RT reports:
Parents beware! A data breach has been discovered somewhere it
was least expected. The Russian telecom
watchdog has tracked 55 websites which disclose personal data from the online
letters children write to Father Frost (the Russian version of Santa Claus)
ahead of the New Year.
“We’ve discovered 55 websites
that sabotage the work of Father Frost and make the personal data of kids from
their letters to Father Frost public,” the watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said on
its account in the VKontakte social network.
The last, first and middle names,
ages, home addresses and telephone numbers of children are being disclosed, it
added.
Read more on RT.
Nothing on the HUD website. Have they been blamed for something they did
not do? Why no response? Perhaps this happened everywhere and they are
trying to figure out who to blame?
Natalie Parsons reports:
A Fargo woman received a letter
from public housing saying she was at risk of identity theft.
It was a result of a US
Department of Housing and Urban Development data breach and now she’s worried
for her safety.
[…]
The Fargo Housing and
Redevelopment Authority says almost 600,000 names and social security numbers
were posted to an unsecured website viewable to the public and it was not their
doing but the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Read more on Valley
News Live.
I haven’t found any notice or press release on HUD’s site
about this incident or any other coverage of this. It appears that the breach occurred during
August and September, and the video from the news station suggests that HUD was
unable to determine who may have accessed the exposed information during that
period. Maybe someone with better eyes
than mine can read the notification displayed during the news broadcast?
As we add new technologies to the mix, their interactions
with older tech creates new pathways for hackers. I can see the FBI saying, “Siri, please hack
into this phone.”
Strange Hack Uses Siri To Bypass Any iPhone’s Lock Screen And
Access Photos
Some curious minds have discovered a weird trick which can
bypass an iPhone lock screen and access the photos stored on the device.
YouTube channel iDeviceHelp has published a video
described a working implementation of the method on an iPhone 7 Plus running the
iOS 10.2.
The iPhone lock screen bypass works by taking advantage of
the Siri voice assistant and the voice over feature. The method won’t work if Siri is not enabled
while the device is locked. Also, you
need physical access to the target iPhone.
Here is the iDeviceHelp
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWJG5I8xCDU
All the stuff we have to teach our Ethical Hacking
students.
Exclusive: Inside America’s Newest Digital Crime Lab
… “No case is
simple anymore because juries want to see analysis and expect CSI in
the courtroom,” says Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, who oversees the
sprawling operation that involves cops, computer talent, and an ever-growing
roster of cases touched by cyber-crime.
In an exclusive tour of the new lab, Fortune got a
glimpse of Law & Order in the digital age. The lab is Exhibit A in how America’s biggest
city is embracing big data analytics and a dash of hacker culture to solve
complex crimes. It also raises hard
questions about how to balance these sophisticated crime-fighting tools with civil
liberties.
Perhaps we really need the self-driving car?
Are apps really responsible for increased traffic fatalities?
It'll probably be another week or two before the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases its official stats on 2015
traffic fatalities. However, early data suggests a significant uptick from 2014--potentially
7.7 percent or higher.
What's to blame for that sharp increase? According to some analysts, it has everything to do with apps.
(Related) Will this App be responsible for run-away
spending?
Alexa offers steep, exclusive deals in Amazon's first 'voice
shopping weekend'
Amazon is getting a jump on the holiday shopping craze
with an all-Alexa
weekend. The online retailer just
announced its first “voice shopping weekend.” Prime members can use an Amazon
Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon
Tap, Amazon Fire HD tablet, or Amazon Fire TV to ask, “Alexa, what are your
deals?”
Alexa will then tell you about Amazon’s deals for that
day. If you like what you hear, you can then tell Alexa to order the item.
… Anyone who wants
to can peruse the deals on Amazon’s
website, but ordering the items at the sale price requires a Prime
membership and an Alexa-enabled device.
(Related) When Jeff Bezos says he wants to sell
everything, he means it!
Fiat Chrysler teams up with Amazon to sell cars online
Just trying to keep up…
Humanity and AI will be inseparable
… Professor
Manuela Veloso, head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon
University, envisions a future in which humans and intelligent systems are
inseparable, bound together in a continual exchange of information and goals
that she calls “symbiotic autonomy.” In
Veloso’s future, it will be hard to distinguish human agency from automated
assistance — but neither people nor software will be much use without the
other.
Try explaining this to a bunch of grad students from a
variety of countries without making the whole system sound crazy.
Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama
to remove the head of the NSA
The heads of the Pentagon and the nation’s intelligence
community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National
Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed.
… Action has been
delayed, some administration officials said, because relieving Rogers of his
duties is tied to another controversial recommendation: to create separate
chains of command at the NSA and the military’s cyberwarfare unit, a recommendation
by Clapper and Carter that has been stalled because of other issues.
The news comes as Rogers is being considered by
President-elect Donald Trump to be his nominee for director of national
intelligence to replace Clapper as the official who oversees all 17 U.S.
intelligence agencies. In a move apparently unprecedented for a military
officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with
Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower.
… The driving
force for Clapper, meanwhile, was the separation of leadership roles at the NSA
and U.S. Cyber Command, and his stance that the NSA should be headed by a
civilian. [It never has been as far as I
know. Bob]
… The NSA is an
intelligence agency but part of the Defense Department
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