Any “strategy” is
better than nothing. At minimum, it stimulates discussion.
McAfee
Outlines Strategy for Securing Internet of Things
Intel's
McAfee security division offered some details today about its
strategy for protecting the Internet
of Things as the number of connected devices continues to grow.
Analyst
firm IDC has projected that by the end of 2020, the installed base of
the Internet of Things (IoT) will reach roughly 212 billion devices
around the world - roughly two dozen devices for every person on
earth.
… Recently
both researchers and attackers alike seem to be paying more attention
to the Internet of Things. At last year's Black Hat conference in
Las Vegas for example, there were presentations on hacking everything
from smart TVs to surveillance cameras. Meanwhile, researchers
at Proofpoint said earlier this year they had spotted possibly
the first proven cyber-attack leveraging the Internet of Things.
Not
yet able to replace a real lawyer, but it's a start!
– if
you run a website, a Facebook app, or a mobile app, you may have a
legal obligation to set out clearly your privacy policy. Or at the
very least, show your visitors that their data is safe with you.
iUbenda helps you to generate a privacy policy in seconds.
I don't like this at
all. If we're going to play a cops & robbers version of “Six
degrees of Kevin Bacon”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
then I need to stop associating with good and noble lawyers who
associate with the scum of the earth! And I need to stop associating
with anyone who associates with people who associate with them...
Kay Fate reports:
The
smartphones Rochester Police officers carry are about to get a whole
lot smarter.
For
Tim Heroff, captain of the services division, it also means his
officers will be a whole lot safer.
The
department has been using an IBM-created investigative software
called Identity Insight, or i2, for a little more than a year “to
help us understand the non-obvious relationship associations”
between people they encounter on a relatively regular basis.
More
useful data
Most
record management systems have the ability to tell officers who’s
been directly associated with a vehicle; the i2,
Heroff explained, “takes that out to several degrees of separation.
“That’s
what sets us apart from others,” he said. “It’s easy to keep
track of who’s associated with that vehicle, but when you add that
next layer or two on, it’s possible to see other associations.
“If
we can map those connections, those associations, out a few layers,
all of a sudden it makes sense that this guy would be out in that
car” during any given crime, because he’s linked with someone
who’s been linked with that vehicle in the past.
Heroff
isn’t aware of any other agencies in the country using it, but the
department’s programmers took it a step further.
“We
actually wrote an Android app in-house that interfaced with the
Identity Insight analytics,” Heroff said.
Read more on Post
Bulletin.
Think not? Follow the
money.
Surveillance
is the Business Model of the Internet: Bruce Schneier
Data
is a natural consequence of computing, and as search tools get
better, it shifts the balance of power towards mass collection and
surveillance, renowned security expert Bruce
Schneier
said
at the SOURCE
Boston conference on Wednesday.
“Surveillance
is the business model of the Internet,” Schneier told attendees.
“We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services.
Corporations call it marketing."
… “That's
how you get weird situations where Syrian dissidents use Facebook to
organize, and the government uses Facebook to arrest its citizens,”
Schneier said.
New tech buys old tech
– who benefits more?
Alaska
Dispatch to buy Anchorage Daily News from McClatchy Co.
The McClatchy Co.
announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to sell the
Anchorage Daily News to Alaska Dispatch Publishing. The transaction
is expected to close in May.
… "We are
proud to return the Anchorage Daily News to Alaska ownership once
again," said Alice Rogoff, owner of Anchorage-based Alaska
Dispatch Publishing LLC, which publishes the AlaskaDispatch.com
news website.
Is this bio-warfare?
(Who does not eat pork?)
Bacon
prices rise as virus kills baby pigs
A virus never before
seen in the U.S. has killed millions of baby pigs in less than a
year, and with little known about how it spreads or how to stop it,
it’s threatening pork production and pushing up prices by 10
percent or more.
For my students. A bit
late, but better than no backups.
– is a campaign which
encourages people to backup the contents of their computers, in case
of catastrophic hard-drive failure. The site gives you several
options for backing up your data, and then shows you what to do to
get it done.
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