Ankit Misra posts:
In a major international
anti-cybercrime crackdown, the Agra police has recovered Rs 28 lakh from
England-based hackers, an amount they looted by phishing a footwear exporter
from the city.
Working in collaboration with the
British police, the Agra police achieved this breakthrough in a record two
days’ time.
Talking to India Today, Deepak
Kundra, owner of Foot Components, said, “My company’s email ID had been
hacked a few days ago and the hackers got my contact list from there. Our firm deals with a China-based footwear
component supplier and an order for supply of leather had been placed with the
supplier by us.”
Read more on India
Today.
North Korea or just ordinary crooks?
Luke Parker reports:
The largest bitcoin and ether
exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb,
was recently hacked. Monetary losses
from compromised accounts have started to surface, and are quickly reaching
into the billions of won.
[…]
Hackers succeeded in grabbing the
personal information of 31,800 Bithumb website users, including their names,
mobile phone numbers and email addresses. The exchange claims that this number
represents approximately three percent of customers.
The breach was discovered by
Bithumb on June 29 and reported to the authorities on June 30. More than 100 Bithumb customers have since filed
a complaint with the National Police Agency’s cybercrime report center.
Read more on Brave
New Coin.
Another consideration for Computer Security Managers.
Official: firm at center of cyberattack knew of problems
The small Ukrainian tax software company that is accused
of being the patient zero of a damaging global cyberepidemic is under
investigation and will face charges, the head of Ukraine’s CyberPolice
suggested Monday.
Col. Serhiy Demydiuk, the head of Ukraine’s national
Cyberpolice unit, said in an interview with The Associated Press that
Kiev-based M.E. Doc’s employees had blown off
repeated warnings about the security of their information technology
infrastructure.
“They knew about it,” he told the AP at his office. “They were told many times by various
anti-virus firms. ... For this neglect,
the people in this case will face criminal responsibility.”
Demydiuk and other officials say last week’s unusually
disruptive cyberattack was mainly spread through a malicious update to M.E.
Doc’s eponymous tax software program, which is widely used by accountants and
businesses across Ukraine.
The malicious update, likely planted on M.E. Doc’s update
server by a hacker, was then disseminated across the country before exploding
into an epidemic of data-scrambling software that Ukrainian and several other
multinational firms are still recovering from.
Another reason to celebrate the 4th?
China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
… On Friday, an
industry association circulated new regulations that at least two "auditors"
will, with immediate effect, be required to check all audiovisual content
posted online - from films to "micro" movies, documentaries, sports,
educational material and animation - to ensure they adhere to "core
socialist values".
Some notes on the retail ecosystem.
Alibaba: Building a retail ecosystem on data science, machine
learning, and cloud
… Amazon may be
the undisputed leader both in terms of its market share in retail and its cloud
offering, but that does not mean the competition just sits around watching. Alibaba, which some see as a Chinese counterpart
of Amazon, is inspired by Amazon's success. However, its strategy both in retail and in
cloud is diversified, with the two converging on one focal point: data science
and machine learning (ML).
Business idea: Convert client-owned CDs and DVDs to
one-off vinyl for audio geeks.
… This resurgence
in vinyl has led Sony to open a new pressing plant in a factory southwest of
Tokyo. According to Nikkei, Sony will start making vinyl records
again in March 2018, and the company has already retrofitted a recording studio
with the equipment needed to make masters.
Tools for lawyers? Or,
tools for consultants supporting law firms.
Open Sourcing ContraxSuite and Legal Tech and the Modern
Information Economy
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jul 4, 2017
News release – July 3, 2017: “Over the last decade, we’ve
spent many thousands of effort-‐hours developing the contract analytics and
document analytics tools that we use with clients. These tools, based on enterprise-‐ quality
open source frameworks for natural language processing, machine learning, and
optical character recognition, have allowed us to quickly and easily attack
many problems, from securities filings and court opinions to articles of
incorporation and lease agreements. Today, we are proud to announce that we plan
to open source the development of our core platform for contract analytics and
document analytics -‐ ContraxSuite. Starting on August 1 [2017], this code
base and our public development roadmap will be hosted on Github under a
permissive open-‐source licensing model that will allow most organizations to
quickly and freely implement and customize their own contract and document
analytics. Like Redhat does for Linux,
we will provide support, customization, and data services to “cover the last
mile” for those organizations who need it. We believe that a very important future for
law lies in its central role in facilitating and regulating the modern
information economy. But unless we start
treating law itself like the production of information, we’ll never get there. Before we can solve big problems with smart
contracts, we need to start by structuring existing legacy contracts. We hope our actions today will help lawyers,
companies, and other LegalTech providers accelerate the pace of improvement and
innovation through more open collaboration…”
I’ve tried it and it works quite well.
… Install this
handy program and it goes to work from its own tab in the Ribbon.
·
Reveal
the Dictation tab on the Ribbon. Click
on the Mic icon to start the voice to text speech recognition.
·
Quickly
shift to the language options if you want to spell out something in a different
language. Dictate supports more than 20
languages for dictation and can handle real-time translation of 60
languages.
·
Nine
specific voice commands help you create new lines, delete, add
punctuation and more to format the text.
·
Microsoft
Dictate is supported on Windows 8.1 or later, Office 2013 or later, using .NET
Framework 4.5.0 or later.
Get to know the players…
Baidu’s Apollo platform becomes the ‘Android of the
autonomous driving industry’
Baidu now claims one of the largest partner ecosystems for
an autonomous driving platform in the world: Its Apollo autonomous driving
program now counts over 50 partners, including FAW Group, one of the
major Chinese carmakers that will work with Baidu on commercialization of the
tech. Other partners include Chinese
auto companies Chery, Changan and Great Wall Motors, as well as Bosch,
Continental, Nvidia, Microsoft Cloud, Velodyne, TomTom, UCAR and Grab Taxi.
… Baidu, as an
Internet company with business similar to Google’s, seems to believe that the
data and services business resulting from use of its platform will be worth
making it more broadly available (the Android model).
Perhaps my students could use this.
Sqoop – free data journalism site makes it easier to find and
track public records
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jul 4, 2017
Data Driven Journalism: “Just because there’s a duty to disclose, doesn’t mean there’s a duty to
make it easy. This seems to
be a universally true when it comes to public records, regardless of the
country or government making them available. The consequences for journalists can be
profound: hours of time spent digging through messy data, missing stories that
go untold, and the opportunity costs that come with these, just to name a few. This is a problem we set out to improve a couple
of years ago in the US with the introduction of Sqoop, a free data journalism site
intended to make it easier for reporters to find and track public records,
starting with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Patent Office,
and the federal court system, otherwise known as PACER (public access to court
automated records). Think of it as a
search box across all of these public records sites (and we’re working to add
others) as well as a rapid alerting service. If a
journalist has saved searches for “Facebook”, “Jeffrey P. Bezos”, or “Internet
of Things”, she will receive email alerts every time these search terms show up
in new public filings. Journalists
can refine search results based on data source, form type, and geographic
factors, and then save those searches as alerts…”
A fourth of July treat, or a source of Tweets for
President Trump?
National Archives Database – Founders Online
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jul 4, 2017
Correspondence
and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States: “George
Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson,
Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 178,000
searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers
Papers projects.”
I definitely, positively need to share this with my
students!
I wish I knew what interested the Russians. I don’t plan to hold elections anytime
soon.
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