Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports:
The feds warned that “a group of
malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the
government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen
sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at
least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard.
The alert, which is also available online, shows that foreign
government hackers are still successfully hacking and stealing data from US
government’s servers, their activities going unnoticed for years.
Read more on Motherboard.
[From the article:
This group of “persistent cyber criminals” is especially
persistent. The group is none other than
the “APT6” hacking group, according to sources within the antivirus and threat
intelligence industry. There isn’t much
public literature about the group, other than a couple of old reports, but APT6, which stand for Advanced Persistent
Threat 6, is a codename given to a group believed to be working for the Chinese
government.
Nothing learned from the first one? Those who do not study history are doomed to
repeat it.
Trump's
Hotel Chain 'Faces Credit Card System Breach' – Again
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's string of
luxury hotel properties, The Trump Hotel Collection, appears to be dealing with
the second breach of its credit card systems in a year, KrebsOnSecurity reported on Monday.
According to the website, sources "noticed a pattern
of fraud on cards that were all used at multiple Trump hotel locations in the
past two to three months
MakeUseOf is normally an App promoter. When they say something is wrong, it might
pay to listen.
5 Reasons
Your Kids Shouldn’t Use After School App
… playground
gossip – moved into the 21st Century in November 2014 with the launch of the
After School app on iOS
and Android.
Ominously, the app’s tagline says it provides “Funny
anonymous school news for confessions and compliments”. That alone should be enough to set parents’
alarm bells ringing.
I agree, but we’re likely to get one anyway because that’s
what bureaucracies do.
We Don’t
Need a Whole New Regulatory Regime for Platforms Like Uber and Airbnb
… So far, the
theory behind this laissez-fair regulatory approach — which many in Silicon
Valley are happy to endorse — is that platform companies define new markets for
which regulators were not prepared, and as such can’t be regulated in the same
way as legacy companies. We believe,
however, that these businesses have not redefined industries in a fundamental
way; instead they are “old wines in new bottles.” They have more similarities than
differences with traditional businesses, and should be regulated accordingly.
Will this result in more traffic accidents as people “stream
and drive?”
Twitter Said to Win NFL Deal for
Thursday Streaming Rights
Twitter Inc., making a strategic push into online
programming, won a deal to show Thursday night National Football League games
online, a person familiar with the matter said.
The social-media company was said to be bidding against a
slate of heavyweights including Verizon Communications Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and
Amazon.com Inc.
… The NFL, aware
that a growing number of households are comfortable streaming video over the
Internet, is using the digital rights for Thursday night games to reach
so-called cord-cutters, as former cable-TV subscribers are known.
… The league is using Thursday night games, which draw smaller audiences
than the contests on Sundays and Mondays, to experiment with different kinds of
media, distribution models and technologies. By the time the NFL’s biggest broadcast
contracts expire in 2021, it will be prepared to sell a broad array of digital
rights -- and make more money.
Imagine the porn industry as a copyright test case. (Any excuse to imagine porn will do)
The Hidden
Economics of Porn
… Pinsker: A
distinguishing feature of tube sites is that a lot of their stuff is actually
taken from other places—it’s pirated content. Is that a fair generalization?
Tarrant: Yes, and it's a huge
problem within the industry because it's stolen, basically, and the tube sites
are aggregators of a bunch of different links and clips, and they are very
often pirated or stolen. So then the
folks who made the content can go after them, and they do, but you have to have
a lot of time and money and resources to stay on top of that.
Worth looking at.
Website
Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through
For years, the federal government, states and some cities
have enthusiastically made vast troves of data open to the public. Acres of paper records on demographics, public
health, traffic patterns, energy consumption, family incomes and many other topics
have been digitized and posted on the web.
This abundance of
data can be a gold mine for discovery and insights, but finding the nuggets can
be arduous, requiring special skills.
A project coming
out of the M.I.T. Media Lab on Monday seeks to ease that challenge and to make
the value of government data available to a wider audience. The project, called Data USA, bills itself as “the most comprehensive
visualization of U.S. public data.” It is free, and its software code is open
source, meaning that developers can build custom applications by
adding other data.
Dilbert on communications?
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