Today’s Tech Sightings:
FILE – A notification saying, “Warning! You can’t connect to this website because it’s in blacklist site” is seen on both a computer screen and on a smartphone screen in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 20, 2015. (AP)
Old USB Drives Fight North Korea’s Media Ban
The New York-based Human Rights Foundation and Silicon Valley nonprofit Forum 280 have launched a new initiative to collect USB flash drive donations and then ship them to the Koreas. Once activists in Seoul, such as the non-profit North Korean Strategy Center, receive the drives, they then stuff them with Western and South Korean films and TV shows and ship them across the border to fight North Korea’s ban on foreign media.
Facebook’s India Stumble Could Embolden Other Regulators
Web analysts say Facebook will now have to reconsider its approach – and pricing – to providing free Internet access after its Free Basics initiative was banned in India. More importantly, the recent decision by India’s regulators that prohibits Internet service providers from offering different prices for different content could encourage other countries to follow suit.
Modular Malware Hides From 24 Different Security Apps
T9000, as Palo Alto Networks calls it, is an intelligence-gathering, data-harvesting malware that can also record audio from Skype and .WAV files. According to Palo Alto researchers, the new strain goes after Microsoft Office files both on a computer hard drive and on removable drives.
More:
- How Amazon Inspired Drone Delivery System for Birth Control in Ghana
- Hackers Breach DOJ, Dump Details of 9,000 DHS Employees
- How Microsoft’s Video Game Tech Could Help MS Patients
- Facebook Ordered to Stop Tracking Non-users in France
- A Closer Look at Britain’s First Anonymous Search Engine
- Twitter Forms ‘Trust & Safety Council’ to Balance Abuse Vs. Free Speech
- Instagram Now Lets You Switch Between Multiple Accounts
- Tim Cook Deletes Blurry Super Bowl Photo After internet Pounces on It
