These Guys Figured Out a Way to Get Endless Free McDonald’s Last November, software developers Lenny Bakkalian and David Albert discovered two loopholes in the German McDonald’s system which allowed them to order an endless supply of free food. Recently, I met the two Hamburglars and their colleague Mats Tesch at an East Berlin McDonald’s so they could show me how they did it. McDonald’s receipts… Read More
Leaked Document Shows How Big Companies Buy Credit Card Data on Millions of Americans Yodlee, the largest financial data broker in the U.S., sells data pulled from the bank and credit card transactions of tens of millions of Americans to investment and research firms, detailing where and when people shopped and how much they spent. The company claims that the data is anonymous, but a confidential Yodlee document obtained… Read More
Big Telecom Say It Has First Amendment Right to Sell Your Private Data ISPs say that a law requiring users to opt-in to having their location and financial data sold is a ‘burdensome restriction’ on their ‘protected speech.’ Source: vice… Read More
MGM Hotel Hack Leaves 10.6M Guests’ Personal Data Exposed 10.6 million people who had stayed at MGM Resorts have had their personal data published on a hacking forum, it was revealed this week. It is thought that the recent breach stems from an earlier incident which occurred last year, whereby unauthorised actors were able to access MGM’s internal cloud and therefore the personal information… Read More
Google to Samsung: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It’s hurting Android security Samsung’s attempt to prevent attacks on Galaxy phones by modifying kernel code ended up exposing it to more security bugs, according to Google Project Zero (GPZ). Not only are smartphone makers like Samsung creating more vulnerabilities by adding downstream custom drivers for direct hardware access to Android’s Linux kernel, vendors would be better off using… Read More
We keep falling for phishing emails, and Google just revealed why You should feel cranky about all the phishing emails you get. Because getting your brain in a grumpy gear will elevate the odds of your not getting fooled by the next phony invitation to log into your account. The roughly 100 million phishing emails Google blocks every day fall into three main categories: highly targeted… Read More