Hacking is easy,
apparently subtlety is not.
Phony
Al-Jazeera text messages sent by pro-Syrian gov't hackers
Al-Jazeera has become the
second news agency in a little more than a month to be targeted by
pro-Syrian government hackers.
The Qatar-based
satellite TV station revealed in a tweet
this morning that its short messaging service had been
compromised and used to send false news reports, including a report
that Qatar's prime minister had been assassinated:
… A group
calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army reportedly claimed
responsibility for the hack, the second attack on the satellite
network in less than a week. The broadcaster reported Wednesday that
several of its Web sites had been hacked and defaced with pro-Syrian
government slogans.
The group also
claimed responsibility for a sophisticated
attack on Harvard University's home page last year that briefly
defaced the page with a message accusing the U.S. of supporting the
uprising against Syria's president.
Pro-Syrian
government hackers have stepped up their attacks on news agencies in
recent weeks. In early August, Reuters
suffered two security breaches in two days when hackers managed
to gain control of one of its Twitter accounts and defaced with
pro-Syrian government tweets. Earlier that week, hackers broke in to
the Reuters.com Web site and added a phony post purporting to be an
interview with the head of the Free Syrian Army.
Only 53%? I'm impressed!
AU:
Schools clueless about IT security, reveals study
September 10, 2012
by admin
Byron Connolly reports:
Almost
one in two Australian secondary and tertiary schools do not have an
IT security awareness program in place and alarmingly, 53
per cent didn’t know what information was taken during a data
breach, according to a study commissioned by
Symantec.cloud.
The
study asked around 500 teachers and administration staff at 168
private and public secondary and tertiary schools across Australia
about their IT security landscape and what precautions they had in
place to protect students.
Read more on CIO.
And what would we find
here in the U.S. if the same study were run?
Okay, I'll need someone to
interpret. I see this as “Yes but No”
By Dissent,
September 9, 2012
FourthAmendment.com
quotes from a new opinion from U.S. District Court in Maryland
holding that there
is Fourth
Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in medical records held
by a doctor. The case is United
States v. Mitchell.
[From the
article:
There
is no Fourth Amendment reasonable
expectation of privacy in medical records held by a doctor.
The third-party doctrine and consent also must apply. United States
v. Mitchell, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 126651 (D. Md. September 5, 2012):
September 09, 2012
Paper
- The Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything' from a Criminal
Information Sharing Perspective
Sliter, John R.,
'Techno-Risk - the Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything' from a
Criminal Information Sharing Perspective (September 9, 2012). 30th
Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, England on September 5th,
2012. Available at SSRN.
- "The author has extensive law enforcement experience and the paper is intended to provoke thought on the use of technology as it pertains to information sharing between the police and the private sector. As the world edges closer and closer to the convergence of man and machine, the human capacity to retrieve information is increasing by leaps and bounds. We are on the verge of knowing everything and anything there is to know...and this means that police will have the capacity to learn everything about everyone with the only restriction being privacy legislation. But it also means that those involved in immoral, unlawful or illegal activity will have that same capacity and with no such restriction... The global community requires a secure and credible system to retrieve and assess all of the information ‘generally available to the public.' A system that will strive to keep ‘Big Brother’ in check and ‘Bad Brother’ out, all the while providing a means of alerting citizens to genuine risks or to dangerous people. Such as system would help diffuse the systemic inaccurate and harmful profiling that is often based on rumours and innuendo. There is an identified public-private partnership opportunity. A chance to work with privacy advocate groups and background checking private companies to define, design and deliver on something that will be of immense benefit to citizens around the globe."
Mostly medical, so far...
September 09, 2012
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