Early in the computer age, there were incidents
where individuals crashed cars, shot, and fire-bombed mainframe
computers. They were Luddites. What is going on here?
Self-driving
cars are here. But shouting Californians are attacking them, DMV says
… So far in 2018, there have been only six
reported traffic incidents involving self-driving vehicles in
California, according to the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.
But of those six incidents, two involved angry, violent Californians
going up to the futuristic cars on San Francisco streets and
attacking.
The first
incident started on Jan. 2 around 9:30 p.m., when a pedestrian
saw a self-driving Chevrolet Bolt at 16th and Valencia Streets in the
city’s Mission District. The vehicle was stopped at a green light
as it waited for other pedestrians to cross the street.
But then the onlooker “ran across Valencia
Street, against the ‘do not walk’ symbol, shouting, and struck
the left side of the ... rear bumper and hatch with his entire body,”
according to a California DMV incident report.
The vehicle was slightly damaged, but no one was
injured, according to the incident report. Police weren’t called.
The vehicle was being operated by GMC Cruise, the self-driving
vehicle arm of the giant automaker.
About a month later, on Jan. 28, came the second
attack. This time, just before 11 p.m., a taxi driver near
Duboce Avenue and Guerrero Street got out of his car when he spotted
an autonomous GMC Cruise. The taxi driver went up to the vehicle and
“slapped the front passenger window, causing a scratch,”
according to the incident report.
No one was injured. And from the sound of it, the
self-driving car took the high road — choosing not to call police
after the attack, according to the incident report.
(Related) How fast will this spread? Faster than
my students seem to believe.
Uber’s
self-driving trucks are now delivering freight in Arizona
(Related) I think my students will be shocked to
see how many companies are investing in self-driving technology.
Self
Driving Car Stock Directory added to Investor Ideas; Self-Driving Car
Market expected to reach $20 billion by 2024
Probably not the last word on this breach.
Judy Greenwald reports:
An $80 million settlement has been proposed in a securities class litigation filed in connection with Yahoo Inc. data breaches in 2013 and 2014.
The proposed settlement in In re Yahoo Inc. securities litigation, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Friday, was publicized Monday.
In December 2016, Yahoo announced a 2013 breach affecting 1 billion accounts. And in March 2017, the United States charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with masterminding a separate 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts.
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Insurance.
For my Computer Security and Data Management
students: How would you detect bogus reservations?
An
OpenTable Employee Was Fired After Making Hundreds Of Fake Restaurant
Reservations To Hurt A Rival Company
… The OpenTable
employee used Reserve to make around 300 fake reservations at 45
restaurants that led to hundreds of no-shows for those restaurants
over a three-month period, Reserve's CEO Greg Hong and COO Michael
Wesner told BuzzFeed News on Monday.
The no-shows were equivalent to 1,200 to 1,300
diners.
… According to Eater Chicago, which first
reported the story, the employee intended to use the no-shows in
their sales pitches to show OpenTable was a better product than
Reserve.
... Reserve said it began an investigation after
the company noticed anomalies in their data and after getting
feedback from restaurant partners about several no-shows, Hong said.
During the investigation, Reserve discovered that
an OpenTable employee was using different email addresses from a few
different locations to make hundreds of fake reservations through
Reserve. Many of these were bookings for large parties, Hong said.
The number of fake reservations peaked on
Valentine's Day, hurting restaurants with no-shows on one of the
busiest days of the year.
Did the EU do something smart? Or are companies
running scared?
GDPR
prompts companies worldwide to plan for stronger security, study
shows
… The Versasec study
found Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
is beginning to seriously affect companies’ approach to
cybersecurity, although many still rely on inadequate defenses.
More than half of respondents say the GDPR, which
takes effect in May, weighs heavily on their current security
strategy decisions. 60% plan to spend up to 24% of their technology
budgets on security this year; while 18% will spend 49%; and almost
25% will spend more than half of their budget on cyber defenses.
Last year, only 15% of respondents said they planned to invest this
much in cyber resilience.
