Trend Micro breaks down Pawn Storm tactics, methods and goals
An in depth look at the cyberespionage gang Pawn Storm by
Trend Micro reveals an incredibly complicated and capable group that has
penetrated several important political and government organization and for the
most part has done so on the back of one of the most well-worn attack
methodologies available. Phishing.
Trend Micro made its case in a 41-page report entitled Two
Years of Pawn Storm.
How does one stop security faux pas?
Robert Radick writes:
Just over a year ago, this blog took note of a governmental letter that powerfully
underscored the dangers of cyberattacks in the healthcare industry. The letter, which then-Senator Barbara Boxer had sent
to FBI Director James Comey, discussed the serious risks that hospitals and
other institutional health care providers face from cyberattacks, ransomware,
and a range of other malicious efforts to infiltrate their networks.
[…]
How is it that, according to the
FDA, Abbott’s cardiac devices are alleged to be in violation of the FDCA? Although the FDA’s warning letter is a complex
document that makes for anything but easy reading, the letter boils down to two
primary assertions – first, that Abbott allegedly underestimated the risk and
potential consequences of the premature failure of batteries that a third-party
manufacturer had supplied for the implantable cardiac devices; and second, that
based on allegedly erroneous “cybersecurity risk assessments” for cardiac
devices, Abbott had found that the device’s risk estimations were acceptable,
when, according to the FDA, an outside report had concluded that “several
risks” – including, apparently, the risk of hacking and cyberattacks on the
devices themselves – “were not adequately controlled.”
Read more on Forbes.
“Give us everything, we’ll sort it out.”
UK Government Complains After Twitter Cuts Data Access
The British government has complained to Twitter over a
block on access to data from the social network, which it was reportedly using
to track potential terror attacks, officials said Wednesday.
"The government has protested against this decision
and is in ongoing discussions with Twitter to attempt to get access to this
data," a Home Office spokesman said.
Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman declined to specify
exactly what the data was and why it was important, saying only that "we
wish to have access to this information".
But he told reporters: "The fight against terrorism
is not just one for the police and the security services. Social media and tech
companies have a role to play."
Sale of Donald Trump masks to soar! Why reference law enforcement databases? Will they ignore some illegals crossing the
border to pursue other illegals with prior convictions? Shouldn’t they just arrest them all and sort
them out later?
In what could prove to be a Frankenstein combination of
invasive technologies, the Department of Homeland Security is considering a
project to arm Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) with
drones using facial recognition scanning at the border. Specifically, the proposal states that “DHS is
interested in sUAS [small drone] sensor technology with the following
attributes …. Identification of humans via facial recognition or other
biometric at range” and describes the potential for “A USBP agent [t] deploy[]
a sUAS to make observations …. [T]he sensor technology would have facial
recognition capabilities that allow it
cross-reference any persons identified with relevant law enforcement
databases.”
Perspective.
Last year was officially the much-awaited “year of mobile”
in the advertising industry.
For the first time, mobile
advertising represented more than half of the spending that marketers
funneled into digital advertising overall in the U.S. in 2016. According to a new report conducted by PwC US
for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, mobile ad spending accounted for 51% of
the record $72.5 billion in total U.S. digital ad spending last year.
2016
Internet Advertising Revenue Full-Year Report
2016
Internet Advertising Revenue Full-Year Report (Word Document)
Something for those of us who have reached geezer-hood? Probably not.
Note that multiple accounts allows you to give up the password to one
account at the border and keep your terrorist connections private.
How to Instagram like a teen
… In a previous
life of working in digital strategy and academia, I spent a lot of time trying
to understand what young people were doing with social media, and Instagram was
(and continues to be) one of the top apps for them. I loved seeing the secret visual language
they used — the inside jokes, the fun selfies, the clothes, the emojis — and I
guess you could say that I not only picked up a few tips and tricks, but I also
went native. Believe it or not, teens
can teach us a lot about how to use Instagram.
… For adolescents,
Instagram is a way to articulate identity, and at that age, you might want to
shift from identity to identity. For
this reason, lots of teens have “fake Instagrams” or “Finstas.” Maybe one account only features (and is shared
by) you and fellow members of your basketball team. Maybe another is the one you use as your
public-facing, family-friendly account. Although
keeping multiple Instagram accounts sounds unnecessarily exhausting to most of
us, you might consider opening both a personal Instagram account and another
purely for professional purposes and personal branding. Use that one to send people to your blog or
business, for example.
(Related). Probably
all terrorists…
Instagram is growing faster than ever and now has 700 million
users
It took the company just four months to add 100 million new accounts.
For my Spreadsheet students.
Plenty geeky, but are they useful?
3D and VR plugin developer Tim Dashwood is joining Apple
and has since made all of his 3D and 360 VR plugins completely free. Compatible with Adobe Premiere,
After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Motion — the available plugins, once
worth over $1,000, can be downloaded for free from FxFactory.
… To use
Dashwood’s plugins, you’re going to have to install FxFactory —
an app store of visual and audio plugins for video software — on
your Mac. Unfortunately, it will
only work if you’re running Sierra or El Capitan. Once FxFactory is
installed, use the app’s search function to look for “Dashwood”.
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