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Submission + - Meow ...and it's gone! 1

Submitted by PuceBaboon
PuceBaboon writes: Ars Technica is reporting a new attack on unprotected databases which, to date, has deleted all content from over 1,000 ElasticSearch and MongoDB databases across the 'net, leaving the calling-card "meow" in its place.
Most people are likely to find this a lot less amusing than a kitty video, so if you have a database instance on a cloud machine, now would be a good time to verify that it is password protected by something other than the default, install password..

Comment Re: Outcomes (Score 1) 277

by Way Smarter Than You (#60322469) Attached to: Twitter Takes Down 7,000 Accounts Linked To QAnon

That's exactly what it is. You don't like the book's message. Burn it. You don't like the internet post, blog, whatever, block it. It's just digital book burning. No difference at all.

In a free speech world we expose, debate, discuss ideas. If that's too hard then maybe your ideas don't have value and aren't worth defending. The more books you burn the more people are attracted to the fires.

Maybe we can do what the Romans did and just flat out kill the opposition for entertainment of the masses. That worked out really well for them. There are no Christians left.

Comment Re: On a related note.. (Score 3, Insightful) 140

It's been seen over n over that more educated, healthy, and wealthy populations have fewer children, usually to the point of not hitting replacement numbers.

If you want to avoid more African famine and war then stop raping the continent for resources, build schools up to university level everywhere, stop shipping in weapons by the mega ton, and stop sending free shit so they can build a real economy.

Comment Re: Artic Routes (Score -1) 140

3 meters of water rise or 3 millimeters? Ocean/sea levels have been rising at a nearly static rate since we've been measuring. Where is this huge sea level rise? Which islands we were warned about are gone or dramatically shrunk or have severe flooding problems? Where is anywhere having serious flooding problems not explained by paving over swamps with asphalt?

I suppose eventually we will see 3 meters rise but not in the next few hundred years.

Comment Re: It's an embarrassment to science (Score 2) 140

There's actually more evidence for AGW than dark matter. DM is just the fantasy fill in the blank stuff made up to fill in the unknowns in cosmology. There's zero real evidence for it. I understand your point but you chose your apples apples comparison poorly.

At least with AGW there is data we can debate and discuss.

Comment $400m in "credits" (Score 2, Interesting) 163

Let's not forget the over $400 million they got from other auto makers in "CO2 credits".

It's always good times when your buddies in the government put their thumb on the scale.

Disclaimer: I own a model 3. Great car. A little pricey but not by much. The company however is a scam and certainly not worth more than Ford, GM and Toyota combined. That's just silly.

Submission + - AI System Detects Posts By Foreign 'Trolls' On Facebook and Twitter (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Foreign manipulation campaigns on social media can be spotted by looking at clues in the timing and length of posts and the URLs they contain, researchers have found. Now researchers say they have developed an automated machine learning system – a type of artificial intelligence – that can spot such posts, based on their content. Writing in the journal Science Advances, the team report how they carried out their work using posts from four known social media campaigns that targeted the U.S., attributed to China, Russia and Venezuela.

After training the system on a subset of the data, the team explored five different questions. These included whether the machine learning system could tell apart posts from trolls and those linked to normal activity, and whether feeding the system with troll posts from one month would allow it to spot posts made during the following month by new troll accounts. The results show that the approach worked well, with the posts flagged by the system generally coming from trolls. However, not all troll posts were identified by the system. The team also found differences in the system’s performance depending on the country behind the campaign, with Chinese activity easier to spot than Russian activity. “In terms of the Venezuelan campaigns, our performance is near-perfect; close to 99% accurate,” said one of the researchers. “In terms of the Chinese one, our performance is around 90%, 91%. The Russian was the most complicated and most sophisticated campaign: our performance was around 85%.”

Submission + - Security Breach Exposes More Than One Million DNA Profiles On Major Genealogy DB (buzzfeednews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On July 19, genealogy enthusiasts who use the website GEDmatch to upload their DNA information and find relatives to fill in their family trees got an unpleasant surprise. Suddenly, more than a million DNA profiles that had been hidden from cops using the site to find partial matches to crime scene DNA were available for police to search. The news has undermined efforts by Verogen, the forensic genetics company that purchased GEDmatch last December, to convince users that it would protect their privacy while pursuing a business based on using genetic genealogy to help solve violent crimes.

A second alarm came on July 21, when MyHeritage, a genealogy website based in Israel, announced that some of its users had been subjected to a phishing attack to obtain their log-in details for the site — apparently targeting email addresses obtained in the attack on GEDmatch just two days before. In a statement emailed to BuzzFeed News and posted on Facebook, Verogen explained that the sudden unmasking of GEDmatch profiles that were supposed to be hidden from law enforcement was “orchestrated through a sophisticated attack on one of our servers via an existing user account.” “As a result of this breach, all user permissions were reset, making all profiles visible to all users. This was the case for approximately 3 hours,” the statement said. “During this time, users who did not opt in for law enforcement matching were available for law enforcement matching and, conversely, all law enforcement profiles were made visible to GEDmatch users." It’s unclear whether any unauthorized profiles were searched by law enforcement.

Comment Re: Takeover? He wants to appoint his own people (Score -1, Troll) 90

The only thing you said which isn't just your feelings is Trump made millions on his hotels renting them out to the government.

Got a reference where Trump made millions making the government use his hotels?

I know of a single event in Europe. The military chose the hotel with the _cheapest_ rate and enough open rooms within reasonable distance of their destination. It was a Trump hotel.

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