It’s nature gone wild: The Bad Rabbit ransomware is having a mad hop through corporate networks around the world and rubber fish are lip-syncing Amazon’s Alexa. Meanwhile, Google wants to secure your account with actual keys and Amazon wants to pop the lock on your front door for package delivery. Spin up Episode 252 to get the details from El Kaiser and J.D., plus some tips for jumping smartphone platforms if you’ve decided to leave Apple for Google — or vice versa.
And don’t forget: Stranger Things 2 is now streaming on Netflix!
Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Episode
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- Bad Rabbit: Ten things you need to know about the latest ransomware outbreak (ZDNet)
- Kaspersky May Have Found How Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data (SecurityWeek.Com)
- Google’s Key to Strong Password Protection Runs Into Limits (The New York Times)
- Google’s strongest security, for those who need it most (Google blog)
- Amazon to sell smart locks so it can slip packages into your home (Reuters)
- Introducing Amazon Cloud Cam (Amazon)
- Blade Runner 2017: Quartz created a bot to hunt down political news bots on Twitter (Columbia Journalism Review)
- Nazi forums closed as Reddit purges ‘violent content’ (BBC News)
- Twitter nears first profitable quarter as it slashes expenses, shares jump (Reuters)
- Trump administration program to test expanded drone use (Reuters)
- Experiment with updates to Science Journal, now on iOS (Google blog)
- Roku Wants to Start Streaming to Third-Party Devices (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
- Apple’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Hollywood Is the Opposite of Edgy (Bloomberg)
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: Not upgrading to iPhone X right away (CBNC)
- Microsoft has stopped making the Kinect, and that makes me sad (Ars Technica)
- Nintendo announces Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for smartphones (The Verge)
- This Exists: Some Dude Connected An Amazon Echo to His Big Mouth Billy Bass (Mediaite)
- Big Mouth Billy Bass will dance to music from an Amazon Echo (Business Insider)
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint
- Switching Between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android (The New York Times)
- Switching is easier than ever (Google)
- Move from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (Apple)
- https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage (Apple)
