I
would think this was obvious. You want a list of people you might
want to compromise AND you can determine the minimum profile for an
agent you want to plant.
Chinese
hackers reportedly sought data on US workers with security clearance
Chinese
computer hackers were able
to access the computer network of the federal agency that
houses the personal information of all government employees in an
apparent attempt to target workers who have applied for security
clearances, according to a published report.
The
New York Times reports that the
hackers gained access to some databases from the Office of
Personnel Management this past March before federal authorities were
able to block them from the network.
…
The attack in March was not announced even though the Obama
administration has urged U.S. companies to share information about
breaches in security with the government and with consumers, the
newspaper reported.
"The
administration has never advocated that all intrusions be made
public," [“Except for you second class citizens...” Bob]
Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the Obama administration, said in
a statement to the Times.
…
Hayden said the administration had no
reason to believe [Interesting phrasing Bob] that
personally identifiable information for employees had been
compromised.
(Related)
For us second class citizens.
Shelburne
Country Store in Shelburne, Vermont will pay a $3,000
civil penalty for failing to inform 721 internet buyers of a
security breach of their credit card information. In late 2013, the
company’s website was hacked and credit card information stolen.
Upon being informed of the breach in January 2014, the company
quickly fixed the problem, but did not notify consumers until it was
contacted by the Attorney General’s Office.
“At
this stage of the game, having seen widely reported data breaches at
big retailers like Target and dozens of others, we
will not accept the excuse that a business did not know of its
obligations to report a breach. ” said Attorney General
Sorrell.
Under
Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act, businesses are required to
send the Attorney General a confidential notice within 14 business
days of discovery of a data breach. The business must also send
notice to consumers in the most expedient time possible, but no later
than 45 days. The Office of the Attorney General works with
businesses and their counsel, particularly with small Vermont
businesses, to help them address security breaches. The office has
an open-line policy for anyone with questions about Vermont’s data
security law or how to address a breach. The office brings
enforcement actions under the Security Breach Notice Act only for
serious violations.
Any
business with questions about the Act can find guidance on the
Attorney General’s website, call the office at 802-828-5479, or
email data.security@state.vt.us.
SOURCE:
Office of the Vermont Attorney General
Inevitable,
but not necessarily serious.
US
lawmaker asks FTC to probe implications of Facebook 'big data'
experiment
A
U.S. senator has asked the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize the
use of big data by Facebook and other Internet companies, following a
controversy over a Facebook experiment on some of its users.
…
In a letter
to the FTC, Warner has asked whether the Facebook experiment violates
the agency's consent agreement of 2011 with the company and also
section 5 of the FTC Act which prohibits ''unfair or deceptive acts
or practices."
Privacy
group Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint
earlier this month to the FTC stating that the study, published
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, violated the
privacy consent order that requires the social-networking company to
protect its users' privacy, and is also a deceptive trade practice.
Nothing
angers courts more than being taken literally. (Be careful what you
sue for?)
Aereo
Now Claims To Be A Cable Company
In
its ongoing
effort to stay alive, Aereo is using the ruling about its
illegality against the U.S. Supreme Court. While backing the
broadcasters in their case against Aereo, judges
ruled that Aereo “is for all practical purposes a
traditional cable system.”
Aereo
is now taking those words literally and arguing that as a
“traditional cable system” it’s entitled to a
statutory license. The broadcasters are, unsurprisingly, rallying
against this move, calling Aereo’s new stance “astonishing.”
We think “genius” is a more apt description.
If
Microsoft owns it, it must be vulnerable?
Silent
Circle seeks to destroy Skype with its secret weapon: Encrypted VoIP
Silent
Circle – the esoterically brooding group behind this year's
"unhackable" Blackphone – has set its sights on
disrupting big market players like Skype and Viber with an encrypted
voIP client.
The
company has announced a global expansion of its encrypted calling
service, allowing around the world to make secure phone calls without
incurring roaming charges.
Silent
Circle's apps have always allowed customers to make encrypted calls,
send secure messages and to transfer files, but until now the app had
to be in use by both parties. The latest announcement means that
users will now be able to make private calls to non-Silent Circle
subscribers across 79 countries.
…
Starting now, anyone wishing to utilise this "Out-Circle"
service will be given a unique ten-digit Silent Phone number to make
and receive calls without incurring roaming charges.
It
does still come at a price though. Silent Circle will charge $12.95
for 100 minutes, $19.95 for 250 minutes, $24.95 for 500 minutes and
$39.95 for 1,000 minutes.
For
my Website and my Excel students.
–
turns spreadsheets into well-documented APIs, quickly and easily.
Many businesses still share product lists, service coverage areas, or
other tabular information with one another using spreadsheets
attached to email. There are so many things that can go wrong with
this. Sheetlabs was built with the goal of making it really easy for
businesses to build APIs on top of their existing spreadsheets.
[From
the website: Emailing weekly updates of your product
list, service coverage, or your other spreadsheet is sooo last
century. Creating an API helps ensure your customers are always
using your latest data, and it saves everyone the hassle of dealing
with spreadsheets manually.
For
my “Let's build a killer robot” students.
In
May of this year, the United
Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) held the
first multilateral discussions on autonomous weapons or, as activists
like to colorfully refer to them, “killer robots.” Discussion
was robust, serious, and thoughtful, but through it all ran a strong
sense of confusion about what exactly participants were, in fact,
talking about.
Part
II
Perspective.
Roughly ¾ ounce for every man, woman and child.
Colorado
puts annual marijuana demand at 130 tons
Total
marijuana demand in Colorado, where the nation's first recreational
pot shops opened in January, is estimated at 130 tonnes this year, a
study for the state's revenue authority said on Wednesday.
A
day after Washington became only the second state to allow
recreational sales of the drug to adults, the report said the
projected demand in Colorado was much higher than anticipated.
More
than 90 percent of it came from residents, while out-of-state
visitors accounted for only about 9 tonnes.
For
my students. (I'm probably as guilty as they)
From
Idea to Final Draft: How to Increase Your Writing Productivity
Unfortunately,
that does not mean they will work for free.
American
teens can’t read a pay slip
Fewer
than 30% of U.S. teens understand their paycheck, according to the
financial literacy portion of a test administered by the Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development.
More
than one in six 15-year-olds is unable to make even simple decisions
about everyday spending, and only one in 10 can solve complex
financial tasks, according to the test.
Among
the seemingly simple questions that American teens struggled with was
determining how much money was going into a bank account from a
theoretical month’s pay.
The
pay slip for the month of July listed four numbers: Gross pay,
deductions, net salary and gross salary year to date.
Only
28.8% could correctly say how much money was automatically deposited
into the worker’s bank account. By comparison, 74.8% of students
in Shanghai got the right answer. Americans also performed below the
OECD average.
…
How well would you score? Take
the 5-question test here
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describes my ideal job.
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