Disclosure, what a concept! Does this suggest
that failure to disclose breaches was common?
Aliya Sternstein reports:
New sweeping defense contractor rules on hack notifications take effect today, adding to a flurry of Pentagon IT security policies issued in recent years.
Just this month, the Office of Management and Budget proposed guidelines to homogenize the way vendors secure data governmentwide. The Defense Department had already released three other policies that dictate how military vendors are supposed to handle sensitive IT.
Now, industry, which is already concerned about overlapping and burdensome cyber rules, worries the Pentagon will go back and retroactively change contracts, after the White House draft is finalized.
Read more on NextGov.
The joy of a large data breach.
Kevin M. McGinty of Mintz Levin writes:
Card-issuing banks are forging ahead with their lawsuit against Target arising from the 2013 holiday shopping season data breach. Their July 1 motion for class certification has just been unsealed, allowing a glimpse at plaintiffs’ version of the events during November and December 2013 that resulted in theft of payment card data for 40 million Target customers.
Read more on National
Law Review.
“Authorized” vs “Unauthorized” access. If
you are authorized to access the data, you are not in violation of
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, no matter what you do with the data
you obtain?
Orin Kerr writes:
The Ninth Circuit has handed down United States v. Christensen, a case that touches on a bunch of computer crime issues that include the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The court overturned CFAA convictions for employee misuse of a sensitive database. I think that result is correct, although I’m a bit puzzled by the way the court reached it.
The new case involves several defendants that were involved in the Pellicano Investigative Agency.
Read more on The
Volokh Conspiracy.
For my Computer Security students.
EY, LANL
make new cybersecurity tools available to private sector
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 26, 2015
News
release: “Ernst & Young LLP and Los Alamos National
Laboratory have formed a strategic alliance to deliver some of the
most advanced behavioral cybersecurity tools available to the
commercial market.
[From
the release:
The first product to be introduced through the
alliance will be PathScan®,
a network anomaly-detection tool that searches for deviations from
normal patterns of communication that might be indicative of an
intrusion.
… According to the most recent EY Global
Information Security Survey, more
than half (56%) of executives said their company would be unlikely to
detect a sophisticated cyberattack.
… For more information about EY’s strategic
alliance with Los Alamos, visit www.ey.com/losalamos
Is this because the Paparazzi are out of control?
Drones
would be prohibited over private property in California
… The drone bill, by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson
(D-Santa Barbara), would make flying a drone less-than 350 feet above
private property without consent a trespass violation.
"If you drive on someone's property with a
car, you're trespassing. If
you're looking on someone's property to break in, you're
trespassing," [Is
that correct? Bob] said Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los
Angeles), who presented the bill on the floor. "It makes no
sense that a drone should be able to look in your window and the
operator should not be guilty of the same trespass."
Would my students pay attention if my teaching
assistant was the Terminator?
Forrester
Report – Humans and Robots working side by side
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 26, 2015
InformationWeek,
Thomas Claburn: “Robots will not take all our jobs, but
that doesn’t mean their arrival will be without consequence.
Automated systems — ranging from free-roaming bots to computerized
kiosks, to pure software — will replace human labor, and it will
demand more of it. Unfortunately
for humans, research firm Forrester anticipates more jobs
being lost than being created in the next decade. In a Forrester
report published on Monday, “The
Future of Jobs, 2025: Working Side By Side With Robots,” lead
author J.P. Gownder argues that fears of robots supplanting humans in
the labor force exaggerate the impact of automation. The more
salient issue, he says, is that people will find themselves working
with automated systems more frequently. Gownder contends that
nightmare scenarios rest on flawed logic. Dystopian entertainment
about malevolent robots stokes cultural and psychological fears that
distort data with emotion, he says. The most alarming research, like
the 2013 paper from Oxford professors Carl Frey and Michael Osborne
that foresees as many as 47% of jobs being automated away, offers the
fuzziest predictions…”
(Related) Dilbert interprets this report...
Another tool users can totally rely on. Every
answer their smartphones return will be correct! Well, almost
everything...
Smartphone, smartphone in my hand
Who's the fairest in the land?
(Huh, that might make an amusing App)
Behind The
Siri Killer Facebook M, A Battle Over AI's Future
Facebook’s test
release today of a digital assistant inside its Messenger app is
a shot across the bow of the Internet’s biggest companies: Apple,
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.com. It’s also the latest salvo in a
high-stakes
battle over the ways artificial intelligence should transform the
way we live and work.
