Using a new facial recognition surveillance system, British police will scan every fan’s face at the UEFA Champions League on June 3rd and compare them to a police database of some 500,000 “persons of interest.” “According to a government tender…
Ask Slashdot: Are Accurate Software Development Time Predictions a Myth?
New submitter DuroSoft writes: For myself and the vast majority of people I have talked to, this is the case. Any attempts we make to estimate the amount of time software development tasks will take inevitably end in folly. Do…
Will the High-Tech Cities of the Future Be Utterly Lonely?
adeelarshad82 writes from a report via The Week: The prospect of cities becoming sentient is “fast becoming the new reality,” according to one paper. Take Tel Aviv for example, where everyone over the age of 13 can receive personalized data,…
Hacking Group Is Charging German Companies $275 For 'DDoS Tests'
An anonymous reader writes: “A group calling itself XMR Squad has spent all last week launching DDoS attacks against German businesses and then contacting the same companies to inform them they had to pay $275 for ‘testing their DDoS protection…
New Study Suggests Humans Lived In North America 130,000 Years Ago
An anonymous reader writes: In 1992, archaeologists working a highway construction site in San Diego County found the partial skeleton of a mastodon, an elephant-like animal now extinct. Mastodon skeletons aren’t so unusual, but there was other strange stuff with…
Auto Lender Exposes Loan Data For Up To 1 Million Applicants
A trove of consumer auto loan data—some 1 million records—has been locked down after a researcher found an exposed and accessible database online.
Lack of Security Talent Afflicts Healthcare
At Source Boston, Josh Corman of the Atlantic Council said that healthcare is suffering from a lack of security talent, devices rife with vulnerabilities, and government incentivizing bad behavior.
Air Force Hopes To Attract Hackers With Bug Bounty Program
The Hack the Air Force bug bounty program invites white hats from inside and outside the U.S. to hack its websites.
News in brief: Uber under fire in ‘Hell’ lawsuit; Europe could be hit by laptop ban; Fancy Bear ‘targeted Macron’
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Healthcare CERT warns about ‘Mole’ ransomware – what you need to know
More ransomware: this one changes your file extensions to .MOLE, thus the name.