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Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People’s Data and Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People

Compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world, the company told Bloomberg on Tuesday. The personal information of about 7 million drivers was accessed as well.

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“None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it,” Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over as chief executive officer in September, said in an emailed statement. “We are changing the way we do business.”

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The company paid hackers to delete the data and keep the breach quiet. Uber said it believes the information was never used but declined to disclose the identities of the attackers.

Source: Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People – Bloomberg

10 Funny Things About Working in India

  1. We don’t want to do any invention. Just tell us which buttons to press and we will do it
  2. If the boss says ‘Yes’, we all should say ‘Yes’ too. We lick better than dogs
  3. If a man is successful, load more of our work on him. Please don’t call us Free-Loaders
  4. We share our laptops/desktops/workplace. So we must be doing great work (You can cramp in more people if you like)
  5. His skin is white. Let’s bow to him
  6. If we can’t find faults in a person’s work, let us attack his character & family
  7. He is doing late hours in office. So he must be doing more work for the company
  8. ‘Making great architectures of buildings’ is more important than ‘Making great people’
  9. We businessman provide food to thousands of families whose men work for us. That is better than ‘The men who work for us provide food for themselves’
  10. No one should be irreplaceable. Forget about a man’s contribution

Source: 10 Funny Things About Working in India

The seven deadly sins of programming

  1. Using spaces Instead of tabs. You should always, always use tabs, not spaces.
  2. Using tabs instead of spaces. You should always, always, use spaces.
  3. Not using auto-formatting. Forget all that tabs/spaces rubbish, what’s wrong with you – auto-format your code and then people won’t have to look at your weird ideas about brackets anti spaces.
  4. Using IDES, which have features such as auto-formatting and nicely-coloured buttons. code should be written in vi or Emacs, thus ensuring the purity of the programming experience.
  5. Not using IDES. No-one wants to pay for the time it’s going to take you to type things that you could have done at the click of a button, or scroll up and down using some ridiculous key combination invoked using LISP
  6. Failing to learn C and C++. It’s really important to learn the two absolute essential languages. You think Java is just as good? Fine, write me a real-time control system for racing cars in Java and I’ll believe you.
  7. Learning C or C++ when you could be using something modern like Java instead. Admit it —all your schedules involving C or C++ overrun by five years. And even then the software turns out to have critical flaws that Java would not even have allowed you to create.
  8. Overrunning the end of an array.

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On avoiding billions in taxes

When Apple’s efforts to reduce its taxes around the world came under fire in Congress a few years ago, CEO Tim Cook fired back. “We do not depend on tax gimmicks,” Cook said. “We do not stash money on some Caribbean island.”
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The world’s most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
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Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its controversial Irish tax practices by actively shopping around for a tax haven.
It then moved the firm holding most of its untaxed offshore cash, now $252bn, to the Channel Island of Jersey.

Sources:
Paradise Papers: Apple’s secret tax bolthole revealed
Apple Avoiding Billions in Taxes With Island of Jersey Plan

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