British Airways Hack Exposes Customer Data
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| British Airways Hack Exposes Customer Data | |
| Number | 625 |
| Broadcast Date | SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 4:04 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
Google’s Pixel 3 event set for October 9, Apple removes Adware Doctor from App Store for collecting browser history, Tim Armstrong to leave Oath?
Headlines
- Twitter is testing a redesign of its desktop website with night mode, data-saving mode, bookmarks, and other new features. This makes Twitter's desktop experience closer to its mobile app experience. The company says the test is limited, for now. The new desktop website test apparently is a Progressive Web App, using a standard that discusses how to build apps in browser windows, and allows websites to be pinned to a dock or taskbar,similar to a mobile app.
- British Airways said Thursday that hackers accessed its systems for two weeks, exposing around 380,000 card payments. British Airways parent company IAG said the attack on its website (ba.com) and mobile app began on August 21 until Wednesday. It said that the personal and financial details of customers making bookings during that time period were “compromised,” but that its website is now “working normally.”
- Apple has removed a macOS App called Adware Doctor that blocked ads but also shared user browser history with a domain based in China. Patrick Wardle, chief research officer at Digita Security and founder of Mac security company Objective-See, says Apple was informed of Adware Doctor’s practices last month, but didn't do anything, though TechCrunch noticed the app appears to have been taken out of the app store. Adware Doctor which costs 4.99 was Apple’s Mac App Store's fourth-highest “Top Paid” software programs, behind Final Cut Pro, Magnet and Logic Pro X, and the App Store’s No. 1 paid utility app.
- The Wall Street Journal reports sources that say Tim Armstrong is in talks to leave Verizon within a month. Armstrong runs digital and advertising divisions at Oath, formerly AOL. Verizon acquired Armstrong when it bought AOL in 2015. The Yahoo acquisition followed in 2017 and became Oath.
- The Reserve Bank of India has formed an interdepartmental group to study the idea of introducing a form of fiat digital currency as a replacement for paper notes. Last year Dubai introduced a state-backed cryptocurrency called emCash. Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Israel have also experimented with state-backed crypto.
- Tor Project, which is the non-profit arm of the Tor browser that offers anonymous browsing, has launched the first official Tor mobile browser app for Android, either through the Google Play store or downloaded directly from the Tor Project website. Tor's privacy-focused browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux redirects traffic through a network of relays to prevent anyone snooping on users’ online activities. The new Android app features tracker-blocking tools that isolate each website you visit to stop advertisers from following you, while cookies are cleared automatically once your session is over.
- Google sent out invites to the media that said I heart NY with the heart made of a less than sign and number three. That is the emoticon for heart of course but also probably indicates the announcement will be about the Pixel 3. The event is scheduled for October 9.
- Google launched Chrome 69 this week with new features like dropping 'Secure' from HTTPS sites and adding 'Not secure' in red to HTTP sites from Chrome 70. Chrome 69 also won't show www. or m. on websites in the address bar due to both being "trivial subdomains". Critics say two different sites will now look more similar, potentially exposing users to phishing attacks. For example, m.tumblr.com is not owned by Tumblr. When it launched Chrome 69 Google told Wired that URLs are failing to convey a site's identity, so the company wants an alternative that offers more convenience and greater security.
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