Again, no one noticed the hack? For 5 years?
Short sales that pay off in just 30 minutes should stand out like a
sore thumb. Who was asleep on the job?
Feds:
Hackers Stole News Releases, Made $100M from Trades
… The group includes two Ukrainian men who are
believed to be the hackers, plus 30 other people from the U.S. and
elsewhere who made the stock trades.
… The Ukrainian men are said to have led the
scheme over a five-year
period. They hacked at least two newswire services,
stealing hundreds of corporate earnings announcements before they
were released.
… In some cases, the traders shared a portion
of their illicit profits with the hackers. [How
else were they compensated? Bob]
(Related) Does Facebook have “”insider”
access or can I safely trade on this information?
Facebook is
reportedly working on an app that breaks news alerts
Deny. Deny. Deny!
Farzan Hussain writes:
Hackers can use a security exploit in Facebook to “decrypt and sniff out” IDs of Facebook users by using one of the vulnerable Facebook API. Allowing them to gain access to the personal information of millions of Facebook users Including their name, location, phone number, pictures and other personal data.
Read more on HackRead
– and keep reading so that you read Facebook’s response to the
researcher’s multiple attempts to get them to take the
vulnerability more seriously.
Here's my idea for a final exam: my Ethical
Hacking students try to stop my Corvette, my Computer Security
students try to protect it. (Assumes I can talk the University into
buying me a Corvette “for academic purposes.”)
How texting
a Corvette could stop it in its tracks
As if recent
research on car hacking wasn't frightening enough, a new study
shows yet another danger to increasingly networked vehicles.
This time around, academics with the University of
California analyzed small, third-party devices that are sometimes
plugged into a car's dashboard, known as telematic control units
(TCUs).
Insurance companies issue the devices to monitor
driving metrics in order to meter polices. Other uses include fleet
management, automatic crash reporting and tracking stolen vehicles.
In order to collect vehicle data, TCUs have access
to the electronic brain of an automobile, the CAN (Controller Area
Network) bus, which transmits and receives messages from many vehicle
systems. The TCUs also have SIM cards, which give them cellular
network connectivity in order to send information.
The researchers found a variety of security
vulnerabilities which allowed them in a real-world demonstration to
cause a Corvette to suddenly brake by sending a text message to the
TCU, which then accessed the CAN bus, according to a study made
public Tuesday.
Not hacking, but not very good IT Governance
either. My students should be able to design a process that does not
rely on the same employee to give the written test, score the driving
test, enter and then “correct” computer records.
Feds Say
California DMV Employees Traded Cash for Licenses
As many as 100 commercial truck drivers paid up to
$5,000 each to bribe state
Department of Motor Vehicles employees for illegal California
licenses, federal authorities said Tuesday.
… Court records say the employees changed
computer records to falsely show that drivers had passed written and
behind-the-wheel tests after they were bribed by the owners of three
truck-driving schools between June 2011 and March 2015.
“Social media, it's where the evidence is!”
The number of times that governments asked Twitter
to provide account information in the first half of 2015 was more
than 50 percent greater than in the previous six months, the company
said on Tuesday.
Twitter revealed the data as part of its
twice-yearly transparency report, which also covers requests made by
private copyright holders.
From Jan. 1 through June 30, the company received
4,363 government requests worldwide for account information related
to 12,711 accounts on Twitter, Periscope or Vine. Twitter provided
at least some information in response to 58 percent of the requests.
That represented a roughly 52 percent increase
from the number of requests received in the second half of 2014,
during which the company received 2,871.
(Related) See for yourself.
Gnip
Launches Full-Archive Search API To Provide Instant Access To Nine
Years Worth Of Tweets
… Until now, companies have been able to pull
instant reports using up to 30 days’ worth of historical tweets.
Today, through Gnip, Twitter
is turning that instant access on for its treasure trove — the
full archive. All nine years’ worth of tweets.
(Related) Is your message getting out?
t factor: A
metric for measuring impact on Twitter
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 11, 2015
“Based
on the definition of the well-known h index we propose a t factor for
measuring the impact of publications (and other entities) on Twitter.
“The new index combines tweet and retweet data in a balanced way
whereby retweets are seen
as data reflecting the impact of initial tweets.
Implications for 3D printing?
A court case argued Tuesday over a product to
straighten teeth has become the latest front in the battle over the
open Internet.
Major technology trade groups and open Internet
advocates have urged the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit
to strike down a ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission
(ITC) that found it has the authority over the import of data that
represents a digital good — an expansion from its historical
authority over the import of physical goods.
Chief Circuit Judge Sharon Prost, one of the three
judges reviewing the case, put the issue into clear focus Tuesday.
She said she was confused by the government's attempt to try and
"cabin" what would be a huge legal precedent into nothing
more than a case about straight teeth.
