“Well,
it's only been five years! These things take time.”
Unencrypted
Data Lets Thieves ‘Charge Anywhere’
Charge
Anywhere LLC, a
mobile payments provider, today disclosed that malicious software
planted on its networks may have jeopardized credit card data from
transactions the company handled between
November 2009 and September 2014...
In a
statement released today, the South Plainfield, N.J. electronic
payment provider said it launched investigation after receiving
complaints about fraudulent charges on cards that had been
legitimately used at certain merchants. The information stolen
includes the customer name, card number, expiration date and
verification code.
… “The investigation revealed that an unauthorized person
initially gained access to the network and installed sophisticated
malware that was then used to create the ability to capture segments
of outbound network traffic,” the company explained. “Much
[As in “many
bits” or 90% of the traffic? What constitutes “Much” in a case
like this? Bob] of the outbound traffic was encrypted.
However, the format and method of connection for certain outbound
messages enabled the unauthorized person to capture and ultimately
then gain access to plain text payment card transaction authorization
requests.”
…
The incident is the latest reminder of what happens to businesses
that handle credit card data and other sensitive information and yet
fail to fully encrypt the data as it traverses their network. The
company has provided a
searchable list of merchants who may have been affected by the
breach.
Gee,
what happened to, “It's programmed in Korean!”
FBI
Has Yet To Find North Korea Link In Sony Hack
Since
the massive security
breach at Sony Pictures has occurred, speculation has been that
North Korea was behind it. Sony, with the help of cybersecurity firm
Mandiant
and the FBI, has been investigating the perpetrators behind the
breach. However, a senior FBI official stated has stated that
government agency has not confirmed that North Korea is behind the
attack,
If
you violate copyright, you can not be seen to succeed.
The
popular file-sharing service Pirate Bay was taken down today
following a raid in Sweden by police who seized servers and
computers.
The
Pirate Bay portal went
down Tuesday morning after Swedish police raided
a server room in Stockholm over alleged copyright violations. In
addition to its file-sharing section, Pirate Bay’s forum
Suprbay.org was also down.
…
Pirate Bay may not be the only target. According to TorrentFreak,
other sites related to file sharing such as EZTV, Zoink, and Torrage
went down today as well, though it’s not yet known if they were
also raided.
Founded
in 2003, Pirate Bay has been in the legal crosshairs for years, but
has managed to stay afloat despite efforts by governments,
anti-piracy groups and the music and film industries to close it
down. Today’s raid comes after a
number of recent events have occurred around the service, putting it
in the spotlight once again.
…
Despite the previous convictions, Pirate Bay has managed to forge
ahead without its founders, catering to millions of daily users.
Although today’s raid is not the first—Pirate Bay was also raided
in 2006—in 2012 its operators bragged that they had moved
their operations to the cloud to make the service virtually
impervious to police raids. By hosting their operation from multiple
cloud hosting providers located in a number of countries, a single
police raid would not be able to disrupt their operation. Or so they
thought.
It’s
unclear how long authorities can keep Pirate Bay down this time
before it pops up again.
Not
sure why BSA conducted this poll. They usually devote their efforts
to suing companies that use unlicensed software. Perhaps they see
Big Data analytics as a way to find more victims?
A
new survey of more than 1,500 senior executives in the U.S. and
Europe makes clear how much businesses across the spectrum make use
of data.
The
poll released by BSA | The Software Alliance found that 67
percent of executives said that data analytics were important to
their companies, and that data analysis is important to 60 percent of
small companies.
For
Washington and other global capitals, the results should make is
clear how important it is to implement policies that don’t
undermine companies using that data, said trade group head Victoria
Espinel.
…
At the top of the list of pro-innovation policies, she said, are
laws that don’t force companies to keep data servers in one place
or try to balkanize the Internet by imposing limitations. Those
policies, which some countries have contemplated in response to
concerns about U.S. surveillance in the wake of Edward Snowden’s
leaks, could have a disastrous effect on companies, Espinel warned.
Instead,
countries should make trade deals that allow data to flow back and
forth across borders free, she said.
For
more information, visit www.bsa.org/datasurvey.
There's
an App for that! By why? I see an advantage if the cops can tap the
driver's phone and automagically access driving records, but they can
get that information now. Is this a case of “We can, therefore we
must?”
Official:
Iowans will use app to show license
Need
to show your driver’s license? In Iowa, there will soon be an app
for that.
A
smartphone app that’s under development will allow users to show
the digital license to law enforcement officers during traffic stops
and at security checkpoints at Iowa airports, according to Paul
Trombino, director of the state Department of Transportation. The
free app will be available sometime in 2015.
“We
are really moving forward on this,” he said to Gov. Terry Branstad
during a state agency budget hearing Monday. “The way things are
going, we may be the first
in the nation.” [and
I'll be one of the first to laugh at their failure. Bob]
Trombino
said users will use a pin number for verification, The Des Moines
Register reported (http://dmreg.co/1z3jODu
).
“Having
this really allows people
to protect their identity,” [Huh?
Bob] he said, and suggested that the technology could be
used for other state licenses.
A
very encouraging App. Perhaps we can develop an App that will keep
politicians from passing stupid laws! (No, I don't think so
either...)
Facebook
users may soon be notified before posting drunk pictures
…
Yann LeCun, the man behind Facebook's Artificial Intelligence
Research lab, said he envisions a day when artificial intelligence
will give intoxicated users an option to turn back the posts before
it is too late, reported the Washington Times.
He
also said that the future artificial intelligence would be like an
assistant that can say "Uh, this is being posted publicly. Are
you sure you want your boss and your mother to see this?"
The
technology would work by recognizing the difference between how users
look like when they are sober and drunk.
For
the student gaming club.
SimCity
2000 Is Free On Origin
SimCity
2000 is currently available for free on Origin. EA is giving away
the classic city-building simulator as part of its On
The House promotion. This is designed to get you using Origin in
the hopes you’ll actually buy some games in the future. If you
dislike such blatant marketing, you can instead buy
SimCity 2000 on GOG.com for $2.99 and preserve
your integrity.
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