• A security breach at Capital One - malicious in this case, not just incompetence - resulted in the release of details of 100 million customers.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Apparently the FTC is to blame for only fining Equifax $575 million, even though the person responsibly has been arrested by the FBI.
  
  
• iOS has zero interaction vulnerabilities.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Six of them.
  
  That is, it has (or had, five of them have been patched) bugs that would allow an attacker to install and run code without the owner of the device doing anything dangerous like clicking on a link.
  
  
• YouTubers are revolting.  (Axios)
  
  Yeah, no shit Axios.

  YouTube is still one of the largest and most lucrative ad platforms in the world

  Well, there's your problem.
  
  
• bootBASIC is a Basic interpreter smooshed into a 512-byte boot sector.
  
  It actually works, though you wouldn't want to use it for anything.
  
  
• The Node.js ecosystem is chaotic and insecure.  (Medium)
  
  Also: Water wet, fire hot, NPM is a teapot.  (GitHub)
  
  
• Dark has a unique "deployless" model.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Unique in the sense that no-one else has been dumb enough to do this.
  

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 31 2019 01:28 AM (Iwkd4)

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 31 2019 01:30 AM (Iwkd4)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, July 31 2019 02:13 PM (PiXy!)

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