Nothing new in UK Govt cyber security survey
The 2017 UK Govt produced Cyber Security Breaches Survey is out
and it says nothing new. Across 66
pages it repeats what businesses and the industry already know. Businesses are under prepared, under skilled
and prone to cyber security breaches. What is worrying is that this is a situation that is
not getting better.
… The numbers from
the report say that 46% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber
security breach or attack. The larger
the business the more attacks they reported. The number was 66% for medium-sized business
and 68% for large companies.
Might be educational.
Mike Carter reports:
In Russian cybercrime mastermind
Roman Seleznev, the Department of Justice is boasting it finally caught and
convicted a big fish in the often impenetrable world of global computer theft —
and now the agency intends to make a lesson of him.
Federal prosecutors will ask a
Seattle judge Friday to sentence the 32-year-old Seleznev to 30 years in prison
for operating a massive — maybe unprecedented — credit-card theft scheme from
behind keyboards in Vladivostok, Russia, and Bali, Indonesia. Over a decade, Seleznev stole and sold on the
black market more than 2 million credit-card numbers, resulting in losses of at
least $170 million, and maybe into the billions, according to documents filed
in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
Read more on Seattle
Times. It’s a good read with a lot of background on Seleznev.
What were they thinking?
Gareth Corfield reports:
London gun owners are asking
questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly
handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail
marketing agency for a commercial firm’s advertising campaign.
The first any of the affected
people knew about the blunder was when the leaflet (pictured below) landed on
their doormats in Tuesday’s post.
Read more on The
Register.
Should be amusing to watch.
These Popular Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says
The audio maker Bose, whose wireless headphones sell for
up to $350, uses an app to collect the listening habits of its customers and
provide that information to third parties—all without the knowledge and
permission of the users, according to a lawsuit filed in Chicago on Tuesday.
The complaint accuses Boston-based Bose of
violating the WireTap Act and a variety of state privacy laws, adding that a
person's audio history can include a window into a person's life and views.
"Indeed, one’s personal audio selections – including
music, radio broadcast, Podcast, and lecture choices – provide an incredible
amount of insight into his or her personality, behavior, political views, and
personal identity," says the complaint, noting a person's audio history
may contain files like LGBT podcasts or Muslim call-to-prayer recordings.
Are articles like this appearing around the world? Probably.
The Register's guide to protecting your data when visiting
the US
Summary: You're
(mostly) screwed without preparation
Perspective.
Just one autonomous car will use 4,000 GB of data/day
Two real-life, practical, semi-autonomous vehicle launches
next year are an indication that the self-driving car is really happening.
Audi is expected to make its up-to-35-mph hands-free driving system
available late next year in some 2018 vehicles.
And Volvo will start testing Drive Me,
an autopilot that will introduce 100 Swedish XC90 owners to autonomous driving,
according to an Automotive News supplement produced for the Los Angeles Auto
Show last month.
Two mega-strides forward. But if you’re impatient and wondering why it’s
taking so long for car makers to offer full autonomy, as in eye-free driving,
one clue is in the data. The amounts of
datasets that need to be produced and then shared in real time to make it all
work are absolutely staggering.
Vehicles will generate and consume roughly 40 terabytes of
data for every eight hours of driving, according to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, speaking
at the auto show’s technology pavilion, Automobility. [1 TB = 1000
GB so, either this paragraph or the headline is wrong. Bob]
We need an in-car App that blocks/jams phone reception
when the car is in gear.
Motor vehicle fatalities increase as drivers continue phone
use
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Apr 19, 2017
Axios: “…Zendrive studied actual device use among 3.1
million drivers over 5.6 billion miles of driving and found that in 88 percent
of trips, drivers made at least some use of their phones. On average, drivers spent 3.5 minutes per hour
on their device. Some important
context: The number of traffic deaths has been increasing since 2015
after a 40-year decline, with more than 40,000 people dying on the
roads last year for the first time in a decade. It is estimated that a 2-second distraction increases the risk of a collision by 20
times.”
Even the government is going mobile and using social
media!
GPO Launches New GPO.gov website
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Apr 19, 2017
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) launches a
newly designed, user-friendly agency website for customers, vendors, Federal
agencies, libraries and the public looking for access to Government
information, the latest GPO news, and GPO products and services. The beta site features a simple,
mobile-friendly structure that connects the user in a more streamlined digital
manner with GPO. Once out of beta, this
site will replace the current site that was launched in 2009. Try our new site: https://beta.gpo.gov/
Some of the new features include:
- mobile friendly
- improved internal site search
- improved user experience
- easy access to GPO products and services
- easy access events and training
- easy access to GPO social media platforms
- locating Federal Depository Libraries”
Perspective. (And
something my spreadsheet class could do for Denver light rail?)
New York City Rents By Subway Stop 2017
Venezuela announces it no longer needs foreign
inventors.
GM says Venezuelan car plant is seized by government
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