Thieves using a $17 power amplifier to break into cars with
remote keyless systems
Cars with keyless entry systems are capable of searching
for a wireless key fob that is within a couple feet of the vehicle, but car
thieves can use a $17 "power amplifier" to boost the key searching
capabilities, sometimes up to around 100 meters, and pull off a high-tech car
break-in.
… Mr. Danev
said that when the teenage girl turned on her device, it amplified the distance
that the car can search, which then allowed my car to talk to my key, which
happened to be sitting about 50 feet away, on the kitchen counter. And just like that, open sesame.
"It's a bit like a loudspeaker, so when you
say hello over it, people who are 100 meters away can hear the word, ‘hello,'
" Mr. Danev said. "You can buy
these devices anywhere for under $100." He said some of the lower-range devices cost
as little as $17 and can be bought online on sites like eBay, Amazon and
Craigslist.
For my students. Sounds like dossier building to me.
How LinkedIn acquisition will change the way organizations
work
… those who
closely follow their efforts say the combined entity will focus on three areas:
increasing knowledge worker productivity, improving human resource and people
management, and boosting marketing and sales performance.
… Microsoft’s
Office Graph is a backend, machine-learning system that runs as part of
Microsoft’s Office 365 suite of productivity tools, including Word, Outlook and
Excel. The Office Graph provides data
about who a user is and what he or she is doing with Office and various other
Microsoft applications, such as Yammer, its enterprise collaboration program.
Unlike LinkedIn’s social graph, the 1 billion users of
Office don’t access Office Graph directly and may not even be aware that it’s there; its function is to
operate behind the scenes to connect people, content and events
… But as Microsoft
looks to make these connections more ubiquitous and more central to how
professionals work, it requires more data than its own customer base can
provide, and gathering external data—from sources such as LinkedIn—becomes
increasingly important.
Trump the inscrutable?
Can algos trade Trump’s tweets? Absolutely. Maybe.
Donald
Trump sent the tweet heard 'round the defense industry Tuesday morning at
exactly 35 seconds after 8:52 a.m. ET, blasting Boeing and suggesting he wanted to cancel the
company's contract for the new Air Force One aircraft.
One second went by. Then two. No reaction on Wall Street.
It wasn't until a full 10 seconds later that Boeing stock began trading down on the news in
the premarket hours, a dive that would shortly send Boeing's stock price down
by as much as 1 percent in early trading, before rallying back later in the
day.
The 10-second delay, which was calculated by the analysis
firm Nanex, indicates that something rare was likely happening in global
markets Tuesday morning: Human beings were seeing — and reacting to — news
before computer trading programs could move on it.
In an era of super-fast algorithmic trading in which
delays are measured in milliseconds and less, the 10-second gap indicates that
possibly no one in global markets has yet figured out a way to incorporate
Trump's tweets into their trading algorithms. If they had, the market response would likely
have come much, much faster.
Everything changes everything?
How Blockchain Will Change Organizations
… we believe that
the technology underlying digital currencies such as bitcoin — technology
commonly known as blockchain — will have profound effects on the nature of
companies: how they are funded and managed, how they create value, and how they
perform basic functions such as marketing, accounting, and incentivizing
people. In some cases, software will
eliminate the need for many management functions.
A programming challenge?
Other than a few questions, this should be simple.
The Cynical Gambit to Make ‘Fake News’ Meaningless
Is “fake news” a reference to government propaganda
designed to look like independent journalism? Or is it any old made-up bullshit
that people share as real on the internet? Is “fake news” the appropriate label for a
hoax meant to make a larger point? Does
a falsehood only become “fake news” when it shows up on a
platform like Facebook as legitimate news? What about conspiracy theorists
who genuinely believe the outrageous lies they’re sharing? Or satire intended to entertain? And is it still “fake news” if we’re talking
about a real news organization that unintentionally gets it wrong? (Also, what constitutes a real news
organization anymore?)
I expect enrollment in our Ethical Hacking class to
explode!
Hackers wanted
As its ‘bad
guy’ stereotype wanes, hacker job postings in the enterprise jump 700% in three
years.
… Some 59 percent
of executives surveyed by Radware and Merrill Research have either hired or
would hire an ex-hacker as a way to inject cybersecurity talent into their
workforce. More than a quarter of
organizations have been using ex-hackers for more than two years, according to
the survey, including so-called white hats or ethical hackers, gray hats –
those who skirt the law or ethical standards but not for malicious purposes --
and black hats who operate with malicious intent.
… “Hackers are
exceptionally skilled in finding the little tiny things that other people
forget – those vulnerabilities you don’t know yet, things you thought you fixed
but not entirely properly,” says Alex Rice, CTO and co-founder of HackerOne, a
bug bounty platform with 70,000 hackers in its community. “Every organization out there has something
they’ve missed.” Organizations are
willing to assume the risks in exchange for access to the unique mindset and
skillset of a hacker.
I find the list of legacy technologies interesting…
Mingis on Tech: Hot tech skills for 2017
A PDF with complete survey results is available as a free
download. http://images.techhive.com/assets/media-resource/122905/forecast_1117a.pdf
Dilbert continues to suggest uses for Samsung’s phones.
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