Yahoo’s new billion-account data breach could threaten $4.8
billion sale to Verizon
Yahoo on Wednesday said it had discovered a new data
breach of more than a billion accounts, dwarfing the hack it revealed three
months ago and threatening the company’s $4.8 billion sale to Verizon.
And security experts are warning of potential far-reaching
damage to Yahoo users from the just-announced breach.
The fresh disclosure gives Yahoo the unfortunate
distinction of being the victim of the two
largest hacks in history.
Where should we fit this in the spectrum of international
relations? More than a speech to the Duma,
less than an invasion of the Crimea? Should
we view it differently if Russia only hacked one party?
NBC reports U.S. Intel Directly Links President Putin to
Campaign to Disrupt U.S. Election
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Dec 14, 2016
Follow up to multiple postings included in NYT details how Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.,
today’s NBC News report – U.S. Officials: Putin Personally
Involved in U.S. Election Hack: “U.S. intelligence officials now believe
with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became
personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S.
presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Two senior officials with direct access to the
information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how
hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources
and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said…”
Are some products taxed at a different rate? Why would government want to know anything
beyond “the sales tax has been paid?”
Kieren McCarthy reports:
Online retailers in America will
soon be required by law to disclose to state governments what purchases their
customers – meaning, you – have made.
That extraordinary situation is
the result of a long-running legal case that the US Supreme Court this week
refused to hear. This means a decision by the Tenth Circuit [PDF] requiring
out-of-state retailers to report to the Colorado state government the details
of all purchases – including what that purchase was and who bought it – stands.
So if you bought a dildo in
Denver, some bureaucrat is going to be informed about it.
Read more on The
Register.
Perspective.
Financial regulators use AWS’s cloud to analyze 75 billion
trades daily
… FINRA records
every order and quote in the New York Stock Exchange daily. That’s about 75 billion individual events per
day. FINRA processes in one day the
magnitude of data that Visa and Mastercard process in six months, Randich says.
FINRA stores this information so that it can analyze trends over days, weeks and months. That amounts to trillions of records and about 20 petabytes of storage. FINRA’s IT “center of gravity” is now in Amazon Web Services, he says.
… FINRA evaluated
many providers. Legacy infrastructure vendors tried to convince him that a
database of this scale could not run in the public cloud. After an evaluation and proof of concept
process FINRA found AWS to be “several years ahead of the closest competitor,”
a gap that Randich says is increasing.
… Using the cloud
has reduced costs, allowed FINRA to get rid of
proprietary infrastructure and has allowed the organization to leverage
massive processing and storage at large scale and commodity costs, Randich
says. The system has a 400X improvement
in interactive queries compared to the previous platform, he added. “It (was like) researching something and only
being able to do a few Google searches a day, it’s impossible,” he says. “Now we can do these things in seconds and
subseconds.”
FINRA can better absorb “flash-crashes” and other extreme
market events by automatically spinning up tens of thousands of nodes
momentarily and then taking them offline, “without generally being aware of it
until after it's happened and we review the logs.”
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