Thieves loot some Ethereum; chat apps and the IoT attract unwanted attention; AI detects viruses … and password sharing; and more …
- Not surprisingly, chat apps are effective tools for terror groups. (Rita Katz, Wired)
- If you like to worry—or if it’s your job—here are five emerging cyberthreats for the new year. (Martin Giles, MIT Technology Review)
- A rollback attack allows thieves to snag almost $500,000 of Ethereum Classic digital currency. (Dan Goodin, Ars Technica)
- Perhaps do not just copy and paste the terms and conditions for your business from another, unrelated business? (BBC News)
- Let ICE’s immigrant risk assessment tool serve as another reminder that algorithms are only as good as those who use them (and can easily be worse). (Chris Welch, The Verge)
- Here are five ways human bias affects machine learning. (Tom Merritt, TechRepublic)
- The Internet of Things makes for a tasty target for cybercriminals. (Anthony Spadafora, TechRadar)
- Ripple (and its cryptocurrency, XRP) looks to get a piece of the global payments system. (Kate Rooney, CNBC)
- Virtual reality finds purchase in the operating room. (Andrew Zaleski, Fortune)
- And while researchers use artificial intelligence to detect viruses… (Phys.org)
- …Synamedia uses it to detect password sharing. (James Vincent, The Verge)