Hacker finds “No Fly List”
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the FBI has kept central lists of people who are considered security risks. These people have to endure an extended security check on every flight or are not allowed to board the aircraft at all. Such a secret list has now fallen into the hands of the Swiss hacker “Maia Arson Crimew”. She found them on an unsecured test server of the US airline CommuteAir. The hacker passed this list on to journalists and human rights organizations. In an interview with heise online, she describes herself as an anti-capitalist and explains that this was a step in the right direction to shed light on no fly lists and other similar exaggerated surveillance lists.
Sustainability through battery recycling
As a former Tesla Chief Technology Officer, JB Straubel was instrumental in bringing electric vehicles to market. In 2019 he left Tesla and founded a battery recycling company, Redwood Materials. Straubel is convinced that a sustainable, electrified economy can only succeed if there is a closed cycle for raw materials. The majority of the materials in batteries are not degraded or consumed, the entrepreneur told Technology Review. 99 percent of these metals, or maybe even more, could thus be used again and again. However, Straubel emphasizes that there is still a lot of optimization potential in this process.
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Massive 1&1 Ionos phishing wave
1&1-Ionos customers should be particularly careful with incoming emails. The LKA Lower Saxony warns that it is currently receiving numerous indications of phishing emails, the authors of which are after the access data for the provider. Recipients of the emails are prompted to click on a link or open an email HTML attachment. In its warning, the LKA Lower Saxony points out that the online version of the phishing site even checks the access data and issues an error message if someone enters incorrect data.
Hacking of Riot Games
Unknown attackers were able to gain access to the Riot Games development environment. The studio is responsible for League of Legends, among other things. The incident is said to specifically affect the mechanism for delivering patches, so they are currently unable to provide updates for their games.
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