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The trick is to get buddies to decline low-paying jobs and check old code Katyanna Quach Wed 7 Apr 2021 // 23:44 UTC Share Copy DoorDash drivers are encouraging one another to turn down food delivery jobs below a minimum threshold of $7 in an attempt to game the company’s in-app payment algorithm. Food delivery platforms like DoorDash have grown during the coronavirus pandemic as restrictions on dining at restaurants have made people turn to takeout instead. Drivers, or Dashers as they’re known, in turn, fire up DoorDash's mobile phone app and are paid for each tri...

Software nasty also 'persists after a factory reset' Gareth Corfield Wed 7 Apr 2021 // 20:11 UTC Share Copy Android smartphones from Gigaset have been infected by malware direct from the manufacturer in what appears to be a supply-chain attack. The Trojan, once downloaded and installed on a victim's device via a poisoned software update from the vendor, is capable of opening browser windows, fetching more malicious apps, and sending people text messages to further spread the malware, say researchers and users. The malicious updates were seeded on April 1, judging by re...

Shouting cyber cyber cyber, mega mega fail thing Gareth Corfield Tue 6 Apr 2021 // 13:50 UTC Share Copy The UK Cyber Security Council announced itself to the public realm last week by touting a domain it doesn't own. Helpfully, internet jokesters then bought up variations on the official address. A brainchild of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the UK Cyber Security Council is billed by government as "the regulatory body, and voice, for UK cyber security education, training and skills." As part of that it "drives progress towards meeting the key ch...

Forget smartphones – whaddabout motors? Share Copy The US automotive industry has warned it faces a bleak six months of disruption caused by the global shortage of semiconductors, adding that the chaos will result in 1.28 million fewer cars made this year. The gloomy prediction came from the Alliance for Auto Innovation, an umbrella group that consists of big-name carmakers like BMW and Ford, as well as downstream suppliers like HARMAN, Intel, and Texas Instruments. Its members account for 99 per cent of all cars manufactured in the US. In a written reply to a government-initiated r...

El Reg, should stop using the word hacker as a pejorative. This debate came about after infosec pro Alyssa Miller and a few others from the Hacking Is Not A Crime movement politely asked Register vultures on Twitter to quit using the h-word as a lazy shorthand for criminal. We said we'd think about it. And we thought about it, and we thought about it some more. And in the end, since we're writing for you, we decided to put it to the audience: we published an article for and an article against the proposal, and let everyone vote for whichever side they agreed with.