If
this had been done in the US we might have the security tipping point
I've been dreaming of... Then again, probably not. (Pay up, or
we'll automagically submit 10,000 bogus pizza orders an hour.
There's an App for that!)
Jan
Willem Aldershoff reports:
Hackers have
reportedly stolen data of more than 600,000 Domino’s Pizza
customers. A group of hackers demand € 30,000 before next Monday
or they will make captured data public. The hacker group goes by the
name Rex Mundi and claims to have hacked the websites of Domino’s
Pizza in France and Belgium. They’ve announced their hack in a
Tweet and disclosed further details in an anonymous
text file.
Read
more on Myce.
The
hack was announced this morning on Twitter:
We hacked the websites of @dominos_pizzafr
& Domino’s Belgium, and downloaded 600,000+ customer records.
More info: dpaste.de/bXb9
— Rex Mundi (@RexMundi_Anon) June
13, 2014
By
now, the dpaste.de file has been removed, but Aldershoff reports:
In the statement they write, “We downloaded over 592,000 customer
records (including passwords) from French customers and over 58,000
records from Belgian ones. That’s over six hundred thousand
records, which include the customers’ full names, addresses, phone
numbers, email addresses, passwords and delivery instructions. (Oh,
and their favorite pizza topping as well, because why not).”
The group demands €30,000 to not disclose the information and to
reinforce the threat they already posted samples of the stolen data.
According to the hackers they’ve contacted Domino’s Pizza but the
company has not responded to their demands so far. A
Belgian newspaper reports the company has
contacted all affected customers and argues no credit
card information has been compromised.
A
mandatory action in modern war.
Iraq
Blocks Social Media Amid Militant Drive: Technicians
Iraq's
communications ministry has ordered Internet and mobile companies to
block social media websites and applications as militants drive
towards Baghdad, technicians from two major service providers said
Friday.
The
technicians said video-sharing site YouTube, social network site
Facebook, micro-blogging site Twitter and communications applications
WhatsApp and Viber were all affected.
Always
fun to see how things have been interpreted.
Dave
Maass writes:
A federal judge today ordered
the Department of Justice to hand over key opinions by the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court (also known as the “FISA court”)
so the judge can directly review whether information about mass
surveillance was improperly withheld from the public.
The order is another victory in EFF’s Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit against the DOJ, which sought to reveal how the government
uses Section 215 of the Patriot Act to secretly gather communications
records from millions of American citizens. The suit has already
forced the government to releasethousands
of pages of FISA court opinions, internal executive branch
reports, congressional briefings, and other documents concerning
Section 215. Documents released as part of the suit have shown the
NSA repeatedly
misled the FISA court concerning the operation of the bulk call
records program, nearly leading
the court to terminate the program altogether.
EFF Staff Attorney Mark Rumold argued for further disclosure of
records during a June
3 hearing in Oakland. The resulting order, issued today, applies
to 66 pages of five still-secret FISA court opinions. While Judge
Yvonne Gonzales-Rogers may ultimately decide the documents cannot be
released, her order reveals an appreciation of the civil liberties
concerns as well as skepticism of the government’s blanket refusal
to release any portion of the opinions.
Read
more on EFF,
and congratulations to Mark Rumold for this great WIN!
Is
Google preparing a Doctor App? (Is it harder than self-driving
cars?) Once upon a time, long, long ago, only you and your Doctor
knew what was happening in your body. Now you have become just
another Thing plugged into the Internet of Things. Now everyone
everywhere can know everything. (I suppose there are a few crazy
people out there who will want to post recordings of their
colonoscopy on YouTube for our enjoyment. Please don't.)
Google
developing health data service -report
Google
Inc is developing a service that will combine information from health
apps and personal fitness devices, in another competitive move
against Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co, Forbes reported.
The
new service, to be called Google Fit, will make its debut at the
Internet company's developer conference later this month, Forbes said
on Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
…
Health data could become the next big battleground among tech
companies as a new generation of wearable electronic gadgets allow
users to measure heart rates, sleep patterns and exercise activities.
Last
week Apple announced "Healthkit," which will pull together
data such as blood pressure and weight now collected by a growing
number of healthcare apps on the iPhone or iPad. In May, Samsung
launched a health platform for third-party app developers.
(Related)
Does this suggest what Google will do with your health data?
