If
not CyberWar, at least CyberBlackOps?
China
Launching 'Severe' Cyber Attacks on Taiwan: Minister
Taiwan's
science and technology minister said Wednesday that China is
launching frequent cyber attacks on the island despite warming ties
between the two former rivals.
"The
Chinese cyberwar units have been engaging with Taiwan units almost
every day, with some severe attacks every few months," Simon
Chang said during an interview with the UFO radio network.
"Many
of the attacks were aimed at stealing relevant information for use in
negotiations with Taiwan," he said.
…
In June 2010 Taiwan and China signed the landmark Economic
Cooperation Framework Agreement, a pact widely characterized as the
boldest step yet towards reconciliation.
Yet
Beijing has still refused to renounce its use of force against the
island, which it regards as part of its territory even though Taiwan
has ruled itself for more than six decades since their split in 1949
at the end of a civil war.
Never
rely on any one device or procedure to provide adequate security.
Wang
Wei writes:
The ultra secure NSA-Proof Blackphone titled as, “world’s first
Smartphone which places privacy and control directly in the hands of
its users,” has been rooted within 5 minutes at the BlackHat
security conference in Las Vegas this weekend.
Read
more on The
Hacker News.
Probably
not wise to rely on your bank's security.
Tenn.
Firm Sues Bank Over $327K Cyberheist
In
May, 2012, Kingsport, Tenn.-based Tennessee Electric Company
Inc. (now TEC
Industrial) was the target of a corporate account takeover that
saw cyber thieves use a network of more than four dozen money
mules to siphon $327,804 out of the company’s accounts at
TriSummit Bank.
TriSummit
was able to claw
back roughly $135,000 of those unauthorized transfers, leaving
Tennessee Electric with a loss of $192,656. Earlier this month, the
company sued TriSummit in state court, alleging negligence, breach of
contract, gross negligence and fraudulent concealment.
Both
companies declined to comment for this story. But as TriSummit’s
complaint
(PDF) notes (albeit by misspelling my name), I called Tennessee
Electric on May 10, 2012 to alert the company about a possible
cyberheist targeting its accounts. I’d contacted the company after
speaking with a money mule who’d acknowledged receiving thousands
of dollars pulled from the firm’s accounts at TriSummit.
…
Consumers who bank online are protected by Regulation
E, which dramatically limits the liability for consumers who lose
money from unauthorized account activity online (provided the victim
notifies their financial institution of the fraudulent activity
within 60 days of receiving a disputed account statement).
Businesses,
however, do not enjoy such protections. States across the country
have adopted the Uniform
Commercial Code (UCC), which holds that a payment order received
by the [bank] is “effective as the order of the customer, whether
or not authorized, if the security procedure is a
commercially reasonable method of providing security against
unauthorized payment orders, and the bank proves that it accepted the
payment order in good faith and in compliance with the security
procedure and any written
agreement or instruction of the customer restricting acceptance of
payment orders issued in the name of the customer.”
Everyone
seems to be noticing the Internet of Things.
Businesses
Warming to IoT Sensors: PwC
Twenty
percent of the businesses polled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for
its 6th
Annual Digital IQ study said that they were
investing in sensors this year, a 3 percent gain from last year.
…
Gartner forecasts that by 2020, data from 26
billion devices will pour into the Internet of Things. And those
devices will have a big effect on IT departments.
(Related)
Good definition, interesting infographic.
The
Internet of Things for Cars: What Will it Mean for Insurance?
…
Forbes
has a graceful definition of the Internet of Things: “Simply put
this is the concept of basically connecting any device with an on and
off switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). This includes
everything from cell phones, coffee makers, washing machines,
headphones, lamps, wearable devices and almost anything else you can
think of. This also applies to components of machines, for example a
jet engine of an airplane or the drill of an oil rig. As I
mentioned, if it has an on and off switch then chances are it can be
a part of the IoT.”
Check
out this infographic from Cisco:
http://i2.wp.com/quoted.thezebra.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Internet_of_Things_Infographic.jpg
Useful
guidelines for anyone.
U.S.
Digital Services Playbook
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Aug 12, 2014
“The
American people expect to interact with government through digital
channels such as websites, email, and mobile applications. By
building better digital services that meet the needs of the people
that use our services, we can make the delivery of our policy and
programs more effective. Today, too many of our digital services
projects do not work well, are delivered late, or are over budget.
To increase the success rate of these projects, the U.S. Government
needs a new approach. We created a playbook
of 13 key “plays” drawn from successful best
practices from the private sector and government that, if
followed together, will help government build
effective digital services.”
It
has been a while since I commented on satellite resolution. I still
think military satellites are an order of magnitude better.
Elyse
Wanshel reports:
Google will soon have an unprecedented ability to spy on you from
space. Theoretically, at least. How?
Two months ago, after much lobbying by the biggest satellite company
in North America, DigitalGlobe, the US government relaxed
restrictions to allow for commercially available satellite imagery up
to 25 cm resolution—twice
as detailed as the previous limit of 50 cm.
Now, the first commercial satellite set to capture these high-res
images, DigitalGlobe’s Worldview-3, will launch this Wednesday.
Six months after that, private businesses willing to fork over the
money will be able to get their hands on hyper-detailed photos and
videos of the globe.
Read
more on Motherboard.
A
security/surveillance App for my students?
Learn
More About Your Date Before It’s Too Late
When
you’re dating online, do you really know anything about your date
before you meet them? You need to know your date before it’s too
late.
Do
you know what tools you can use to vet your date in advance? Well,
here’s a couple you can try – and the one for Facebook is
especially useful.
Why
Does This Exist?
The
creators of these apps were incensed
by rape culture and the silence that surrounds it. After reading
studies such as Lisak
and Miller’s “Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected
Rapists”, 2002, they noted that many rapists are repeat
offenders, probably because they don’t even realise that their acts
fit the profile. The creators also realised that through social
media and a bit of coding we actually have the tools at hand to do
something about it.
The
creators began by building a predator alert tool for OkCupid, then
expanded to creating tools for other social networks.
(Related)
Perhaps my Ethical Hackers could come up with a free version?
How
to Spy on Your Kid’s iPhone or Android Text Messages
Child
safety website TeenSafe
has launched a new version of their app, which not only lets you view
your child’s Facebook and Instagram activity, but also lets you
read the text messages they send and receive on their Android or
iPhone.
Better
still, you can even read text messages that have been DELETED on the
phone!
An
App for my wife, the “power shopper.”
–
is a new service from Savings.com that instantly compares Amazon
product prices to prices around the web and ensures that you are
getting the best deal. All you have to do is copy the URL of the
product page you are viewing on Amazon and paste it into the
PriceJump website search box. PriceJump will do all the hard work of
scouring thousands of sites for you.
A
bunch of Apps for my students to consider.
The
Best Apps for your Android
Perhaps
my students will develop a true solution? Because I don't agree with
their premise. There is no technology that “solves” or even
disrupts education just like there is no single solution for
“business.” There is alot of very useful tech – just ask the
students.
Why
Tech Still Hasn't Solved Education's Problems
…
Paul Franz taught in Hawaii before, in 2011, researching ed tech as
a doctoral candidate at Stanford. He’s now a language arts teacher
in California. On his Twitter feed Sunday, he gave some reasons why
the ed tech buzz seems to have simply disappeared. They mirror my
own sentiment, that education
is a uniquely difficult challenge, both technically and socially, and
that its difficulty confounds attempts to “disrupt” it.
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