I
don't see a good scenario here. Best case seems to be that a
criminal group started out to rob these banks but were interrupted
for some reason. Worst case, Russia is saying “back off in the
Ukraine” and we haven't demonstrated a similar ability to impact
their financial system. Jobs for my Ethical Hackers seem assured.
Hackers’
Attack Cracked 10 Financial Firms in Major Assault
The
huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase that touched more than 83 million
households and businesses was one of the most serious computer
intrusions into an American corporation. But it could have been much
worse.
Questions
over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern
government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine
other financial institutions — a number that has not been
previously reported — were also infiltrated by the same group of
overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter. The
hackers are thought to be operating from Russia and appear to have at
least loose connections with officials of the Russian government, the
people briefed on the matter said.
It
is unclear whether the other intrusions, at banks and brokerage
firms, were as deep as the one that JPMorgan disclosed on Thursday.
The identities of the other institutions could not be immediately
learned.
The
breadth of the attacks — and the lack of clarity about whether it
was an effort to steal from accounts or to demonstrate that the
hackers could penetrate even the best-protected American financial
institutions — has left Washington intelligence officials and
policy makers far more concerned than they have let on publicly.
For
my Ethical Hackers and Computer Security students.
Medical
ID Theft: How Scammers Use Records To Steal Your Identity
(Related)
Oh wait, let me guess... Because there's money to be made?
Facebook
is reportedly going after the healthcare market. But why?
…
We may get more information on Facebook’s plans soon. Next
Thursday, the company will be presenting at the m.2014
Mobile Health and Innovation Conference, put on by Digitas
Health.
Completely
unrelated. Perhaps doctors need to look up from their iPhones on
occasion? This would result in a much better example of undue
reliance than Ford Motor Credit v. Swaren, but it is unlikely to ever
see a courtroom.
The
Ebola Patient Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software
…
On Thursday night, the hospital released a statement explaining
exactly how it managed to release an Ebola-infected patient back into
America's ninth-largest city.
In
short? Blame the robots, not the humans:
Protocols were followed by both the physician and the nurses.
However, we have identified a flaw in the way the physician and
nursing portions of our electronic health records (EHR) interacted in
this specific case.
[Their
explanation suggests that a bit of information was not communicated.
What should have happened is that when “West Africa” was first
mentioned, an
immediate “Red Flag: Potential Infection Hazard” should have been
initiated, and kept flashing on the front page of his medical records
until Ebola was specifically eliminated as the cause of his fever.
This type of
risk should never wait for a doctor to get around to the patient.
Bob]
Free
(soon freemium) Security software.
Meet
GlassWire, The Prettiest Bandwidth & Internet Security Monitor
For Your Windows PC
Maybe
you’re looking for a way to track your Internet usage and the
applications that access the network. Maybe you have a habit of
absentmindedly dismissing firewall alerts. Maybe you’d like a way
to clue into sneaky malware
that your anti-virus might not know about yet, or applications that
mishandle your data or compromise
your privacy.
If
any of these is a concern for you, you’re in luck, because today I
invite you to meet the prettiest little Internet/network security app
you ever did see. It’s called GlassWire,
and you can install it
to your Windows PC. I’ll also give a quick rundown of four
less-pretty but open-source/cross-platform options.
For
my Data Mining and Data Analytics students. Note the authors...
IBM would have Watson do the matching, but the FBI never trusted
Sherlock Holmes.
Biographic
Entity Resolution Challenges of managing and sharing
Via
Public Intelligence – DOJ/FBI – Unclassified Presentation –
Biographic
Entity Resolution - Challenges of managing and sharing. John
N. Dvorak - Senior Level IT Architect, September 16, 2014, Global
Identity Summit.
- “Entity Resolution: The process of determining whether two or more references to real-world objects such as people (individuals), places, or things are referring to the same object or to different objects. This concept is sometimes referred to as Entity Correlation, Entity Disambiguation, or Record Linkage, and includes related concepts such as Identity Resolution. (from draft DARA)
- Entity Map: Complete enriched entity data that includes the linkage of relationships between people, places, things, and characteristics of data resulting from an entity resolution process.”
Tickles
my teaching funny-bone.
…
And speaking of LAUSD,
the district has paid
$3.75 million to settle a lawsuit with Maximus Inc, the company hired
to build its new student
information system. The
district spent $112 million to build the system but never implemented
it.
…
Marmosets
apparently find video content educational too. And if it’s
good enough for monkeys…
…
edX is
getting into the "professional
education" business to "better serve those learners who
use our courses to advance their careers, or organizations that wish
to support continuing learning for their workforce."
…
Students on meal plans at George
Mason University must
be registered for the iris
scanner. I’d love to know if this data is
connected to the learning management system and if the university has
plans to use students’ biometric data to prevent cheating in online
courses.
…
Free (local) community college for graduates of Chicago
Public Schools and San
Luis Obispo high schools.
…
Charts and Maps: “The
most distinctive college
major
in your state.”
Something
for my Math students to consider.
Wolfram|Alpha
Pro
For
my i-students... Cheap and free Apps and games.
iPhone
Photo Apps Fragment, Lenka & AppAlchemy Are All Free [iOS Sales]
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