In October, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law one of the nation’s toughest restrictions on Airbnb, which includes hefty fines of up to $7,500 for people who rent out space in their apartments. Several month have passed and…
EU Agrees To Cross-Border Access To Streaming Services
Putting in place the first piece of its hoped-for unified digital market, the European Union has agreed on new rules allowing subscribers of online services in one E.U. country access to them while traveling in another. From a report: “Today’s…
Neural face recognition network tuned with 650,000 pornstar images
But did anyone ask the actors – all women – for consent to use their images?
Monday review – the hot 26 stories of the week
From remote Facebook login of stolen laptop user and the private photos exposed by women’s sex club to Facebook’s security boost, and more!
RSA Conference 2017: expect to hear a lot about IoT threats, ransomware
Heading to San Francisco for RSA next week? Here’s our pick of talks and themes to look out for when you’re there
News in brief: ministers ‘not securing Twitter accounts’; dark web bug bounty; move on fake news in France
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
David Beckham calls in police over hacked emails
Stolen ‘Beckileaks’ emails dating from 2013 for which hackers demanded €1m are ‘doctored’ and ‘out of context’, say Beckham’s supporters
AKBuilder is the latest exploit kit to target Word documents, spread malware
Make sure you keep Office patched to protect against malicious Word documents generated by the AKBuilder exploit kit
Hackers take down dark web host linked with child abuse images
Freedom Hosting II sites defaced by hackers who claim to have 75GB of data from more than 10,000 onion sites
Are you watching your TV or is your TV watching you?
TV maker Vizio pays $2.2m after collecting data about 11m customers without their consent