Facebook
M is intended to allow users of Facebook Messenger to pose any
query or service request in natural language and get a personalized
answer immediately. The key wrinkle that sets it apart from Apple’s
Siri, Google Now, and Microsoft Cortana is that there’s a team of
human “trainers” who will step in when the machines aren’t
quite up to the challenge.
“Ease of use” has a downside.
When a
Snuff Film Becomes Unavoidable
On Wednesday morning, two
journalists in Roanoke, Virginia, were murdered on live television by
a gunman.
… Two videos of the murders exist. The first
was broadcast live, on TV, at the time of the killing. The second
was taken by the gunman himself. He posted it to Twitter and to
Facebook after the murder.
Both social media companies quickly suspended his
accounts and removed the videos. For the 10 or 15 minutes before
that, though, the videos circulated widely on both services as users
shared them out of horror, confusion, or some other emotion.
In the past 12 months, both Twitter
and Facebook
have begun auto-playing videos when they appeared in a user’s feed.
If a video comes across your feed, or you accidentally open it in a
tab or tap a link on your phone, the video pops up and just starts
playing. You do not have the option to figure out the video’s
context, and choose whether to press play: On both Twitter and
Facebook, the footage just starts rolling.
Some people have no privacy, even off screen?
Kristin Magaldi reports:
In a recent mandate made by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) that spurned panic in the adult film industry, performer health records dating back to 2007 are to be reviewed to help diminish the spread of STDs. The subpoenas detailed that test results and information from health care facilities like Cutting Edge Testing, Talent Testing Service along with another clinic that specifically caters to adult film stars will be reviewed to ascertain past infections.
Read more on Medical
Daily.
For more background and applicability of HIPAA,
search
PHIprivacy.net for “AHF.”
Will some small country adopt strict privacy laws
hoping all the money in Swiss banks will transfer to them? It's also
possible one or more Swiss banks will buy a small country...
Press Trust of India reports:
At a time when it is under global pressure, including from India, on black money menace, the Swiss government has rejected the popular initiative to allow strict privacy in financial matters.
The decision also comes at a time when Switzerland is slowly shedding the veil of its famed banking secrecy practices amid global efforts being stepped to curb flow of illicit funds in the financial system.
Read more on Business
Standard.
Perspective. Written for libraries, but others
can learn a bit too. (Lots of interesting numbers to quote)
The
Internet of Things – 50 Billions Connected Devices and Objects by
the Year 2020
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 26, 2015
OCLC
– NextSpace 24 – Libraries and the Internet of Things: “A
world divided by the prospect of a world connected. The
simplest definition of the Internet of Things (IoT) might be:
real-world objects connected to the Internet, sending and receiving
data. But beyond that, there is little consensus on what the
specific technical infrastructures of IoT might look like; what kind
of standards would be required; who should set those standards; what
the specific business cases for various industries should be; and the
relationships between personal, private data about individuals vs.
information about their connected things. Likewise, in an informal
poll of more than 100 librarians, we found that the term “Internet
of Things” itself was less familiar than some specific examples of
the “smart” or “networked” objects that are beginning to
comprise IoT, such as smart watches, medical monitors, smart
appliances and self-driving cars…”
No one notices the running car in their garage?
Is this a lawsuit based on what some car owners think
their cars will do rather than what they actually do? Do we have a
duty to protect people who live in a world they create in their mind?
(If so, can I sell them Dragon Insurance?)
Ten
automakers are sued over keyless ignitions
Ten of the world's
biggest automakers were sued on Wednesday by consumers who claim they
concealed the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning from millions of
vehicles equipped with keyless ignitions.
The lawsuit attributed
at least 13 deaths to the problem, which it said arises when people
mistakenly leave their vehicles running after removing their key
fobs, sometimes in garages, believing
that doing so turns off the engines. [But
never checking? Bob]
… It seeks an
injunction to require the automakers to install a feature that would
automatically turn off unattended engines after a period of time. It
also seeks compensatory and punitive damages, among other remedies.
The case is Draeger et
al v. Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Central
District of California, No. 15-06491.
