Ethical
Hackers please note: “Ignorance is bliss!” But, not for he
ignorant.
Aaron
Mamiite reports:
A website that tracks and shows the locations of cats through
pictures posted on the Internet is revealing online privacy issues.
Owen Mundy, an assistant professor of art at Florida State
University, used cat pictures and a supercomputer to build the “I
Know Where Your Cat Lives” website, which pinpoints the locations
of the cats found in the pictures.
The issue, however, lies in the fact that as the website traces the
location of the cat, then the location of the cat’s owner is
revealed as well.
Read
more on TechTimes.
The
most difficult (and risky) part of online theft is “conversion” –
turning that electronic swag into cash.
Cybercrime
Goes Offline: The Role of Bitcoins In Ransom and Extortion
Amusing.
“We don't know what we're doing, but we're gonna regulate it
anyway!” “Report” or “publicly disclose?” Who needs to
know and what do they need to know?
David
Fagan, Susan Cassidy, and Catlin Meade write:
As an indicator of the continuing focus of government authorities on
cybersecurity breaches and potential notification requirements,
certain contractors for the federal government may soon face new
rapid reporting requirements for successful network penetrations.
Specifically, President Obama signed the 2014
Intelligence Authorization Act (“2014 IAA”) into law on July
7, 2014, starting a 90-day clock under Section 325 of the Act for the
Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) to promulgate
regulations for “cleared intelligence contractors” to report the
successful penetration of their networks and information systems.
Read
more on Covington & Burling InsidePrivacy.
If
not, how can you protect it?
Marlisse
Silver Sweeney reports:
It’s like Hansel and Gretel, reversed. Bryant Storm, on Wolters
Kluwer Law & Health Blog writes, “each day, most of us leave
behind a trail of data that can be used to construct a detailed
health profile.” This is perhaps scarier than any wicked witch
wanting to bake you alive and eat you.
Storm bases this conclusion on a recent
report
from
the California Healthcare Foundation, which found that data is
“exploding.”
Read
more on Law
Technology News.
[Could
be this report:
http://www.chcf.org/publications/2014/07/heres-looking-personal-health-info
Google
wants me to be just another Thing on the Internet. (and if they
don't like something they can Cntl-X it and Cntl-V in whatever they
do like.)
Google
Defines Typical Healthy Human
Google
has begun a new project aiming to define what constitutes a healthy
human being. The project, called
Baseline Study, is being run by the Google X research arm,
previously responsible for Google
Glass, Google’s self-driving
cars, and contact
lenses which measure glucose levels.
Baseline
Study will see Google collect “anonymous genetic and molecular
information,” initially from 175 people but eventually
thousands of others. This data will be used to identify what makes a
healthy person, with biomarkers which lead to ill health used to both
detect diseases earlier and create better treatments for them.
This
is a hugely ambitious project which could lead to better preventative
measures enabling us all to live longer. Unfortunately, making that
happen means giving ever more data to the behemoth that is Google.
And we’re not talking names and addresses here, but the genetic
information of specific individuals. Nope, that isn’t scary in the
slightest.
Like
Siri, only creepier?
How
Cortana Became The “Other Woman” In My Life
What’s
most surprising about all of this is that this stunning digital
personal assistant is just as interested in me as I am in her. After
all, she has a little notebook full of details about me.
She
started filling it in when we first met, back
when I first activated her after upgrading to the Windows
Phone 8.1 Developer Preview.
I
doubt it will pay their tuition, but my students may like it anyway.
Sick
of Facebook and Twitter? Get paid for social networking on Bonzo Me
and Bubblews
Two
new social networks are aiming to give the likes of Facebook and
Twitter a run for their money, by paying their users.
Bonzo
Me, which went live earlier this month, and Bubblews,
a site that officially launched last week, following an extensive
period of beta testing, want to transform the social networking
landscape.
There's
an App for that! (When they make one that repels students, I'll buy
a smartphone!)
Now
You Can Repel Mosquitoes With An App
Weary
of spraying sticky mosquito repellent on your arms? Sick of the bug
spray stench? Then this app is for you: introducing Anti Mosquito,
the app that releases a high-pitched sound unheard by humans but
extremely irritating to mosquitoes.
According
to the description of the app on Google Play,
mosquitoes really don’t like certain sonic frequencies, and “most
humans” won’t hear the sonic frequencies emitted by the app.
There's
an App for this too! (Lots of NFL teams are using this App)
The
Broncos App
For
my students, especially those who could only get through the first
three suggestions.
Reclaim
Your Focus: 5 Ideas To Deal With Short Attention Spans
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