Sound increasingly like Facebook has not built in
the Control Monitors that management is now finding that it needs.
It may not even have the Controls!
Facebook's
Political Nightmare Is Getting Worse Ahead Of The 2018 Midterms
If the 2016
election was proof-of-concept
[Someone reads
my blog! Bob] for platform-enabled election meddling, the
2018 midterms, just months away, are shaping up to be more of a
large-scale clinical trial — and an absolute nightmare for
Facebook.
… Despite Facebook's repeated reassurances,
some on Capitol Hill fear the company — and country — may be
sucker punched again come November. And a dysfunctional federal
government waffling on plans to thwart future attacks on elections
isn’t helping matters.
Is this good business?
New
documents reveal FBI paid Geek Squad repair staff as informants
… Records posted Tuesday by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation following a freedom of information lawsuit filed
last year reveal that federal agents would pay Geek Squad
managers who pass on information about illegal materials on devices
sent in by customers for repairs.
The relationship goes back at least ten years,
according to documents
released as a result of the lawsuit.
… According to the EFF's analysis of the
documents, FBI agents would "show up, review the images or video
and determine whether they believe they are illegal content" and
seize the device so an additional analysis could be carried out at a
local FBI field office.
That's when, in some cases, agents would try to
obtain a search warrant to justify the access.
… But that relationship and data handover
could violate Americans' constitutional rights to protections from
unwarranted searches and seizures, the privacy group charges.
Because the FBI uses Geek Squad as informants, the
EFF says that any search should be seen as a warrantless search
carried out by proxy, "and thus any evidence obtained as a
result of the illegal searches should be thrown out of court."
Is Alphabet opting out of this market? No work
for the military?
Eric
Schmidt Keynote Address at the Center for a New American Security
Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Summit
(Related) Maybe not openly…
Google has partnered with the United States
Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial
intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a
firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned
of Google’s involvement.
Google’s pilot project with the Defense
Department’s Project Maven, an effort to identify objects in drone
footage, has not been previously reported, but it was discussed
widely within the company last week when information about the
project was shared on an internal mailing list, according to sources
who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak
publicly about the project.
Perspective.
11% of
Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
“For many Americans, going online is an
important way to connect with friends and family, shop, get news and
search for information. Yet
today, 11% of U.S. adults do not use the internet, according to a
new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data. The size of this
group has changed little over the past three years, despite ongoing
government
and social service programs to encourage internet adoption in
underserved areas. But that 11% figure is substantially lower than
in 2000, when the Center first began to study the social impact of
technology. That year, nearly half (48%) of American adults did not
use the internet . A 2013 Pew
Research Center survey found some key reasons that some people do
not use the internet. A third of non-internet users (34%) did not go
online because they had no interest in doing so or did not think the
internet was relevant to their lives. Another 32% of non-users said
the internet was too difficult to use, including 8% of this group who
said they were “too old to learn.” Cost was also a barrier for
some adults who were offline – 19% cited the expense of internet
service or owning a computer. The Center’s latest analysis also
shows that internet
non-adoption is correlated to a number of demographic variables,
including age, educational attainment, household income and community
type…”
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
Use Digital
Platforms to Cultivate Diversity
When one thinks of a successful digital
transformation, employee diversity doesn’t immediately come to mind
as an essential component. Yet, to compete in an increasingly
digital environment, a diverse employee base can not only help
provide new ideas but can also help reveal key decision-making errors
that may otherwise go unnoticed.
Diversity is particularly important for
collaboration,
a critical factor associated with digital business maturity. Our
research shows that while only about 30% of employees from companies
at an early stage of digital development say that their company is
collaborative, more
than 70% of employees from digitally mature companies do.
Nevertheless, collaboration simply for the sake of collaboration is
not necessarily valuable.
Ah, the power of social media!
A
19-YEAR-OLD blogger was arrested by police after she
lured around 3,000 men to her hotel room with a promise of free sex.
The woman, identified only as Ye, has been arrested by Hainan police
in Sunya on suspicion of advertising about prostitution.
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