This
article quotes a couple of emails from GOP. I think North Korea has
better translators than whoever wrote these emails.
Hackers
Target Sony Again With Email To Staff Threatening Their Families
Sony
staffers, reeling from a
devastating hacking scandal, have received threatening emails
from self-alleged hackers called the "Guardians of Peace"
or GOP, reports
USA Today.
Those
emails allegedly threaten employees' families if they don't support
GOP's goals.
For
my Computer Security class. What do you think of a bank that does
not find and implement this “Best Practice?”
Treasury
Dept: Tor a Big Source of Bank Fraud
A
new report from the U.S.
Treasury Department found that a majority of bank
account takeovers by cyberthieves over the past decade might
have been thwarted had affected institutions known to look for and
block transactions coming through Tor,
a global communications network that helps users maintain anonymity
by obfuscating their true location online.
The
findings come in a non-public report obtained by KrebsOnSecurity that
was produced by the Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a Treasury Department bureau
responsible for collecting and analyzing data about financial
transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering,
terrorist financing and other financial crimes.
Brief
clash, but amusing.
Yesterday,
Just Security editor David Cole spoke with United States
Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner about the value of privacy.
The short and fascinating discussion, part of a Georgetown University
Law Center event on Cybercrime and the Fourth Amendment, can be found
here.
PCWorld
also provided additional
reporting on the event, with more details on their respective
positions. Posner has taken a consistent line on the relative value
of privacy in the context of data collection. In 2005, he said:
The collection, mainly through electronic means, of vast amounts of
personal data is said to invade privacy. But machine collection and
processing of data cannot, as such, invade privacy. Because of their
volume, the data are first sifted by computers, which search for
names, addresses, phone numbers, etc., that may have intelligence
value. This initial sifting, far from invading privacy (a computer
is not a sentient being), keeps most private data from being read by
any intelligence officer.
(Related)
Same conference anyway...
Brian
Donahue reports:
Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general in the criminal division
of the Department of Justice announced on Thursday the creation of a
new team within its Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
(CCIPS) during a talk at a Georgetown Law conference titled,
“Cybercrime 2020: The Future of Online Crime and Investigations.”
Known as the Cybercrime Unit, the team is tasked with enhancing
public-private security efforts.
Caldwell made sure to distance herself, the new cybercrime unit, and
the Justice Department as a whole from what she described as the
overarching misconception that privacy is an afterthought in the DOJ.
Read
more on ThreatPost.
(Related)
Similar to Judge Posner's conclusions.
Owen
Bowcott reports:
Britain’s legal regime governing mass surveillance of the internet
by intelligence agencies does not violate human rights, a tribunal
has ruled.
But the investigatory powers tribunal said (IPT) it had identified
one area where it had concerns about whether there were adequate
legal safeguards.
Read
more on The
Guardian.
Ethics
huh? Is there a difference if the data is big?
The
Ethics of Big Data in Higher Education
“Data
mining and predictive analytics—collectively referred to as “big
data”—are increasingly used in higher education to classify
students and predict student behavior. But while the potential
benefits of such techniques are significant, realizing them presents
a range of ethical and social challenges. The immediate challenge
considers the extent to which data mining’s outcomes are themselves
ethical with respect to both individuals and institutions. A deep
challenge, not readily apparent to institutional researchers or
administrators, considers the implications of uncritical
understanding of the scientific basis of data mining. These
challenges can be met by understanding data mining as part of a
value-laden nexus of problems, models, and interventions; by
protecting the contextual integrity of information flows; and by
ensuring both the scientific and normative validity of data mining
applications.”
(Related)
PDF
Code
of practice for learning analytics
An
interesting article in the Internet of Things
‘Things’
Are Heating Up: What’s New in the Internet of Things
…
Before we can reach that future of 200 billion or more networked
objects, developers will have to deal with a host of on-the-ground
challenges. At the recent BizTech@Wharton conference, panelists from
the venture capital business, hardware start-ups and emerging
software companies shared their experiences as pioneers in the
Internet of Things — and they even brought some of their newest
devices along.
…
The goTenna device, which resembles a high-end pen case with a small
strap attached, can be paired with a smartphone to enable people —
in the words of goTenna’s website — “to communicate without any
need for central connectivity whatsoever — no cell towers, no Wi
Fi, no satellites — so when you’re off-grid you can remain
connected.” The catch, of course, is that it only enables
communication with another goTenna-equipped device, and the range is
only a few miles, [More
than Wifi or cellphones. Bob] but sometimes, that sort of
person-to-person connectivity is just what you need.
How
do smart people react when they see what Putin is doing? Perhaps we
could hire a few?
Russia's
Brain Drain Is Astounding
No
doubt the Republicans will blame Obama.
…
Market
Watch recently reported: "For the first time since Ulysses
S. Grant was president, America is not the leading economic power on
the planet ... The International Monetary Fund recently released
the latest numbers for the world economy. And when you measure
national economic output in “real” terms of goods and services,
China will this year produce $17.6 trillion — compared with $17.4
trillion for the U.S.A."
