It's pretty rare that a
“C-level” executive hasn't insulated themselves sufficiently to
avoid being held responsible for breaches. I wonder what is really
going on here?
Target
CIO Resigns After Data Breach
Retail
giant Target said Wednesday that its chief information officer, Beth
Jacob,
has resigned effective immediately after the massive data breach late
last year that exposed millions of customer payment card numbers and
hurt company profits.
… According
to Steinhafel, the company is conducting an external search for an
interim CIO.
“We
will also be elevating the role of the Chief Information Security
Officer and hiring externally for this position,” he said.
“Additionally, we will be initiating an external search for a Chief
Compliance Officer."
Something for my
Ethical Hackers: “Siri, find an easily hacked bank account and buy
me a Bently.” There will be an App for that!
Apple
Reportedly Plans To Open Siri To Third Parties (Just As Hackers Force
It Open)
For anyone that wants
Siri to do more than set iCal appointments and dictate SMS messages,
there may be hope beyond a hack. Apple is reportedly working on
allowing third-party services to integrate with Siri so that the
iPhone’s digital assistant can carry out tasks — book flights or
send texts on other messaging apps — which go beyond the services
Apple can provide.
I don't suppose you
could shut down the old company and spin up a new one each time you
get a subpoena...
Robert Richardson
writes:
According
to one of the nation’s top digital civil liberties attorneys, U.S.
companies have little legal recourse when powerful law enforcement
agencies like the FBI make overreaching demands for their customers’
sensitive data.
In
a presentation at last Thursday’s inaugural TrustyCon event,
attorney Marcia
Hofmann told attendees that the circumstances in which private
email provider Lavabit opted to shutter its business might not be
unique. Last summer Lavabit and Silent Circle, two providers of
encrypted digital communications services, shuttered
their services to avoid forced disclosure of their users’ data
to U.S. government agencies.
Read more on
SearchSecurity.
Pop quiz for congress
and the Senate: 1) When is a background check mandatory? Hint: Not
always! 2) If I do not “declare a willingness to break the law,”
does that mean I am in compliance? 3) Will Facebook users do a
better job that congress? Hint: How could they do worse?
Facebook
Cracking Down on Illegal Gun Sales Planned on Site (2)
Facebook Inc. (FB:US)
is cracking down on illegal gun sales planned through its website,
seeking to prevent criminal activity and setting a precedent other
social-media sites could follow.
Facebook will delete
posts where users declare a willingness to break the
law, such as to sell a gun without a background check or
transport it across U.S. state lines, the company said today in a
blog post. People who promote private sales of guns -- or other
regulated goods and services -- might get a message from Facebook
reminding them to comply with the law, while pages related to such
activities will have to include language about the importance of
following the law.
Students have no
rights! Were there threats in these writings?
A
former Moon Area School District student and his
parents claim in a lawsuit moved to federal court on Wednesday that
the township’s police violated his constitutional rights by seizing
his personal journals and videos from his home and then showing them
to school officials and other third parties.
Colin
Schreiber, 20, and his parents Paul and Lora Schreiber, all of Moon,
claim police lacked probable cause and obtained an overly broad
search warrant in May 2011 after school officials contacted police
about writings in Colin Schreiber’s personal journal, which he had
with him at school.
Read more on TribLive.
...because all the
worst laws are made by lawmakers?
Eric Goldman writes:
As
regular readers know, I view state legislatures as currently the #1
threat to the Internet’s integrity. In the name of “protecting
the kids” and “helping the Internet”, state legislatures are
manufacturing a slew of anti-innovation laws that cumulatively
threaten to “love” the Internet to death. Just try to keep pace
with California’s legislature. This morning, I did a search at the
legislative portal for the keyword “Internet” and found *415*
bills in the current legislative session (2013-14). I don’t have
time to peruse this legislative tsunami to find and analyze the
numerous stinkers; but the pending bills that people are highlighting
for me are characteristically horrifying.
Read more on Technology
& Marketing Law Blog.
Dude, nothing works!
We're doomed!
Deven Desai writes:
A
core issue in U.S. v. Jones has noting to do with connecting
“trivial” bits of data to see a mosaic; it is about the simple
ability to have a perfect map of everywhere we go, with whom we meet,
what we read, and more. It is about the ability to look backward and
see all that information with little to no oversight and in a way
forever. That is why calls to shift the vast
information grabs to a third party are useless. The move
changes little given the way the government already demands
information from private data hoards. Yes, not having immediate
access to the information is a start. That might mitigate mischief.
But clear procedures are needed before that separation can be
meaningful. That is why telecom
and tech giants should be wary of “The central pillar of
Obama’s plan to overhaul the surveillance programs [which] calls
for shifting storage of Americans’ phone data from the government
to telecom companies or an independent third party.” It does not
solve the problem of data hoards.
Read more on Concurring
Opinions.
Boo!
(But they have huge PACs)
Obama
administration sides against Aereo
The Obama
administration has sided with the nation's television broadcasters in
a pending
Supreme Court case against Aereo, the Internet service that
scoops up freely available television signals and streams them to
paying subscribers.
A surefire indication
that a game is popular?
Report:
New Flappy Bird clone hits App Store every 24 minutes
Flappy Bird may be
gone, but it's certainly not forgotten. A new report from Pocket
Gamer has found that 60 new Flappy Bird clones
were added to Apple's App Store February 28-March 3. That breaks
down to 2.5 new clones per hour or one every 24 minutes.
To qualify as a Flappy
Bird clone, games needed to have players guiding characters through a
course of pipes (or pipe-like objects) hanging from the ceiling or
emerging from the ground.
Some notable Flappy
Bird clones have included Fall
Out Bird (based on the band Fall Out Boy) and
Flappy
Bert, which was inspired by the beloved Sesame
Street character. The original Flappy Bird saw more than 50 million
downloads before created Dong Nguyen pulled the game down in early
February, saying the game was "too
addictive."
Another job for my
Ethical Hackers!
Apple
security rules leave inherited iPad useless, say sons
A man whose mother bequeathed her iPad to her family in her will says
Apple's security rules are too restrictive.
Josh Grant, 26, from
London, told BBC
Radio 4's You & Yours his mother bought the tablet during her
cancer treatment.
Since her death, they
have been unable to unlock the device, despite providing Apple with
copies of her will, death certificate and solicitor's letter.
Apple says its security
measures have led the industry in helping customers protect lost or
stolen devices.
I could make this blog
pretty!
Getty’s
Images Are Now Free for Twitter, Tumblr and Personal Blogs
Since its founding,
Getty Images has charged for its photos. If a media company wanted
to use a Getty photo, the company paid Getty for the rights to that
photo. But the stock-photo agency noticed its photos increasingly
appearing on social media and blogs that hadn’t paid for the
rights—one result of images being easy to find in Google Image
searches and on news sites.
So the Seattle-based
photo agency has decided to make a huge portion of its photos free.
On Wednesday, the company unveiled the embed
tool, which will allow users to include images on websites, such
as non-commercial WordPress blogs. The eligible images also come
with buttons for Tumblr and Twitter,
where a link to the image can be shared.
Take 8 minutes to watch
this video.
Government
surveillance — this is just the beginning
Privacy researcher
Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance
shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring
programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying
technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents
and monitor activity — without detection.
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