This could be serious both in potential
information loss but also in reputation.
Missile
maker sees network hacked
The Reuters news agency said Japanese
newspaper Yomiuri reported that information from Mitsubishi's
computer system was stolen in the attack. A representative of the
company confirmed the attack, Reuters reported, but said the company
was still looking into whether any data had been taken.
The Yomiuri report said about 80
infected computers were found at Mitsubishi headquarters in Tokyo and
various facilities in other areas of Japan, according to Reuters.
Increasing SPAM results in increased
numbers of compromised systems. The question is: What will they be
used for?
The unknown explosion of
malicious email attachments
Commtouch, the original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) for many security vendors dealing with anti-Spam
and anti-Malware protections, discovered a massive jump in malicious
email attachments last month. Beyond concerns regarding extra
volume, the problem is no one seems to know why there was a sudden
spike.
Since August, someone unknown - perhaps
a group - has been targeting millions of systems worldwide with email
containing malicious attachments. However, this isn’t the typical
type of Spam, this is direct malware distribution on a mass scale
resulting in abnormally high levels of malicious messages.
The pattern has been seen before: Fake
messages with malicious attachments alleged to contain details on UPS
and FedEx deliveries, credit card charge errors, and so on. Since
the fall of the Rustock botnet, Spam levels across the globe have
fallen, but, despite that, the volume of malicious email attachments
has skyrocketed.
In August, Commtouch’s monitoring
points noticed an average of a few hundred million to two billion
malicious messages per day. On August 8, that number exploded to 25
billion Malware-laced emails.
“A review of several end-user forums
reveals that the email campaigns have been successful – with many
users having opened the malware attachments. The
infection rate is generally linear – the more malware is emailed,
the greater the final number of infections.
“Them pesky illegal immigrants are a
problem. Let's make everyone who is not illegal prove it!”
E-Verify:
De Facto national ID and the end of privacy
September 19, 2011 by Dissent
John Whitehead has this editorial in
Desoto Times Tribune:
As technology
grows more sophisticated and the American government and its
corporate allies further refine their methods of keeping tabs on
citizens, those of us who treasure privacy increasingly find
ourselves engaged in a struggle to maintain our freedoms in the midst
of the modern surveillance state.
The latest attack
on our right to anonymity and privacy comes stealthily packaged in
the form of so-called job protection legislation. Introduced by
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) in June
2011, H.R. 2885 (formerly H.R. 2164), the “Legal Workforce Act,”
is being marketed as a way to fight illegal immigration and “open
up millions of jobs for unemployed Americans and legal immigrants.”
[Sure. Bob] However, this proposed federal law is really
little more than a Trojan horse, a backdoor attempt by the
powers-that-be to inflict a de facto National ID card on the American
people.
Read more on Desoto
Times Tribune.
(Related) Another way to identify
individuals in the herd?
Massive
Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID
Kiran has never touched or even seen a
real computer, let alone an iris scanner. She thinks she’s 32, but
she’s not sure exactly when she was born. Kiran has no birth
certificate, or ID of any kind for that matter—no driver’s
license, no voting card, nothing at all to document her existence.
… Now, for the first time, her
government is taking note of her. Kiran and her children are having
their personal information recorded in an official database—not
just any official database, but one of the biggest the world has ever
seen. They are the latest among millions of enrollees in India’s
Unique Identification project, also known as Aadhaar, which means
“the foundation” in several Indian languages. Its
goal is to issue identification numbers linked to the fingerprints
and iris scans of every single person in India.
This will be important for Windows 8,
which assumes touchscreens are everywhere...
"Open up a cardboard tube, roll
out a transparent film just millimeters thick, apply it on a flat
object and *tada* you've
got an interactive touch surface. Cambridge-based Visual Planet
just launched its new massive-sized multitouch thin film drivers so
you can create touchscreens from 30 to 167 inches in size! Their
touchfoil is a transparent nanowire embedded polymer capable of
sensing the touch of a finger, or even pressure from wind and
translating that to a computer interface. It works on glass, wood,
and other non-conductive surfaces."
Interesting, but not enough to drag us
out of the recession...
Study:
Facebook ‘App Economy’ Adds Over 200K Jobs, Contributes More Than
$15B To The U.S. Economy
Although the U.S.
employment and jobs economic outlook is bleak, a new study
released today reports that Facebook is creating a thriving economy
around its social network. According to new research from University
of Maryland, the Facebook App Economy has added at least 182,000 new
jobs and contributed more than $12.19 billion in wages and benefits
to the U.S. economy this year. Using more aggressive estimates, the
Facebook App Economy created a total of 235,644 jobs, adding a value
of $15.71 billion to the U.S. economy in 2011.
… As we’ve written in the past,
2.5
million websites have integrated with Facebook, and Facebook
users install 20 million apps every day. Every month, more than 250
million people engage with Facebook on external websites.
Especially with the viral growth of gaming apps, as well as the use
of the ‘Like’ button used by brands, more and more developers are
building off the Facebook platform to tap into the network’s 700
million-plus userbase.
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