An update. Will the penny saved by not encrypting
the data pay the millions this breach will cost?
… TalkTalk has provided some clarifications on
its official website about the hacking incident and has offered tips
to its customers. Earlier, TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding had said that
her company was under no
legal obligation to encrypt customers' sensitive data.
Now, TalkTalk is offering free
credit reporting service to all clients with coupon code
“TT231”.
… While TalkTalk said on Saturday it did not
believe the information accessed would enable hackers to steal money
from its customers, British newspapers on Sunday carried stories of
individuals who said callers posing as TalkTalk employees had taken
money from their bank accounts.
TalkTalk
could face a fine up to half billion pounds. [I
thought that sounded a bit high so I did a bit of Googleing Bob]
(Related) This is more likely.
TalkTalk
'knew of hacking risk A YEAR ago': Company could 'go out of business'
and lose £75million after millions of customers' bank details were
stolen in cyber attack
TalkTalk faces £75million in lost revenue as the
backlash from the cyber attack on the company grows.
… TalkTalk is also
facing an investigation by the Information Commissioner, who could
impose a fine of up to
£500,000 if the company is found to have breached data
protection rules.
Can this be done? Can TSA make a plan? (They're
actually being asked to plan to make a plan.)
On October 23, Papers, Please! wrote:
Acting on a petition submitted in July 2015 by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today ordered the Department of Homeland Security to, within 30 days from today, “submit to the court a schedule for the expeditious issuance of a final rule ”governing the TSA’s use of virtual strip search machines or body scanners (what the TSA calls “Advanced Imaging Technology”) “within a reasonable time”.
The court didn’t say what it would consider “expeditious” or a “reasonable” time for the TSA to finalize rules for its use of body scanners.
I think we’re waaaay past “expeditious” by
now and are more on the order of “sometime before the next
millenium, folks?” Note that this is not ordering the actual rule
be produced within 30 days – just a schedule for issuing a
rule that should have been issued years ago.
Read more on Papers,
Please!
For its part, EPIC
wrote:
The Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit today ordered TSA to comply with the ruling in EPIC v. DHS and conduct an “expeditious” rulemaking on the use of body scanners at airports. EPIC successfully sued TSA in 2011 to compel notice-and-comment rulemaking after the agency failed to solicit public comments as required by law. EPIC said the body scanner program was “unlawful, invasive, and ineffective.” The backscatter x-ray devices were subsequently removed from U.S. airports, though the millimeter devices remain. In 2015 the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a petition to compel TSA to issue a final rule as required by the EPIC v. DHS mandate. TSA now has 30 days to submit a rulemaking plan to the court.
A legitimate target – not even a “Cyber”
target. That's not new. It's the increased activity that's a real
concern.
Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively
operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global
Internet communications, raising concerns among some American
military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be
planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict.
The issue goes
beyond old worries during the Cold War that the Russians would tap
into the cables — a task American intelligence agencies also
mastered decades ago. The alarm today is deeper: The ultimate
Russian hack on the United States could involve severing the
fiber-optic cables at some of their hardest-to-access locations to
halt the instant communications on which the West’s governments,
economies and citizens have grown dependent.
(Related) Are light bulbs a national security
concern? If not that, what? Concern that China will leave us in the
dark?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/philips-says-lighting-unit-sale-hits-regulatory-hurdle-in-u-s-1445843190
Philips
Deal to Sell Lighting Unit to Chinese Group Hits U.S. Regulatory Snag
Royal Philips
NV has run into unexpected regulatory trouble in the U.S. over
the planned sale of its lighting-components and automotive-lighting
unit to a Chinese investor.
The Dutch electronics group said on Monday that
the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS, has
expressed “certain unforeseen concerns” on the planned disposal
of a 80% stake in the Philips business, called Lumileds, without
providing further detail.
Cable without the cable.
Time Warner
Cable will test internet-only TV in NYC next week
If you want cable TV without the cable box, Time
Warner Cable may have something for you soon. Reliable
sources tell Engadget that starting Monday, Time Warner Cable will
beta test a version of its TWC TV service made available for the
company's internet-only customers living in New York City. Similar
to Sky's
Now TV in the UK it will support a number of hardware platform
but the plan is to focus on streaming TV through Roku's set-top
boxes, and any participants will get a Roku
3 for free.
Still trying to understand the appeal...
Paper –
Dawn of the Selfie Era
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 25, 2015
Dawn
of the Selfie Era: The Whos, Wheres, and Hows of Selfies on
Instagram. Flávio Souza, Diego de Las Casas, Vinícius Flores,
SunBum Youn, Meeyoung Cha, Daniele Quercia, Virgílio Almeida,
October 19, 2015.
“Online interactions are increasingly involving
images, especially those containing human faces, which are naturally
attention grabbing and more effective at conveying feelings than
text. To understand this new convention of digital culture, we study
the collective behavior of sharing selfies on Instagram and present
how people appear in selfies and which patterns emerge from such
interactions. Analysis of
millions of photos shows that the amount of selfies has increased by
900 times from 2012 to 2014. Selfies are an effective
medium to grab attention; they generate on average 1.1–3.2 times
more likes and comments than other types of content on Instagram.
Compared to other content, interactions involving selfies exhibit
variations in homophily scores (in terms of age and gender) that
suggest they are becoming more widespread. Their style also varies
by cultural boundaries in that the average age and majority gender
seen in selfies differ from one country to another. We provide
explanations of such country-wise variations based on cultural and
socioeconomic contexts.”
Eating causes cancer!
Red Meats
Potentially Cause Cancer, Group Says
… The determination, published by a panel of
researchers for the International Agency for Research on Cancer in a
medical
journal Monday, classifies processed meat products like salami
and bacon carcinogenic to humans, the strongest level of risk for
cancer, and a category shared with tobacco smoke and diesel engine
exhaust.
Fresh meats like steaks and roasts are considered
probably cancer-causing, a level of risk shared with the widely used
herbicide glyphosate. [Herbicides
used on almost all plants so: Meats cause cancer, plants cause
cancer, fish cause mercury poisoning... Eat rocks? Bob]
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