"It does seem to me that if we were to affirm
the commission here, we would be saying the ITC has jurisdiction over
electronic transmissions," she said during oral arguments. "I
don't see very many limiting principles there that might apply to
future cases."
… The case was brought by Align Technology —
the maker of Invisalign — which successfully urged the ITC to bar
rival company ClearCorrect from importing infringing products into
the United States. ClearCorrect has appealed.
The quirk that has riled tech companies and open
Internet supporters is that ClearCorrect did not import physical
dental aligners, over which the trade commission has historically had
authority. Instead, the
company imported digital files that allowed it to print the dental
aligners in the United States.
In an alleged attempt to circumvent U.S. patent
protections, ClearCorrect scanned customers' teeth and eventually
printed out the clear dental aligners in the United States. But the
patented method used to create the blueprints for the corrective
braces was done in Pakistan. This back-and-forth was done digitally
by uploading and downloading data online.
This has been handled poorly. Who has been
advising Hillary to stall? Will anyone ask her to name the system
she used to handle classified emails if the only device she had only
handled unclassified?
Hillary
Clinton to Turn Over Private Email Server to Federal Authorities
Hillary
Clinton is turning over to federal authorities the private
computer server she used to handle her emails when she served as
secretary of state, an unexpected move and an attempt to quash
concerns that her unorthodox approach included insufficient
safeguards to protect government secrets.
A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential
campaign on Tuesday said she had directed her team to give to the
Justice Department both the computer server—which had been kept at
her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.—and a
thumb drive containing copies of her emails. [At
last! An electronic copy of the emails! Bob]
… She also has said the server was wiped clean
of more than 31,000 emails that involved personal matters such as
wedding plans, vacations and yoga routines.
… A subsequent review by federal government
watchdogs found four emails out of a sample of 40 that contained
classified material, although the information hadn’t been marked
classified at the time it was sent.
One of the watchdogs—the intelligence
community’s inspector general—sent a letter to lawmakers on
Tuesday saying two of those four emails contained “top secret”
information, a higher classification than previously known.
… Secretary of State John
Kerry said in an interview with CBS on Tuesday that it was highly
likely that his emails were being intercepted and read by Russia or
China, an acknowledgment that there is an extreme level of foreign
intelligence interest in collecting communications from the U.S.
government’s top diplomat.
Not so social media?
Tinder just
lost its mind on Twitter over a Vanity Fair story
Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair.
The tech company's PR just went on a 30+ tweet
tweetstorm lambasting the magazine for a recent feature story in the
September issue of Vanity Fair.
The article, titled "Tinder
and the Dawn of the 'Dating Apocalypse,'" uses Tinder to
talk about the effects of technology and smartphone dating apps on
youth "hook-up" culture and dating.
Using a series of anecdotes of millennials at
bars, big city hangouts, and colleges, Nancy Jo Sales paints a
picture of Tinder and its competitors (Bumble, Hinge, OkCupid, etc)
as signaling a death knell for modern courtship.
…
The tweetstorm goes on for some 20-25+
more tweets. Check them all out
here.
I'm not the only one who thinks this is a bit of a
stretch. Why do politicians talk like the world is made of wishes?
Dollar
could suffer if U.S. walks away from Iran deal: John Kerry
If the United States
walks away from the nuclear deal with Iran
and demands that its allies comply with U.S. sanctions, a loss of
confidence in U.S. leadership could
threaten the dollar's position as the world's reserve currency,
the top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.
"If we turn around
and nix the deal and then tell them, 'You're going to have to obey
our rules and sanctions anyway,' that is a recipe, very quickly ...
for the American dollar to cease to be the reserve currency of the
world," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said at a Reuters
Newsmaker event.
… New York-based
Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX Strategy, BK Asset
Management, challenged Kerry's reasoning. He said the dollar’s
status could be compromised only if the United States was unable to
compete economically on a global scale.
“The reality of the
situation is that the U.S. dollar hasn’t been this strong in
decades. The thought that it could be replaced as a reserve currency
is laughable at this point on a geopolitical basis and nothing in the
Iran deal even remotely touches upon that issue,” he added.
Economists and
financial analysts have often conjectured that a competing currency
like the euro or the Chinese yuan will eventually dethrone the dollar
as global trade and financial patterns shift. But the U.S.
currency’s position has been largely immune – mostly for lack of
any good alternative.
Being a world class cheap bastard, my answer is,
“Yes.” (See next article for a hint about how I do it)
Can You Get
By Using Purely Open Source Software?
For all my students.
This Is How
You Can Get Microsoft Word for Free
For my Homeland Security, Ethical Hacking, and
other students.
American
Military University To Host National Security Virtual Career Fair
For those people interested in pursuing a career
in national security, mark your calendars for Aug. 20 as American
Military University (AMU) will be hosting a Virtual
Career Fair featuring federal and private sector employers. AMU
employee Jaymie Pompeo offers some pointers in preparation for the
Virtual Career Fair.
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