Hackers are already shaping U.S. election coverage with data
leaks
… Case in point:
On Tuesday, stolen emails from former secretary of state Colin Powell became
headline news after a mysterious site with possible ties to Russian cyber spies
gave them to the press. Since then,
media outlets have been pointing out juicy details found in the emails. For example, Powell called Clinton “greedy”
and her rival Donald Trump a “national disgrace.”
(Related) Because, hey…
Email Is Forever - and It's Not Private
"Dance
like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a
deposition." - @Olivianuzzi, December 13, 2014
This “post-Sony attack” tweet
from Olivia Nuzzi of The Daily Beast should have been framed and hung
as motivational artwork on every office wall. Instead, a year and a half and numerous
publicized email hacks later, it stands to remind us that people will continue
to get caught with their pants down because they refuse to accept two simple
certainties: Email is forever; and forever is a long time to keep anything
truly secure.
Goes to both Governance and Architecture.
Supply Chain Cyber Risk: Your Digital Shadow is Getting
Longer
Many of the most
high-profile breaches have been a result of weak links in an organization’s
supply chain. The cyber attacks on
Target, Home Depot and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
are just a few examples.
In an era when organizations are sharing increasing
volumes of digital information with suppliers and providing them access to
their networks, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Sophisticated adversaries are finding
vulnerabilities wherever they can, and often that means looking to an
organization’s partners for weaknesses in defenses. Using the partner as a ‘stepping stone,’ they
gain access to their ultimate target.
Inevitable, I suppose.
Justin Huggler reports:
A woman
in Austria is suing her parents to force them to
remove childhood pictures of her from Facebook, in the first case of its
kind in the country.
The 18-year-old woman, who has
not been named under Austrian privacy laws, said the pictures were embarrassing
and a violation of her privacy.
“They knew no shame and no
limits,” she told Austria’s Heute newspaper. “They didn’t care if I was sitting on the
toilet or lying naked in the cot, every moment was photographed and made
public.”
Read more on The
Telegraph.
This is how a large portion of America uses the
Internet. What did they expect?
After Users Watch Porn, New York City Removes Web Browsing
from LinkNYC Kiosks
New York City hadn’t even finished setting up all its
kiosks by the time people started using them to watch pornography in public.
To date, the city’s Department of Information Technology
and Telecommunications (DOITT) has set up about 400 — short of the 500 it
originally wanted to have installed by the end of July, en route to an eventual fleet of 7,500. The kiosks spread free gigabit-speed WiFi,
helping to connect the unconnected.
They also have tablets that people were able to use for
various functions, including surfing the Internet. And therein lay the problem. According to the New York Post,
some people were using the feature for purposes the late U.S. Supreme Court
Justice William Brennan might have described as “appealing
to prurient interest.”
(Related) Maybe they were just looking for some privacy. (Actually, an interesting read.)
How could they pass up so much blood in the water?
Wells Fargo reportedly being investigated by federal
prosecutors
For my students, who should begin thinking like CIOs.
Bonuses, stocks, perks lift CIO compensation
… The median pay
among the 25 CIOs is $2.3 million.
Browse the highlights of CIO pay in our sortable chart. For specific details on each CIO’s pay
package, see our slideshow.
You are hereby encouraged to learn.
The Research Process – Government Sources
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Sep 14, 2016
Rob Lopresti, Western Washington University – “At Western
Washington University, librarians take turns teaching Library 201, Introduction to Research Strategies. It is a 4 credit GUR course (General
University Requirement; each student must take some GURs, but not all of them.)
We just created a free electronic textbook for the course. It is very much geared to Western’s students
and resources, but any school is welcome to borrow/build/steal the contents. I wrote Chapter 7, Government Information: http://cedar.wwu.edu/research_
For a few geeks I know.
Configure Your Raspberry Pi Installation With PiBakery
Well, I find it amusing.
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