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Criminals can work out the card number, expiry date and security code for a Visa debit or credit card in as little as six seconds using guesswork, researchers have found. Experts from Newcastle University said it was “frighteningly easy” to do with a laptop and an internet connection.

According to Uber, the ridehailing company is trying to improve customer experience with its new location feature, but some riders may not appreciate being surveilled. In May Uber announced it would add rider location tracking and now the service can track riders before and after rides, according to Ars Technica. With the service enabled, Uber will track your location from the time you originally request a ride until five minutes after the ride ends. The company says the information helps drivers find riders without making phone calls...

Worse still, with more people using work and home devices interchangeably, a compromised home network can infect an office network as easily as a compromised corporate network can damage a home network. So now, everyone – from security managers and large companies to casual home users – must come to grips with the reality that security holes in connected devices can take down entire office buildings, factories and even the smart grid...

The note-taking app quietly announced earlier this week its intentions to update its privacy policy, which will let some of its employees access and read user content as part of the company's effort to improve the service. The company said in its proposed privacy policy, which determines what it does with its users data, including their notes, that the changes are "primarily to make sure that our machine learning technologies are working correctly." Evernote's machine learning technologies are thought to include artificial intelligence hooks, such as searching with natural language queries.

The note-taking app quietly announced earlier this week its intentions to update its privacy policy, which will let some of its employees access and read user content as part of the company's effort to improve the service. The company said in its proposed privacy policy, which determines what it does with its users data, including their notes, that the changes are "primarily to make sure that our machine learning technologies are working correctly." Evernote's machine learning technologies are thought to include artificial intelligence hooks, such as searching with natural language queries.