Waqas writes:
The cyber war between Azerbaijan
and Armenian hackers is as complicated and serious as one can imagine. While
militaries of both countries are fighting for a piece of land, their hackers
are targeting each other on the Internet.
The latest cyber attack comes
from Azerbaijani hackers going by the handle of Anti-Armenia Team who claim to
have hacked Armenian government servers including the Armenian national
security ministry and leaked a trove of confidential data including passport
copies of locals and foreign citizens who visited Armenia.
Read more on HackRead.
The claimed hack has been questioned by
one of The
Register’s sources, who says it looks more like an inside job than a hack. Either way, though, there seems to be no
dispute that the data dumped are legit.
Hacks limited to ‘counting coup?’
Eric DuVall reports:
The entertainment magazine Variety was
hacked by the same group that has targeted the personal accounts of
high-profile tech company CEOs, sending emails to Variety’s followers with the
hashtag #OurMine.
Variety acknowledged the hack Saturday and instructed
users to disregard and delete the emails as it worked to regain control of its
email subscriber database.
Read more on UPI.
[From the
article:
None of Variety's site content appeared to have been
tampered with.
There may be enough money in this technology to interest
my students.
How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a
Smartphone
Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without
their knowledge? Gather their every
keystroke, sound, message and location? That
will cost you $650,000, plus a $500,000 setup fee with an Israeli outfit called
the NSO Group. You can spy on more
people if you would like — just check out the company’s price list.
The NSO Group is
one of a number of companies that sell
surveillance tools that can capture all the activity on a smartphone, like
a user’s location and personal contacts. These tools can even turn the phone into a
secret recording device.
… The NSO Group’s
capabilities are in higher demand now that companies like Apple, Facebook and
Google are using stronger encryption to protect data in their systems, in the
process making it harder for government agencies to track suspects.
The NSO Group’s
spyware finds ways around encryption by baiting targets to click unwittingly on
texts containing malicious links or by exploiting previously undiscovered
software flaws.
Perhaps I’ll order some odds and ends for the Ethical
Hacking class.
Sam Biddle reports:
A confidential, 120-PAGE catalogue
of spy equipment, originating from British defense firm Cobham and circulated
to U.S. law enforcement, touts gear that can intercept wireless calls and text
messages, locate people via their mobile phones, and jam cellular
communications in a particular area.
The catalogue was obtained
by The Intercept as part of a large trove of documents originating
within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, where spokesperson Molly Best
confirmed Cobham wares have been purchased but did not
provide further information. The
document provides a rare look at the wide range of electronic
surveillance tactics used by police and militaries in the U.S. and abroad,
offering equipment ranging from black boxes that can monitor an entire
town’s cellular signals to microphones hidden in lighters and cameras hidden in
trashcans. Markings date it to 2014.
Read more on The
Intercept.
A techie detective story.
The Hunt for Lurk
In early June, 2016, the Russian police arrested the
alleged members of the criminal group known as Lurk. The police suspected Lurk of stealing nearly
three billion rubles, using malicious software to systematically withdraw large
sums of money from the accounts of commercial organizations, including banks. For Kaspersky Lab, these arrests marked the
culmination of a six-year investigation
by the company’s Computer Incidents Investigation team.
Oh great. These
idiots again.
Twitter has a white supremacist problem, claims new study
White nationalists and self-proclaimed Nazi sympathizers
in the U.S. are actively using Twitter — and are far more popular
than Islamic extremists on the platform, claims a new study from George Washington University.
The report found that eighteen major American white
nationalist movements on Twitter have accumulated an additional 22,000
followers since 2012, an increase of more than 600 percent in four years. While Twitter has been busy clamping down on ISIS-related activity on its platform as a
result of governmental pressure, groups like the American Nazi Party have been
using the site with “relative impunity,” states the report.
It’s not fair? Either
they hired really good Austrian tax lawyers or someone really hates sausage
stands.
Tax Of Amazon, Starbucks vs Small Sausage Stand: Reality
Bites In Austria
Starbucks and Google earn hundreds of millions in
advertising money in Austria, yet the multinational enterprises pay smaller
taxes than small businesses from the country.
Austrian chancellor Christian Kern pointed out that the
nation's staple coffee houses or sausage stands end up paying more taxes than
the corporate giants. Kern noted that
Amazon only shelled out 1,400 euro ($1,562) in corporate taxes in 2014.
I don’t think it’s an “Oh, the horror!” moment, yet. But logistics, logistics, logistics!
Shoes, Merchandise Headed For Walmart, Target And JC Penney
Stranded At Sea
Retailers are in crisis as cargo carrying sneakers, TVs
and more products are stranded on the high seas.
Hanjin Shipping, the world’s seventh-largest shipping
companies based in South Korea — which operates out of ports in Long Beach,
Calif. and Los Angeles — filed for bankruptcy protection in a Seoul court on
Thursday, sparking fears from port operators that have responded by denying
services to Hanjin vessels.
… The fallout has
been swift. So far, three of Hanjin’s vessels have been idle near L.A. and
Long Beach ports, and another remains outside the Port of Prince Rupert in
British Columbia, Canada, while another has been seized in Singapore, according
to Bloomberg. A source
tells the organization that ports have refused Hanjin ships “because they are
worried port and other fees won’t be paid.”
For my fellow math teachers and tutors. Share with everyone!
Top >10 Mathematics Websites
Top 10
Mathematics Websites 2016-2017 (PowerPoint) or Top 10
Mathematics Websites 2016-2017 (pdf). Note that hyperlinks seem to work considerably
faster on the pdf version.
Gee, we have a 3D printer, so we should probably get a
couple of these too.
The new botscan-3D-Scanner
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