Elizabeth Weise reports:
A phishing email attack
potentially compromised the accounts of as many as 18,000 current and former
employees of media company Gannett Co.
As of Tuesday there was no
indication of access to or acquisition of any sensitive personal data from
employees’ accounts, said the company.
Gannett Co. (GCI) is the owner of USA
TODAY, the publisher of this report, and 109 local news properties across the
United States.
The attack was discovered on
March 30 and investigated by Gannett’s cybersecurity team. It appeared to originate in emails to human
resources staff.
Read more on USA
Today.
From Gannett’s
notification letter, a copy of which was uploaded to the California
Attorney General’s site:
On Thursday, March 30, 2017, we
discovered that several members of
our HR department were victims of a phishing attack that compromised
their Office 365 account login credentials, including their Gannett email. The perpetrator used those credentials to send
further phishing emails from some of the impacted personnel’s accounts, and
also attempted to use an account for a fraudulent corporate wire transfer
request. This attempt was identified by
our finance team as suspicious and was unsuccessful.
Upon discovering this incident,
we took immediate action to lock down the impacted accounts and alert other
Gannett employees about the phishing email to prevent others from being
victimized by the phishing scheme as well. We also began an investigation to understand
the scope of the incident, confirmed that other Gannett systems were
unaffected, and contacted federal law enforcement.
At this time, there is no
indication that there was any acquisition of any sensitive personal data. Nevertheless, we are providing this notice out
of an abundance of caution because
your information was available through some of the affected HR account login
credentials, and potential access to or acquisition of that
information, before the accounts were locked down, could not be definitively
ruled out.
I guess they are frightening the terrorists away…
As challenges mount, FBI issues fewer secret subpoenas
… In the annual transparency report published Tuesday by the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI issued fewer secret
subpoenas -- so-called national security letters -- than in recent years.
In total, 12,150 letters were issued, compared to 12,870
letters during the previous year, a decrease of more than 5 percent. The number has been steadily decreasing over
the past decade, with the number of letters issued peaking at 56,507 letters in
2004.
Interesting tool for my students. (Free account, but they want a credit card
number.) However, it raises a question:
If lawyers used an AI tool to summarize Big Data and introduced that summary as
evidence, could it be tossed out because they could not explain the summary process?
Microsoft invests in Agolo, a startup that’s fighting
information overload with automated summarizations
… Founded in 2012,
Agolo in its original guise was
all about helping users curate their Twitter feed to focus on tweets and
conversations that were most relevant to their preferences. But that early beta, it seems, was more of a
proof of concept, showing how it’s possible to crunch vast swathes of
information to zoom in on the data that matters most. And so today Agolo is pitched as
the “world’s most advanced summarization software,” connecting news,
documents, data, and more to create real-time summaries more quickly.
… “Summarization
is essentially algorithmic reading and writing of content, which is as much a
pillar of artificial intelligence as it is of human intelligence,” said Sage
Wohns, CEO and cofounder of Agolo.
I really want this to be untrue.
Grounding your kids from social media doesn’t do much — and
could hurt them
It all used to be so simple: Break the rules, get grounded
and be forbidden from hanging out with your friends. These days, of course, social media makes
anywhere a teen hangout, and parents looking to ground their kids might choose
to cut off access to social media instead. But that punishment might not have its desired
effect — and could even have some harmful consequences for teenagers,
according to a new
study published Thursday.
(Related). Dilbert
illustrates this problem perfectly.
Warning! If we have
to listen to this for the next four years, we may have to listen for the next
eight years.
‘I would be your president’: Clinton blames Russia, FBI chief
for 2016 election loss
Why my students (had better) study hard.
The 25 Highest-Paying Internships Right Now
The unpaid internship, and all the coffee-making, dry
clean-fetching cliches that come with it, has fallen out of favor.
In its place, a new summer job has emerged -- one with real responsibility,
and a real paycheck.
Job reviews site Glassdoor's released the 25 best-paying internships in
the U.S. that are currently taking applications, and every opening is better
compensated than the average American job.
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