Brian Krebs reports:
Last week, I learned about a
vulnerability that exposed all 866 million account credentials
harvested by pwnedlist.com,
a service designed to help companies track public password breaches that
may create security problems for their users. The vulnerability has since been fixed, but
this simple security flaw may have inadvertently exacerbated countless
breaches by preserving the data lost in them and then
providing free access to one of the Internet’s largest collections of
compromised credentials.
Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.
Is this just one judge who doesn’t get it, or are they
really going crazy in Brazil?
WhatsApp Blocked in Brazil as Judge Seeks Data
Judge Marcel Maia Montalvão ordered telecom companies
operating in Brazil to suspend WhatsApp nationwide for 72 hours. As of just after midday Monday, Brazilians
said they could not use the popular messaging service.
The shutdown is
the latest twist in a case that has embroiled WhatsApp in legal trouble. The case, which is under seal, involves an
organized crime and drug trafficking investigation in the court in Lagarto, in
the northeastern state of Sergipe. The
court has been seeking data from WhatsApp to aid in the investigation. Diego Dzodan, a Facebook executive, was
briefly taken
into custody in March for refusing to comply with orders to turn over
WhatsApp information in the case.
The judge who
ordered WhatsApp’s shutdown on Monday is the same one who ordered Mr. Dzodan’s
arrest. Mr.
Dzodan was released after one night when a higher court judge said the
arrest was “an extreme measure.”
… Concern is
growing in Brazil that its Congress may pass laws that would weaken digital
privacy. One measure calls for Internet
companies to remove content deemed critical of politicians within 48 hours,
while another calls for imprisonment for violating an Internet’s site’s terms
of use. The proposals worry many
Internet privacy advocates, including the authors of Brazil’s widely respected
Internet bill of rights or Marco Civil.
An interesting approach.
Will the victim be able to identify the culprit? At least, he may be able to correct some of
the damage caused.
Glyn Moody reports:
The Italian data protection
authority has ordered Facebook to provide an Italian user with all of their
data, including the personal information, photos, and posts of a separate fake
account set up in that person’s name by somebody else.
In addition, the US social
network must provide details of how the personal data was used, including whom
it was sent to or who might have obtained knowledge about it.
Read more on Ars
Technica.
I suspect that no one in Congress needs to go through
security at airports.
From EPIC.org:
EPIC has filed a
lawsuit challenging the Transportation Security Administration’s regulation for
airport body scanners. The TSA
announcement came nearly five years
after a federal appeals court ordered
the agency to “promptly” solicit public comments on the controversial screening
procedure. Public comments overwhelmingly favored
less invasive security screenings. But the TSA decided it may now mandate
body scanners at US airports. In 2011, EPIC challenged the
intrusive and ineffective TSA screening procedure. EPIC’s new lawsuit challenges the regulation
because it “denies passengers the right to opt out” of body scanner screening. EPIC also challenged the effectiveness of
airport body scanners and the TSA’s failure to recommend less invasive security
screening.
Unless logic has changed in the decades since I worked in the
Intelligence field, I can see no reason why “2,647” give away significantly (or
even trivially) more information than “somewhere between 1 and 5,000.”
Judge dismisses Twitter’s lawsuit against government
A federal judge dismissed Twitter’s attempt to publish the
exact number of secret orders it receives from the government to turn over its
customers' information.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in California ruled that the
information Twitter wants to publish is classified. Because of that, the judge dismissed Twitter’s
claim that the gag order violates the social media company’s First Amendment
right, which does not apply to classified information.
“Again,
Twitter has conceded that the aggregate data is classified,” the judge wrote. “In the absence of a challenge to the
decisions classifying that information, Twitter’s Constitutional challenges
simply do not allege viable claims.”
The
judge did give Twitter the option to amendment its lawsuit. If the company wants to, it can challenge the
classification of the information it wants to make public.
For my Data Analytics and Enterprise Architecture
classes.
Your Next Big Data Project? Operational Analytics
If Big Data has a killer application, it is operational
analytics.
Companies using Big Data initially focused on the customer
experience, with Capgemini/Sloan Management Review research finding that 40
percent of analytics initiatives in 2013 were aimed at the customer while 26 percent
focused on operational improvements. A
lot has changed in three years, however. In 2016, Capgemini surveyed 600 global
executives and found 70 percent now emphasize operations rather than customer
experience with their analytics projects.
That's because companies get the most bang for the buck
with operational analytics, said Steve Jones, Global VP of Big Data for
Capgemini.
… The benefits of operational analytics are far easier
to illustrate than those of customer analytics, Jones said. A Capgemini report titled Going
Big: Why Companies Need to Focus on Operational Analytics offers the
example of an Asian steel manufacturer that used operational analytics to
uncover root causes of quality issues and then attained a 50 percent reduction
in lead time for production of some of its products and a 60 percent reduction
in inventory. In another example, the
UK's Network Rail used operational analytics to make better decisions on
preventive maintenance for its rail system infrastructure, realizing cost
savings of 125 million euros (U.S. $141 million) over a five-year period.
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(Infographic)
Perspective. Now
American Express (and Visa and Master Card) have competition everywhere.
Alipay Users Can Now Use it to Hail Uber Cars World-Wide
Users of China’s most popular digital-payment service,
Alipay, can now use the mobile app to hail a car anywhere in the world where
Uber is available.
On Tuesday, Uber Technologies Inc. extended its
partnership with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s online-payment affiliate to let
the 450 million customers of Alipay use the digital-payments app to request and
pay for a ride in all 69 countries in which Uber operates.
For our programming students?
This App Teaches You Coding Basics in Minutes per Day
… If you want to pick up the basics of a programming language
on the go, SoloLearn
has awesome free mobile apps that can
help you understand several popular languages. On their Google Play or App Store pages, you’ll find apps for learning
C++, Java, Swift, JavaScript, HTML, Python, and more.
… Every lesson
gives you some information then asks you a question about it (usually multiple
choice or typing your own code to complete a block) to be sure you understand
it.
Any snippet of code you see in the apps can be run so you
see its real output, and the apps also include a code playground where you can
mess around and apply what you’ve learned to some real code.
‘cause Checkers is boring? (I am so out of touch…)
6 Coolest Games You Can 3D Print at Home
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