4 billion stolen profiles. How to protect your personal data

The history of hacking Uber shows: no one will save you from leakage from a large online service. You may not even find out about her.

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The authorities around the world began investigations of a record leak of data from 57 million Uber users. Companies, bought from hackers for $ 100 thousand, managed to hide a leak for a whole year. Moreover, even now, after the new CEO, Dara Khosrovshani pleaded guilty to the company and apologized, Uber is not going to inform the users which of them touched the leak.

• It was easy to steal the Uber data archive: the operation turned out everything: two hackers. They penetrated the closed group of the company's developers in the GITHub IT project for hosting and took all passwords and logins from the code developers there.
• Uber paid hackers $ 100 thousand for non-disclosure, but there are no guarantees that they have no backup of data left, IT experts say .
• The total number of users whose personal data was stolen by hackers from online services over the past three years exceeds 4 billion-this conclusion can be drawn from data collected by USA Today.

What am I to me?

Simple statistics: if you use online services, your data has already been stolen or stolen in the near future. And if your computer or smartphone can still be protected using antiviruses and compliance with simple safety rules , then no one will protect you from leaks from large companies - you can only try to reduce the damage. Here is a set of signs that someone stole your data, buta set of tips that must be done in this case first thing.

MONEY

To court - not this year

Igor Sechin, apparently, was tired of anew to re -explain why he would not come to the court in the case of Ulyukaev, especially after yesterday it turned out that at the event with Dmitry Medvedev, which Rosneft brought Medvedev as a reason for the failure to appear on November 22. Today, Sechin’s lawyer, in a letter to the court, said that the schedule of the head of Rosneft was scheduled before the end of the year, and the campaign does not fit into it.

Yandex without a general director

The chief operating director of Yandex, Alexander Shulgin, who headed the company since 2014, left his position. “It's time to move on,” said Shulgin. His new place of work is still unknown. Instead, the company will be headed by the financial director of Greg Abovsky, according to the Yandex employee, who played a leading role in negotiations on a transaction on the unification of Russian assets Yandex.Taxi and Uber.

PRACTICE

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How to save on air tickets

The largest tourist service Aviasales specifically for readers The Bell talked about how more profitable it is to buy flights, the prices for which are constantly changing.

• It is believed that you can save on the early (over several months) reservations, but in fact, this rule is not true for all directions. The optimal time for buying tickets for European directions is in 6 weeks. Internal directions in Russia are significantly expensive 2 weeks before the holidays.
• Currency rates are another reason for price fluctuations. Ruble calculations with suppliers in Russia and foreign currency - with foreign ones make the ticket value dependent on oscillations. If you are afraid to overpay on the difference in courses, receive tickets on the days of strengthening the ruble.

● Another way is the so -called “irrevocable” tariff. Aviasales experts came to the conclusion that irrevocable tickets helped travelers save up to 11% on flights compared to last year. Choose them if you are sure of your plans: no adjustments can be made without loss of money.

What am I to me?

You can save time and effort to search and entrust this work of Aviasales chatbot . It is enough for you to set the necessary parameters: date, time, departure airport and the desired discount. The bot will select the best flight option and contact you via Facebook, Telegram, Viber or Slack.

ICO or venture

We already wrote that the ICO market in Russia this year was ahead of the amount of funds raised by the venture investment market (this, however, is not surprising, given the state of Russian venture). But the hype passes, and the coming to the market of great money and the interest of the governments will make the ICO more complex and regulated. Inc. He collected managing venture funds and investors in cryptocurrency projects to discuss how best it would be to attract money in 2018.

You can't hide from Google

The fact that Google is watching you more than the FSB and the NSA combined is not news for a long time. But if you thought that the techniques of a reasonable paranoid - turn off the phone and take out the SIM card - you will be saved, you were mistaken. QUARTZ found that the phones on Android are sent to Google information about the geolocation of owners even from the turned off phones without SIM cards (not to mention the geolocation in the settings-this was never an obstacle). Google swears that he does not save and does not use this data. But if you still do not like surveillance, there is only one solution - not to carry a phone with you.

FUTURE

Instead of "Concord"

The 2020s can become a new era of supersonic aviation: the level of technology already allows you to make flights at speeds of over 2,000 km/h with profitable, which in the 20th century could not be achieved with Concord. In the USA and Europe, at least 6 projects of supersonic passenger liners are developed, and the first prototype from the startup Boom should fly next year. 10 answers to questions about what will be air transportation of the future.

Peter Mironenko, The Bell