2 analyst level hang-out.
2019-06-25 04:54:43 +0000 UTC View PostRowhammer was a 2015 flaw that could repeatedly access rows of cells of memory in DRAM to introduce bit flips, which means the cell would flip from one state to another. The bit flips would happen in adjacent rows too, not just the one being attacked. This could allow an attacker to do privilege escala...
2019-06-18 16:59:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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by Shannon Morse, ThreatWire
Helpful neighborhood watch? Or surveillance state network? Earlier this year, Ring, the Amazon owned company that makes smart doorbells and cameras, posted about their Neighbors app, which is used to upload fun videos from their home security technology. It’s also used to report suspected crimes, such as people breaking into cars in the driveway of a home, stealing ...
2019-06-11 16:19:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhy is our political discourse so divisive? How much of it is technology's fault? and Who needs to step up and fix it? Tom talks with Yaël Eisenstat, a policy adviser at the Center for Humane Technology about all these questions.
2019-06-08 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
June! Moon! Spoon! Meetup! Yes indeed! We are having a goshderened in person meetup in Los Angeles. Come to the Farmer’s Market at 3rd and Fairfax and raise a glass of your favorite beverage to five years of the Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and other DTNS team members.
Five years!
Date: June 12, 2019
Time: 4-7pm PDT
Address: 6333 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90036. We will be gathered around the 326 B...
2019-06-04 19:49:23 +0000 UTC View PostBy Shannon Morse, Threatwire
According to a release published on June 3 by Quest Diagnostics-- a medical testing company with labs across the US-- the billing collections service used by Quest, called American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA for short), was hit with a data breach. AMCA notified Quest Diagno...
2019-06-04 15:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostTom gives an overview of what ARM is, how it doesn't make chips but is still responsible for the majority of mobile chip design, and some interesting aspects of its history.
NOTES
ARM is not a chip maker. A lot of folks don't realize this. Some do. But I thought I would dig into what ARM is to help clarify. Don't worry (or I suppose be hopeful) that I'm going to get into chip architecture and instruction sets. This will just talk about ARM's history and shed some light ...
2019-06-01 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHappy June! Your membership powers DTNS!!! Here's all the things you need to know to get your just rewards.
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2019-06-01 14:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
AMD, Nvidia, and Arm all have big announcements from Computex, Huawei leaves standards bodies, and Microsoft gives more details about xCloud.
2019-05-27 14:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostBy Shannon Morse, ThreatWire
All planes, big and small, use radio to land. This is called an instrument landing system or ILS for short. They allow an airplane to precisely approach a runway with real time guidance on horizontal alignment and vertical angle during descent. This is super important at night or in bad weather when a pilot can’t see the runway.
Cost and difficulty have generally kept at...
2019-05-21 19:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostTom has a revelation that maybe some of the old newsy ways are best. He generalizes fromt hat question to others as well.
2019-05-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Postby Shannon Morse, Threatwire
More than 100 e-commerce sites have been hosting malicious card skimming Javascript that can steal credit card details whenever a user enters their card info upon checkout, according to a report by cybersecurity company Netlab 360.
Netlab 360 found 105 websites hosting the script, which can extract the name, credit card number, expiration date, and CVV number of a pay...
2019-05-14 17:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostHow much should we worry about RFID? Should we get an RFID-blocking wallet? Should we not use it at all?
Jordan Frith is the incoming Pearce Professor of Professional Communication at Clemson University
2019-05-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostSarah reports in on her three months living with the Jabra Elite 65t ear buds.
Jabra Elite 65t Alexa Enabled True Wireless Earbuds with Charging Case – Titanium Black
$169. on Amazon
3.5/5 stars, 1760 customer reviews
$119 “renewed” which Amazon says works and looks like new
4 stars, 170 customer reviews
Sarah's going to report on her three months with the Jabra earphones. What should be her next product to live with?
2019-05-07 21:35:57 +0000 UTC View PostChosen by our ThreatWire Patreon patrons this week is a story on Right to Repair legislation… or, the lack thereof.
"Right to Repair" advocacy campaigns to let users fix their own technology with their own tools, software, and / or aftermarket components. 2019-05-07 14:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post
May 2019. I never imagined it like this. I thought I’d be-- well when I was younger, I thought the apocalypse might have come-- but I certainly thought I’d have an office style job of some sort. Maybe at a newspaper or radio station. But instead the future, at least in this respect, is much much brighter. I’ve got the best show I’ve ever done with the smartest audience in the world helping me. Thank you.
If you haven’t heard we’ve been preparing to switch our live streaming ...
2019-05-06 18:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostLongtime YouTube creator Jason Inman talks about YouTube's latest plea for creator trust.
Jason Inman is the host of Geek History Lesson, a show runner's assistant on The Code CBS, and author of Super Soldiers: A salute to the comic book heroes and villains who fought for their country 2019-05-04 20:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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2019-05-01 17:00:41 +0000 UTC View Postby Shannon Morse, Threatwire
Millions of baby monitors, webcams, security cameras, DVRs, and smart doorbells are vulnerable to P2P flaws that would allow an attacker to eavesdrop, steal credentials, or even remotely compromise a device according to security researcher Paul Marrapese. Marrapese found multiple vulnerabilities in the peer to peer communications protocol which is built into many IoT devices, specif...
2019-05-01 16:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostBy Shannon Morse, Threatwire
WPA3, which is the newest generation of WiFi Protected Access protocol was released about 15 months ago and at the time, was revered as being very secure against password based attacks. Last Wednesday, two security researchers named Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen released a research paper detailing several attacks against WPA3 titled “Dragonblood: A Security Analysis of WPA3’...
2019-04-16 16:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe talk about artificial intelligence a lot these days and I see several reactions in the audience. Some people think it's ALL hype. Some people think it's just a fancy word for algorithm. And some people just want to understand what it is.
Here to help us with that is
Karen Hao, artificial intelligence reporter at MIT Technology Review<...
2019-04-13 03:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostBy Shannon Morse, Threatwire
AirBnB-- inexpensive world travel or creepy spy cams galore? In the case of a family from New Zealand who was on holiday in Ireland, creepy spy cam. Upon unpacking, one of the family members staying in the AirBnB, Andrew Barker, decided to scan the house’s WiFi network, where he found the IP of an undisclosed camera. He was able to pull up a live feed of the camera, which...
2019-04-09 15:58:39 +0000 UTC View Post
MONTHLY DTNS UPDATE
April showers us with TECH NEWS. Kind of. In any case May will certainly flower with dev conferences. Yesterday we did our first test run of streaming to Twitch. Those who saw us experiment with this last year should know that this is a much better setup than the simple capture and rebroadcast we did before. Roger and Amos have been really working on this and we’ve got some great advice from Scott Johnson as well. We’ll be setting up a future epi...
2019-04-05 16:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostBy Shannon Morse, Threatwire
Right to Repair advocates for users to have the authority to repair their own technology without being punished by the law, and it just hit the news again in a big way.
First, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has also announced her run for the democratic presidential campaign, published a Medium post detailing her plans to level the playing field for...
2019-04-02 16:47:38 +0000 UTC View Post