From how to stop your iPhone being hacked via Wi-Fi and how it’s not just for Apple users to the most ‘damaging’ Wikileaks dump yet, and more!
Uber ‘showing drivers and riders different fare estimates’, says lawsuit
Lawsuit that aims to recover back pay alleges that Uber shows riders a longer, slower and more expensive route than the drivers are shown
Server Snafu Exposes Ask.com User Search Queries Via Internal Status Page
“The Ask.com search engine went through some sort of technical issue late Friday night, as its servers were exposing the internal Apache server status page, revealing recently processed search queries,” reports BleepingComputer. An anonymous reader writes: The issue is now…
Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes'
An anonymous reader writes: Open source guru Eric S. Raymond has announced public brainstorming on a “gallery of hacker archetypes to help motivate newbies” by defining several different psychologies commonly found among programmers. He’s unveiled an initial list developed with…
Tunnelled IPv6 Attacks Bypass Network Intrusion Detection Systems
“The transition to internet protocol version 6 has opened up a whole new range of threat vectors that allow attackers to set up undetectable communications channels across networks, researchers have found.” Slashdot reader Bismillah summarizes a report from IT News….
Electric Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Successfully Tested By DARPA
Slashdot reader drunkdrone tipped us off to some big aviation news: After several years of development DARPA has successfully completed flight-testing of one of the most novel, and odd-looking, aircraft designs we’ve seen in some time — the sub-scale electric…
McAfee: Big Spike In Mac OS Malware In 2016, Mostly From Adware Bunding
An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: Security firm McAfee released a report this week that showed a big jump in 2016 regarding malware hitting the Mac operating system. The McAfee report said there were 460,000 malware instances affecting the Mac OS…