Interesting.
Every country does this. Are they asking the BND to disclose
exactly how and what they are doing and justify it by citing laws?
Operator of
World's Top Internet Hub Sues German Spy Agency
The
BND foreign intelligence service has long tapped international data
flows through the De-Cix exchange based in the German city of
Frankfurt.
But
the operator argues the
agency is breaking the law by also capturing German
domestic communications.
… "With
the lawsuit, we seek judicial clarification and, in particular, legal
certainty for our customers and our company," the company said.
… Given
the mass of daily phone calls, emails, chats, internet searches,
streamed videos and other online communications, an
effective fire-walling of purely German communications is
unrealistic, activists argue.
The
De-Cix operator says its Frankfurt hub is the world's biggest
Internet Exchange, bundling data flows from as far as China, Russia,
the Middle East and Africa, and handles
more than 6 terabits per second at peak traffic.
… It
said the BND, a partner of the US National Security Agency (NSA), has
placed so-called Y-piece prisms into its data-carrying fibre optic
cables that give it an unfiltered and complete copy of the data flow.
More
like ‘Crack.’
Law Firm
Data is Catnip for Hackers
Security
Boulevard: “Dig into a law firm, and you’ll find secrets.
Sometimes these secrets are mundane, like who’s getting divorced,
or who’s getting cut out of the will. Sometimes, however, these
secrets can shake nations and economies. Huge companies are merging
and getting acquired, national leaders are hiding graft in numbered
accounts, and you might find all those secrets within the server at a
nondescript law firm – which might be possibly the most unsafe
place to hide it. Law
firms may be extremely discrete when protecting their clients’
identities from judges, the media, and other lawyers, but their track
record is less than stellar when it comes to the digital realm.
Those who’ve heard of the firm Mossack Fonseca or the Panama Papers
(a 2TB
data leak that exposed how the wealthy avoid paying taxes) may
know that the firm in question was:
-
Running a version of WordPress that was 2 years out of date.
-
Running a version of Drupal that was three years out of date.
-
Running its web server on the same network as its mail server.
-
Running its web server without a firewall.
-
Running an out-of-date plugin known as “Revolution Slider,” which contained a file upload vulnerability that had been documented since 2014.
This multitude of sins collectively led to a
scandal that, among other things, brought down the Icelandic Prime
Minister. What’s more troubling, however, is that Mossack Fonseca
wasn’t a standout among law firms. Many if not most law firms have
an equally bad security posture…”
Perhaps North Korea is serious about the summit.
One easy way to break it off ‘accidentally’ is to cause a hacking
incident. I keep coming back to the question, “What happened to
cause this?”
North
Korea-Linked Group Stops Targeting U.S.
A
threat actor linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group has stopped
targeting organizations in the United States, but remains active in
Europe and East Asia.
The
group, tracked by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos as Covellite,
has been known to target civilian electric energy organizations in an
effort to collect intellectual property and information on industrial
operations.
I’m
sure I agree with one of these…
Jim Garland and Katharine Goodloe of Covington &
Burling write:
Two federal appellate courts are taking sharply different views on whether—and why—government agents must have some amount of suspicion to conduct forensic searches of electronic devices seized at the border.
The Fourth Circuit on May 9, 2018, held that government agents must have reasonable suspicion to conduct forensic searches of cell phones seized at the border. It said that decision was based on the Supreme Court’s recognition in Riley v. California that phones contain information with a “uniquely sensitive nature.” The Fourth Circuit and Ninth Circuit are the only two federal appellate courts to require reasonable suspicion for forensic border searches.
In contrast, the Eleventh Circuit on May 23, 2018, rejected that position—and held that no suspicion is required for forensic border searches of electronic devices.
Read more on Inside
Privacy.
Anyone doing anything can be measured. Analyzing
the results of that measurement is the tricky part.
Arthur O’Connor writes:
Orwellian technology, capable of monitoring your every message and conversation, may be coming to your office soon.
In keeping with the management adage, “What you can’t measure, you can’t manage,” new employee monitoring methods called talent analytics (or workforce analytics) are hitting the corporate market.
From small startups to global giants such as IBM, tech vendors are offering employers the promise of quantitative, data-driven precision in determining who is a high performer and who is a slacker.
