This website is not run by my Ethical Hacking
students. Someone else thought of it first. Great way to identify
potential nut cases. If ISIS hadn't made it easy to hack, DHS would
have had to create one themselves.
Stuart Ramsay reports:
Tens
of thousands of documents, containing 22,000 names, addresses,
telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State jihadis, have
been obtained by Sky News.
Nationals from at least 51 countries, including the UK, had to give up their most personal information as they joined the terror organisation.
Only when the 23-question form was filled in were they inducted into IS.
Read more on Sky
News. I cannot believe they named their source on this instead
of just describing him.
Actually, there are even more reasons. These will
do for now.
Why the NSA
is staying out of Apple's fight with the FBI
From the beginning of Apple’s fight with the
FBI, there’s been an inconvenient question: why can’t the NSA
just break into the
San Bernardino iPhone?
… But while the FBI has pulled no punches in
going after Apple, the NSA has largely stayed out of the fight. In a
judiciary committee hearing last week, FBI Director James Comey said
he had asked for a way to open the phone from "anybody who will
talk to us" but came up empty. He declined to name the NSA
specifically, but the implication was clear. The agency has now
denied the FBI even political cover, with Reuters
reporting that "several key officials" in the NSA
opposed the move against Apple.
… First, there’s good reason to think that
the NSA really could help with at least some of the phones that the
FBI is looking at. The phone in the New York unlocking case, which
has played
out in parallel to the San Bernardino trial, is still running iOS
7, making it vulnerable to a
$350 lockscreen-breaking device that’s commercially available
to law enforcement agencies. The same device could handle at least
11 of the 12 other Apple devices identified
as under FBI order. There are plenty of similar tools available,
as detailed here,
and it’s genuinely
unclear why the feds haven’t used them to unlock at least some of
the phones. All of the attacks take advantage of bugs
that were closed in more recent versions of iOS, and while we still
don’t know if there’s an outstanding bug for iOS 9 — that is, a
bug that could get into the specific San Bernardino phone at the
center of all this — the broader picture is clear. There’s
been some bug in the lockscreen protections of every previous version
of iOS. It would be foolish to think iOS 9 is the exception.
… A string of exploits isn’t as reliable as
a legally mandated backdoor, and it’s a poor substitute. It’s
the difference between climbing up your neighbor’s drainpipe and
making a copy of his keys. If the FBI really has the legal right to
compel Apple’s help — as Comey clearly believes — it would be
foolish to settle for exploits like this.
(Related) Now let's not get all fussy. I'm not
sure the slope is that slippery. (Although, hackers seem to be able
to do this now.)
Could FBI
Turn on Cameras and Microphones Next?
For my Computer Security students. New media, old
rules.
From
Understanding Social Media Risks to Preventing Them
In
a recent
column, I discussed the importance of opening your eyes to the
specific risks that the use of social media can present to your
organization. Now that you have a better understanding of these
risks, what options do you have to better protect your organization
against them?
(Related)
Anything to make everyone more aware of security risks.
New FDIC
resources target cyber threats and fraud in online and mobile banking
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Mar 9, 2016
“The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) announced
new resources today to educate bank customers about appropriate
steps they can take to help avoid fraud and other cyber threats when
banking online or on their mobile devices. The
information is being issued in advance of National Consumer
Protection Week, March 6-12. As part of an ongoing effort to
highlight safe online banking strategies, the FDIC released two new
cybersecurity brochures today aimed at consumers
and business
customers of financial institutions. The brochures include tips
to help users protect and maintain their computer systems and data.
In addition to expanded cybersecurity
information available online, the FDIC also released a special
edition of the quarterly newsletter FDIC
Consumer News featuring precautions consumers can take at
home and when banking remotely using laptops, desktops, smartphones,
and other mobile devices. While federally insured financial
institutions are required to have vigorous information security
programs to safeguard financial data, financial institution customers
and businesses also need to know how to steer clear of potential
fraudulent situations. The FDIC is using National Consumer
Protection Week as an opportunity to remind bank customers about
taking appropriate cybersecurity precautions…”
A video for the “Self-Driving” file!
