Same
problem everyone has. How do you gather and summarize breach costs
from thousands of users?
Kira
Lerner reports:
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. told a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday
that the Federal Trade Commission must prove that the cyberattacks
against the hotel chain, which the agency alleges led to more than
$10.6 million in losses, caused “substantial injury to consumers
which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves.”
Read
more on Law360.com
(subscription required).
Useful
overview of a security tool.
Are
Retina/Iris Scanners The Next Level Of Mobile Security?
For
my Ethical Hackers and Computer Forensics students.
What
Is Data Recovery And How Does It Work?
For
your consideration...
PGP
Email Encryption Fundamentally Broken: Cryptography Expert
Pretty
Good Privacy (PGP), the popular email privacy and authentication
software is fundamentally broken and it's time for it to "die,"
says Matthew Green, a respected cryptographer and research professor
at Johns Hopkins University.
Green,
who has been involved in the recent TrueCrypt
audit, published a blog post after Yahoo announced its intention
to follow on Google's footsteps and implement end-to-end email
encryption.
"As
transparent and user-friendly as the new email extensions are,
they're fundamentally just re-implementations of OpenPGP
-- and non-legacy-compatible ones, too. The problem with this is
that, for all the good PGP has done in the past, it's a model of
email encryption that's fundamentally broken," the researcher
wrote in a blog
post.
…
Some
agree with Green's views, but others, like Thomas H. Ptacek, a
security researcher with Matasano Security, noted
that while
there is a lot wrong with PGP, it's currently the only trustworthy
mainstream cryptosystem.
Improving
their yield by milking their customers and their customers' friends
and their customers' friend's friends?
Twitter
tests Facebook-like feed; users frustrated
According
to reports Twitter is tinkering around with users’ feed by showing
them tweets favourited by those they follow and tweets of their
friend’s followers and the recent experiment is not going down too
well with users.
Users
are also reporting that they have started seeing updates on their
Twitter Feed when their friends follow someone new.
Twitter
has chosen a select group for this experiment and their tweets showed
that they were not happy with what Twitter just decided to do. The
major competitive edge this micro-blogging platform has over Facebook
is the options that let users decide what and whose tweets they want
to see in this Twitter Feed. However, with the recent experiment,
users have started seeing tweets which they were not interested in
seeing.
Interesting.
Reliance on precedents that don't actually exist? Haven't they
heard of Google?
New
on LLRX – Case Law in an Era of Heightened Scrutiny
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Aug 17, 2014
Via
LLRX.com
- Case
Law in an Era of Heightened Scrutiny
- Ken
Strutin’s documents the scope of sources that encompass a
critical issue that has recently repeatedly surfaced in mass media
and the legal press – the fact that judicial decisions are believed
to embody legal reasoning, societal values and support the
foundations of our legal system. For scholars, lawyers and
librarians there are three essential components: decision-making,
opinion writing and publication. Recently, scrutiny of Supreme Court
opinions and the work habits of the courts in general has been
drawing attention to the entirety of judicial work that is at the
heart of precedent. This
article collects a range of pertinent guides, manuals, treatises, law
reviews, studies and newsworthy mentions that address significant
issues in judicial decision-making, opinion writing and case law
publishing.
I
bet she'll sell a million of them.
Mum
creates phone app to take control of children's mobiles after they
ignored her calls
Ms
Standifird, from Houston, Texas, came up with the idea after becoming
increasingly annoyed with her son Bradley ignoring her calls.
…
The app's website says: "When you lock your child's phone with
Ignore No More your child has only two options - he or she can call
you back, or call for an emergency responder."
For
my students, 'cause I don't know everything.
1000
Free Online Courses from Top Universities
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Aug 17, 2014
Via
Open Culture: “Get 1000 free
online courses from the world’s leading universities – Stanford,
Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download
these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or
university web sites) straight to your computer or mp3 player. Over
30,000 hours of free audio & video lectures, await you now.”
“We
don't serve your type...”
–
is a font lover’s dream. As well as libraries containing details
of tens of thousands of fonts, the site also helps designers who are
unsure of which fonts go together. So if you choose a font on the
site, you will be given recommendations on more fonts to go along
with it. Y ou will also be given links to the sites that host and
sell those particular fonts.
(Related)
Zen and the art of design?
The
Psychology of Typography
It’s
been said time and time again: fonts convey emotion. Picking
the right font is essential, and there
are rules you should follow. To understand how fonts are
perceived by others, it’s important to know the various
font terms and how they affect the reader.
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