Not a happy trend for my Computer Security
students. Could victims sue the organizations who installed
Mamcached without security?
World
record broken again! DDoS attack exceeds 1.7 terabits per second
Just days after it was revealed that a distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on GitHub had been measured at a
record-breaking
peak of 1.35 terabits per second than another attack has
raced past, claimed the record-breaking crown at a mind-blowing 1.7
Tbps.
… The attacks against GitHub, and the most
recently announced world-record-breaking attack on an unnamed
customer of a US-based service provider, are reflection/amplification
attacks exploiting the many publicly accessible servers running
memcached, an open-source distributed caching utility.
Memcached (pronounced “Mem-cache-dee”) is not
supposed to be installed on servers that are exposed to the internet
– because it simply doesn’t have security features to protect
itself from malicious attackers in the first place.
Russia is expert at propaganda, why aren’t other
states? And don’t tell me that ‘they can not tell a lie!’
Fighting
fake news: Caught between a rock and a hard place
European
Council on Foreign Relations: “Government regulation on fake
news is unlikely to prevent malicious actors from meddling in our
elections or polarising our societies. With many worried about a
Russian information offensive in the West, European states are in the
process of developing defence mechanisms. Unfortunately, several
seem to be reacting with a legalistic approach that will likely do
more harm than good. France,
Germany, Italy
and the UK
are among those setting up measures to identify, block or remove
‘fake news’ from the internet. All
these proposals suffer from the same problem: an inability to
objectively and usefully define fake news without veering into
political censorship. As many experts are
warning, ‘fake news’ is becoming a weaponised, politicised
term, applied to everything from genuine hoaxes to merely disputed
opinions. To further confuse things, hate speech, propaganda, and
even satire seem to be falling under this umbrella…”
Why? A question for my Data Management students.
MoviePass CEO proudly says the app tracks your location before and after movies
Everyone
knew the MoviePass deal is too good to be true — and as is so often
the case these days, it turns out you’re not the customer, you’re
the product. And in this case they’re not even attempting to
camouflage that. Mitch Lowe, the company’s CEO, told an audience at
a Hollywood event that “we know all about you.”
Lowe was giving the keynote at the Entertainment
Finance Forum; his talk was entitled “Data
is the New Oil: How will MoviePass Monetize It?” Media
Play News first reported his remarks.
“We get an enormous amount of information,”
Lowe continued. “We watch how you drive from home to the movies.
We watch where you go afterwards.”
For my Data Architecture class. Can you architect
your customers?
Rise Science came to IDEO with a challenge. The
young startup had built a robust data platform for college and
professional athletes to track their sleep and adjust their behavior
so that they played at peak performance. But for the players, the
experience was challenging. Rise expected athletes to look at
data-driven charts and graphs to determine what decisions to make
next, but players struggled to find those insights. Rise was
convinced they just needed easier-to-read charts and graphs.
As IDEO designers and Rise’s data scientists
spent time with players and coaches, they discovered that Rise
didn’t have a data visualization problem, they had a user
experience problem.
(Related) As usual, Dilbert gets it!
Perspective. It’s hard to conquer the world.
(Interesting video on Jeff Bezos)
After
Losing China, Jeff Bezos Really Wants to Win in India
Having forfeited China to Alibaba and JD.com, Jeff
Bezos is determined to win in India, a market of 1.3 billion people
who at long last are discovering the pleasures of shopping.
Amazon.com Inc.’s chief has committed $5.5
billion to India and selected Amit Agarwal to spend it wisely.
“It’s where the juicy data are?”
ABA Journal
– Cyberthreats 101: The biggest computer crime risks lawyers face
“Cyberattacks are on the rise, both in the
number of incidents and the costs associated with the attacks.
According
to the ABA’s 2017 Legal Technology Survey Report, 22
percent of responding firms had been breached—an
increase of 8 percentage points from the previous year’s survey.
According to the ABA report, about 27 percent of firms with two to
nine attorneys reported experiencing some sort of security breach,
while 35 percent of firms with 10 to 49 lawyers and about one-quarter
with 500 or more lawyers had suffered such an incident. In 2016, the
FBI estimated that cybercrimes were on pace to be a $1 billion source
of income to criminals for that year. Law firms of all sizes are
attractive targets, given the type and the amount of data they
collect. “Law firms are the crown jewels,” says John Reed Stark,
a former chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office
of Internet Enforcement. “They have valuable confidential
information on things like mergers and acquisitions and intellectual
property,” he says. In 2016, Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Weil
Gotshal & Manges were hacked by foreign nationals who used the
stolen data for insider trading schemes that netted them more than $4
million. Regardless of the size of the firm or the type of data they
collect, cyber hackers use the same modus operandi for gaining access
to firms…”
Toward an ‘automated lawyer?’
An AI just
beat top lawyers at their own game
Mashable: “The nation’s top lawyers recently
battled artificial intelligence in a competition to interpret
contracts — and they lost. A new study, conducted by legal AI
platform LawGeex
in consultation with law professors from Stanford University, Duke
University School of Law, and University of Southern California,
pitted twenty experienced lawyers against an AI trained to evaluate
legal contracts. Competitors were given four hours to review five
non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and identify 30 legal issues,
including arbitration, confidentiality of relationship, and
indemnification. They were scored by how accurately they identified
each issue. Unfortunately for humanity, we lost the competition —
badly. The human lawyers achieved, on average, an 85 percent
accuracy rate, while the AI achieved 95 percent accuracy. The AI
also completed the task in 26 seconds, while the human lawyers took
92 minutes on average. The AI also achieved 100 percent accuracy in
one contract, on which the highest-scoring human lawyer scored only
97 percent. In short, the human lawyers were trounced. Intellectual
property attorney Grant Gulovsen, one of the lawyers who competed
against the AI in the study, said the task was very similar to what
many lawyers do every day. “The majority of documents, whether
it’s wills, operating agreements for corporations, or things like
NDAs…they’re very similar,” Gulovsen told Mashable in a phone
interview. So does this spell the end of humanity? Not at all. On
the contrary, the use of AI can actually help lawyers expedite their
work, and free them up to
focus on tasks that still require a human brain. [Suggesting
that contracts do not require a human brain? Bob]
“Having the AI do a first review of an NDA, much like having a
paralegal issue spot, would free up valuable time for lawyers to
focus on client counseling and other higher-value work,” said Erika
Buell, clinical professor at Duke University School of Law, who
LawGeex consulted for the study….”
For the movie club.
Hulu sadly ditched its free plan back in 2016, but
not all hope is lost for people wanting to watch Hulu without paying.
Here’s something a lot of people don’t realize: there’s
a legitimate way to watch Hulu Plus for free, month to month, and it
doesn’t require much effort.
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