You are safe to book the hotel, just don't spend
any money once you get there.
Hackers
reportedly stole credit card data from numerous Hilton hotel
properties
According to online
security analyst, Brian Krebs, hackers have "compromised"
numerous point-of-sale registers in restaurants, coffee shops, and
gift shops at Hilton hotel properties across the country in order to
steal credit card information.
In August, Visa alerted numerous financial
institutions of a breach. Five different banks determined the
commonality between the cards included in that alert was that they
were used at Hilton properties — including Embassy Suites,
Doubletree, Hampton Inn and Suites, and the upscale Waldorf Astoria
Hotels & Resorts, Krebs reports.
Hilton says it is investigating the claims.
… Krebs notes that the guest reservation
systems at the affected properties do not appear to be impacted by
the alleged breach, and says it remains unclear how the compromise
will affect Hilton. He also says the incident may be ongoing.
Of course they did. That does not mean that every
Internet user is a suspected terrorist or that any of the details
captured will ever be looked at. But, it is better to have the data
and not need it than to need the data and not have it. (And what
makes you think the NSA and GCHQ are the only ones?)
GCHQ tried
to track Web visits of “every visible user on Internet”
If you used the World Wide Web anytime after 2007,
the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
has probably spied on you. That's the revelation contained in
documents published today by The
Intercept, which detail a GCHQ operation called "Karma
Police"—a program that tracked Web browsing habits of people
around the globe in what the agency itself billed as the "world's
biggest" Internet data-mining operation, intended to eventually
track "every visible user on the Internet."
This must be limited to “official government
agencies” because no one has contacted me yet. No doubt they will
continue to subscribe to similar (non-government) services.
The U.S.
and China agree not to conduct economic espionage in cyberspace
For my Computer Security students.
Troy’s
ultimate list of security links
What if my password was “I'd like to call my
lawyer now?”
Forcing
suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says
The Fifth Amendment right against compelled
self-incrimination would be breached if two insider trading suspects
were forced to turn over the passcodes of their locked mobile phones
to the Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal judge ruled
Wednesday.
"We find, as the SEC is not seeking business
records but Defendants' personal thought processes, Defendants may
properly invoke their Fifth Amendment right," US District Judge
Mark Kearney of Pennsylvania wrote.
What if the image was from their sex education
textbook? Oh. Wait. They don't teach sex education in New Jersey
so kids have to teach themselves.
Don E. Woods reports:
Authorities charged two 11 year olds for their possession of an illegal nude photo of another juvenile, police said.
Police learned Tuesday that the two were in possession of and forwarded a nude photo of the other juvenile.
Read more on NJ.com.
Would someone PLEASE stop the madness of
criminalizing what is often normal child or pre-adolescent behavior?
Worth reading and thinking about.
Lucy Schouten reports:
Technology has made wearing a camera nearly as easy as putting on a pair of shoes, but the constant surveillance made infamous by George Orwell’s “1984” raises its own set of questions.
Body cameras offer an impression of safety in what can otherwise feel like an insecure world. One man from Florida said he started wearing a GoPro camera on his belt to get evidence his wife was abusing him, WSTP News reports. Michael Novak said he hopes video can help him in a custody battle, since courts generally believe women – and not men – are the victims of domestic violence.
Read more on CS
Monitor.
What price “free Internet?”
Critics
Still Doubt Facebook’s Free Internet Despite Changes
Mark Zuckerberg has his eye on the rest of the
world.
This week, Facebook and its conspicuous founder
rebooted
the free app that provides (some) online access from mobile phones in
19 countries across the globe, dropping its old Internet.org moniker
in the face of various complaints and rebranding it as “Free Basics
by Facebook.” On Saturday, at the United Nations in New York,
Zuckerberg will give two speeches on the importance of online
communications in the developing world. And on Sunday, back at
Facebook headquarters in Northern California, he’ll host a
town-hall-style Q&A with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. No
doubt, the Internet will be the main topic of conversation.
Perspective. Continuing the search for the
perfect music delivery service.
The financial information in Deezer's filing for a
public stock offering provides rare transparency into a standalone
music subscription service's challenges and weaknesses. While the
public has limited information about Spotify's financial performance
and detailed information about its licensing contract, it hasn't had
this kind of insight since Napster's last quarterly earnings release
back in late 2008 — and that was a different era for subscription
services.
Deezer, an on-demand subscription service
available in about 180 countries, has filed for an initial public
stock offering on the Paris stock exchange.
If I'm going to make my students write Apps (and I
am) I should give them some examples they can steal
learn from.
5 Safe and
Clean Places to Download Free Apps
Stuff to share with my students and with other
teachers.
Best of the
Web - Autumn 2015
This morning at the 21st
Century Technology and Learning Symposium in Ponoka, Alberta I
gave the latest version of my popular Best of the Web presentation.
The presentation included some old favorites mixed with some new
favorites. Some of the old favorites in the slides continue to
update which is why they continue to be in this slide deck. The
slides are embedded below.
What a silly profession.
Hack
Education Weekly News
… the Department of Education has released
a (competency-based-education) CBE
Experiment Reference Guide.
… Florida has closed its investigation into
the DDOS attack that shut down its online testing system earlier this
year. It found no motive
and no leads. More
via Education Week.
… "Introduction to Computing and
Programming" is now the
most popular course in Yale College. The materials and lectures
mostly come from Harvard’s class of the same name, just with a Yale
TA.
… Via
The Guardian: “School questioned Muslim pupil about Isis
after discussion on eco-activism.”
… Elsewhere
in the UK: “Student accused of being a terrorist for reading
book on terrorism.”
… The
Chronicle of Higher Education looks at a new feature on
Academia.edu that lets researchers post papers “in progress” and
solicit feedback from others.
… A
study to be published in CBE - Life Science Education
has found that the flipped classroom (that is, videotaped lectures as
homework and more hands-on activities in class) is beneficial for
women and students with low grades.
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