Facts
are often so confusing that reporters simply ignore them.
61
Million Retail Records Lost in 2014: IBM
According
to the company, a total of more than 61 million retail records were
stolen, lost or leaked in the United States last year, which is less
than the over 70 million records compromised in 2013.
There
have been several massive data breaches over the past years in which
tens of millions of records had been compromised. The list includes
The Home Depot (56 million records), Target (70 million records),
Sony (12 million records leaked in the 2011 incident), Steam (35
million records), and TJX (100 million records).
If
these incidents are removed from the equation and only breaches with
less than 10 million lost records are taken into consideration, we
see that the total number
of compromised retail records has increased considerably since 2012.
While
the number of compromised records has increased over the past years,
IBM has determined that the number of breaches reported has decreased
since 2012 by over 50%.
…
Retail
and wholesale were the most targeted industries last year. In 2012
and 2013, finance and insurance, information and communications, and
manufacturing were the most targeted industries.
In
the previous two years, malicious code was the primary attack method,
but in 2014 unauthorized access took its place, accounting for
roughly half of incidents, IBM noted in its report.
…
Additional
details are available in the retail
industry overview report and the holiday
trends report.
That's
it? No criminal charges? No lawsuit? No vacation in Guantanamo?
Morgan
Stanley Fires Employee for Stealing Client Data
US
investment bank Morgan Stanley on Monday said it had fired an
employee for stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of
wealth management customers.
Some
account information for about 900 of the clients, including account
numbers and names, was briefly
posted on the Internet and, once detected, was "promptly
removed,"the bank said in a statement.
…
The employee stole data on about 10 percent of its wealth management
customers, or about 350,000 people, it said.
“We
don't hire Compliance lawyers, we hire Compliant lawyers. When we
tell them what we're going to do and we expect them to tell us,
'Sounds good, go ahead.' We can get away with all kinds of useful
stuff. Often for years!”
David
Kravets reports:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the position that court
warrants are not required when deploying cell-site simulators in
public places. Nicknamed “stingrays,” the devices are decoy cell
towers that capture locations and identities of mobile phone users
and can intercept calls and texts.
The FBI made its position known during private briefings with staff
members of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). In response, the two lawmakers
wrote Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security chief Jeh
Johnson, maintaining they were “concerned about whether the FBI and
other law enforcement agencies have adequately considered the privacy
interests” of Americans.
Read
more on Ars
Technica.
[From
the article:
"In
Tacoma, judges now require police (to) specifically note they plan to
use an IMSI catcher and promise not to store data collected from
people who are not investigation targets," he said.
"The Florida
and Massachusetts
state supreme courts ruled warrants were necessary for real-time cell
phone tracking. Nine states—Colorado,
Illinois,
Indiana,
Maryland,
Minnesota,
Tennessee,
Utah,
Virginia,
and Wisconsin—passed
laws specifically requiring police to use a warrant to track a cell
phone in real time."
Public
used to mean you could go to the courthouse and get the information.
Now public means anyone with an Internet connection, anywhere in the
world, can get the information.
Christine
Dobby reports:
A Romanian website that says it’s dedicated to keeping ‘information
free and open’ is raising difficult questions about how much
personal information should be included in Canadian legal rulings.
Over the past year, close to 100 people have complained to the
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), after coming across
legal decisions that mention their names through Google searches.
The rulings are public information, but most are shocked to see the
details of their court cases – often family law, criminal or
immigration matters – on the Internet for anyone to read.
Read
more on Globe
and Mail. This case has a number of factors to consider,
including the fact that the rulings were obtained (perhaps illegally,
it seems) from the CanLII site, and at various times, the Romanian
site operator has required a fee to remove personal documents. At
other times, he has reportedly claimed that only a request is
necessary to secure removal of the documents.
But
putting aside the issue of fee for removal for now, how
is this any different than someone downloading files from PACER or
state courts, and uploading them to their own site, where they might
be indexed by Google?
What’s
the solution when it comes to court records where the presumption is
that they are public records?
It
looks like there should be a market for “personal security” but I
doubt it. Perhaps my students will prove me wrong.
Poll:
Large concern over data collection through smart devices
Nearly
eight in 10 people are concerned about their personal information
being collected through smartphones and other devices, according to a
poll released Monday.
The
survey
commissioned by TRUSTe, a consumer privacy company, also found that
69 percent of people believe they should own the data that is
collected through their smart devices.
Twenty
percent, on the other hand, believe the benefits of the products
outweigh privacy concerns.
…
About one in three people reported owning a
smart device separate from a phone. Those include smart
TVs, navigation systems, fitness trackers, home appliances, watches
or alarm systems.
I
use this in all my Math classes. My students love it.
Desmos
- A Graphing Calculator for iPad, Android, and Your Browser
Desmos
is a free graphing calculator that has been available for a few years
as a browser-based tool and as an iPad app. Late last month Desmos
launched a free
Android app.
The
Desmos calculator performs all of the functions you would expect to
see in a graphing calculator with a couple of extras that you don't
find in typical graphing calculators. Desmos allows you to share
your equations and graphs. Desmos graphs your equations as you type
them and redraws them as you alter your equations. See some of the
best features of Desmos in the videos embedded below.
The
Android app will work without an internet connection nor do all of
the sharing features work on Android version.
Perhaps
my Data Management and Business Intelligence students will find a use
for one of these. (Hint, hint!)
4
Data Visualization Tools For Captivating Data Journalism
Presenting
information doesn’t have to be dull and dry. Whether you’re
looking for a quick and easy solution or more complex data
processing, these four tools will ensure that, whatever data you’re
working with, your visuals will leave a lasting impression.
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