Read more on WhoWhatWhy?
So
much easier electronically. Could the emergency rooms pay to lock
out the ads?
Digital
Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs
Patients sitting in emergency rooms, at
chiropractors' offices and at pain clinics in the Philadelphia area
may start noticing on their phones the kind of messages typically
seen along highway billboards and public transit: personal injury law
firms looking for business by casting mobile online ads at patients.
The potentially creepy part? They're only getting
fed the ad because somebody knows they are in an emergency room.
The technology behind the ads, known as
geofencing, or placing a digital perimeter around a specific
location, has been deployed by retailers for years to offer coupons
and special offers to customers as they shop. Bringing it into
health care spaces, however, is raising alarm among privacy experts.
"It's really, I think, the closest thing an
attorney can do to putting a digital kiosk inside of an emergency
room," says digital marketer Bill Kakis, who runs the Long
Island, N.Y.-based firm Tell
All Digital. Kakis says he recently inked deals with personal
injury law firms in the Philadelphia area to target patients.
Law
firms and marketing
companies from Tennessee to California are also testing out the
technology in hospital settings.
… The advertisers identify someone's location
by grabbing what is known as "phone ID" from Wi-Fi, cell
data or an app using GPS.
Once someone crosses the digital fence, Kakis
says, the ads can show up for more than a month — and on multiple
devices.
An
update, that doesn’t seem like an update.
Full video
and transcript: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer
at Code 2018
“To this day, we
still don’t actually know what data Cambridge Analytica had.”
[Video
and transcript]
“We
ain’t afraid of no GDPR!”
Google
Emerges as Early Winner From Europe’s New Data Privacy Law
GDPR, the European Union’s new privacy law, is
drawing advertising money toward Google’s online-ad services and
away from competitors that
are straining to show they’re complying with the
sweeping regulation.
The reason: the Alphabet Inc. ad giant is
gathering individuals’ consent for targeted advertising at far
higher rates than many competing online-ad services, early data show.
Perspective. This is a big deal every year.
Mary Meeker
just presented 294 slides on the future of the internet — read them
here
There's a "privacy paradox" surrounding
data collection for profit, and that theme could come to dominate the
internet in 2018, according to Mary Meeker.
More than half the world's population is now
online, time spent on the internet is higher than many would like,
and regulators are starting to question whether buying in is costing
users.
In other words, growth means scrutiny.
Think of the ‘goods and services tax’ as a
general tariff. Is it wise to keep your citizens from the global
marketplace?
Amazon to
block Australians from using US store after new GST rules
Amazon
will not ship overseas goods to Australian customers after new GST
rules that target international retailers come into effect in July.
Amazon’s new rule, announced on Thursday, will
prevent Australians from buying from the Amazon US store – or any
international Amazon stores – which frequently have cheaper goods
and a greater range compared with the Australian Amazon store.
… The move is a response to a
new GST policy that will apply 10% tax to all overseas purchases
under $1,000 announced by the Turnbull government last year in a bid
to “level the playing field” between Australian and overseas
retailers.
Perspective. Keep the rankings straight.
Reddit
beats out Facebook to become the third-most-popular site on the web
Reddit
has now surpassed Facebook and is now the third-most-popular internet
destination for users in the United States, according to rankings
published by Amazon subsidiary Alexa
(no, not that Alexa),
a website that tracks and analyzes web traffic. Despite its recent
controversial site redesign, this means that Reddit now trails Google
and YouTube, but ranks ahead of Facebook and Amazon.
Perspective. The end of an era.
Canon ends
film camera sales for good
Canon stopped
building film cameras eight years ago, but it had still been selling
them from old stock. Now, it has quietly announced
that it will end sales of its last film SLR, the EOS-1V, marking an
end to an era that started
in 1934 with its first camera, the Kwanon.
Good on ya, Red Robin!
Red Robin
offering a free meal for teachers
Teachers will be treated to a free meal at any Red
Robin restaurant in the United States on June 5.
Teachers and school administrators who display
school identification will receive one of Red Robin's five Tavern
Double Burgers, with steak fries. The offer is good for take-out and
dine-in orders.
… For more information on Red Robin's free
meal for teachers, click here.
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