Planes grounded at Stockholm airports due to communication
problem
No planes are allowed to take off from Stockholm airports
and those in the air are being called down due to a network communication
problem, the Air Traffic Authority said on Thursday.
"No planes are allowed
to take off at the moment and we're taking down the planes in the air,"
said spokesman Per Froberg. "It's a network communications problem."
He declined to give further
details.
Why do you think I’m teaching two sections of Computer
Security every quarter?
SEC says cyber security biggest risk to financial system
Cyber security is the biggest risk facing the financial system,
the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday,
in one of the frankest assessments yet of the threat to Wall Street from
digital attacks.
Banks around the world have
been rattled by a $81 million cyber theft from the Bangladesh central bank that
was funneled through SWIFT, a member-owned industry cooperative that handles
the bulk of cross-border payment instructions between banks.
The SEC, which regulates
securities markets, has found some major exchanges, dark pools and clearing
houses did not have cyber policies in place that matched the sort of risks they
faced, SEC Chair Mary Jo White told the Reuters Financial Regulation Summit in
Washington D.C.
The speed with which the industry is adopting encryption
has accelerated since the FBI started pushing for access and demanding
backdoors. Bad strategy, FBI.
New Google messaging app to offer optional end-to-end
encryption
Google on Wednesday announced that its new messaging
service, Allo, will offer end-to-end encryption.
That means that not even
Google will be able to access the content of users’ messages, a
position that echoes the robust privacy posture of Apple’s iMessage and
Facebook’s WhatsApp.
In fact, Allo will use the same encryption protocol that
WhatsApp uses — as well as the private messaging app Signal.
Looking at this as an IT manager, this is almost
impossible to believe. You would have to
make a real effort to eliminate all copies and then the original.
Looking at this as political a** covering, it was the plan
from the beginning.
CIA allegedly destroyed sole copy of Senate torture report
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on May 18, 2016
The Independent: “The CIA inspector general’s office has
said it “mistakenly” destroyed its
only copy of a comprehensive Senate torture report, despite lawyers for the
Justice Department assuring a federal judge that copies of the documents were
being preserved. The erasure of the
document by the spy agency’s internal watchdog was deemed an “inadvertent” foul-up by the inspector
general, according to Yahoo News. One intelligence community source told Yahoo News, which first reported the development, that
last summer CIA inspector general officials deleted an uploaded computer file
with the report and then accidentally destroyed a disk that also contained the
document. The 6,700-page report contains
thousands of secret files about the CIA’s use of “enhanced” interrogation
methods, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other aggressive
interrogation techniques at “black site” prisons overseas. The full version of the report remains
classified, but a 500-page executive summary was released to the public in
2014…”
Local.
Valerie Strauss reports:
Schools have become “soft
targets” for companies trying to gather data and market to children because of
the push in education to adopt new technology and in part because of the rise
of computer-administered Common Core tests, according to
a new annual report.
The report, titled “Learning to
be Watched: Surveillance Culture at School” and published Tuesday by the
National Center for Education Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the 18th
annual report about schoolhouse commercialism trends.
Read more on Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/05/17/schools-are-now-soft-targets-for-companies-to-collect-data-and-market-to-kids-report/
Think of it as a license plate reader for your face. I’m surprised that Facebook hasn’t already
released one here. (I bet the FBI
already has one that works on multiple social networks.)
Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to
public anonymity
If the founders of a new face recognition app get their
way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past. FindFace, launched two months ago and
currently taking Russia by
storm, allows users to photograph people in a crowd and work out their
identities, with 70% reliability.
It works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on
Vkontakte, a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union, with
more than 200 million accounts. In
future, the designers imagine a world where people walking past you on the
street could find your social network profile by sneaking a photograph of you,
and shops, advertisers and the police could pick your face out of crowds and
track you down via social networks.
… Unlike other face
recognition technology, their algorithm allows quick searches in big data sets.
“Three million searches in a database of
nearly 1bn photographs: that’s hundreds of trillions of comparisons, and all on
four normal servers. With this
algorithm, you can
search through a billion photographs in less than a second from a normal
computer,” said Kabakov, during an interview at the company’s modest
central Moscow office. The app will give
you the most likely match to the face that is uploaded, as well as 10 people it
thinks look similar.
Perspective. Is
this because Uber and Lyft are so good or because traditional taxis are so bad?
Uber and Lyft have built loyal following, survey finds
Americans who use ride-hailing apps believe the services
are a positive force in the economy, and they
should not be regulated like traditional taxis, according to a
survey conducted by an independent research group.
The survey, released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center,
suggests that companies operating in the sharing economy have created a loyal
following among the relatively small slice of Americans who do business with
them.
Re-architecting a legacy business model.
John Deere is plowing IoT into its farm equipment
John Deere is taking the Internet of Things out into the
field by developing new technologies and embracing existing ones to boost the
efficiency of prepping, planting, feeding and harvesting with the goal of
improving per-acre crop yields.
These technologies include IoT sensors, wireless
communications, cloud apps and even a steering-wheel replacement that guides
precision passes across arable land, says Ron Zink, director of On-Board
Applications in the company’s Intelligent Solutions Group.
… For example,
iPads are a part of John Deere’s technology arsenal. The company created an iPad app with nine
mapping layers that track what’s happening in the field. Users can set, for example, how many seeds are
planted per acre, and precisely how far apart they are planted.
One mapping layer called singulation shows a groups of up
to 10 seeds (the number distributed in 20 millisec) and shows on the iPad
exactly where they are located and whether they are spaced properly,
seed-by-seed, he says.
I see some very interesting homework in my student’s
future.
Make Stunning Video Presentations with Spark Video from Adobe
… All you have to
do import your photos, type some text, add your own voice narration and a
stunning video is ready for uploading on to YouTube or Facebook.
… Adobe has
quietly launched a new suite of web apps that, among other things, will let you
use Adobe Voice inside your desktop browser. The suite, known as Adobe Spark,
includes tools for creating video stories, magazine-style web pages and
typography posters (think of Typorama but for the web).
And the price is just right. $0.
To get started, go to spark.adobe.com and sign-in with your
Facebook or Google Account. This is
mandatory because all your work will be auto-saved under this account and will
also be accessible on your iPad and iPhone.
I’ve heard of one of those.
Want to boost your salary? Learn Scala, Golang, or Python
… PayScale used
its pay-tracking database to determine which job skills provide the largest
average boost in pay, and presented the results in its 2016 Workforce-Skills
Preparedness Report, "Leveling Up:
How to Win in the Skills Economy."
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