Startup
puts your health records onto Google Glass
Drchrono,
a Moutain View, California startup has developed an application that
let's a doctor register with them and use their Google Glass to
record a consultation or surgery with a patient's permission.
Videos, photos, and notes are all stored in an electronic medical
record (EMR) and stored in the cloud to share with the patient upon
request.
(Related)
Could
Apple’s HealthKit initiative come under FDA scrutiny?
Last
December Apple met with the FDA to get some clarification about what
types of health apps and devices would or would not fall under FDA
rules and regulations. It’s an interesting question that a lot of
device makers are going to have to consider as more and more
health-oriented wearables come to market.
(Related)
As long as we're talking about Health Records...
Under
Section 13402(i) of HITECH, HHS is required to submit to Congress an
annual report containing the number and nature of breaches reported,
and the actions taken in response to those breaches. Section
13424(2) of the HITECH Act requires the Secretary to make each report
available to the public on the HHS website.
HHS
had issued one report for 2009-2010, and has now issued its report
for the period January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2012:
I
haven’t had time to really read through this yet, but at first
glance, it appears that while theft continues to be
the single largest category of breaches (with hacking being a second
prominent category), loss accounted for the largest
percentage of individuals affected in 2011 breaches. Additionally,
while breach reports from business associates accounted for
approximately one fourth of breach reports in 2011 and 2012, they
accounted for 64% and 42% of individuals affected in those years.
I’ll
likely have more to say once I’ve had time to really go through the
report carefully.
For
my Computer Forensics students.
Find
the Person Behind an Email Address
You
have received an email from a person with whom you have never
interacted earlier and thus, before you take the conversation
forward, you would like to do a bit of research for that person on
the Internet. How do you do this without directly asking the other
person?
For
my students with the appropriate toys.
Read
Or Listen: Amazon Integrates Audible In The Kindle Reader Apps
…
With a tap you can now seamlessly go from reading to listening
without losing your place in the book. The Audible audiobook service
has been integrated in the Kindle apps for iOS and Android by
piggybacking on the Whispersync
for Voice feature.
The
Android and iOS apps can be downloaded from the respective stores.
More
and more of my students are dropping cable.
Cord
Cutters: Watch Live TV Online With NimbleTV – Even Cable!
Want
to watch TV, but don’t like the limitations of cable? Look into
NimbleTV, which offers a few
free live TV stations and paid plans for cable stations.
Recently
I introduced you to FilmOn,
which lets
you watch a variety of over-the-air TV stations free of charge.
That service doesn’t ask for permission from providers: it
re-broadcasts signals without permission, and as such is subject to
frequent lawsuits.
NimbleTV,
in contrast, is trying to
do online live television legally. You can connect the
service with your existing cable stations, or pay for a direct
subscription to watch cable TV online.
…
If you’re looked into LiveStation,
which lets you watch
live TV news online, you’ll find a similar lineup of news
channels: Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, RT and CSPAN are a few examples.
You’ll also find AntennaTV, which mostly airs reruns of
black-and-white sitcoms.
…
We’ve told you before: you
can watch TV online legally, for free.
Quite
a nice collection of tips and apps. Something for everyone, even my
students.
Adobe
PDF Guide – Everything You Wanted to do with PDFs
I
find this hysterical.
…
Announcing
Unizin: “Unizin
is a strategic move by universities to assert greater control and
influence over the digital-learning landscape than would otherwise be
possible by any single institution." The four founding
institutions are Colorado
State University,
Indiana University, the University of Florida, and the University of
Michigan. Why
Unizin?:
As professors and members of
the academy, we want to support faculty and universities by ensuring
that universities and their faculty stay in control of the content,
data, relationships, and reputations that we create. As we look at
the rapidly emerging infrastructure that enables digital learning, we
want to bias things in the direction of open standards,
interoperability, and scale. Unizin is about tipping the table in
favor of the academy by
collectively owning (buying, developing, and connecting) the
essential infrastructure
that enables digital learning on our campuses and beyond.
The
platform for Unizin will be Instructure
Canvas, because
”banding
together" to resist outsourcing definitely starts with a
shared LMS made by a third party vendor. [Is
a proprietary infrastructure the best way to go? I think not. Bob]
…
“24
Georgia Middle-Schoolers Suspended For Talking About
Dress-Code Insubordination on Facebook” – the
principal called their plans a “terrorist threat.”
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