“I
double dog dare you to do anything about it!” Vladimir Putin.
Russia sends in the army and we send politicians to play golf and
talk about it?
NATO
chief, at summit, says Russia attacking Ukraine
NATO's
top official accused Moscow outright on Thursday of attacking Ukraine
as allied leaders gathered for a summit to buttress support for Kiev
and bolster defenses against a Russia they now see as hostile for the
first time since the Cold War.
U.S.
President Barack Obama and his 27 allies meeting at a golf resort in
Wales will also discuss how to tackle the Islamic State straddling
parts of Iraq and Syria, which has emerged as a new threat on the
alliance's southern flank, and how to stabilize Afghanistan when NATO
forces leave at year's end.
How
big is this breach? Stay tuned.
Brian
Krebs reports:
New data gathered from the cybercrime
underground suggests that the apparent
credit and debit card breach at Home
Depot involves nearly all of
the company’s stores across the nation.
Read
more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Apparently
my (mostly male) Ethical Hackers are carefully studying these photos
too.
Analysis
Of Kate Upton Photos Shows Hackers May Have A Backup Of Her Entire
iPhone
It
just got even worse for the 101 celebrities whose naked photos were
hacked from their iCloud accounts: An analysis of the metadata on
Kate Upton's photos showed that her account was hacked using a piece
of software intended for law-enforcement agencies that downloads an
entire backup copy of all the files on a target's iPhone.
The
software is called EPPB, or Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker.
[Available to anyone at
http://www.elcomsoft.com/eppb.html
Bob] It is intended for police departments and
government agencies that want to "rip" entire copies of
iPhones for evidence. We
first saw the story on 9to5Mac, but the
full account is on Wired. Here's the key section:
If a hacker can obtain a user’s iCloud username and password with
iBrute, he or she can log in to the victim’s iCloud.com account to
steal photos. But if attackers instead impersonate the user’s
device with Elcomsoft’s tool, the desktop application allows them
to download the entire iPhone or iPad backup as a single folder, says
Jonathan Zdziarski, a forensics consult and security researcher.
That gives the intruders access to far more data, he says, including
videos, application data, contacts, and text messages.
(Related)
Just in case...
How To Delete Your Own Nude
Photos From Apple's iCloud: A Step-By-Step Guide
For
my Computer Security students.
Hack
Your API First – learn how to identify vulnerabilities in today’s
internet connected devices with Pluralsight
A
few years ago I was taking a look at the inner workings of some
mobile apps on my phone. I wanted to see what sort of data they were
sending around and as it turned out, some of it was just not the sort
of data that should ever be traversing the interwebs in the way it
was. In particular, the
Westfield iPhone app to find your car caught my eye. A matter of
minutes later I had thousands of numberplates for the vehicles in the
shopping centre simply by watching how this app talked over the
internet:
…
If you believe what you read, the
average “Internet of
Things” device has 25 security flaws.
(Related) Things for your Internet. (Is this really the best we can
do?)
5 Smart Home Appliances You
Should Be Buying
Just knowing you communicated with a doctor tells me a lot.
Nadia
Kayyali writes:
Turns out, the DEA and FBI may know what medical conditions you have,
whether you are having an affair, where you were last night, and
more—all without any knowing that you have ever broken a law.
That’s because the DEA and FBI, as part of over 1000 analysts at 23
U.S. intelligence agencies, have the ability to peer over the
NSA’s shoulder and see much of the
NSA’s metadata with ICREACH. Metadata is transactional data
about communications, such as numbers dialed, email addresses sent
to, and duration of phone calls, and it can be incredibly
revealing. ICREACH, exposed
by a release of Snowden documents in The Intercept, is a system that
enables sharing of metadata by “provid[ing] analysts with the
ability to perform a one-stop search of information from a wide
variety of separate databases.” It’s the latest in a string of
documents that demonstrate how little the intelligence community
distinguishes between counter-terrorism
and ordinary crime—and just how close to home surveillance may
really be.
Read
more on
EFF.
Perspective.
NFL
exec: 70% of fans use a second screen while watching football
…
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo … noted how the NFL is “hugely
important” for Twitter. “You can literally see the spikes in
tweet traffic that are perfectly coordinated with interesting moments
in the game,” he said.
…
Much of Wednesday’s event focused on NFL
Now, a new app from the league that is largely a video hub for
all things NFL. Available as a free or paid app, NFL Now features
instant highlights, behind-the-scenes content, historic NFL Films
footage, and much more.
…
Whether it’s NFL Now, the use of Microsoft
Surface tablets on the sidelines, or RFID tags that will be
embedded
in player shoulder pads this season, it’s clear that the NFL
trying to keep up with the times.
Perspective.
Portables are getting cheap.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/phablets-growing-popularity-apple-gunning-switzerland-tech-news-digest/
A
Windows 8.1 Tablet For Just $119
If
you desperately want a Windows 8.1 tablet but cannot afford the
pricey Surface
Pro 3, then the
Encore Mini from Toshiba may fulfil your needs. This is a 7-inch
Windows 8.1 tablet priced at just $119. A price which buys you a
quad-core Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage.
The
Toshiba
Encore Mini is set to start shipping on Sept. 17, and we can see
these things flying off the shelves. Windows
8.1 may suck as a desktop operating system but it’s
surprisingly good on tablets.
(Related)
But this one is even cheaper!
Ikea
Mocks Apple With BookBook Commercial
And
finally, Ikea
has mercilessly mocked Apple and its hyperbolic, hipsterish style
of ads with a video introducing the 2015 catalog. This isn’t a
book, it’s a bookbook. With eternal battery life, and no need for
any cables, this is a mesmerizing product. Just don’t try playing
Angry Birds on it, or you’ll be bitterly disappointed.
For
my Data Analytics students. If at first you don't succeed...
Learn
from Your Analytics Failures
By
far, the safest prediction about the business future of predictive
analytics is that more thought and effort will go into prediction
than analytics. That’s bad news and worse management. Grasping
the analytic “hows” and “whys” matters more than the promise
of prediction.
In
the good old days, of course, predictions were called forecasts
and stodgy statisticians would torture their time
series and/or molest multivariate
analyses to get them. Today, brave new data scientists
discipline k-means
clusters and random
graphs to proffer their predictions. Did I mention they have
petabytes more data to play with and process?
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14.
Something
for my upcoming spreadsheet class.
Turn
a Set of Spreadsheet Cells Into Easy to Read Documents
Save
As Doc is a free Google Spreadsheets Add-on that enables you to
select a series of adjacent cells and turn them into an easy to read
Google Document. The Save As Doc Add-on takes just a minute to
install. Once installed select the Add-on from your "Add-on's"
drop-down menu and click "start." After clicking "start"
you can choose a set of cells or all cells to be converted into a
Google Document. The document will appear in your Google Drive
dashboard (it might take a minute or two to appear if you have
selected a large set of cells) where you
can then view it, edit it, or download it as a PDF.
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