Special Report: Not so SWIFT - Bank messaging system slow to
address weak points
More than a dozen current and former board directors and
senior managers of SWIFT, the bank messaging system that helps transmit
billions of dollars around the world every day, have told Reuters the
organization for years suspected there were weaknesses in the way smaller banks
used its messaging terminals – but did not address such vulnerabilities.
The sources said that until
February, when hackers tried to steal nearly $1 billion dollars by breaking
into the messaging system at Bangladesh's central bank, SWIFT had not regarded
the security of customer terminals as a priority. Top executives either did not receive
information from member banks about specific attempts to hack the messaging
network, or failed to spot those attempts themselves, the managers said.
(Related) Want our help getting your money back? Drop the lawsuit.
BB no longer plans to sue Fed for heist
Bangladesh's central bank said it has reversed its plans
to sue the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the SWIFT money transfer
network, and instead intends to seek their help recovering $81 million stolen
by cyber thieves in February.
Which ‘society’ do we take our ‘norms’ from?
Joe Cadillic writes:
The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)
and the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is planning on
assessing students social and emotional “mindsets” like “grit,” “desire for learning,” and “school climate.”
According to the NAGB, school
kids from 4th-12th., grades will be given ‘mindset assessments.’
Unfortunately, student
assessments have been going on since 1990, students across the country at
grades 4, 8 and 12 are being given reading, mathematics,
writing, science, U.S. history, geography assessments.
Indoctrinating
students and assessing their mindset was a hallmark of Nazi Germany. Our kids are being assessed from grade school
through college. This should scare the
crap out of everyone, why is the mass media silent as our gov’t
assesses kids?
Read more on MassPrivateI.
Joe and I have had a fascinating debate about the rest of
his post. We agree in principle
that mindset assessments are just wrong for so many reasons, but we wound up in
some gentle disagreement over the legality under federal laws. I think that districts may be able to get away
with these if they obtain prior parental consent. I hope that if asked, parents do NOT consent,
but that’s another story.
As I wrote to Joe in one of our exchanges today, I am
actually all for academic assessments that can tell us whether children are
ready for the next stage of curriculum or if they need additional rehearsal or
remediation for. I don’t want children
being pushed through the system, and such assessments can be used by parents to
argue for more help and services for their child. But:
I draw the line at
social-emotional assessments, which I think schools should ONLY be doing if:
(1) they have empirically validated tools (which they generally don’t have) and
(2) parental consent in advance, and (3) adequate data security and privacy
protections (which they generally don’t have).
Go read Joe’s post and then reply either there or here to
let us know what you think of this issue.
For my Architecture students.
Future Workforce Study 2016
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 16, 2016
“Dell and Intel have teamed up to create their newest
Future Workforce Study 2016 which reveals how people around the world feel
about how technology is shaping the workplace. Collaborating with Penn Schoen Berland (PSB),
a series of online interviews were conducted across seven target industries,
with adults who work more than 35 hours a week. With advancements in smart workplace
technologies, the time is now to discover how your workforce is truly evolving
and how to be future-ready. Explore the
key takeaways and download the full global study findings…”
Bot architecture?
Push content to interested “fans?”
Sports Illustrated Olympics bots now on Facebook, Slack
Sports Illustrated launched bots on Facebook Messenger,
Telegram, and Slack today to share its coverage from the Rio 2016 Summer
Olympics.
An additional bot will launch on Skype later this week. A complete list can be found on the GameOn website.
“Every hour on the hour you are going to be pushed the top
trending Sports Illustrated (SI) Olympics article, [based on] whatever SI
is able to glean from their user data, but if there’s breaking news, immediate
coverage on that will come in between the hours,” said Alex Beckman, CEO of
sports chat company GameOn. GameOn
partnered with Sports Illustrated to create the bot.
Introducing my students to programming without teaching
them programming languages?
Build A Mobile App With No Programming Knowledge With
Codeless Apps
Plenty of people want to create their own smartphone apps,
but don’t necessarily want to learn how to code. These two positions
are not necessarily contradictory, and it’s totally possible to build a basic
mobile app by using a number of drag-and-drop tools.
… When researching
this post, I was surprised at the sheer number of companies offering codeless
app development platforms. Just to
rattle some names off the top of my head, there’s AppGyver’s Composer, Ionic Creator (which
was formerly known as Codiqa),
EachScape, and Shoutem. Each of these products have one thing in
common: they are aimed primarily at business users.
So how do we turn this into a business plan?
7 Interesting Stats on Modern Online Shopping Habits
How can you ignore a headline like this?
Video Job Interviews: Hiring for the Selfie Age
For job seekers looking to make a good first impression, a
working webcam and a tidy room might be the new firm handshake.
First-round job interviews are the latest part of the
hiring process to undergo digitization as companies use video interviews to cut
recruiting costs and times. Cigna Corp. , Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and
International Business Machines Corp. are
among the employers now asking some applicants to log on to a website and
submit video responses to interview questions in lieu of talking with a human. The method has grown in recent years as nearly everyone has access to a laptop or smartphone
with a front-facing camera, and companies say it is an efficient,
fair and inexpensive way to process hundreds of applicants.
“In five years” has always been translated as “assuming a
miracle.”
Ford to offer self-driving cars without steering wheels by
2021
This might be a good way to identify books you want to
actually read!
These Videos Will Give You the Summary of Big Business Books
in Just 4 Minutes
That Elon Musk biography and Peter Thiel's book on
startups have been on your reading list for a while. Will you ever get to them?
For all you procrastinators, or for those who need a
refresher, New York-based Board
Studios has created a series of videos that summarize business books in
four minutes. In them, an artist's hands
are seen taking notes while a narrator offers the gist of books such as Thiel's
Zero to One, Elon Musk and Holacracy.
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