This was likely a personal email account. At least I hope a law firm would do a better
job of securing their email.
This is like the third case I can recall like this. Julia Marsh reports:
A former Lehman Brothers
executive unwittingly wired a $2 million deposit for a $20 million Manhattan
apartment to cyber criminals — and now he’s blaming his real estate attorney
and her vulnerable AOL email address for the breach.
Robert Millard, who was a
managing director at Lehman and now runs the private investment firm Realm
Partners, and his wife Bethany Millard hired Long Island lawyer Patricia Doran
to help them buy a co-op last year.
While in contract, Doran’s email
was hacked and the cyber criminals intercepted communications about the
purchase, according to the Millards’ Manhattan civil suit.
Posing as Doran the hackers sent
the Millards wire transfer instructions to a bank that purportedly belonged to
the seller. They wired $1.938 million to
the TD Bank account.
Read more on NY
Post.
If you’re buying a home or property, do NOT trust emails
purporting to be from your broker instructing you to wire money. Call them to confirm before wiring any money!
This is just sad. When you testify before Congress and clearly
have no clue how technology works, you are pretty much shooting yourself in the
foot.
Poll:
Voters trust tech companies ahead of FBI on data security
A majority of voters trust major technology companies to
protect customers’ personal information more than the federal government,
according to a poll commissioned by The App Association.
The results released Monday found that when given the choice,
54 percent of voters said they trust companies like Apple, Google and Facebook
to do a better job securing their personal information. Another 21 percent chose federal agencies like
the FBI ahead of tech companies. A large
portion did not choose either.
Would anyone notice?
Good question. Have they noticed
anything yet?
How
Facebook Could Tilt the 2016 Election
… Could this
happen? Would Facebook be able to single-handedly stop Donald Trump—or any
other presidential candidate? It’s a
question that some at Facebook appear to be asking.
At the end of every week, Zuckerberg holds an internal
question-and-answer session for employees. Usually before these sessions, the company
circulates a poll internally asking what concerns he should address. On March 4, as one of these polls circulated
among workers, many employees voted to ask
him: “What responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President
Trump in 2017?”
This survey’s existence was first reported by Gizmodo. Facebook hasn’t yet commented on
whether Mark addressed this question or what he said.
… Gizmodo hypothesizes
one way that the company could step in. By gradually wiping pro-Trump stories from its
feed, Facebook could suffocate a campaign that has run on free media attention.
“Facebook wouldn’t have to disclose it was doing this, and
would be protected by the First Amendment,” writes Michael Nunez, a Gizmodo
editor.
Good for my researching students. I wonder if they know how to use Google to
research “inside the book?”
High Court
Won’t Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books
… The last major
development came in October when a federal appeals court in New York ruled
for Google. That left the Authors
Guild with one more option: asking the nation’s highest court to review the
case. The group filed a petition to the
high court in late December.
The dispute involves the boundaries of “fair use,” the
legal doctrine that permits unauthorized copying in certain, limited
circumstances. The Second U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals concluded in October that Google’s scanning millions of
copyrighted books wasn’t infringement because what the company makes viewable
online is so limited.
It will be more complicated to fly your drone than to fly
a light plane VFR.
NASA plans
major test of drone management system
… Called UTM, for unmanned aircraft
system traffic management … allows drone operators to enter a flight plan and
request clearance for the flight. The
system checks the plan for conflicts with other planned drone flights and
accepts or rejects it. For example, a farmer could program a drone flight above her land, effectively reserving it for a certain period of time, and then carry out the flight in the knowledge that a delivery drone scheduled to arrive at the same time will automatically calculate a path to avoid a collision.
(Related) You would think there would be some
evidence. Apparently there was no
detectable damage, nor has anyone discovered “drone wreckage.” Perhaps it was a UFO?
'Drone'
hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport
Ha! My wife already
does that!
7 Ways to
Control Your Home Using Voice Commands
I still don’t get it.
What is
blockchain and how does it work?
Blockchain technology backs up Bitcoin to this day, but
there’s been a recent groundswell of interest from a variety of industries in
making distributed ledger technology work.
A blockchain is the structure of data that represents a
financial ledger entry, or a record of a transaction. Each transaction is digitally signed to ensure
its authenticity and that no one tampers with it, so the ledger itself and the
existing transactions within it are assumed to be of high integrity.
The real magic comes, however, from these digital ledger
entries being distributed among a deployment or infrastructure. These additional nodes and layers in the
infrastructure serve the purpose of providing a consensus about the state of a
transaction at any given second; they all have copies of the existing
authenticated ledger distributed amongst them.
(Related) …and why I need to get it.
Ransomware
Uses Blockchains to Transmit Decryption Keys
Might be fun and all my classes are in computer labs. I could ask questions about the assigned
reading!
Kahoot App
Brings Urgency of a Quiz Show to the Classroom
Kahoot, an online quiz system from Norway that is fast
gaining market share in schools across the United States, plays out like a
television game show spliced with a video game.
Cast in the role
of game host, teachers introduce a multiple-choice quiz — on, say, plant life
or English grammar. Using the Kahoot platform,
they project one quiz question at a time onto a whiteboard or screen at the
front of their classrooms.
Players typically
have 30 seconds to click an answer on their laptops, tablets or smartphones. They earn points for correct choices, and
extra points for clicking faster.
During the answer
period, Kahoot emits a catchy countdown tune, reminiscent of retro video games
like Monkey Island. A gong sounds when
time is up, and the classroom board immediately tallies the class’s correct and
incorrect answers. Next, a leaderboard
appears, ranking the top five students by points accrued.
For my Spreadsheet students.
4 Mistakes
You Can Avoid when Programming Excel Macros with VBA
Something to consider as we build a new student blog.
It's a new
blog!
… You can read
more about it in Creating a
blog for your non-techie significant other; the path to Ghost but as the
title suggests, the solution was ultimately to move her to Ghost. And then I got a bit jealous because her site looked so damn good! It doesn't just look good, it's all HTTPS,
loads super-fast and is a joy to work with.
… One more thing
before I get into the details; this blog is running on Ghost Pro which is their commercially
hosted version of the otherwise free Ghost blogging platform. A lot of people have suggested I should host
it myself on Azure or Digital Ocean or similar and I have absolutely zero
interest in doing that for a blog. Let
me explain.
We’re looking to use a bunch of older computers to power a
“almost-super” computer. This might be
useful.
LXLE Gives
Aging Hardware a New Lease on Life
… LXLE -- short for Lubuntu Extra
Life Extension -- taps fewer system resources than Xfce, making it just as fast
and a bit more compatible with aging hardware.
It features security fixes, updated SeaMonkey (the default
Web browser) packages and various small visual improvements. It is an
easy-to-use alternative to other Linux derivatives.
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