Again I say, the numbers never seems to go down.
Yahoo says
all three billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft
Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its
accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling
its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in
history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply increased the
legal exposure of its new owner, Verizon Communications Inc.
Not a unique idea.
Russia
Targets NATO Soldier Smartphones, Western Officials Say
… Troops, officers and government officials of
North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries said Russia has
carried out a campaign to compromise soldiers’ smartphones. The
aim, they say, is to gain operational information, gauge troop
strength and intimidate soldiers.
(Related). 18.02.2017
State-Sponsored
Hackers Took Over Israeli Soldiers’ Android Phones
New research has revealed that state-sponsored
hackers have been using malware to spy on soldiers in the Israeli
Defense Force through their smartphones.
Reports indicate that
more than 100 Israeli servicemen were first affected by this attack
this in July 2016, and that the most recent reported attacks happened
just this month. The malware, called "ViperRAT," was
specifically designed to target Android devices, with
hackers gaining access to the phone’s location, video, audio and
SMS functions.
(Related). Even earlier: 19 Nov 2014
Russian spy
threat to troops' phones and computers
Update.
Researchers
Link CCleaner Attack to State-sponsored Chinese Hackers
The
sophisticated supply chain attack that resulted in millions of users
downloading a backdoored version of the popular CCleaner
PC software utility was the work of state-sponsored Chinese hackers,
according to a new report.
… Investigation
into the attack revealed that the backdoored code was only the first
stage of the intended user compromise, and that a
second-stage payload had been delivered to a small number of
selected targets.
I wonder if the President even remembers this?
Daniel Rivero and Brendan O’Connor report:
In April, the Trump Administration launched what it called the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) hotline, with a stated mission to “provide proactive, timely, adequate, and professional services to victims of crimes committed by removable aliens.” But internal logs of calls to VOICE obtained by Splinter show that hundreds of Americans seized on the hotline to lodge secret accusations against acquaintances, neighbors, or even their own family members, often to advance petty personal grievances.
The logs—hundreds of which were available for download on the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement web site despite containing extremely sensitive personal information—call to mind the efforts of closed societies like East Germany or Cuba to cultivate vast networks of informants and an atmosphere of fear and suspicion.
Read more on Splinter
News.
Looks like Congress is starting to
hear from the voters.
'I don't
think we can pass a law that fixes stupid': Lawmakers berate Equifax
ex-CEO
Equifax
Inc.’s former chief executive trekked to Capitol Hill on
Tuesday to offer contrition and explanation for the credit reporting
company’s massive data breach. He was met with bipartisan
incredulity and calls for tougher cybersecurity laws to protect
Americans’ sensitive information.
… He blamed the breach on “human error and
technology errors.”
Equifax failed to apply a software patch for a
consumer dispute website in March, and the company’s systems did
not detect the vulnerability until July 29, Smith said.
Lawmakers were dumbfounded by the company’s
failure to patch the software and then, once the problem was
discovered, to delay notifying the public for nearly six weeks.
… Rep. Joe
Barton (R-Texas) said he thought financial penalties were needed
to force companies to take security of sensitive consumer information
more seriously.
“You’re really only required to notify people
and say, ‘So sorry, so sad,’” Barton said. “It seems to me
you might pay more attention to security if you had to pay everybody
who got hacked a couple thousand bucks or something.”
It
won’t result in a Theory of Relativity, but it is interesting.
How will AI change strategy? That’s the single
most common question the three of us are asked from corporate
executives, and it’s not trivial to answer. AI
is fundamentally a prediction technology. As advances in AI make
prediction cheaper, economic theory dictates that we’ll use
prediction more frequently and widely, and the value of complements
to prediction – like
human judgment – will rise. But what does all this mean for
strategy?
Here’s a thought experiment we’ve been using
to answer that question. Most people are familiar with shopping at
Amazon. Like with most online retailers, you visit their website,
shop for items, place them in your “basket,” pay for them, and
then Amazon ships them to you. Right now, Amazon’s business model
is shopping-then-shipping.
… At some point, as they turn the knob, the
AI’s prediction accuracy crosses a threshold, such that it becomes
in Amazon’s interest to change its business model. The prediction
becomes sufficiently accurate that it becomes more profitable for
Amazon to ship you the goods that it predicts you will want rather
than wait for you to order them. Every week, Amazon ships you boxes
of items it predicts you will want, and then you shop in the comfort
and convenience of your own home by choosing the items you wish to
keep from the boxes they delivered.
I can’t imagine anything that could possibly go
wrong. (Think of the hacks!)
Available
soon: Sex robots with artificial intelligence
Come January, lifelike sex robots will be one step
closer. That’s when a Southern California company will unveil
Harmony, an anatomically correct sex doll with a patented animatronic
talking head with programmable personality and memory.
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