How not to win friends and influence
people, OR Welcome to the anti-social network! A few Comments
suggest this lack of investigation is common. Would it be correct to
call it “lying to the AG?”
AT&T
Says One Of Its Service Providers Hacked Illegally Into Connecticut
Customers’ Accounts
March 9, 2012 by admin
George Gombossy reports:
AT&T is now
admitting that one of its service providers hacked illegally into at
least five Connecticut customers’ accounts.
The admission, in
a letter Thursday to the Connecticut Attorney General’s office,
comes after months of denial by AT&T
that it could have had anything to do with two security breaches of a
Winsted woman’s AT&T account, which was used to purchase five
iPhones through fraud.
Read more on CTWatchdog.com.
The service provider was not named in the news story.
[From the article:
Not only did AT&T officials –
including members of its fraud division – deny that possibility,
they attempted to blame Apple employees for the breaches and then
treated the customer rudely, telling Denise Jones to stop raising
questions about her fraud and to stop asking for copies of its
internal investigation report, which had apparently been completed
weeks ago.
… MacKinnon told me I would have to
write a retraction if I wrote a story insinuating that AT&T was
to blame, hinting that it was someone close to Jones who hacked her
account.
… Fitzgerald conceded that someone
associated with AT&T did access Jones’ account, not only once
but even after she had complained about the hacking
and had set up a secret password.
“Unfortunately, the misconduct of
this service provider’s employee has impacted many
more AT&T customers other than Mrs. Jones,” the
letter said.
… AT&T has proactively gone
into the impacted accounts to reverse any fraudulent charges and to
correct account information [Interesting. They have
a crystal ball to determine which transactions are fraudulent (or are
they just covering up evidence?) Bob]
“To the extent any external credit
inquiries were made by AT&T against a customer’s credit report
in connection with the misconduct, AT&T is requesting that the
credit reporting agencies remove the improper
inquiry. [More than an “inquiry”... Bob]
Think of this as a bit more dangerous
that starkers or burglars...
Army
Warns Of Danger Of Geotagging
… n 2007, geotagged photos of a new
fleet of helicopters allowed enemy forces to mortar the base and
destroy several of them; it could just as easily have been a field
hospital or barracks.
My question: Would you hire this
student, give him a scholarship to a Tech school, to ban him for life
from ever holding a tech job? (Second question: Is this really bad
reporting or a really poor school security system?)
Europe’s
‘youngest app designer’ expelled from school for hacking its IT
system
March 9, 2012 by admin
ANI reports:
A “computer
whizzkid”, who was crowned Europe’s youngest application
designer, has been expelled for hacking into his school’s computer
system.
Aaron Bond, 14,
was expelled from King Edward VI College in Totnes, Devon for trying
to access confidential information about staff and students and even
the vice-principal’s financial information.
He managed to
access details about his peers and edited the IT room booking system
and school newsletter before the security breach came to school
management’s knowledge.
[From the Telegraph:
Using passwords,
he managed to look at details about his peers and was able to edit
the IT room booking system and school newsletter before the security
breach was spotted.
He has now been visited by police, who
took DNA samples and fingerprints before
giving him a formal reprimand.
His school, King Edward VI College in
Totnes, Devon has permanently expelled him and maintains no
student should have had access to passwords.
Aaron, who is predicted A*, A and B
grades in his GCSEs, said: "I am very sorry and
if I had known the consequences I never would have done it."
[From This is South
Devon:
Aaron Bond (pictured), 14, is the
managing director of his own web design firm and has designed six
apps used on smartphones.
He was among hand-picked delegates at
the Apple conference last year, and was even being considered for
university courses because he is so advanced with computers.
… Aaron said he became curious
after a list of passwords was displayed on a white
board in the school's IT room.
… The school insists the passwords
were 'examples' and that no one has access to passwords within the
school.
… The system was locked down when
staff realised there had been a breach, but Aaron was still able to
access the site when he tried to log in again.
That didn't take long. I blogged about
this yesterday!
How
to Get Windows on the iPad (With Microsoft’s Blessing)
Microsoft has sicced
its lawyers on the OnLive Desktop — an internet service that
streams Windows onto the iPad — but this won’t stop another
free-thinking startup from sending Microsoft’s flagship operating
system onto Apple’s tablet by way of the proverbial cloud.
The Palo Alto-based Nivio
offers an internet service — the nDesktop — that streams Windows
onto all sorts of machines, including Macs, PCs, and Google
Chromebooks as well as the same devices targeted by the OnLive
Desktop: iPads and Android tablets. Microsoft just
told
the world that the OnLive Desktop violates its licensing terms
for Windows, but Nivio president and “chief wizard”
Sachin Dev Duggal says this isn’t a problem for his company’s
service, which delivers Windows in a very different way.
Interesting slide show for explaining
the Cloud?
