So? If HP’s software is designed correctly,
Russia will not be able to modify it or bypass it. If it is faulty,
Cyber Command is likely monitoring the faults.
Special
Report: HP Enterprise let Russia scrutinize cyberdefense system used
by Pentagon
Hewlett Packard Enterprise allowed a Russian
defense agency to review the inner workings of cyber defense software
used by the Pentagon to guard its computer networks, according to
Russian regulatory records and interviews with people with direct
knowledge of the issue.
The HPE system, called ArcSight, serves as a
cybersecurity nerve center for much of the U.S. military, alerting
analysts when it detects that computer systems may have come under
attack. ArcSight is also widely used in the private sector.
The Russian review of ArcSight’s source code,
the closely guarded internal instructions of the software, was part
of HPE’s effort to win the certification required to sell the
product to Russia’s public sector, according to the regulatory
records seen by Reuters and confirmed by a company spokeswoman.
I wonder how he protected himself?
At the
Center of the Equifax Mess: Its Top Lawyer
The board of Equifax Inc. is reviewing the actions
of the credit-reporting company’s top lawyer in connection with
share sales by executives there in the aftermath of a massive data
breach, according to a person familiar with the matter, as it tries
to size up who knew what, and when, about the hack and how it was
handled.
John J.
Kelley, Equifax’s chief legal officer, had the ultimate
responsibility for approving share sales by top executives days after
the company discovered in late July that it had been hacked,
according to people familiar with the matter. He also is central to
broader questions facing the board because he is responsible for
security at the company.
Oh gosh, now we’ll have to hack into
their files never, ever know.
Federal
Judge Rules FBI Not Required To Disclose Details On Hacked iPhone In
San Bernadino Case
In December 2015, a man in San Bernadino,
California and his wife participated in a terrorist attack that left
14 people dead. In the wake of that attack, the FBI opened an
investigation into the couple and ties to other potential terrorists
living within the US. An iPhone
5C was discovered that belonged to one of the terrorists, and the
FBI wanted Apple
to create a tool that would bypass the security on the iPhone in
question and allow law enforcement into the device to look for leads
and other evidence.
Apple refused to help the FBI develop a backdoor
into the device leading the Justice Department to file a suit against
Apple to force the company to participate in the investigation.
However, the FBI eventually backed off that request after an unnamed
third-party company came to the FBI with a tool that could bypass the
security on the iPhone. Since that company came forward, a Freedom
of Information Act suit was filed by three news organizations seeking
to force the FBI to detail the company and hacking method used to
access the iPhone in the case.
… . A Federal Judge has now ruled that the FBI
doesn't have to release any details on the company or the hack that
gave it access to the terrorists smartphone. The reasoning for the
ruling was that revealing the company name could pose risk to the
vendor who unlocked the smartphone.
The ruling stated, "It is logical and
plausible that the vendor may be less capable than the FBI of
protecting its proprietary information in the face of a cyberattack.
The FBI's conclusion that releasing the name of the vendor to the
general public could put the vendor's systems, and thereby crucial
information about the technology, at risk of incursion is a
reasonable one."
The ruling also protects the FBI from releasing
the exact price that it paid to have the device unlocked, despite the
public disclosures that claim the cost to unlock the device was
around a million dollars.
[The
ruling:
Once upon a time, this guy would have been gently
placed in a padded cell. Now we consider suicide bombers (no matter
the religious background) and act accordingly. Although in New York,
they might have simply tossed him off the train.
‘Doomsday
preacher’ on Wimbledon train causes passengers to flee
… Passengers said a man wearing a rucksack was
reciting verses from the Bible and talking about homosexuality and
sex outside of marriage being sins. He was also said to have
referred to “doomsday”. A passenger pulled the emergency alarm
and some people prised open the doors and went on to the tracks.
I have to ask: Smart Marketing or proof that the
national IQ is quickly heading south?
Selfie
Factories: The Rise of the Made-for-Instagram Museum
When the Museum of Ice Cream opened in New York in
2016, it was more a temporary curiosity than a rival to, say, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, which stood just across the street.
… One year and three cities later, the Museum
of Ice Cream has graduated to cult status on Instagram. More than
241,000 people follow its page, and countless more have posted their
own photos from within the space. (Instagram doesn’t show how many
photos have been posted at a particular geotag, but there are over
66,000 images with the #museumoficecream hashtag.) All those grams
have made the Museum of Ice Cream a coveted place to be: In New York,
the $18 tickets to visit—300,000 in total—sold within five days
of opening. At its San Francisco location, which opened this month,
single tickets went up to $38. The entire six-month run sold out in
less than 90 minutes.
Might be useful for my website students.
X-Ray
Goggles Help Students See How Webpages Are Made
Mozilla's X-ray
Goggles is a neat tool that helps students learn the code that
powers much of what they see on the Web. X-ray Goggles is a free
tool that lets you remix any page that you find on the Internet. You
can install X-ray Goggles in your Chrome or Firefox bookmarks bar.
Then you can launch it on any webpage. When you launch X-ray Goggles
you will be able to select images and text on a page and then shown
the code behind your selection. X-ray Goggles will let you then
alter the code to display new things on that page. In the video
embedded below I provide an overview of using X-ray Goggles.
I like lists like this because I sometimes find
things I didn’t know about. I found two such things on this list!
(Unfortunately, in slide show format.)
The best
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