The
Putin legacy?
Russia
braces for ‘junk’ downgrade as oil drags
The
ruble continues to fall, sanctions are biting and the slide in the
price of oil shows no sign of slowing – it's hitting Russia hard
and means a credit rating downgrade to "junk" status could
be on the way.
(Related)
Russia
Says Inflation Could Hit 17% By March
…
Russia's national currency has lost some 16 percent against the
dollar since the start of the year after plummeting around 41 percent
in 2014.
Russia's
budget depends heavily on revenues from oil and gas, and the ruble
continued to fall as the price of a barrel of Brent fell to around
$46 on Tuesday.
Something
for my Computer Security and my Disaster Recovery students to
consider.
Strategy:
Planning and Recovering From a Data Breach
…
Mandiant’s
2014 threat report cites an average of 243 days to discover a
breach.
Given
the near-certainty that some form an attack or data breach will
happen in your organization, it makes sense to consider scenarios and
plan for them when it happens. A data breach plan lays out the key
steps and the key personnel to involve when a data breach happens,
and needs to incorporate the following three elements:
Forensics
and evidence collection
… Forensics
teams no longer serve just in post-incident response. As part of a
continuous monitoring security framework, forensics teams can
proactively look for possible risks in the network.
Identifying
regulatory mandates impacted
… Almost
every state in the US, and EU government entity has data privacy and
regulatory compliance mandates, which typically requires appropriate
disclosure when consumer information or corporate information is
exposed.
Managing
notification of breach
… Part
of the data breach plan must include the specific steps to notify
anyone who may be impacted, but doing it in a way that adequately
addresses their concern. This includes training call center
personnel, creating a specific call center line to address calls
related to the breach, and offering credit monitoring services.
As
Gartner advocates in their “adaptive
protection process”, IT organizations should shift their
mentality to a continuous response mentality where systems are
assumed to already be compromised.
Look
for yourself.
JPat
Brown writes:
After the Department of Homeland Security released
documents which indicated that it was monitoring
social media via its National Operations Center’s Media Monitoring
Capability program, MuckRock’s Todd
Feathers requested a copy the program’s automated logs from
2011 to present.
According to the earlier acquired docs, the automated logging
mechanism “captures the date and time of the search, the analyst
user ID, and the character search term. The purpose of such searches
is to locate a previously issued MMC report.”
Read
more on MuckRock.
I
find this very strange. Do we fail to teach people that this is
possible?
CFPB
Report Finds Nearly Half of Borrowers Do Not Shop for a Mortgage
“Today,
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report
finding that almost half of consumers do not shop around for a
mortgage when purchasing a home. The report also found that informed
consumers are more likely to shop, especially if they are familiar
with available mortgage rates. As part of its Know Before You Owe
mortgage initiative, the CFPB is releasing “Owning
a Home,” an interactive, online toolkit designed to help
consumers as they shop for a mortgage. The suite of tools gives
consumers the information and confidence they need to get the best
deal. “Our study found that many consumers are not shopping for a
mortgage. Consumers put great thought into the choice of a home, but
the mortgage process
continues to be intimidating,” said CFPB Director
Richard Cordray. “The Know Before You Owe Owning a Home toolkit
makes it easy to see how shopping for a mortgage can translate into
big dollars saved in the long run. We want to enable consumers to be
more savvy shoppers.”
Another
chunk of Big Data.
OECD
Public Data is in Beta
Find,
compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables
and related publications’. Start with one or two short search
terms, then refine your results by adding more words.
- Catalogue of OECD databases or Browse by Topic or Country
(Related)
Not all Big Data is immediately useful.
Map
– Literally every goat in the United States
Washington
Post – “There were 2,621,514 goats in the United States as of
2012, the year of the
most recent USDA Agricultural Census. If America’s goats were
their own state, its population would be larger than that of Wyoming,
Vermont, D.C. and North Dakota — combined. This is what all those
goats look like on a map.”
To
share with my fellow teachers...
Create,
Share, and Find Online Courses on Versal
Versal
is service that you can use to create online classes that are bit
more robust than your average flipped lessons. On Versal you can
build online courses that incorporate text documents, images, videos,
maps, slideshows, and more. When you build a course in Versal you
build it lesson-by-lesson in an easy-to-follow outline. To build a
lesson you drag content widgets onto a blank canvas. The content
widgets include all of the previously mentioned media plus a
whiteboard for drawing (perfect for math lessons), GeoGebra
animations, timelines, and quizzes. When you add a quiz to your
lesson you can require that students meet a minimum percentage in
order to advance to the next lesson in your course. You can invite
students to take your course and or embed your course into your blog
or website. You can track the progress of invited students.
If
you don't have the time to create a course from scratch or if you're
looking to take a course yourself, jump into Versal's
public
course catalog. These
courses can be embedded into your blog or website. Unless
you upgrade to a premium account, you won't be able to track your
students' progress on courses that you didn't create.
What
makes Versal an appealing option for developing online courses is the
wide variety of content types that you can add to your courses.
Versal's whiteboard,
Desmos, and GeoGebra gadgets are perfect for developing online
mathematics courses. The option to require students to complete a
quiz with a minimum score before moving into the next lesson is
perfect for ensuring that students don't rush through your course.
On
Wednesday at 7pm Eastern Time Versal
is hosting a free
webinar on using their service.
Unbelievable.
We didn't make the list?
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