March 09, 2012
SLA
Presentation on Cloud Computing
A
New Way to Compute or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Cloud - Robert Bohn, NIST, March 7, 2012 - DC/SLA Washington, DC
Chapter
"NIST Cloud Computing Program Goal
- Accelerate the federal government’s adoption of cloud
computing*
- Build a USG Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap which focuses on the highest priority USG cloud computing security, interoperability and portability requirements
- Lead efforts to develop standards and guidelines in close consultation and collaboration with standards bodies, the private sector, and other stakeholders"
Warren Buffet does not invest in
technology companies. Here's a guy who does...
… Of late Li has become
particularly fascinated by the sweeping potential of artificial
intelligence across all his businesses. In addition to his
$7.5-million investment in Siri, the now ubiquitous iPhone virtual
assistant, he gave $300,000 last December to a startup that uses AI
in its summarization search engine, Summly, run by a 16-year-old.
One of the biggest AI impacts, he believes, will come
in education, where customized learning will become “closely
knitted” to individual devices. “AI has reached an
inflection point,” he says. “Combined with the high-speed mobile
network, disruption in several industries will be unavoidable.”
A short-term business model? A way to
ween users off paper/introduce them to digital?
Marvel
Touts New Deal: Buy A Comic Book, Get The Digital Version Free
Perhaps only because I like food, but
this looks like an interesting start-up.
Cater2.me
May Be Feeding Your Favorite Startup
Startup Cater2.me
is trying to answer one of the rarely-discussed challenges facing any
company that wants to keep a large workforce happy — feeding them
meals that aren’t boring.
… Office managers, or whoever else
is in charge of a company’s meals, can just go to the Cater2.me
website and enter their needs — for example, if they need to feed
50 people every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and five of them are
vegetarians. Then Cater2.me handles all of the logistics, bringing
in a rotating menu of food from a network of small restaurants and
carts — businesses that probably don’t have the time or resources
to do large office catering on their own.
For my Ethical Hackers
Teen
Exploits Three Zero-Day Vulns for $60K Win in Google Chrome Hack
Contest
Just hours before the end of Google’s
$1 million hack challenge, a teenager who once applied to work at
Google without getting a response, hacked the company’s Chrome
browser using three zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which allowed
him to escape the browser’s security sandbox.
For my Management of IT students... In
one CTO, data for behavioral advertisers and outsourcing health care
to India?
"On Friday, President
Barack Obama appointed Todd Park, a 39-year-old former
entrepreneur and data scientist, to
be the new Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Park
takes over for Aneesh Chopra, the first U.S. CTO, who resigned
earlier this year. Park was formerly the CTO of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services since 2009, where he helped
bring 'big data' to healthcare by helping create an open health care
data platform similar to the National Weather Service, which could
feed data to commercial websites and applications.
Before joining the Obama administration, Park helped co-found
AthenaHealth and Castlight Health, and also served as a senior
adviser to Ashoka, a global incubator for social entrepreneurs. One
of his ventures, Healthpoint Services, won the 2011 Sankalp Award for
the 'most innovative and promising
health-oriented social enterprise in India.'"
Sort of a Meta-Pinterest?
Another Meta application for Social
Networks
Storify
Storify lets you curate social networks
to build social stories, bringing together media scattered across the
Web into a coherent narrative. We are building the story layer above
social networks, to amplify the voices that matter and create a new
media format that is interactive, dynamic and social.
Create
your own stories ...search social media networks to find media
elements about the topic you want to Storify.
Curate
the elements — Drag and drop status updates, photos or videos to
bring together the social media elements that will best illustrate
your story.
Write
your own narrative
This looks cool!
This might be just the thing for encouraging (forcing?) student
participation. It might also be the tool I'm looking for to have my
students write their own textbook!
A
Better Live Wiki: HackPad Could Be Your SXSW Backchannel
… HackPad
has a more serious idea: actually taking notes about the panels and
keynotes you go to, with other people who care.
It sounds dangerously productive for
the fun-oriented event. And it is — this is one of the better live
group word-processing products I’ve seen in a while.
… The interface is nice and simple.
You log in with Facebook, or with Google or by creating a new
account. Then you can just start creating and editing docs.
Participating users appear on the right side of each
page, and each person gets a unique color bar on the left side of
where they’re typing. Live edits are in real-time, so
you can watch other users pounding out their own notes while you’re
busy sharing yours.
The top menu includes a simple set of
actions for all the main things you need to do. There’s
a plus button for creating new docs, a search bar, and basic WYSIWYG
commands including a big button for creating links to other docs or
the web (something a lot of editors don’t show off well
in their interfaces).
(Related) Similar but not as useful
for groups?
Magzinr gives you the chance to
organize and manage all the links you have stored on sites like
Delicious, and split the content within as many different categories
as you need. You can also tag this content, and then have everything
arranged into a sort of magazine that can be easily accessed online.
This magazine (which looks a lot like a RSS feed) can be publicly
shared, which means that other people can subscribe to your magazine.
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