For
every financial tool there are criminals. It's not the tool nor the
“thrill of the chase” that attracts them, it's the money.
Brazilian
‘Boleto’ Bandits Bilk Billions
With
the eyes of the world trained on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup,
it seems a fitting time to spotlight a growing form of computer fraud
that’s giving Brazilian banks and consumers a run for their money.
Today’s post looks at new research into a mostly small-time
cybercrime practice that in the aggregate appears to have netted
thieves the equivalent of billions
of dollars over the past two years.
Isn't
this what I've been telling you?
Businesses
Learn Security the Hard Way: Survey
Organizations
consider defending against phishing and social engineering attacks a
priority, worry about Web-facing applications, and know the
importance of having an incident response plan, according to a survey
of 200 senior-level IT and security professionals conducted by IT
training firm TrainACE.
Some
of the results painted a surprisingly rosy picture, with more than
half, or 54 percent, of survey participants claiming their
organizations had not been hacked or breached in the last 12 months.
About 59 percent also claimed their organizations have a
cyber-incident response plan. Approximately 81 percent of
respondents said their companies followed a set of update guideline
procedures, and 90 percent claimed to have formal password policies.
The
situation was grimmer among the 17 percent who had been hacked or
experienced a data breach, TrainACE found. In this group, nearly a
fifth of the respondents said their companies did not have a
cyber-incident response plan, but were considering one. Many of
these respondents said they did not have set update guidelines and
only 68 percent of the companies actually had password policies.
…
The
full results of the survey are available
online in PDF format.
No
doubt this will become a legal specialization. Start studying now
law school students.
Last
month (and somewhat unnoticed — at least by many of us here), the
International Law Committee of the NYC Bar Association released
a report evaluating the legality of the U.S. drone program in the
context of international law. Released on June 19, the 181-report
covers a wide array of issues including related to jus ad bellum
and jus in bello and evaluating the existence of an
armed conflict.
…
Interested readers can access the report
and the executive
summary from the NYC Bar Association’s website.
The
Court must have realized that Google does not “create” content,
and therefore only “Content Creators” are actually impacted. I
wonder if there is a Google form for undoing the “Right to be
Forgotten” or if they must apply to the Court?
BBC's
Robert Peston: 'Why has Google cast me into oblivion?'
BBC
economics editor Robert Peston has criticised Google after he said
the search engine deleted some of his blogs to comply with European
law.
Peston
said received a “notice of removal” from Google, informing him
that an article that he had published in 2007 about former Merrill
Lynch boss Stan O'Neal would no longer be shown in European Google
search results.
The
article, “Merrill’s Mess” describes how O'Neal was forced to
leave the investment bank after it endured significant losses on the
back of careless investments.
…
Peston pointed out on Wednesday, that this effectively means that no
one will see the blog post from now on. “To
all intents and purposes the article has been removed from the public
record, given that Google is the route to information and stories for
most people,” he wrote.
He
questioned whether the content of the article was inadequate,
irrelevant or no longer relevant, and therefore whether Google was
justified in removing it. He adds that the action will consolidate
fears present among many that the new rule is detrimental to freedom
of expression.
It
looks like this is dying out – no angry mobs with pitchforks and
torches... Besides, users are merely things on the vast Internet of
Things.
Sheryl
Sandberg not sorry for Facebook mood manipulation study
On
Wednesday, Facebook’s second-in-command, Sheryl Sandberg, expressed
regret over how the company communicated its 2012 mood manipulation
study of 700,000 unwitting users, but she did not apologize for
conducting the controversial experiment. It’s
just what companies do, she said.
…
It seems that until now, Facebook data scientists have been pretty
much free to do as they please. “There’s no review process, per
se,” Andrew Ledvina, who worked at Facebook as a data scientist
from 2012 to 2013, told the Journal. “Anyone on that team could
run a test,” he said. “They’re always trying to alter people’s
behavior.” Ledvina told the Journal that tests were so frequent
that some data scientists worried that the same users might be used
in different studies, tainting the results.
What
is it with websites in Colorado? The Healthcare website is almost
impossible to navigate and DMV can't handle a moderate volume. My
students could have done better after an Intro class.
Colorado
DMV website overwhelmed as noncitizens try to get driver's licenses
Late
Wednesday, the Department of Motor Vehicles appointment website was
still not working, the day after non U.S. citizens were allowed to
start making appointments to get their driver's licenses.
…
The DMV said the Schedule an Appointment website averaged 70,000
hits an hour with a high of 107,500 hits hourly.
A
total of 823 appointments were scheduled.
For
my Computer Science students. See why we teach so much Math?
The
Hardest Roles to Hire For
Not
all jobs are equally easy to fill. It’s an obvious point, but one
that sometimes gets missed in the debate over whether the American
economy is suffering from a “skills
gap.” Companies complain that there is a shortage of talent,
economists counter that if that were true it would be evidenced by
rising wages. With wages stagnant, where’s the skills gap?
Into
this debate comes a new
report from Brookings that aims to get past discussion at the
aggregate level, to determine where there are or are not skills
shortages. Using U.S. job opening data collected by the firm Burning
Glass, it argues persuasively that there are very real skills
shortages in certain fields, namely computers and health care
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