Apple's New MacBook Disconnects Microphone "Physically" When Lid is Closed

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 October 31, 2018  Mohit Kumar Apple introduces a new privacy feature for all new MacBooks that "at some extent" will prevent hackers and malicious applications from eavesdropping on your conversations. Apple's custom T2 security chip in the latest MacBooks includes a new hardware feature that physically disconnects the MacBook's built-in microphone whenever the user closes the lid, the company revealed yesterday at its event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Though the new T2 chip is already present in the 2018 MacBook Pro models launched earlier this year, this new feature got unveiled when Apple launched the new Retina MacBook Air and published a full security guide for T2 Chip yesterday. "This disconnect is implemented in hardware alone, and therefore prevents any software, even with root or kernel privileges in macOS, and even the software on the T2 chip, from engaging the microphone when the lid is closed,...

Uber Paid Hackers $100,000. Read Why

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Uber’s CEO Mr. Dara Khosrowshahi, on 21 Nov published a blog post regarding a hack which happened in the month of October 2016.
The hackers stole personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from a third-party cloud service which was used by Uber. The hackers were two individual outsiders.
According to an article published on Bloomberg, the company paid hackers $100,000 to keep the data breach as a secret. It is stated that out of 57 million users, 50 million users were customers and rest 7 million included the data of the drivers. Mr. Khosrowshahi confirmed that the incident did not breach their corporate systems or infrastructure and only the third-party cloud service was attacked.
Mr. Khosrowshahi, in his post, explained about the breach and the details about what exactly was stolen by the attackers. The data included driver’s license numbers, personal email, phone number, and names of the users.
“WE HAVE TO BE HONEST AND TRANSPARENT AS WE WORK TO REPAIR OUR PAST MISTAKES,” SAID KHOSROWSHAHI.
Uber is taking certain measures so that this incident should not affect any customer or drivers. Some of these actions include.
  • Individually notifying the drivers whose driver’s license was downloaded.
  • Providing affected drivers with free credit monitoring and identity theft protection.
  • Notifying regulatory authorities.
Uber also put up some instructions for the drivers here and for the riders here.
Earlier in this year, there was an unlimited free ride bug in Uber, if you wanna read about that check it out here