Interesting.
Perhaps I can use the results of this study to make my students go
away.
Remote
Workers Viewed as More Productive
…
While there has long been a perception that employees who work from
home don't work as hard as those in an office, perceptions are
shifting, according to a study from Dell
and Intel. More than half of
employees globally now believe that their peers who work from home
are just as productive, or more productive, than those in the office.
Remote
employees also feel like they get more done from the comfort of their
own home. Of those who spend any time working from home, half
believe they are more productive there than in the office, while 36
percent think they are equally as productive in both locations. Just
14 percent of those surveyed believe they get less done when working
from home.
Report
#1: The Workforce Perspective
https://kapost-files-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/direct/1417726739-20862-0734/The_Evolving_Workforce_Global_Quant_FINAL_112614.pdf
Report
#2: Expert Insights
https://kapost-files-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/direct/1417726613-25022-7892/The_Evolving_Workforce_Experts_FINAL_112614.pdf
How
(not) to market a Presidential candidate? I'd love to see how some
of those Tweets evolved before they were released. (Not that either
the original or the “fully vetted” version would reflect the
candidate's opinion.)
Aides
to Mitt Romney’s presidential team in 2012 are airing their
frustrations with the campaign, alleging that tweets had to be
approved by nearly two dozen people by the end of the race.
“So
whether it was a tweet, Facebook post, blog post, photo — anything
you could imagine — it had to be sent around to everyone for
approval,” former Romney campaign aide Caitlin Checkett told
Daniel Kreiss, an assistant professor at the University of North
Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication in a new
academic paper.
“Towards
the end of the campaign that was 22 individuals who had to approve
it,” Checkett said.
Zac
Moffatt, the Romney campaign’s digital director, cracked that they
had “the best tweets ever written by 17 people.”
…
The Obama campaign’s digital team had significant autonomy to push
out content to supporters. That allowed them to respond nimbly to
news events, according to the paper, in a way the Romney campaign
found more difficult.
(Related)
I'm not sure where we teach this skill...
The
7 Attributes of CEOs Who Get Social Media
…
Five years ago, when boards were searching for a leader, social
media competency wasn’t even on the radar. Now, according to the
board members and CEOs we interviewed for our book, a strong social
presence is often high on the list of factors they consider when
vetting CEO candidates.
Perhaps
I can have my students sing their presentations?
Collaboratively
Create Music and Vocal Recordings On Almost Any Device
Soundtrap
is a web-based platform for collaboratively creating music and vocal
recordings. On Soundtrap you can create music from scratch by using
their built-in virtual instruments. If you have your own instruments
to record, you can use the microphone on your laptop to record
yourself playing. Students who have Midi devices can record to
Soundtrap too. Of course, you can just turn on your device's
microphone to record a vocal track. After recording your tracks you
can blend them together in the Soundtrap editor.
Soundtrap
offers a collaboration option. Click the "collaborate" tab
to in the Soundtrap editor to invite others to edit with you.
Soundtrap will work in the Chrome web browser on a laptop, iPad,
Chromebook, and Android tablet. A Chrome
app is also available.
Soundtrap's
free plan allows you to store five tracks in your account. You can
download all of your creations as MP3 files.
Applications for Education
The
best way for students to avoid any worries about copyright
infringement when creating a multimedia project is to use audio
tracks that they've created. Soundtrap could be a great tool for
that purpose. Soundtrap's collaboration option could be a great
solution when students working on a group project need to develop
spoken tracks.
Very
cool. Starts with his birth certificate...
The
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Online
“Princeton
University Press proudly presents The Digital Einstein
Papers, an open-access site for The
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, the ongoing publication
of Einstein’s massive written legacy comprising more than 30,000
unique documents. The site presents all 13 volumes published to date
by the editors of the Einstein
Papers Project, covering the writings and correspondence of
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) from his youth to 1923. The volumes are
presented in the original language version with in-depth English
language annotation and other scholarly apparatus. In addition, the
reader can toggle to an English language translation of most
documents. By clicking on the unique archival identifier
number below each text, readers can access the archival record of
each published document at the Einstein
Archives Online and in some cases, the digitized manuscript.
Approximately 7,000 pages representing 2,900 unique documents have
been digitized thus far. The site will present subsequent volumes in
the series roughly two years after original book publication.”
Weekly
wacky...
…
FBI agents took some 20 boxes of documents from
LAUSD offices in what looks to be a federal
grand jury investigation into the deal with Pearson,
Apple, and the district. It's unclear
if LAUSD or one of the companies is the target of the criminal
investigation.
…
Lest you think LAUSD is the only one with ed-tech
shadiness: “An audit by the New York City
comptroller’s office found what it called “grossly inaccurate”
record keeping at the Education Department, where more than 2,000
computers and tablets at a sample of department locations were either
unused — still swaddled in their original wrapping — or could not
be located at all,” reports
The New York Times.
…
The University of Florida will pay
$7 million to Colorado
State University for its football coach, the
“largest such buyout in college football history.”
Resources
for my Math students.
Calculators
& Tools
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