UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking
regional upheaval, according to U.S. intelligence officials
The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of
Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false
quotes attributed to Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, in late May
that sparked the ongoing upheaval between Qatar and its neighbors, according to
U.S. intelligence officials.
The real tragedy, they don’t even know who to sue! (Yes, Logicforce is trying to sell you
something. That does not mean they are
wrong.)
Report – 66% of US law firms reported a breach in 2016
by on
NetSecurity – “The majority of US-based law firms are not
only exposed in a wide variety of areas, but in many cases, unaware of intrusion attempts. These findings were based on Logicforce survey
data from over 200 law firms, anonymous system monitoring data and results from
their on-site assessments. The degree of
preparation and vigilance within the industry at large will continue to place
many law firms at unnecessary risk of losing valuable client data such as trade
secrets and intellectual property. Such
breakdowns in security could result in financial losses for the targeted firms
and their clients. Approximately 40% of law firms in the study underwent at least one client
data security audit, and Logicforce predicts this will rise to 60%
by the end of 2018…”
- Jordan McQuown: “CIO Law firms today face more cyber security threats than ever before and the threat landscape is evolving rapidly. If you don’t understand where you are at risk and what to do about it, it’s nearly impossible to defend your clients’ data and your firm’s reputation. I want to help you understand where you are at risk right now by sharing my list of top 10 cyber security threats. As the CIO of LOGICFORCE, I see law firms being subjected to a wide variety of cyber threats. Any one of these threats might cause irreparable damage to your law firm. Yet each one of these can also be addressed effectively with the right technologies and right approach. Here are my top 10 cyber security threats for law firms and what you can do about them.
- Lack of Pervasive Security Mindset
- Security Issues With Third Party Providers And Cloud Systems
- Ransomware
- Rogue Employees
- Hactivists
- Nation-State Espionage
- Accidental Exposure By Well-Intentioned Employees
- Technology Obsolescence
- Password Management Being Weak Or Non-Existent
- Reduced Security Standards For Remote Workers…”
Apparently, IBM thinks it’s time. i.e. They think there is a market.
IBM Z mainframe brings end-to-end encryption to all your data
Big Blue announced that its latest IBM Z mainframe
computer will be able to encrypt all of the data in an enterprise all of the
time, bringing encryption to everything from cloud services to databases. The IBM Z can run more than 12 billion
encrypted transactions per day.
This kind of encryption makes sense for security, but it
wasn’t done in the past because it is very expensive and takes a lot of
computing cycles.
… Until now,
companies have had to selectively encrypt small chunks of data at a time, which
is a time- and labor-intensive task
… Encryption is
largely absent in corporate data centers, and even in cloud data centers,
because current solutions for data encryption in the x86 environment
dramatically degrade performance and user experience and are too complex and
expensive to manage for regulatory compliance, IBM said. As a result, only about 2 percent of corporate data is encrypted today. By contrast, more than 80 percent of mobile
device data is encrypted.
The recent IBM study found that extensive use of encryption is
a top factor in reducing the cost of a data breach, resulting in a $16
reduction in cost per lost or stolen record.
If you have a legal requirement to keep records of your
communication with clients, this could be a real problem.
NYT As Elites Switch to Texting Watchdogs Fear Loss of
Transparency
by on
As Elites
Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency, Kevin Roose –
“Lawmakers, executives and other leaders are turning to encrypted chat apps to
keep their communications under wraps, causing problems in industries where
careful record-keeping is standard procedure…
Secure messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Confide are making
inroads among lawmakers, corporate executives and other prominent
communicators. Spooked by surveillance
and wary of being exposed by hackers, they are switching from phone calls and
emails to apps that allow them to send encrypted and self-destructing texts. These apps have obvious benefits, but their
use is causing problems in heavily regulated industries, where careful
record-keeping is standard procedure. “By
and large, email is still used for formal conversations, said Juleanna Glover,
a corporate consultant based in Washington. But for quick shots…texting is the medium of
choice.’”
Ignorance is no excuse, but it is common.
I’m not sure if this gets filed under the “what-the-hell” or “no-one-connected-to-the-WH-should-have-security-clearance” department, but Daniel Politi
reports:
People who spoke up about their
concerns over privacy suddenly found key private details, including their email
and sometimes even home addresses, released by none other than President Donald Trump’s administration.
The presidential commission charged with
investigating alleged fraud that has been plagued by controversy from the start
published a 112-page document of unredacted emails of public comment on
its work, which to no surprise are largely negative of the Presidential
Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. When it published the comments, the White
House didn’t remove any of the personal information, meaning many of the
comments are accompanied by personal details of the person who wrote it.
Read more on Slate.
Something for my Software Assurance and Data Management
students.
Sensor-studded Kansas City is like a giant smartphone. Now it
just needs apps
Your city is dumb. The potholed
streets, coin-operated parking meters, and drafty brick buildings many of us
interact with every day haven’t changed much in a century. But it’s finally happening. From Oslo to San
Diego, cities across the globe are installing technology
to gather data in the hopes of saving money, becoming cleaner, reducing
traffic, and improving urban life. In
Digital Trends’ Smart
Cities series, we’ll examine how smart cities deal with
everything from energy management, to disaster preparedness, to public safety,
and what it all means for you.
Maybe Watson isn’t the ultimate solution, even if it does
play a wicked game of Jeopardy.
Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check
IBM’s Watson unit is receiving heat today in the form of a scathing
equity research report from Jefferies’ James Kisner. The group believes that IBM’s investment into
Watson will struggle to return value to shareholders. In recent years, IBM has increasingly leaned
on Watson as one of its core growth units — a unit that sits as a proxy for
projecting IBM’s future value.
… If job postings
are any indication, IBM is not keeping pace with other technology companies in
hiring machine learning developers. Things
seem particularly lifeless in the field of deep learning, where IBM’s hiring
appears anemic with respect to Apple and Amazon — and let’s be real, things
would look much worse if Google, Microsoft and Facebook were added to this
table.
… It seems
perfectly reasonable that IBM shot out of the gates like a rocket in a mostly
sterile AI market selling to CTOs and newly minted chief data officers with
just enough anxiety to open check books
How many of these did not exist 30, 20, or even 10 years
ago?
50 Marketing Channels to Use to Reach Customers
There are endless marketing channels available to small
businesses. These channels range in
cost, from nothing to a lot. Small Biz
Trends takes a look at 50 of the most effective marketing channels small
businesses can use to reach customers.
For my students and fellow professors.
Thanks to Microsoft, you can now download hundreds of useful ebooks for free. No catch! And these aren’t old copyright-free classics
from way back in history — we’re talking about up-to-date copies of tech books
related to Microsoft’s most-used products.
Grab the free ebooks here.
… The only
downside is that you cannot download all of the books as a single ZIP file. As Eric points out, it’s because of
intellectual property rights. The
solution is to use a PowerShell script to grab all
available copies at once.
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