Criminal or Whistleblower? The hacker behind the Football Leaks scandal, Rui Pinto, a 34 year old Portuguese national, currently faces 377 charges for blowing the lid off the tax fraud, corruption and other wrongdoing in the $3 billion European soccer business. One club alone, Manchester City, faced over 100 counts of financial misconduct as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First – what are dark patterns? Here is a definition from Wired: The term “dark patterns” was first coined by UX specialist Harry Brignull to describe the ways in which software can subtly trick users into doing things they didn’t mean to do, or discouraging behavior that’s bad for the company. When you want to […]
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