DRIEBERGEN (ANP) - De politie probeert zoveel mogelijk te voorkomen dat de gestolen klantgegevens van Odido verder worden verspreid. Volgens Stan Duijf, als hoofd Operatiën verantwoordelijk voor de aanpak van cybercrime, is het al gelukt om diverse servers offline te halen die de hackers gebruikten voor het opslaan of verspreiden van data. Hoeveel van de miljoenen gestolen gegevens inmiddels toch in foute handen zijn gekomen, kan Duijf niet aangeven.

Odido kondigde donderdag rond het middaguur aan geen losgeld te betalen aan de internationale hackersgroep ShinyHunters, die de persoonsgegevens van zeker 6,2 miljoen accounts bij het telecombedrijf had gestolen. Rond datzelfde tijdstip zagen verschillende media al snel een deel van de data op het dark web verschijnen.

Duijff stelt dat de politie zich de komende tijd blijft inspannen om verspreiding te voorkomen. Daarbij wordt ook samengewerkt met autoriteiten in Duitsland, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de Verenigde Staten. Tegelijkertijd doet de politie onderzoek naar de daders van de hack.

Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons the Hard Way [YouTube] "Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the actions of various animals. From the famous Skinner boxes to many modern video game mechanics, animals and humans alike can learn through the addition or subtraction of various rewards and punishments. And it doesn't only impact simple actions either; [Everything is Hacked] took this idea to the extreme, using painful electric shocks to teach himself to avoid making blunders while playing chess. This positive punishment system uses a medical device called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) to deliver an electric shock to the skin. The electrical jolt is routed through a custom-built, conductive chess board where each square is isolated from the others and controlled by its own relay. The pieces are conductive as well, so if one is placed on a square where it shouldn't go a relay will switch on to quickly provide the behavioral modification. The control logic is provided by a Raspberry Pi running the Stockfish chess engine, and it keeps track of the locations of the positions of all the pieces by using MX switches in the base of each square on the board." [via: hackaday]

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English Garden, painted in 1965, is on display before it goes under the hammer with estimate of £2.5m-£3.5m

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Sotheby’s said the 1965 painting, English Garden, which was completed in Boulder, Colorado, was pivotal for Hockney as well as holding an important place in wider art history.

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