Can a breach provide a competitive advantage? Was
Lambert linked to the hacker and not the hack? Not much to go on
here.
DOJ
investigating data breach at Uber
The Department of Justice is probing a data breach
at Uber that an internal investigation reportedly linked to an
employee at rival service Lyft,
Reuters
reported late Friday.
Uber has said that the data breach last year may
have affected tens of thousands of drivers, exposing their identities
and drivers license numbers.
Uber's internal investigation
reportedly
linked the initial data breach to a Comcast IP address belonging to
Chris Lambert, the chief technology officer at rival service Lyft. A
separate IP address reportedly executed the hack; that user remains
unidentified.
… Lambert’s attorney says the software
engineer has signed a sworn statement saying he was not involved in
the hack. He told Reuters he expected an investigation would clear
his client.
Incentive for my Computer Security students?
Cybersecurity
Market Reaches $75 Billion In 2015, Expected To Reach $170 Billion By
2020
… According to
IDC,
the hot areas for growth are security analytics / SIEM (10%); threat
intelligence (10% +); mobile security (18%); and cloud security
(50%).
… Cybersecurity insurance is one of the
fastest growing sectors in the insurance market, according to the PwC
Global State of Information Security Survey 2016. A recent PwC
report forecasts that the global cyberinsurance market will reach
$7.5
billion in annual sales by 2020, up from $2.5 billion this year.
(Related) The subtitle for my Computer Security
class is “How to Commit Computer Crime.”
How to
Think Like a Hacker and Act Like a Security Pro
A rite of passage for new parents is
child-proofing—securing the home from threats to children. Most
experts on the subject highly recommend that parents make their way
around the house on their hands and knees in order to experience the
environment from a child’s perspective. This may be the
only way to see the threats that aren’t obvious from an adult’s
point of view.
The same is true when building security into an
application. Obviously, there are lists of common vulnerabilities
and other guidance in the form of best practices to consider.
However, to really protect
software you need to consider the hacker’s point of view of the
application. You need to think like a hacker, but act
like a security pro.
Betting on litigation. A new area for my
Statistics students to ponder?
Caterpillar
ordered to pay $73.6M to tiny British firm for stealing design
A federal jury has ordered Peoria-based
Caterpillar to pay a small British firm $73.6 million for ripping off
its design for a piece of heavy-duty construction equipment.
… Miller's victory was good news for Highland
Park-based Arena Consulting, which helped bankroll the suit in return
for a cut of the jury award.
So-called litigation financing is a growing but
controversial industry. Supporters say it levels the playing field,
allowing small-time litigants to have their day in court against
wealthy defendants, but critics say giving outside investors a stake
in the outcome of a case can skew the litigants' decision making.
Interesting. So what do we do about it?
… Some scholars argue nations must take a
rigorous approach to understanding how people become radicalized —
and, just as importantly, that religion itself is not the main
motivation.
A substantial number of radical Islamic terrorists
are recent converts who know surprisingly little about Islam, Olivier
Roy, a professor at the European University Institute in Italy and
well-known analyst of Islamist terrorism, said in a recent lecture,
where he attempted to lay out “a scientific perspective on the
causes/circumstances” of people joining radical groups.
… No comprehensive data exists on the
militants who have joined the Islamic State and other organizations,
but Roy has analyzed individual stories of the path to radicalization
— saying that we must first understand radicalization before we can
hope to prevent or reverse it.
… 4. Most radicals are motivated by the
desire to be a hero, to do violence or get revenge.
Own everything from purchase to delivery?
Interesting analysis.
An In-Depth
Analysis Of Plans For An Amazon Airline
After over a month of speculation, more details
are beginning to emerge surrounding Amazon's rumored plan to launch
an in-house freight airline. The rumor
started
with someone close to the talks posting on an online forum stating
that Amazon is working to create the world's largest overnight parcel
service within 2 years. The source stated Amazon would not buy an
existing company as
it did
not want to inherit the problems so instead resorted to
launching its own operation. In this article, I go into detail about
the implications of such an operation for Amazon financially,
structurally and the risks associated with such a venture.
… Amazon has been
quietly
building up sorting centers across the country, replacing work
that was previously done by FedEx and UPS
… Some
impressive
numbers to note are
a
1% market share in U.S domestic parcel deliveries ($800
million), contract logistics ($2.5 billion), and freight forwarding
($1.7 billion)
would add $5
billion in annual revenue to Amazon.
Humor is truth.
Strategic
Humor: Cartoons from the January-February 2016 Issue
Proof that I am (almost) completely out of touch.
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