Master Go player retires citing AI supremacy

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 10:41:32 +0000

Master Go player Lee Se-dol has handed in his stones after deciding that there’s just no way to beat a machine when playing the ancient Chinese board game.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bWAqrK3UmqQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:27:10 +0000

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has proposed a ‘Contract for the Web’ to rescue it from a headlong plunge into a moral abyss.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ei841Vw1q5s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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DNS-over-HTTPS is coming to Windows 10

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:22:43 +0000

Microsoft will soon add the ability to use DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS into its networking client.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/KwCTrsw95Kk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Android camera bug could have turned phones against their users

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:56:03 +0000

Google has patched a bug in the Android camera app that allowed other applications to bypass the strict controls on camera and audio access.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/q4VNRcGzd0I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Instagram stalker app Ghosty yanked from Play store

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:23:15 +0000

It was sucking up private profiles by requiring users to hand over their logins, giving it access to whatever accounts they follow.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SR3O4ii82mU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Brand new Android smartphones shipped with 146 security flaws

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:16:58 +0000

If you think brand new, just-out-of-the-box Android smartphones are immune from security vulnerabilities – think again.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9O4sLIwsqWk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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GitHub launches Security Lab to boost open source security

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:24:32 +0000

The idea is simple – create a global platform for reporting and fixing vulnerabilities in open source projects before they do damage.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/pPayEpWTksQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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