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A new warning has been issued for hotel guests using public Wi-Fi connections.

Most people tend to the think of cyberattacks, data breaches, and hacking as the work of highly-skilled, dark web-style operatives. The reality, though, is not quite so skilled. Not only are sophisticated tools available for sale to low-level cybercriminals, but social engineering plays a large part in victimizing consumers. Tricking someone into thinking their network is locked up or handing over their personal identifiable information is a lot easier than actually stealing it yourself.



A new warning has been issued to summer holiday travelers, one that builds on a known threat. For years, consumers have been warned about the dangers of connecting over public wifi, as they cannot know who else is on the connection and can see what they’re up to. Now, wifi “masking” of known, trusted networks allows even the least skilled would-be hacker to steal information.

So what does this mean for hotel guests?

Consider the example of traveling to Hawaii. You book reservations at a four-star resort, “Kona Key,” for example. The Kona Key wifi connection appears in your device’s list when you reach the property. During your stay, you find other available connections, some of them stronger. Kona Key Poolside, or Kona Key Bar and Grill. Perhaps there’s a Koana Key connection, too. Those are the spoofed connections. By setting up wifi connections that are not associated with the property, scammers trick guests into connecting over the wrong wifi. This unsecured connection allows the scammer to see everything the guest is doing, including entering usernames and passwords, credit card information, and more.

Unfortunately, it happens far too often 

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there are 50 new cases of identity theft every minute, utilizing tactics like hacking, data breaches, POS skimming, and more. Year-over-year record-setting numbers of data breaches continue to reach epidemic proportions; in 2017, over 1,500 separate data breaches resulted in the compromise of more than 179,000,000 consumer records. There is no indication that these numbers will decrease in the near future, and if anything, new technology and new tactics such as this one may lead to even higher numbers than before.

News has emerged that Sony unintentionally uploaded a full 90 minute movie to YouTube, when all they were trying to do was upload a teaser trailer.

 The mistake made by Sony’s US distributor stayed online for over 6 hours, before the error was spotted, and the movie removed, earlier this week.

 YouTube users had clicked on the link expecting to only see the standard 2 minute trailer for the the low budget ‘Khali the Killer,’ but were instead treated to the whole film, credits and all.



 Unfortunately, ‘Khali’ was not available in HD, which despite disappointing, was probably the least of Sony’s worries.

 The first clue many YouTubers were watching the full movie was the 90 minute duration ticker on the video sharing site, giving away the fact that the upload was more than just some enticing highlights. With that said, if you weren’t lucky enough to catch the movie for free on YouTube, or If you’ve never heard of ‘Khali the Killer,’ then that’s probably no surprise, and may even be something of a lucky escape.

 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
 Reviews of the film have slated it fairly unanimously, and the movie has a 3.6/10 rating on IMDB, based on 179 reviews, at the time of writing.

 Khali the Killer, is a low budget movie about a Los Angeles-based hitman, and had for the most part slipped under the mainstream radar despite already having been released in parts of Europe and playing at numerous film festivals over the summer.

 “After deciding to retire, an East L.A.,” the synopsis goes, Khali the “hit man decides to take one last job to help support his ailing grandmother’s end of life care. But everything falls apart, when he develops empathy for the targets of his hit, and he’s forced to make the toughest decision of his life.”

 In 2014, Sony made a similar error when it posted the multi-million dollar budget film, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, to its South Korean YouTube account.

 The link for the Khali movie now just leads to a blank video page.

The tech industry has had a discrimination problem for many years, one that Silicon Valley claims to be addressing…still. 

People of color, women, and the LGBTQ community have reported not feeling very welcome in terms of hiring, promotions to management level positions, and credit for innovation. In fact, many have reported open hostility over the years, despite a better understanding of acceptance and equality from society as a whole.


 Microsoft, no stranger to reports from employees about the conditions in the workplace, has launched a new initiative in an effort to bring more diversity to its talent pool: returnship. These “returns” (as opposed to “interns”) are women looking to return to the workforce after a period of time off, for whatever reason, and the tech industry is fostering this return to the workforce





On paper, it’s ideal. Women who’ve taken time off to care for their families not only understand what it means to put someone else’s needs ahead of their own, they’re often fiercely dedicated to seeing the humanity behind their work. Everything is driven by a purpose that puts people first rather than simply profit or achievement.


There’s still a long way to go… 

Unfortunately, the very nature of zooming in on older women is, in itself, somewhat discriminatory. Where are the initiatives for women who didn’t have the luxury of being married to spouses who are wealthy enough to afford them the chance to raise a family? Where are the initiatives for women who didn’t feel the need to reproduce in order to show their worth and ability to multi-task? More importantly, given the bias in favor of hiring younger males in tech, where are the programs aimed at hiring or retaining older men who’ve still got a lot to contribute?

Rather than self-congratulatory grandstanding about hiring middle-aged women who haven’t worked in a few years, companies would do well to break down the barriers that prevent people of any demographic from succeeding in their fields. To highlight how ineffective programs like this may be, the Microsoft returnship hires will be sent to work on two different programs in Vancouver. It’s an ideal job if there’s no one in your life unwilling to uproot and move.

A growing number of tech companies are pushing back against US Government use (or abuse) of their products.

Microsoft was one of the first headlining companies to recently voice concerns over its products being used to enable a practice that many people find inhumane. Numerous employees came together to sign an open letter to the executives, requesting that their hard work on Microsoft tools not be used to mistreat asylum seekers and their children. At the time, company executives were slow to take a stance. Of course, those employees aren’t alone. Numerous companies have voiced–in one way or another, officially or otherwise–their discomfort with their products aiding and abetting what they see as human rights violations. Unfortunately, it’s one thing to send out a tweet about your supposed outrage, it’s something else entirely to be making millions of dollars off the government’s use of your product.

According to a report by Gizmodo that also cites investigations by The Verge and NBC, many companies have multi-million dollar contracts with ICE, some reaching $75 million. Names like Hewlett-Packard, Thomson Reuters, Palantir, Motorola, and others are profiting nicely from activities that some of their leadership (and workers) denounce, at least in social media soundbites.

  So, who’s actually taking action?

Only Hewlett-Packard seemed to take an official stance, even if there was no talk of a refund. “As a company, we are opposed to any policy that separates children from their families and urge the administration to change its policy to keep families together,” a representative stated as told to NBC.
 While Microsoft executives did speak out against the crisis of separating children from their parents at the border, there has been no word on how the company will go about revoking its contracts to use its software in border patrol agencies.

 New reports have come out that Amazon employees are the latest tech workers to reject government abuse of their work. A very forceful letter to company founder Jeff Bezos from the employees closely mirrored the sentiments of top shareholders, voicing concerns that selling facial recognition software to the government would not sit well with consumers. The tool, ironically (or not) named AWS Rekognition-with-a-K, has already been deployed for picking criminals out of a crowd by law enforcement.

 According to Metro, “The Amazon workers’ letter lists three demands: For Amazon to stop selling the technology to law enforcement, to stop providing technology to partners that enable ICE, and to practice stronger transparency.”

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