We
should be so lucky – only 22.6 million!
Updated
breach estimate and scope:
Education services provider Benesse
Corp. said personal data on 22.6 million customers
were stored on a smartphone owned by the Tokyo systems engineer under
arrest on suspicion of theft and illegal copying of customer data.
While announcing the figure Monday, Benesse, a subsidiary of Benesse
Holdings Inc., said the stolen information — the
worst data leak in Japan’s history — also
included customer data on its group firms’ online-shopping website
Benesse Life Smile Shop
and message board website Benesse
Women’s Park.
Read
more on Japan
Times.
Would
this play out the same way in the US?
Martin
Evans reports:
A schoolgirl has received a police caution after texting an explicit
photograph of herself to her boyfriend, it has emerged.
The teenager sent the image via her phone, but after the couple had a
row, he forwarded it to his friends.
Police were called in because she was under the age of 18 and
therefore both were committing an offence of distributing an indecent
image of a child.
Both received a caution but police are now warning other teenagers
they could end up on the sex offenders register if they send explicit
pictures of themselves via text messages or social media.
Read
more on The
Telegraph.
[From
the article:
The
letter tells schools and parents that any child aged ten or over can
be found guilty of the offence and that images will remain on the
Internet once they are uploaded.
…
Nottinghamshire County Council anti-bullying coordinator Lorna
Naylor said: “Most young people do not see sexting as a problem and
are reluctant to talk to adults about it because they're afraid of
being judged or having their phones taken away.
At
last! An App that lets my lawn mower talk to my refrigerator! All
my dreams have been realized!
New
software platform gets real-time with the Internet of Things
…
According to Gartner
estimates, the IoT will include 26 billion units by 2020, and by that
time, IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental
revenue exceeding $300 billion (£223bn), mostly in services.
A
new company Octoblu
is looking to exploit this potential by announcing a new IoT platform
for real-time connections and communication management across a range
of applications, people and physical devices.
It
uses Meshblu, an open source machine-to-machine messaging software
that connects existing devices to each other by providing a common
platform, through a variety of protocols, regardless of vendor. This
can be used for the discovery, control and management of any
API-based software application, any hardware, or appliance, or social
media network - connecting devices through a range of protocols
across a common platform.
You
may have a right to be forgotten, but I have a right to write stuff
you want everyone to forget. Said another way: “I have more rights
than you!” Exceptions: pointing out who the second class cizens
really are.
Media companies expressed concern about the impact that proposed
changes to EU data protection laws will have on the way they handle
personal information at a recent industry debate hosted by ITN and
the Media Society.
However, Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said that a
current exemption to the application of some data protection rules
that apply in the UK was “safe”, despite it not being explicitly
provided for under the proposed EU General Data Protection
Regulation, according to a
report by Hold the Front Page.
Read
more on Out-Law.com.
For
my Ethical Hackers. How do we inject “It's the other guy's fault”
data into this system?
“Black
Boxes” in Passenger Vehicles: Policy Issues
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 22, 2014
CRS
– “Black
Boxes” in Passenger Vehicles: Policy Issues - Bill
Canis, Specialist in Industrial Organization and Business; David
Randall Peterman, Analyst in Transportation Policy July 21, 2014.
“An
event data recorder (EDR) is an electronic sensor installed in a
motor vehicle that records certain technical information about a
vehicle’s operational performance for a few seconds immediately
prior to and during a crash. Although over 90% of all new cars and
light trucks sold in the United States are equipped with them, the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing
that all new light vehicles have EDRs installed in the future. Under
previously adopted NHTSA rules, these devices have to capture at
least 15 types of information related to the vehicle’s performance
in the few seconds just before and immediately after a crash serious
enough to result in deployment of airbags. EDRs have the potential
to make a significant contribution to highway safety. For example,
EDR data showed that in several cases a Chevrolet Cobalt’s ignition
switch turned the engine off while the car was still moving, causing
the car to lose power steering and crash; the data directly
contributed to the manufacturer’s decision to recall 2.6 million
vehicles. EDR data could also be used, sometimes in conjunction with
other vehicle technologies, to record in the few seconds before an
accident such data as driver steering input, seat occupant size and
position, and sound within
a car. [I
wonder what they do with this information if there has not been a
crash? Bob] The privacy of information collected by EDRs
is a matter of state law, except that federal law bars NHTSA from
disclosing personally identifiable information. The privacy aspects
of EDRs and the ownership of the data they generate has been the
subject of legislation in Congress since at least 2004.”
Links
to some well done slides summarizing Big Data.
10
Views of Big Data
The
definition of Big Data is simple -- it’s the collection of large
amounts of information. Going deeper, we include the ability to
manipulate this data through analysis. It’s not a storage issue;
it’s a transaction and analytics issue. If storing massive data
were the point, we wouldn’t be obsessing about big data. The point
is using data from a wide range of sources -- sensor data,
demographic info, physical qualities -- to detect patterns and make
decisions based on the knowledge derived from those patterns.
This
is the same technology that allowed police to find the heat from
marijuana “grow lights.” What new intrusions can we expect from
iPhone users?
Flir
Systems Piggybacking New Thermal-Imaging Camera on the Smartphone
For
Andy Teich, the chief executive of Flir
Systems Inc., Apple
Inc.'s iPhone
is more than a mobile device. It's a gateway to the mass market.
For
my student geeks. If you like the globe, grab the free software that
generated it.
Earth
– an animated map of global wind and weather
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 22, 2014
- ocean surface current estimates updated every five days
- ocean surface temperatures and anomaly from daily average (1981-2011) updated daily
- Author | Cameron Beccario@cambecc
- Free Version of Source | github.com/cambecc/earth
(Ditto)
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