Watch This
Google Self-Driving Car Very Slowly Crash Into a Bus
Sometimes a well turned phrase just sticks in your
head.
Why Hillary
Clinton is unlikely to be indicted over her private email server
… Based on
the available facts and the relevant precedents, criminal prosecution
of Clinton for mishandling classified information in her emails is
extraordinarily unlikely.
My exasperation with Clinton’s use of a private
email server while secretary of state is long-standing and unabated.
Lucky for her, political
idiocy is not criminal.
“There are plenty of unattractive facts but not
a lot of clear evidence of criminality, and we tend to forget the
distinction,” American University law professor Stephen Vladeck, an
expert on prosecutions involving classified information, told me.
“This is really just a political firestorm, not a criminal case.”
(Related) Hillary is not the only one.
WV
lawmakers suffer stomach illness after drinking raw milk to celebrate
legalizing raw milk
At the B School, they taught us that nothing lasts
forever. That's why you depreciate assets over their expected
lifetime. Failing to plan/budget for replacing assets as they become
obsolescent is poor management. A separate “update” fund is just
another chance to tie up the government in partisan bickering.
White House
Proposes $3B IT Update Fund
The Obama administration is seeking US$3.1 billion
for a modernization fund to update federal information technology
resources that need to be replaced with more efficient and productive
systems.
Initially, the fund would bolster the government's
annual spending on IT, which is set for a modest increase to $89.8
billion in the administration's proposed budget for fiscal 2017.
Tools & Techniques. Why would I want to kill
Ads you ask? (Also shows how impactive those Ad cookies can be)
Opera's
testing a browser that kills ads, accelerating webpage loading by up
to 90 percent
Opera's fired a broadside in the web content wars
Thursday morning, becoming the first desktop Web browser with
built-in ad blocking—and explicitly encouraging users to turn it on
as a way of improving their browsing experience.
Competing browsers like Chrome or Firefox assign
plugins like AdBlock Plus the task of blocking ads. But with Opera’s
37.0.2162.0 developer build for Mac OS and Windows, it's baked right
into the software. Opera claims that turning on the ad-blocking
feature can cut page load times by a whopping 90 percent, which
PCWorld confirmed using a test build.
Remember those perfect masks they wear in the
Mission Impossible movies? This is more like Halloween masks, but
the potential is there. (See the video at the end of this article)
Facebook
Acquires Face-Swapping App Masquerade: Are You Ready, Snapchat?
Facebook has purchased the face-swapping app
Masquerade, also known as MSQRD, treading further on Snapchat
territory.
Cute, but I think they are way behind the
students.
What Will
Online Education be Like in the Future?
[The Infographic:
http://www.onlineschoolscenter.com/future-of-online-schools/
Amusing.
Chrome
Music Labs open for all ages to experiment with making music
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Mar 9, 2016
“Music is for everyone. So this year for Music
In Our Schools month, we wanted to make learning music a bit more
accessible to everyone by using technology that’s open to everyone:
the web. Chrome
Music Lab is a collection of experiments that let anyone, at any
age, explore how music works. They’re collaborations between
musicians and coders, all built with the freely available Web Audio
API. These experiments are just a start. Check
out each experiment to find open-source code you can use to build
your own.”
Tools & Techniques. Writing, the 21st
Century way.
Google's
New Docs Feature Might Be The Tool Novelists Have Been Waiting For
… it seems that Google is getting in on the
novel game by introducing a tool that makes editing a 55,000 word
manuscript – the typical length of a novel – a lot less hectic.
Essentially, the outline tool uses headers to
break up a word doc and make it more navigation-friendly in the form
of a pane on one side of the page. By clicking on a header in the
pane, you can jump to that part of the text without having to spend
half the time scrolling up and down to locate it. As per Google, it
"intelligently [detect]s the logical divisions within your
work," which users can use to "edit or remove these headers
as necessary."
The tool is also available in a mobile version.
For my students.
25 Highest
Paying Jobs in America for 2016
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