Hacktivists
Leak 43GB of Data From Syrian Government
A hacktivist group calling itself the Cyber Justice Group announced on Twitter
that it has dumped 10GB of data from the Syrian government. The hackers left a message on Pastebin and dumped the
data to file sharing site Mega. The data
is compressed, and expands to a full 43GB.
The motivation for the dump is political, with the Cyber
Justice Group positioning itself as anti Assad and anti ISIS.
For my Computer Security students.
3 Steps to
Thriving in One of Cybersecurity's 1 Million Open Positions
Step One: Research the Reasons
for the Role
Typically,
a new security opening in a company means that something happened. By the time a real job is posted or a
recruiter is engaged, there has been some catalyzing event.
Step Two: Develop a
comprehensible approach
The companies
who have the most interesting jobs with the broadest scope will likely not know
very much about the details of security.
Step 3:
Start with a call and targeted questions
When
you speak with the recruiter or HR executive, ask to follow-up with someone who
works there. This gives you the chance
to refine your approach and test your assumptions.
This process is great for finding a new gig, but it can
also help you reassess the way you are doing the job you have right now. It’s important to better understand your peers
and leaders, be sensitive to the business concerns of others in your industry,
and flesh-out how you think organizations can improve.
(Related)
Recruitment
Challenges Continue to Plague Cyber Security
… Consider the
ISACA/RSA Conference report titled State of Cybersecurity 2016. 461
cyber security managers and practitioners were asked, among many other
questions: "What are the most significant skills gaps you or your
organization sees among today’s cybersecurity/information security
professionals?"
Knowing that there is a skills gap, one might expect
'security technical skills' to be the most popular response. It was not. The primary skills gap lies in the
ability of candidates to understand the business (75%). A lack of technical skills scored only 61%;
equal, in fact, to another non-technical issue – poor communication.
Worth reading.
Will New
York City’s Free Wi-Fi Help Police Watch You?
Internet access is getting faster and cheaper by the year.
Four out of five households
in developed countries now have home Internet connections. But a home connection is still out of reach of
many in the United States. People in
major American cities pay more for basic
broadband speeds than city-dwellers abroad. Fewer than half of
Americans who make less than $20,000 a year have broadband access at home, and
the number-one reason that Americans give for not having broadband at home is
that it’s too expensive.
… The kiosks are
being built by a consortium that includes Qualcomm, and an Alphabet-funded
company called Intersection. The
system’s kiosks actually broadcast two wi-fi networks: an open network that’s
just a fast, citywide version of the Internet connection at your local
Starbucks, and a “private” network that encrypts all the traffic between
devices and the Link kiosk. Both
networks require users to input an email address to connect, but for now, only new Apple devices can access the private network.
For my next Data management class.
Linking
Business Intelligence to a Knowledge-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantage in
Organizations
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Apr 11, 2016
Muganda, Nixon and Mokwena, Thato, Linking Business
Intelligence to a Knowledge-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantage in
Organizations (April 10, 2016). Available
for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2762025
“This paper looks at the use of sentiment analysis and
opinion mining in business intelligence by organisations to develop and sustain
a competitive advantage. It discusses
variables such as organisation structure, business intelligence, knowledge
management, and opinions mining as some sources of competitive advantage. There is literature available by other
researchers that agrees that each of the above variables are sources of and do
indeed provide competitive advantage. Some of this literature is reviewed below.
(Related)
FTC
Announces Significant Enhancements to IdentityTheft.gov
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Apr 11, 2016
“For the first time, identity theft victims can now go
online and get a free, personalized identity theft recovery plan as a result of
significant enhancements to the Federal Trade Commission’s IdentityTheft.gov website.
The new one-stop website is integrated
with the FTC’s consumer complaint system, allowing consumers who are victims of
identity theft to rapidly file a complaint with the FTC and then get a personalized
guide to recovery that helps streamline many of the steps involved.
IdentityTheft.gov
Homepage. The upgraded site, which is mobile and tablet accessible,
offers an array of easy-to-use tools, that enables identity theft victims to
create the documents they need to alert police, the main credit bureaus and the
IRS among others.”
(Related)
Links to
Federal Statistics
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Apr 11, 2016
“A trusted source for federal statistical information
since 1997. FedStats supports a
community of practice for over 100 agencies engaged in the production and
dissemination of official federal statistics, and provides the public with a
showcase of information, tools and news related to official federal
statistics.”
(Related) Brief, but worth reading and following up
on,
Rethinking
the Value of Customers in a Digital Economy
Customers, customer-centric marketers declare, are king. Businesses consequently ignore customer
behaviors at their own risk. But the
power and potential of network
effects suggests that seeing customers as royalty may prove
a poor idea and an even worse investment.
… The ‘Triple-S’
research framework asks executives to deconstruct network effects into three
interrelated components: Segmentation, socialization, and skill-ification
· Skill-ification is about creating new
capabilities in users and user communities. Sharing and editing imagery, for example,
represents a capability that goes beyond sharing and editing text. Skill-ification means enhancing human capital.
For all my students.
(and me)
5 Clever
Writing Tools to Proofread Important Documents
Being good at writing isn’t the job most people sign up
for, but it comes with the territory as you climb up the ladder. Eventually, you’ll need to send important
emails or submit official documents, and you need to make a good impression in
those. A spelling error or a
badly written sentence can ruin all the professionalism and effort you put into
it.
The good news is that you don’t need to be an excellent
writer, since there are enough tools to help you out. Extensions
like Grammarly Lite help ensure your grammar is in shape, and a little
searching on the web will lead you to many other such wonderful free sites.
Cool Websites and Apps presents five of the very best.
[For my
International students:
Writefull (Windows,
Mac): Analyze Text Against Google’s Language Database
Build a website.
Three Good
Places to Learn HTML & CSS Skills
Visual editors in blog and website platforms like Blogger,
WordPress, and Weebly make it easy for anyone to create a webpage in relatively
little time. The appeal of those tools
is that you don't have to learn code in order to make a blog or website. The downside to relying on visual editing
tools is that if you don't understand the code it can be hard to make
corrections when something does go wrong. Not knowing HTML and CSS also limits you in
terms of design formatting.
Over the years I've taught myself the basics of HTML and
CSS through online tutorials. A quick
Google search will lead you to plenty of online tutorials that you can use to
teach yourself or your students some useful HTML and CSS skills. The following are the resources that I
frequently recommend.
A Beginner's Guide to HTML & CSS is a nice
resource developed by Shay Howe whose resume reveals that he works on the user
interface for Groupon among other projects. Shay currently offers twelve text-based lessons for
beginners. Once you've mastered the
beginner lessons you can try your hand at the ten
advanced lessons offered on the site.
Thimble is a free Mozilla product designed to help users
learn how to write HTML and CSS. Thimble features a split screen on which
you can write code and see how it works at the same time. On the left side of the screen you write your
code and on the right side of the screen you instantly see what that code
renders. If you write the code
correctly, you will know right away. Likewise, if you don't write the code
correctly, you will know right away. Some
of the sample projects you can work with include webpages, games, and avatars
w3Schools
has long been my go-to place for quick directions when working in HTML. If I get stuck while working on a project, a
quick visit to w3Schools usually reveals the help I need to get past a
stumbling block. If you're completely
new to writing HTML start with the introductory sections of w3Schools to learn
the basics.
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