A
trickle of detail – but not from Sony.
Kaspersky
drops deets on Sony hacker malware
Kaspersky
bod Kurt Baumgartner has released more details into the
Sony-plundering malware and links it to attacks on Saudi Aramco and
South Korea.
Research
conducted
in the wake of the epic Sony breach last month had connected those
behind the attack known as the Guardians of Peace (GOP) with the 2012
hacking of Saudi Aramco by 'WhoIs Team' that
hit 30,000 computers with the Shamoon malware at a time when tensions
were high between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
…
Baumgartner's work added further
weight to claims the malware used in both
attacks and the 2013
Dark Seoul hacks were deployed by the same
actors.
"In
all three cases: Shamoon, Dark Seoul and Destover, the groups
claiming credit for their destructive impact across entire large
networks had no history or real identity of their own,"
Baumgartner (@k_sec)
wrote in an
analysis piece.
(Related)
Kick 'em while they're down!
Sony’s
PlayStation Network Hit With Cyber Attack
Sony
Computer Entertainment Inc. says it has no information of a loss of
data following a cyber-attack on its Internet-based services for
PlayStation video-game consoles, the company said on Monday.
“We
are still investigating the incident, including possible causes of
it, but we haven’t found any trace of any sorts of information
leaked out,” the company’s spokesman said.
…
The latest PlayStation attack comes hot on the heels of large-scale
hacking
attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment, where
personal data of Hollywood movie starts were being exposed.
There
is no evidence that the two cases are related.
Medical
ethics. One reason to anonymize the data? No need to inform those
who have the evil genes.
Adam
Wernick reports:
If you agree to participate in a genome research study, what happens
if the researchers find a risky gene in your sequence? Do they have
an obligation to tell you? What if you don’t want to know? And
what about your family members, who might share that problematic gene
with you? Do they have a right to know?
“We’re in a unique historical movement,” says Dr. Robert Green,
a medical geneticist at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
Harvard Medical School. “I think in five years, or maybe seven or
eight years, the cost and the availability of well-interpreted
genomes will be so ubiquitous that anyone who’s interested in
finding out this information about themselves can readily and easily
find out about it.”
But for now, there’s a mess of conflicting demands and limited laws
surrounding genetic information.
Read
more on PRI.
Nothing
sounds good.
Russia’s
bleak economic picture
The
rouble trouble afflicitng Russia is but one consequence of Vladimir
Putin’s dismal charting of Russia’s future. His rambling,
incoherent state-of-the-nation speech last week merely confirmed this
fact, says international media
The
Economist is worried that Putin may be sold on his own flawed
rhetoric. “The most worrying thing about Putin’s address is that
he may actually believe it,” says its editorial. “Just as the
Russian media invented Ukrainian fascists to justify its hybrid war
in Ukraine, it is now inventing American aggression to justify its
isolation and confrontation with the West.
Cute
Mark
Zuckerberg Defends Free Facebook
Facebook
founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has defended the social network he
cooked up in his dorm room at Harvard. In particular, he has
defended its status as a free service paid for by advertising, which
has been in the firing line of late thanks to newcomers
such as Ello.
[A
related tweet:
I
see you when you are sleeping
I
know when you're awake
I
know if you've been bad or good
So
be good for goodness sake
-Mark Zuckerberg
I
want one. (If I can use it on my students...)
How
To 3D-Print New Star Wars Lightsaber
You’ve
watched the first teaser trailer for Star
Wars: A Force Awakens, and you’ve watched the
best
parodies of the new Star Wars movie, so what’s
next on the agenda? Why, 3D-printing your own copy of the new
three-pronged lightsaber via Instructables,
of course. It may only be plastic, but it’s surely better than
nothing.
[The
video: http://vimeo.com/113298946
This
is rather slick for anyone just learning about computers. Perhaps I
can get my students to make a similar site for Math, Computer
Security, etc.
Teach
Parents Tech - A Good Way to Send Tech Help
Almost
all of us have people in our lives that need help navigating their
computers and or the Internet. Teach
Parents Tech is a free service from Google that
can help you help those people in your life that need some tech
guidance.
To
send tech support through Teach
Parents Tech simply specify a recipient, choose
the type of help that your recipient needs, and enter your
recipient's email address. Your recipient will receive a set of
videos designed to help them with the tasks that are troubling them.
As the sender, you can preview the videos before they are sent.
Sometimes,
it's hard to believe I'm not an expert on The Cloud.
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