FBI/DHS warn of attacks using Remote Desktop Protocol. Weak passwords sure don't help. ic3.gov/media/2018/180…

Happy 25th WIRED So many things are true today that I could never have predicted back in the 1990s! (Really gotta re-up my subscription)

Only 90 million people used View As over the past year. Not a lot of use for this (apparently) risky feature.

Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg's Facebook accounts were both among the up to 50m that were compromised in the security breach.

And Dan Kaminsky gets the prize today for being the first person I spoke with who pointed out the big third-party risk posed by this breach + login with Facebook. wsj.com/articles/faceb…

Facebook faces a fine of as much as $1.63 billion from European Union regulators over the data breach the social network disclosed Friday. "The main question regulators will face is whether Facebook invested enough in security to avert a breach." wsj.com/articles/faceb…

My students claim that my Google searches produce better academic paper results than their because over the years Google has learned what kind of results I like. I’m horrified.

The "inventor of email" is back in the news. A look at the fake Facebook accounts promoting Shiva Ayyadurai’s Senate Campaign.

Facebook briefed DHS last week on its security breach & is briefing other lawmakers now, including Senate Intel. FB also declining to provide affected user lists to third-party developers due to “privacy concerns.” w/ ⁦Dustin Volz⁩, ⁦Robert McMillan⁩ wsj.com/articles/faceb…

SuperMicro statement now out. "Supermicro has never found any malicious chips, nor been informed by any customer that such chips have been found... Supermicro has never been contacted by any government agencies either domestic or foreign regarding the alleged claims."

Legit question brought up by a cloud guy I just spoke with: Why add a malicious chip to the motherboard when firmware is already so buggy: servethehome.com/idracula-vulne…

India accounts for about half of the world's selfie-induced deaths, and drowning is the most common way to go. Who knew? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… h/t Ars Technica

FWIW, my quote in the Bloomberg article was given over a year ago as to the difficulty and unlikeliness of finding a properly instrumented hardware implant. I've not seen any proof of this specific alleged attack.

BREAKING: Google opted not to disclose its discovery of a bug in Google+ that exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of users, a WSJ review found on.wsj.com/2Pnf1dV via Doug MacMillan Robert McMillan

Google is shutting down (consumer part of) Google+, curbing Android , Gmail developer access to data, is conducting a privacy audit called Project Strobe. Great scoop by Doug MacMillan with assist by me. wsj.com/articles/googl…

And there it is, officially: "We are shutting down Google+ for consumers." blog.google/technology/saf…

Before you make fun of the “dozens” of people who are registered with Google+, maybe make sure you’re not one of them. support.google.com/plus/answer/63… Many people are registered without realizing it.