(Related) Not clear if different demographics use
a different combination of features. In any case, I have no doubt
manufacturers will drop anything that does not help sell cars.
Connection
Lost: Many Drivers Ignoring Technology Advancements In Today’s
‘Connected Cars’
If you've recently purchased a new vehicle, have
you've actually taken advantage of all of its provided technology
features? According to a survey conducted by J.D. Power, most don't.
Most don't even take advantage of half of them.
…
It's estimated that because of these
untouched features, consumers are wasting billions of dollars, and
likewise, car vendors are wasting billions installing them in the
first place.
Automating psychoanalysis? What if it's the
computer driving you crazy?
Computers
Can Predict Schizophrenia Based on How a Person Talks
… Most of the time, people don’t actively
track the way one thought flows into the next. But in psychiatry,
much attention is paid to such intricacies of thinking. For
instance, disorganized thought, evidenced by disjointed patterns in
speech, is considered a hallmark characteristic of schizophrenia.
Several studies of at-risk youths have found that doctors are able to
guess with impressive accuracy—the best predictive models hover
around 79 percent—whether a person will develop psychosis based on
tracking that person’s speech patterns in interviews.
A computer, it seems, can do better.
That’s according to a
study published Wednesday by researchers at Columbia University,
the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the IBM T. J. Watson
Research Center in the Nature Publishing Group journal Schizophrenia.
They used an automated speech-analysis program to correctly
differentiate—with
100-percent accuracy—between at-risk young people who
developed psychosis over a two-and-a-half year period and those who
did not.
Perhaps we could add something like this to the
University Portal to keep our students sharp?
Man
Discovers Google’s Secret Hiring Process, Lands Himself A Job
According
to a post
by Max Rosett, he was Googling for programming terms one day when
he was suddenly greeted by the screen you see above. While Rosett
was initially skeptical at first, it was later revealed that this was
apparently a secret hiring process employed by Google that was
designed to test applicants.
Rosett managed to pass
a variety of tests which safe to say he did not share the information
publicly, but according to him was pretty tricky.
… When it
was all said and done, a Google recruiter got in touch with him,
after which he managed to secure a more regular interview, and at the
end of the day he managed to nab himself a job at Google!
It's that time
of year again.
NFL without
cable: A cord cutter’s guide for the 2015/2016 season
Among all the major U.S. sports, NFL football is
arguably the easiest to watch without a pay-TV subscription.
… With the NFL season just a couple weeks
away, now’s a good time to run through all the ways that cord
cutters can watch or stream NFL games so you’ll be ready for
kickoff:
For my students
who read. (a list of sources)
Read the
World’s Best Books for Free With The Harvard Classics
I push
WolframAlpha to my Math students. Imagine my surprise to find there
are other uses!
20 Ways
Everyday Life is Easier with Wolfram Alpha
An infographic for Marketing students?
Connected
Consumers: A Day in the Life (Infographic)
… This infographic from SAP
showcases data from its Customer
Insights and Analytics in Telcoms Market Survey. Take a look for
one portrayal of how today's connected consumers interact with
brands, showing the range of experiences possible for your brand.
An infographic of each minute on the Internet.
(Makes a nice poster)
Data Never
Sleeps 3.0
My students have etiquette?
Americans’
Views on Mobile Etiquette
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 26, 2015
August 26, 2015, Americans’
Views on Mobile Etiquette ‘Always on’ mobile connectivity poses
new challenges for users about when to be present with those nearby
or engaged with others on their screens. By Lee
Rainie and Kathryn
Zickuhr
“Cellphones and smartphones have become a
mainstay in the lives of many Americans, and this has introduced
new challenges into how users and non-users alike approach basic
social norms and etiquette. People are sorting through new rules of
civility in an environment where once-private conversations can
easily be overheard in public places and where social gatherings can
be disrupted by participants focusing on digital screens instead of
their in-person companions. This Pew Research Center report explores
newly released survey findings about Americans’ views about the
appropriateness of cellphone use in public places and in social
gatherings and the way those views sometimes conflict with their own
behaviors…”
(Related) Harvard says it's important.
Research:
Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important
… “The Growing Importance of Social Skills
in the Labor Market,” shows that nearly all job growth since 1980
has been in occupations that are relatively social skill-intensive —
and it argues that high-skilled, hard-to-automate jobs will
increasingly demand social adeptness.
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