We
know this can happen, yet we choose to ignore that troubling little
fact.
Report
– Elite Russian hackers breached Nasdaq and inserted a digital bomb
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 17, 2014
BloombergBusinessWeek
– Mike Riley: “In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of
Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an
alert. The signal was coming from Nasdaq. It looked like malware
had snuck into the company’s central servers. There were
indications that the intruder was not a kid somewhere, but the
intelligence agency of another country. More troubling still: When
the U.S. experts got a better look at the malware, they realized it
was attack code, designed to cause damage… While
the hack was successfully disrupted, it revealed how vulnerable
financial exchanges—as well as banks, chemical refineries, water
plants, and electric utilities—are to digital assault. One
official who experienced the event firsthand says he
thought the attack would change everything, that it would force the
U.S. to get serious about preparing for a new era of conflict by
computer. He was wrong.”
(Related)
Gee, maybe everyone should read “The Prince.”
Global
Cybercrime: The Interplay of Politics and Law
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 17, 2014
The
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) - Aaron Shull,
June 2014
“Examining
global cybercrime as solely a legal issue misses an important facet
of the problem. Understanding the applicable legal rules, both
domestically and internationally, is important. However, major state
actors are using concerted efforts to engage in nefarious cyber
activities with the intention of advancing their economic and
geostrategic interests. This
paper explores the recent unsealing of a 31-count indictment
against five Chinese government officials and a significant cyber
breach, perpetrated by Chinese actors against Western oil, energy and
petrochemical companies. The paper concludes by noting that
increased cooperation among governments is necessary, but unlikely to
occur as long as the discourse surrounding cybercrime remains so
heavily politicized and securitized. If governments coalesced around
the notion of trying to prevent the long-term degradation of trust in
the online economy, they may profitably advance the dialogue away
from mutual suspicion and toward mutual cooperation.”
“If
you build it, they will come.” (Makes me think I should start a
new blog, titled: Field of Memes.)
Hogan Lovells today published Pan-American
Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud, the fifth
installment in a series of White Papers examining government access
to data held by Cloud service providers. Examining the right of
governments in the United States and Latin America to access data in
the Cloud, the White Paper concludes that the physical
location of Cloud servers does not significantly affect government
access to data stored on those servers, and that it is
fundamentally incorrect to assume that the United States government’s
access to data in the Cloud is greater than that in the Latin
American countries examined.
Read
more on Hogan Lovells Chronicle
of Data Protection.
“As
goes France, so goes only France...”
Marianne
Le Moullec writes:
According to the French Data Protection Authority’s (“CNIL”)
recently issued activity report for 2013
(http://www.cnil.fr/fileadmin/documents/La_CNIL/publications/CNIL_34e_Rapport_annuel_2013.pdf),
the CNIL was especially busy in 2013. The main topics addressed by
the CNIL in 2013 were the creation of a national consumer credit
database, the right to be forgotten, the right to refuse cookies, the
proposed EU Regulation, and, of course, the revelations concerning
the U.S. Prism program and the surveillance of European citizens’
personal data by foreign entities.
[...]
With regards to of the CNIL’s auditing and sanctions in 2013, the
CNIL’s priorities remained committed to training, promoting
awareness on data protection and issuing guidance for companies.
Imposing financial penalties remains an exception. Statistics of the
CNIL’s auditing and sanctions activities in 2013 demonstrate this
quite clearly
Read
more on Proskauer
Good
marketing. Now owning a multimillion dollar mansion, a yacht and a
Ferrari don't mean a thing if you aren't recognized by Facebook as
being a “real celebrity.” (Will you be able to opt out, so you
can pretend to be humble?)
Facebook
Launches New App for Celebrities Only
Facebook
has launched a new app aimed at celebrities only that will let public
figures more easily interact with their fans.
The
app called 'Mentions' is aimed at helping the Facebook-recognised
or verified celebrities manage their public figure pages
on the social network.
“What
we got here, is failure to communicate!”
Lawmakers
ask GM to fire its top lawyer, Michael Millikin
On
Thursday, a Senate subcommittee asked automaker General Motors (GM) -
which is currently dealing with a safety recall crisis of sorts - to
dismiss the company's chief corporate counsel, Michael Millikin.
…
The report alleged that the GM lawyers did not alert the company's
engineers or top executives to a potential safety issue.
Against
the backdrop of Valukas' report, McCaskill questioned why Millikin
has failed to inform the GM board or the US Securities and Exchange
Commission of the potential for punitive damages when the cases
involving faulty ignition switches were being settled by GM.
McCaskill said Millikin's actions amounted to "either gross
negligence or gross incompetence on the part of a lawyer."
My
Math students already know this. (I hope.)
5
Cool Math Calculations You Can Do with Google Search
1.) Perform Basic Math Calculations
2.) Perform Advanced Math Computation
This includes trigonometric function, inverse trigonometric
functions, hyperbolic functions, logarithms (base 10, e, and 2),
exponential functions, factorial, and combinations.
3.) Convert Measures
it can convert currency, mass, length, volume, area, time,
electricity, energy, and power. It is also capable of converting
information (bytes, kilobytes, etc.) and number systems.
4. Set Timer or Alarm
5.) Graph Functions
Note
that you can also display the Google calculator on your browser just
by typing calculator on Google search.
For
my researching students.
7
Free Online PDF Tools That Could Save You A Lot Of Work
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