The China Post reports:
The
National Defense University (NDU) Saturday confirmed that its computer system
had been hacked in July but said that no classified information had been
stolen.
Only ordinary academic research
materials had been stolen, NDU said.
Read more on The
China Post.
[From the
article:
It added that it had already reinforced the firewall
protecting its computer system. [Funny how often improved security become obvious
after a hack. Bob]
Articles like this help Computer Security managers “sell”
their budgets.
Protenus, who
provide software to monitor,
detect, and reduce insider mis-steps such as snooping and other egregious
wrongdoing, has been writing a series of posts on the cost of a breach. In this week’s installment, they looked at the
costs of forensics and notification. Considering I’ve recently been blogging about
entities that don’t have insurance for breaches, some of the figures in their
report might help get some entities off the dime to invest more in obtaining
insurance for breaches.
Disclosure: DataBreaches.net has been
collaborating with Protenus for the past few months to provide monthly
statistics and analyses of breaches involving health data.
Like Dissent, I find this rather wishy-washy. Perhaps my students could develop an “Apology
App” that generated phrases like: “We’re so sorry we were too lazy to secure
your data.” “We apologize for failing to
encrypt anything.” “We’re sorry your
privacy meant so little to us.”
Natasha Bita reports:
Companies that lose or leak
customers’ personal data will be forced to apologise
or pay compensation for psychological harm under new laws blasted by
business groups.
The federal government plans to
introduce new privacy legislation this year, requiring banks, phone and
internet providers, retailers and government departments to tell customers when
data has been hacked or stolen.
Customers must be notified of
breaches that cause “serious harm’’ — which the draft bill defines as physical,
psychological, emotional, economic and financial harm, as well as “harm to
reputation’’.
Patients will have to be told
whenever health records are leaked, lost or stolen.
Companies risk $1.8 million fines
if they fail to tell customers about data leaks under the proposed new law. But they
can avoid prosecution if they pay compensation to customers, issue public or
personal apologies, or agree to court-enforceable undertakings.
Wait. They can get
out of any mitigation if they simply notify and apologize? Seriously?
Read more on The
Daily Telegraph.
Related: There were a
lot of responses to the proposal when it was opened up for consultation
earlier this year.
Still searching for the App that grants “world domination!”
Facebook's Latest Assault On Snapchat Is Lifestage: An App
For Teens, By A Teen
Facing increasing pressure from rival social networking
service Snapchat, Facebook has launched yet another app in order to convince
youngsters that its products are where it's at. The new app in question is Lifestage, which is
essentially a video diary where users answer biographical questions about
themselves. Rather than filling in
answers with text, users record a small video snippet that others can view on
the uploader's profile.
There's one catch though: only people under the age of 21
can use it. Once a user goes over that
age, the app loses the majority of its functionality, with users only able to
see their own profile and unable to communicate with anyone else.
Created by 19-year-old
Facebook product manager Michael
Sayman, he says that the inspiration of the app was to replicate
Facebook back when users didn't run the risk of having their posts seen by
their parents or other family members, while also making the app more relevant
to the times by making it focused on video
… To start, while
Lifestage is aimed at those aged 21 and under, the app has no means of
verifying if users are as old as they say they are. Similarly, it can't actually confirm whether
users are actually from the school they say they are from. While on the subject of schools, the app only
lets users register to one school and prevents them from changing, meaning that
users will need to get a new account if they ever transfer or when they
graduate
More a collection of policies… Perhaps it could collect other things too?
Discover the open data policies -The Open Data, for
non-lawyers
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Aug 20, 2016
Via the Sunlight Foundation and OpenGov Foundation: “Open Data Policies Decoded provides the open data
policies on one friendly website. Inline definitions, cross-references, bulk
downloads, a modern API, and all of the niceties of modern website design. It’s like
the expensive software lawyers use, but free and wonderful. This is a public beta test of Open Data
Policies Decoded, which is to say that everything is under development. Things are funny looking, broken, and
generally unreliable right now. This
site is powered by The State Decoded.”
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