By now, any of my Computer Security students
should know how to avoid this problem. (Hint: Never accept account
changes via email alone.)
Amy Clancy reports:
KIRO 7 has uncovered documents detailing the Kirkland Police Department’s ongoing investigation into how a suspect, or ring of suspects, was able to hijack the school email account of Northwest University’s chief financial officer.
The hacking of CFO John Jordan’s email account has the Kirkland college out nearly $60,000.
According to detectives, the thieves secretly monitored Jordan’s emails and, when a legitimate payment was due to a school vendor, the hackers re-routed the money.
Read more on KIRO
7.
Perhaps I’ve mentioned that individuals generate
a lot of data...
In the first full year of the Trump
administration, the National Security Agency really went all out in
efforts to surveil Americans. According to a new report released
Friday, the agency sucked up more than 534 million US phone records
in 2017, three times the amount it collected in 2016.
The report
from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed
the agency has been undeterred in his pursuit of metadata from phone
calls and text messages, which it gathers from telecommunications
providers like Verizon and AT&T, even with the passage of laws in
recent years designed to curb the invasive practice.
Metadata from collected from phone records do not
reveal the content of a given conversation, but it tells the NSA
basically everything else about the interaction. It reveals the
phone numbers involved, the time contact is made, and how long a call
was or how many characters were exchanged in text messages.
(Related) This one would be much more
interesting.
Ben Hancock reports:
Editor’s Note: After deadline, the hearing in this case was moved from Thursday, May 3 to August 16. The story has been updated to reflect the change.
The highly publicized debate over whether a federal court could compel Apple to break the security features of the iPhone at the behest of the FBI was a rare moment in history. Most of the time, the public never has a clue when authorities come knocking to ask a company for help in accessing the digital communications of a criminal suspect.
But in August, we may learn more about whether the curtain of secrecy around past electronic surveillance in criminal investigations will be pulled back.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kandis Westmore of the Northern District of California will hear from local prosecutors and two legal activists, Jennifer Granick of the American Civil Liberties Union and Riana Pfefferkorn of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, over whether she should set up a process to determine which cases are still validly sealed and those that can be opened.
Read more on National
Law Journal (free sub. Required).
Interesting and confusing. If I witness a
hit-and-run, can I record the “personal information” to help
identify the car (not the driver)?
From FourthAmendment.com:
Under Virginia law, “[t]he pictures and associated data stored in the Police Department’s A[utomated] L[icense] P[late] R[reader] database meet the statutory definition of ‘personal information.’” The court can’t tell on this record whether it constitutes an “information system.” Neal v. Fairfax County Police Dept., 2018 Va. LEXIS 42 (Apr. 28, 2018)
Read an excerpt from the opinion on
FourthAmendment.com.
For the continuing discussion.
So you upload some genetic information, hoping to
find relatives. Instead, the police use what you’ve uploaded to
help find a killer. Do you have any grounds to scream “privacy
violation?”
And if you think you do, what about all those
thousands of posts you’ve read by now about no expectation of
privacy in public, and privacy policies, blahblahblah. And what will
GDPR do to all this anyway, right?
It’s a mess, I think. I’d love to go sit and
listen to a panel of experts debate some of the issues these cases
raise.
In the meantime, you may find this article from
the New York Times, The
Cold Case That Inspired the ‘Golden State Killer’ Detective to
Try Genealogy, very interesting.
A vast problem; a half-vast solution?
Google sets
new rules for U.S. election ads
… Under Google’s new rules, people or groups
who want to advertise in elections will have to go through a process
that includes producing a “government-issued ID” as well as other
information, like a Federal Election Commission identification number
and an IRS Employer Identification Number. Google says it aims to
confirm that buyers are who they say they are and can legally
participate in American elections.
… Yes, but: The new policy
will not cover ads that relate to politically contentious issues
rather than a candidate, which was the case for many of the online
ads placed by Russian operatives trying to interfere in the 2016
election. The company says it is looking at following Facebook in
tightening
restrictions on those ads as well.
Perhaps a joint venture where academics and
businesses swap people and resources? Of course, if they want to pay
me a ridiculous (see below) amount of money, I’d probably jump too.
… Facebook is opening new A.I. labs in Seattle
and Pittsburgh, after hiring three A.I. and robotics professors from
the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University. The
company hopes these seasoned researchers will help recruit and train
other A.I. experts in the two cities, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s
chief technology officer, said in an interview.
As it builds these labs, Facebook is adding to
pressure on universities and nonprofit A.I. research operations,
which are already struggling to retain professors and other
employees.
… “It is
worrisome that they are eating the seed corn,” said Dan Weld, a
computer science professor at the University of Washington. “If we
lose all our faculty, it will be hard to keep preparing the next
generation of researchers.”
… But the supply of talent is not keeping up
with demand, and salaries have skyrocketed. Well-known researchers
are receiving compensation
in salary, bonuses and stock worth millions of dollars.
Many in the field worry that the talent drain from academia could
have a lasting impact in the United States and other countries,
simply because schools won’t have the teachers they need to educate
the next generation of A.I. experts.
I still have a few of those odd round things…
For the next time I teach Math.
GeoGebra
for PowerPoint - Access and Insert GeoGebra Within PowerPoint
GeoGebra
is a favorite ed tech resource of math teachers all over the globe.
PowerPoint is the default presentation tool on millions of computers
in schools. You can use the two together through the GeoGebra
PowerPoint Add-in.
The GeoGebra PowerPoint Add-in lets you access
GeoGebra materials directly from your PowerPoint slides. You can
also use the Add-in to create graphs, shapes, and spreadsheets within
your slides.
The GeoGebra PowerPoint Add-in works in the
desktop and online versions of PowerPoint.
(Related) I’m less likely to do this, but you
never know.
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