It's
the ability to generate headlines that determines how journalists
treat a breach.
Kyle
McCarthy points
out that there were at least five colleges that had breaches
larger than Sony’s breach in 2014.
So
he made a list? Why is there absolutely NO mention of the fact that
no federal agency enforces data security in the education sector?
Isn’t THAT the bigger story?
For
my Ethical Hackers: The perfect smoke screen? Let's take advantage
of Nigel's British accent for a little social engineering...
The
UK And US Will Launch Staged Cyber Attacks On Major Banks
The
UK and US are about to launch cyber attacks on each other. But don't
worry: there'll actually be staged exercises to test out defences
against hackers as online global threats rise, the
BBC says. The move has been hailed an "unprecedented"
arrangement between the allies.
Cyber
attacks will be carried out by the countries' intelligence services,
the MI5 and the FBI.
First
up is the financial sector: The Bank of England and commercial banks
in the City and Wall Street are going to be targeted to see how well
businesses can cope with hacking dangers. Transport services will
also be hit in the digital battles.
They
conclude there is no good substitute for gathering everything.
Strategically, I have to agree – unless you can tell me in advance
how to identify bad actors? This is exactly the document I need for
my Business Intelligence class.
National
Academy of Sciences Releases Report – Bulk Collection of Signals
Intelligence
James
R. Clapper – Director of National Intelligence” “On January
17, 2014, the President, through Presidential
Policy Directive 28, directed my office to assess “the
feasibility of creating software that would allow the Intelligence
Community more easily to conduct targeted information acquisition
rather than bulk collection.” In order to fulfill this
direction, I asked the National Academy of Sciences to study this
critical issue, leveraging their reach across both the public and
private sectors. NAS is a non-partisan, peer-reviewed body
established specifically to perform such tasks for the U.S.
Government. NAS brought together a committee of experts from top
technology firms and academia to consider whether technological
alternatives to bulk collection exist while retaining critical
intelligence capabilities. The
independent, peer-reviewed report, Bulk
Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options, is
publicly
available at NAS’s website. The IC is always
looking for ways to fulfill our national security mandate while
protecting civil liberties and privacy. I want to thank NAS for their
expertise and providing an impartial look at feasible alternatives to
bulk collection.”
For
the Ethical Hacker's Toolkit. (Article 3)
KeySweeper
Spies On Wireless Keyboards
A
security researcher by the name of Samy Kamkar has created a fake
phone charger capable of sniffing
out and storing any and all keystrokes made on Microsoft-branded
wireless keyboards. The device, which Kamkar has dubbed KeySweeper,
would be cheap to make and
virtually impossible to detect.
KeySweeper
looks exactly like a phone charger plugged into the wall. However,
it’s actually sniffing
out keystrokes, which it can then send via SMS to whoever planted
the device. Luckily, this only works on Microsoft keyboards
originally manufactured before 2011. Unfortunately, Kamkar maintains
these are still being manufactured and sold today. Oops.
Bad
news for Colorado. (and proof that Google doesn't know everything?)
The
Enemy Of The Google Car Is — Snow!
…
The Google Car has a critical foe however — and it isn't the
traditional auto industry.
It's
snow.
Speaking
at the Detroit Auto Show, the guy in charge of Google bold experiment
in self-driving said that alpine conditions are not something the
Google Car will be tackling, at least not right away.
“It
turns out in Mountain View, it doesn’t snow,” Chris
Urmson told
Bloomberg.
Most
of my students are too young to have had a shot at a cool domain name
and all the three letter domains (IBM, CIA, etc.) have been taken so
this is pretty cool!
Google
Domains Now Available for Businesses
…
Google
Domains is now available to all Web users in the United States.
The service lets users purchase domains, create email addresses and
build
a website using the Google platform.
…
Google Domains supports more than 50 domain endings. You can
purchase popular top-level domain names (TLDs) like .com, .net, .org,
.biz, .cc, .co, as well as specialized ones that represent your
brand, such as .company, .consulting, .coffee, .florist, .guru,
.management, .partners, .productions, .rentals, .supplies,
.solutions, .technology and many more. Google says it will also be
adding hundreds of new TLDs in the next few years.
…
Original TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, .info and .us start at $12 for
the first year. Country code and general TLDs like .co, .company,
.consulting, .coffee, .florist, .guru, .management, .solutions and
.technology start at $20.
Google
Domains also offers free private registration, which hides
your name, address and other contact information from public view
— for instance, during a WHOIS domain database search.
No
good idea goes unlitigated. And I doubt this one will survive. The
movie studios don't want to change, no matter how profitable it might
be. (Article 2)
Wavelength
Makes Movie Sharing Legal
Wavelength
is a new service promising a way of sharing movies online,
legally, and for free. Which means it’s unlikely to last very
long. Wavelength
is powered by Ultraviolet,
a cloud locker service the movie studios created to allow
people to share movies with friends. But “friends” is
such a tricky term when applied online.
Ultraviolet
enables the buyer of a movie to stream it to multiple devices and
share it with up to six other people. Wavelength utilizes this
system, with random strangers sharing their legally-bought
collections with other random strangers. Which essentially means it
uses Hollywood’s own technology against itself.
Spencer
Wang, the
brainchild of Wavelength, knows the studios will move against him
and his service with extreme expediency. However, he’s hoping that
enough people will sign up in the meantime to persuade the studios
and their retail partners that Wavelength offers a legitimate
alternative to piracy. We wish him luck… and he’ll need it.
For
all my students.
Elon
Musk Donates $10 Million To AI Research, Hopes To Prevent Skynet
…
With a generous $10 million donation to the Future of Life
Institute, funds will be handed out in the form of
grants to those researching AI as well as those dealing with AI in
different fields, such as ethics, law, and economics.
FLI
makes it clear that anyone is eligible to receive a grant, stating,
"The best ideas will win regardless of whether they come from
academia, industry or elsewhere."
…
Those interested in applying for a grant will want to head on over
to the Future of Life website on the 22nd, which is when applications
will be accepted.
(Related)
A computing benchmark? As Lara Croft becomes more lifelike, the AI
becomes more dangerous? Check this infographic.
How
Has Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft Changed Over The Years?
Lara
Croft is easily one of the most iconic characters in gaming.
When it comes to being
a badass, few characters do it like Lara.
Over
the years, the character has gone through some serious evolution,
with the most
recent reboot seeing some particularly huge changes. The image
below takes a fascinating look at how the character has morphed, and
how the promotional material differs from the final release.
The
things every student should know... Do you know the keystrokes to do
these actions?
The
15 function-key strokes everyone should know to zip around Microsoft
Office
Something
for my students to ponder. Assuming they have the time.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/netflix-binges-and-the-new-tech-utopia/384471/
Netflix
Binges and the New Tech Utopia
For
over 150 years, many of history's great economists, from Karl Marx to
John Maynard Keynes, predicted that machines would usher mankind into
a scholarly fantasy of enlightened leisure. Robots would, they
argued, serve all of our needs while we spent the days reading
classics, debating philosophy, and indulging in fine art.
Well,
it turns out that the prophecy was half right. Many prime age
workers enjoy unprecedented levels of leisure, but—and here’s the
other half—they would apparently rather doze off into a midday nap
watching the Desperate Housewives of New Jersey than debate
the merits of Plato's Republic.
…
The
most likely people to engage in free online college lectures are
those who already have a graduate degree or are high-income earners.
The same is true for volunteering and political involvement.
I
can't help myself, I like lists.
The
Best Websites On The Internet
The
websites on this list are those that we consider to be the best:
genuinely useful, top-of-the-line sites that will get you what you
need.
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