Unsupervised Learning: No. 171

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 Security News





Mastercard is looking to create a Digital ID service that can bind your digital presence to your mobile device, which will be able to verify you to various services. Link



Palantir has won an $800 million contract to build the next combat intelligence system (to replace DCGS-A) for the Army. Link



Putin appears to be causing brain drain in Russia. Link



Dropbox has an interesting proposal for improving vendor security assessments. TL;DR: They turned their requirements into contractual points. LOVE IT. Link



The US Military is working on software to detect “micro changes” in people with top security clearances, and many think it’s the future of employee monitoring as well. Link



Airbnb says it’s going after hosts that record their guests, but what about guests who drop cameras in host properties? Seems like people with nice places would be more lucrative for blackmail and such. I wonder if this is part of threat model. Link



Verizon has opened access to the free version of its spam and robocall blocking tool based on STIR/SHAKEN. I can’t wait for the other carriers to get this. Link



The Air Force is working on unmanned AI combat drones, in a project called Skyborg. Link



The BSidesSF 2019 Videos Playlist Link



Advisories: Cisco IOS XE , Cisco WebEx Browser Extension



Breaches: Toyota





⚙️ Technology News





Amazon has released S3 Glacier Deep Archive, which is rare-access data storage for just $1/TB/month. Link



Daimler is investing heavily in a self-driving tech company focused on Level 4 Self-driving Trucks. Link



RSS and The Matrix were born 20 years ago, in the same month. Link