No Colorado locations. Looks like the RMH system,
used at the cash register(?) was hacked but not another system used
at tables and online.
David Bisson reports:
It’s confirmed that some locations of the Applebee’s restaurant chain suffered a point-of-sale (POS) breach involving customers’ payment card data.
On 2 March, RMH Franchise Holdings (RMH) issued a notice of data incident on its website.
The statement explains how RMH, a franchisee of Applebee’s which operates more than 150 restaurant locations, discovered that something was amiss on 13 February.
Read more on TripWire.
[From
the article:
The breach didn’t affect customers who paid
online or used tabletop self-pay terminals during that period, RMH
revealed.
[From
the RMH notice:
RMH operates its point-of-sale systems isolated
from the broader Applebee’s network, and this notice applies only
to RMH-owned Applebee’s restaurants.
An attack on Privacy?
Signal and
Telegram are down for many users [Update: they’re coming back]
for the time being: it appears popular encrypted
messenger Signal is currently down globally, according to numerous
reports from users.
The company behind the private messaging platform,
Open Whisper Systems, has yet to inform its users what is causing the
server downtime. At the time of writing, the Twitter
accounts
of both Open Whisper Systems and Signal remain silent.
This could be a serious problem for Facebook.
For more than a year, Jonathan Albright has served
as something of a one-man General Accounting Office for the tech
industry. The researcher at Columbia University's Tow Center for
Digital Journalism has dug into the details on how political Twitter
trolls manipulate
the media, and unearthed an
intricate web of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube.
Last weekend, while digging through Facebook’s
testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee from last fall,
something else caught his eye. In written
responses provided to the committee, Facebook’s general counsel
Colin Stretch told senator Dianne Feinstein that 1.8 million people
had followed at least one Facebook
page associated with the Russian
propaganda group Internet Research Agency—but the answer made
no mention of how many followers these trolls gained on Instagram.
… Facebook told Congress last fall that it had
deleted 170 Instagram accounts linked to the IRA. Albright found 27
of the accounts, confirming they were Agency accounts by
cross-referencing against Congressional exhibits or media mentions.
He downloaded data on those sites in October using a social media
analytics site called SocialBlade and found they had nearly 2.2
million followers combined. If such a small fraction of the total
Instagram accounts had 2.2 million followers, how many followers did
the Russian trolls have on Instagram altogether?
(Related)
Facebook
Lets Ads Bare a Man’s Chest. A Woman’s Back Is Another Matter.
Advertisers, especially smaller ones, complain
of inconsistency and gender bias in the process that determines
whether images are rejected for being sexually suggestive.
Again talks about insider trading risk… Also,
“The board’s role in overseeing cybersecurity risk management
should be disclosed.”
Laura E. Goldsmith of Proskauer writes:
On February 21, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an interpretive Commission Statement and Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures (the “Guidance”) to assist public companies in meeting their cybersecurity disclosure requirements under the federal securities laws. The Guidance notes that, as reliance on networked systems and the Internet have increased, so too have the risks and frequency of cybersecurity incidents, and companies have no choice but to incur the considerable costs of addressing information security risks, particularly in the wake of a cybersecurity incident. Examples of such costs include IT costs, employee training, remediation expenses, litigation, agency investigations and enforcement actions, reputational harm and damage to long-term shareholder value.
Read more on Proskauer Privacy
Law Blog.
Related: SEC
Clarifies Existing Cybersecurity Disclosure Guidance
(BakerHostetler)
(Related)
Due
Diligence on Cybersecurity Becomes Bigger Factor in M&A
Automatic Data Processing Inc. deployed a team of
cybersecurity, risk management and financial-crime specialists to
WorkMarket before acquiring it in January.
The ADP team combed the software maker’s
technology, practices and internal policies. It also interviewed
staff about monitoring for intrusions, training employees and
performing other security tasks. The payroll processor also hired a
cybersecurity firm to do its own evaluation.
Here we go again?
TSA Tests
See-Through Scanners on Public in New York’s Penn Station
ACLU: “The TSA and Amtrak Police are trying out
new see-through body scanners in New York City’s Penn Station that
raise serious constitutional questions. And as is so often the case,
the government is not being sufficiently transparent about the
devices, how they will be used, on whom, and where they will
eventually be deployed. We also don’t know who will have access to
the information they collect or for how long. There is also reason
to believe the technology may not work as well as the TSA says it
does. This “passive millimeter wave” technology works by
detecting the heat radiating from the human body and analyzing ways
in which those emanations may be being blocked by objects hidden on a
person’s body. The machines do not emit x-rays or other radiation.
The theory is that the operator of the technology will be able to
tell if large object such as a suicide vest device is present
underneath a person’s clothing. The technology uses an algorithm
to determine whether there is an anomaly. The two devices in use are
the Stand
Off Explosive Detection Technology created by QinetiQ, and
Digital
Barriers from Thruvis…”
Perspective. Perhaps an indication that we will
not be able to counter Russia in the Midterms and possibly not in
2020.
Since December 2016, Congress has given the State
Department $120 million to counter foreign attempts to hijack U.S.
elections and sow distrust in American democracy, and Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson has spent none of that money, The
New York Times reports. "As a result, not one of the
23 analysts working in the department's Global Engagement Center —
which has been tasked with countering Moscow's disinformation
campaign — speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has
hindered efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the
Russian efforts."
Perspective.
Smartphone
users are spending more money each time they visit a website
… The amount of money
people spent per visit to online retailers has increased 27 percent
since the beginning of 2015, according to new
data from Adobe Analytics. Meanwhile, the length of smartphone
website visits has actually declined 10 percent.
That means people are getting
more comfortable spending on mobile — as long as the experience is
quick and easy.
Could be a useful tool.
How to Add
Voice Comments to PDFs and Word Documents
Kaizena,
originally just a tool for voice commenting on Google Docs, can also
be used to add voice comments to PDFs and Word documents. The
process of using Kaizena for voice commenting on PDFs and Word
documents isn't quite as streamlined as it is for Google Docs, but
it's still fairly easy to do. Watch my
video that is embedded below to learn how to add voice comments
to PDFs and Word documents.
Worth listening to!
Quit Social
Media – Do Deep Work
Last night I watched Dr.
Cal Newport's TEDx Talk titled Quit
Social Media. In this thought-provoking talk Dr. Newport presents
the case for quitting social media. He presents the case from the
standpoint that social media fragments our attention and prevents us
from doing deep work. To help people come to grips with the idea of
quitting social media Dr. Newport gives rebuttals to the three most
common reasons for not quitting social media.
