Clinton Foundation Said to Be Breached by Russian Hackers
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was among
the organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers in a dragnet of the
U.S. political apparatus ahead of the November election, according to three
people familiar with the matter.
The attacks on the foundation’s network, as well as those
of the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, compound
concerns about her digital security even as the FBI continues to investigate
her use of a personal e-mail server while she was secretary of state.
Clinton Foundation officials said the organization hadn’t
been notified of the breach and declined to comment further. [The whole world knows, but they “haven’t been
notified.” Bob]
… Before the
Democratic National Committee disclosed a major computer breach last week, U.S.
officials informed both political parties and the presidential campaigns of
Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders that sophisticated hackers were
attempting to penetrate their computers, according to a person familiar with
the government investigation into the attacks.
The hackers in fact sought data from at least 4,000
individuals associated with U.S. politics -- party aides, advisers, lawyers and
foundations -- for about seven months through mid-May, according to another
person familiar with the investigations.
… The Republican
Party and the Trump campaign have been mostly silent on the computer attacks. In an earlier statement, Trump said the hack was a political ploy concocted by the Democrats.
… If the Democrats
can show the hidden hand of Russian intelligence agencies, they believe that voter outrage will probably outweigh any embarrassing
revelations, a person familiar with the party’s thinking said.
… Bloomberg News reported
Friday that the hackers who hit the DNC and Clinton’s campaign burrowed much
further into the U.S. political system than initially thought, sweeping in law
firms, lobbyists, consultants, foundations and policy groups in a campaign that
targeted thousands of Google e-mail accounts and lasted from October through
mid-May.
There’s an App for that!
This Windows App Alerts You When Your Accounts Are Hacked
Unfortunately, data breaches are increasingly common these
days, and even huge websites like LinkedIn are falling to hackers.
It’s important to know if you’ve had any of your accounts
compromised, and we can attest that some
websites that check your email address against known breaches are great tools
to stay informed.
Sites like Have I Been Pwned? are great, but if you have
to manually check it from time to time to know if you’ve been attacked, you
might miss a critical notification. The Windows 10 app
Hacked?, powered by Have I Been
Pwned? (HIBP?), will check your email address twice a day for breaches.
… If you’re not on
Windows 10 yet, you can also use the main page of HIBP to regularly check for
new breaches. Just click the Notify
me button at the top to get alerts, similar to the Modern app.
There’s nothing like a good debate to wake my students up!
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department
of Justice, and technology and internet companies have been waging a
little-known war for years over how much information companies are obligated to
hand over about customers during national security investigations — absent a
court order.
In early June, when Yahoo disclosed
three secret government requests for customer information — called national
security letters — one of those requests revealed that the FBI might have been
exceeding its authority by asking for email records, such as headers or
browsing information, in addition to basic subscriber information.
While the revelation that the FBI kept asking for those
records surprises
some academics, lawmakers, and privacy advocates – national security
attorneys and large technology companies have known about the problem for
years, and have been arguing with FBI attorneys over what’s allowed and what’s
not.
Revising the recently revised revisions to changed FAA
rules. These may be tentative.
FAA issues new commercial drone rules
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 21, 2016
“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is amending its
regulations to adopt specific rules for the operation of small Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (sUAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS) through a final rule. These changes address the classification of
sUAS, certification of sUAS remote pilots, and sUAS operational limitations. This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance
for conducting sUAS operations in the NAS in accordance with Title 14 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 107.”
So, Microsoft just won, right?
Microsoft invokes Supreme Court opinion in Ireland email case
… In a decision
Monday in a separate case on the extraterritorial application of a provision of
the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the
Supreme Court set out the ground rules for its analysis, pointing out that
“absent clearly expressed congressional intent to the contrary, federal laws
will be construed to have only domestic application.” The court was applying a canon of statutory
construction known as the presumption against extraterritoriality.
It stated that the “the question is not whether we think
‘Congress would have wanted’ a statute to apply to foreign conduct ‘if it had
thought of the situation before the court,’ but whether Congress has
affirmatively and unmistakably instructed that the statute will do so."
Something I can pull from for my next IT Governance class. I’ll change the format, I don’t PowerPoint.
Looking Forward: Corporate Governance of the Successful 21st
Century Company
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 21, 2016
da Silveira, Alexandre Di Miceli, Looking Forward:
Corporate Governance of the Successful 21st Century Company (Presentation
Slides) (June 20, 2016). Available for
download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=279828
“This is a PPT presentation that discusses what is coming
next on corporate governance (CG) and in which ways the successful business of
the 21st century will differ from its successful 20th century counterpart. The presentation is divided into five key
messages:
1) This is a moment of lower
trust in big business around the world due to successive financial crises, CG
misconducts, and politically-related corruption scandals;
2) There is an increasingly criticism on the standard narrative for CG based on shareholder value maximization;
3) One of the few consensuses in this changing world is that stakeholders have increasingly higher expectations about the role of companies in society;
4) There is a new approach for CG and the successful business of the 21st century based on: ethical culture & intrinsic values, stakeholder orientation, and conscious capitalism; and,
5) There is growing evidence that adopting this new approach to CG pays off.”
2) There is an increasingly criticism on the standard narrative for CG based on shareholder value maximization;
3) One of the few consensuses in this changing world is that stakeholders have increasingly higher expectations about the role of companies in society;
4) There is a new approach for CG and the successful business of the 21st century based on: ethical culture & intrinsic values, stakeholder orientation, and conscious capitalism; and,
5) There is growing evidence that adopting this new approach to CG pays off.”
Interesting, but we’ve been teaching these languages for
decades.
Half of the high-paying jobs in America now require this
skill
If terms like SQL, Python and JavaScript aren’t on your
radar, employers may not be interested in hiring you.
Roughly half of the jobs in the top income quartile —
defined as those paying $57,000 or more per year — are in occupations that
commonly require applicants to have at least some computer coding knowledge or
skill, according to an analysis of 26 million U.S. online job postings released
this month by job market
analytics firm Burning Glass and computer science education firm Oracle Academy in Redwood
City, Calif. In simple terms, coders
write the instructions that tell computers what to do; in-demand programming
languages include SQL, Java, JavaScript, C# and Python.
… However, there
is good news for those without coding skills: You can acquire these skills without having to study computer science
in college — sometimes for free. CodeAcademy
is one of the better programs, according
to technology magazine Wired (and its free), but there are plenty of
others, including Girl Develop It and Udacity.
We have a 3D printer and I have a key to the room it’s
locked in…
10 Educational Toys You Can 3D Print
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