Here we go again.
Cyber
attack using malware 'BadRabbit' hit Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria,
Turkey and Japan
Cyber
attacks using malware called “BadRabbit” hit Russia
and other nations on Tuesday, affecting Russian Interfax
news agency and causing flight delays at Ukraine’s Odessa airport.
… The attacks are disturbing because attackers
quickly infected critical infrastructure, including transportation
operators, indicating it was a “well-coordinated” campaign, said
Robert Lipovsky, a researcher with cyber firm ESET.
More than half the victims were in Russia,
followed by Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey and Japan, according to ESET.
The FBI’s 2 page
Ransomware Brochure:
https://www.ic3.gov/media/Ransomware_Trifold_e-version.pdf
(Related)
Bad Rabbit
Ransomware Sweeps Across Europe And Russia Infecting Media Outlets,
Airports
… Kaspersky's Alex Perekalin writes,
"According to our findings, the attack doesn’t use exploits.
It is a drive-by attack: Victims download a fake Adobe Flash
installer from infected websites and manually launch the .exe file,
thus infecting themselves.
Protecting corporate secrets: perhaps you should
not tell the CEO what R&D is working on?
Thirty
Percent of CEO Email Accounts Exposed in Breaches: Study
Thirty
percent of CEOs from the world's largest organizations have had their
company email address and password stolen from a breached service.
Given the continuing tendency for users to employ
simple passwords and reuse the same passwords across multiple
accounts, the implication is that at least some of these CEOs are at
risk of losing their email accounts to cyber criminals or foreign
nation state hacking groups.
The
statistic comes from a report (PDF)
published today by F-Secure, whose researchers checked the email
addresses of 200 CEOs from the world's largest organizations against
a database of leaked credentials. It notes that the
30% figure increases to 63% for tech companies.
Didn’t we recently have another breach on
lawyers in a tax haven? You don’t suppose the IRS has a team of
hackers, do you? We’ll know if they offer an ‘amnesty.’
Ryan Wilkinson reports:
A leading offshore law firm with clients including the super-rich and international corporations has revealed it suffered a “data security incident” that may result in customers’ private information being leaked.
Bermuda-based Appleby, which has offices in a number of British overseas territories, said some of its data had been “compromised” in the 2016 cyber incident.
The firm issued a statement after it was contacted by a group of investigative journalists probing allegations concerning its “business and the business conducted by some of our clients”.
Read more on The
Independent.
Attention Ethical Hackers! (The unethical already
know) What will this do to home insurance rates? Note that the
customer does not grant permission and only gets notified after the
delivery.
Amazon Key
is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
Prime customers can get
same-day delivery, and drop off with an hour or two on some items.
Of course, customers aren’t always home to receive their packages.
So Amazon started putting lockers
in nearby convenience stores and building lobbies. It even showed
off drones that could drop the package right into your backyard.
Today it’s taking the obvious next step and introducing a service
that will allow Amazon couriers to open your front door and put your
package safely inside your home.
The service is called Amazon
Key, and it relies on a Amazon’s new Cloud
Cam and compatible smart lock. The camera is the hub, connected
to the internet via your home Wi-Fi. The camera talks to the lock
over Zigbee, a wireless protocol utilized by many smart home devices.
When a courier arrives with a
package for in-home delivery, they scan the barcode, sending a
request to Amazon’s cloud. If everything checks out, the
cloud grants permission by sending a message back to the
camera, which starts recording. The courier then gets a prompt on
their app, swipes the screen, and voilà, your door unlocks.
They drop off the package, relock the door with another swipe, and
are on their way. The customer will get a notification that their
delivery has arrived, along with a short video showing the drop-off
to confirm everything was done properly.
Don’t irritate the FBI? A long but interesting
story of a bit of back and forth.
DOJ
Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley
Emoji Tweet
(Related) The story from Dissent’s perspective.
How do we tell if this is a good thing or merely a
“Here kid, now go away and stop bothering me” thing?
New
Research Finds Major Spike in Mobile Media Use and Device Ownership
by Children Age 0 to 8
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 24, 2017
I will being this post by saying, What!, and move
quickly to the report: “Common Sense today announced the release of
The
Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Age Zero to Eight, the
third installment in an ongoing series of national surveys tracking
the use of media and technology among U.S. children from birth to age
8. Among the key findings is the spike in the number of young
children who have their own tablet device (now 42 percent,
up from 1 percent in 2011) and the amount of time children age 0 to 8
are spending with mobile devices (48 minutes, up from just five
minutes in 2011). The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Age
Zero to Eight is based on a large, nationally representative sample
of respondents and replicates methods from 2011 and 2013 to gauge how
media environments and behaviors have changed over the years. At a
time of revolutionary change in the media landscape, the study is the
only one of its kind, tracking young children’s use of new mobile
media devices and apps along with older media platforms such as
television, computers, and books.
(Related). A law for people who act like
children?
Looking at
your phone while crossing the street could now cost you up to $99 in
Honolulu
… Specifically, the bill (viewable
here) states that “No pedestrian shall cross a street or
highway while viewing a mobile electronic device.” They note that
“viewing” here means “looking in the direction of the screen”
— so walking with your phone up to your ear still seems to be okay.
Now that is an interesting question!
How Do You
Regulate a Self-Improving Algorithm?
Consider this as a list of “What could go
wrong!”
Information
Technology Industry Council – principles for developing ethical
artificial intelligence systems
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 24, 2017
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a suite of
technologies capable of learning, reasoning, adapting, and performing
tasks in ways inspired by the human mind. With access to data and
the computational power and human ingenuity required to extract
increasing value from it, researchers are building intelligent
software and machines to enhance human productivity and empower
people everywhere. Startups, medium-sized companies, and larger
technology companies have all developed AI systems to help solve some
of society’s most pressing problems, from medical diagnosis to
education to economic productivity and empowerment. While it is
impossible to predict the full transformational nature of AI, like
technological evolutions before it, we expect the potential
implications to be vast. To ensure that AI can deliver its greatest
positive potential, the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
— the global voice of the tech sector — takes industry’s
responsibility seriously to be a catalyst for preparing for an AI
world. In
our Policy Principles, we outline specific areas where industry,
governments, and others can collaborate, as well as specific
opportunities for public-private partnership…”
Not earth shattering, but probably accurate.
We’re seeing three
trends emerging around AI in legal tech.
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Law firms are investing in AI directly: Some law firms are bypassing the third-party vendor and partnering directly with providers like IBM Watson and Ross Intelligence. Law firms are also hiring their own data scientists to build their own analytics around areas such as billing and contracts.
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Legal tech startups are emerging: A plethora of legal tech startups have come to the fore in recent years, leveraging AI tools to perform specific tasks such as research, prediction, document review and eDiscovery. Companies such as these have identified core tasks that law firms of all types and sizes can leverage.
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Large, traditional publishers are investing in AI: We are seeing traditional publishers make significant moves to invest in AI, from Thomson Reuters’s agreement with IBM Watson, to Bloomberg BNA’s development of its own litigation analytics, to our own partnerships with several legal tech startups at Wolters Kluwer.
We don’t want anyone to know these ads are
political. In fact, we don’t want them to know they are ads!
… “The idea that we’re going to allow
regulators, a group of bureaucrats, to determine what we will be able
to see in terms of social media or other formats offends me, and I
will certainly oppose that in whatever way I can,” he said. [How
dare Congress make laws? Bob]
(Related). Why President Trump’s Tweets define
the debate?
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