So
are we saying Adobe could not determine from their records how many
records were taken?
Brian Krebs has updated his investigation into the
Adobe hack that was originally
reported to have affected 2.9 million customers.
In a post on
KrebsonSecurity.com today, Brian writes that at least 38 million are
affected.
But
just this past weekend, AnonNews.org posted a huge
file called “users.tar.gz” that appears to include more than 150
million username and hashed password pairs taken from
Adobe. The 3.8 GB file looks to be the same one Hold
Security CTO Alex Holden and I found on the
server with the other data stolen from Adobe.
Adobe
spokesperson Heather Edell said the company has just
completed a campaign to contact all existing users whose login and
encrypted password information was stolen, urging those users to
reset their passwords. She said Adobe has no indication that there
has been any unauthorized activity on any Adobe ID involved in the
incident.
In a statement to
Krebs, Adobe writes:
“So
far, our investigation has confirmed that the attackers obtained
access to Adobe IDs and (what were at the time valid), encrypted
passwords for approximately 38 million active users,” Edell said
[emphasis added]. “We have completed email notification of these
users. We also have reset the passwords for all Adobe IDs with
valid, encrypted passwords that we believe were involved in the
incident—regardless of whether those users are active or not.”
Read more on
KrebsonSecurity.com.
If
anyone would retaliate for a cyber attack, the Israelis would. But
who do you retaliate against?
Israeli
Tunnel Hit by Cyber Attack, Experts Say
Remember, it's not
Health Care, it's almost every government IT project.
The
Stunning Negligence That Doomed Obamacare's Launch
If you can't make a
logical argument, make an illogical one.
From EPIC:
EPIC
has filed a reply
brief in In
re EPIC with the U.S. Supreme Court, responding to the
Government’s brief,
which was filed after two extensions. The government
argues the Supreme Court cannot hear the case. EPIC
responded that it “simply cannot be correct” that the order of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, an inferior court, is
not reviewable by the Supreme Court. EPIC also explained that the
order is clearly
unlawful. “No court has ever determined that ‘relevance’
permits the compelled production of such vast quantities of
irrelevant personal information,” EPIC said, noting that
Congressman Sensenbrenner, co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act, has
written
that “This expansive characterization of relevance makes a mockery
of the legal standard.” EPIC also outlined the extraordinary
impact of the NSA telephone record collection on all Americans:
“These telephone records are unique and identifiable, and reveal a
great deal of private information about millions of telephone users.
In no instance has the Government established any individualized
suspicion [Not exactly how the military
(the NSA'a client) works. Bob] to support the collection
of this information.” For more information, see In
re EPIC.
We
were talking “e-Discovery” at the Privacy Foundation's Big Data
seminar last Friday (No video, no audio, no transcript – you REALLY
had to be there) Interesting to find a whole website devoted to
“Best Practices” for lawyers.
Judge
Grimm’s New Discovery Order Is Now An e-Discovery Best Practice –
Part One
Judge Paul Grimm’s
new Discovery
Order, which, to my knowledge, he now enters in
every medium or large size case before him in District Court in
Maryland, has just been included in Electronic Discovery Best
Practices (found at EDBP.com).
What
would George Washington do?
From IC
on the Record, yesterday:
In
June of this year, President Obama directed me to declassify and make
public as much information as possible about certain sensitive
intelligence collection programs undertaken under the authority of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) while being mindful
of the need to protect national security. Consistent with this
directive, in September 2013, I authorized the declassification and
public release of a number of documents pertaining to the
Government’s collection of bulk telephony metadata under Section
501 of the FISA, as amended by Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act
(Section 215). Today I am authorizing the declassification and
public release of a number of additional documents relating to
collection under Section 215. These documents were properly
classified, and their declassification is not done lightly. I have
determined, however, that the harm to national security from the
release of these documents is outweighed by the public interest.
Release
of these documents reflects the Executive Branch’s continued
commitment to making information about this intelligence collection
program publicly available when appropriate and consistent with the
national security of the United States. Additionally, they
demonstrate the extent to which the Intelligence Community kept both
Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court apprised of
the status of the collection program under Section 215. Some
information has been redacted because these documents include
discussion of matters that continue to be properly classified for
national security reasons and the harm to national security would be
great if disclosed. These documents will be made available at the
website of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
and at ICOntheRecord.tumblr.com,
the public website dedicated to fostering greater public visibility
into the intelligence activities of the U.S. Government.
Identify potential
epidemics without medics in black helicopters dropping in to make
sure you “eat healthy.”
Elizabeth Harrington
reports:
The
National Library of Medicine (NLM) is “mining” Facebook and
Twitter to improve its social media footprint and to assess how
Tweets can be used as “change-agents” for health behaviors.
The
NLM, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
will have software installed on government computers that will store
data from social media as part of a $30,000 project announced last
week.
Read more on Washington
Free Beacon.
I’m not sure what to
make of this. Is the NLM going to be downloading all tweets in a
publicly searchable archive like the Library of Congress?
I
an think of a few CEOs that would find this rather intimidating.
Welcome to the Internet Age.
Interesting.
Zach Miners reports:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sometimes speaks quickly and his
statements on Internet privacy are not always clear, so researchers
have created an archive to collect everything the executive has
said publicly, aimed at gaining a better understanding of where
the company stands on privacy.
The
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is hosting the Zuckerberg
Files, a digital treasure trove containing over 100 full-text
transcripts and about 50 video files documenting Zuckerberg’s
public statements for scholars to download and analyze.
Read more on
Computerworld.
Speaking of Facebook...
Facebook
Data Scientists Know Who Your Lover Is
… In a
new paper, they write that embeddedness is an at best mediocre
predictor of that special something. Relying on embeddedness, they
were able to accurately predict Facebook users' significant others
24.7 percent of the time.
Another measure fared
much better: "dispersion," or how many different networks
of theirs a person's friend shares. In other words, your significant
other won't just share many friends with you, but friends from all
walks of life: your colleagues, your high school buds, your college
friends, your family, and so on. Using dispersion, Backstrom and
Kleinberg doubled their accuracy: 50 percent of the time, a person
was romantic partners with the person who was the most dispersed
across his or her social network. For married people, their accuracy
rose to 60 percent, a figure which they say is more than 30 times
higher than random guessing would produce (everyone in their sample
had at least 50 friends).
Perspective
Pew
– Photo and Video Sharing Grow Online
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on October 28, 2013
“A new
study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project [by Maeve
Duggan] shows that 54% of internet users have posted original
photos or videos to websites and 47% share photos or videos they
found elsewhere online. The mobile landscape has also added to
photo- and video-sharing. Apps like Snapchat and Instagram have
capitalized on the ubiquity of cell phones and smartphones that make
it simple to upload and share images. Some 9% of cell phone owners
use Snapchat and 18% use Instagram. This is the first time the Pew
Internet Project has asked cell owners about Snapchat and Instagram.”
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