I
can’t recall a breach of credit card information where the victim
was certified as being in compliance with PCI-DSS.
From the NYS Attorney General’s Office,
yesterday:
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today
announced a $700,000 settlement with Hilton
Domestic Operating Company, Inc., formerly known as
Hilton Worldwide,
Inc. (“Hilton”), after data security incidents exposed over
350,000 credit card numbers in two
separate breaches in 2015. Attorney General
Schneiderman’s investigation, conducted in collaboration with the
Vermont Attorney General’s office, revealed that Hilton did
not provide consumers with timely notice and did not maintain
reasonable data security.
… On February 10, 2015, Hilton learned from a
computer services provider that a system Hilton utilized in the
United Kingdom was communicating with a suspicious computer outside
Hilton’s computer network. A forensic investigation revealed
credit-card targeting malware that potentially exposed cardholder
data between November 18 and December 5, 2014.
On July 10, 2015, Hilton learned of a second
breach through an intrusion detection system. A forensic
investigation found further malware designed to steal credit card
information. It found that payment card data was potentially exposed
from April 21, 2015 through July 27, 2015, as well as evidence of
363,952 credit card numbers aggregated for removal by the attackers.
Keep
up!
Facebook,
Google and Twitter Executives Testified on Russian Disinformation
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 31, 2017
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing entitled: “Extremist
Content and Russian Disinformation Online: Working with Tech to Find
Solutions” October 31, 2017. This
link includes video of the testimony as well as transcripts of
prepared testimony by Facebook, Twitter, Google as well as two
subject matter experts.
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The Washington Post: “Tuesday’s hearing by a Senate judiciary subcommittee comes a day after the prepared testimonies of Facebook and Twitter revealed that the reach of the Russian-connected disinformation campaign on their platforms was much larger than initially reported. As many as 126 million Facebook users may have seen content produced and circulated by Russian operatives. Twitter said it had discovered that 2,752 accounts controlled by Russians, and more than 36,000 Russian bots tweeted 1.4 million times during the election. And Google disclosed for the first time that it had found 1,108 videos with 43 hours of content related to the Russian effort on YouTube. It also found $4,700 worth of Russian search and display ads…”
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Google Blog Post – Security and disinformation in the U.S. 2016 election: “We have been conducting a thorough investigation related to the U.S. election across our products drawing on the work of our information security team, research into misinformation campaigns from our teams, and leads provided by other companies. Today, we are sharing results from that investigation. While we have found only limited activity on our services, we will continue to work to prevent all of it, because there is no amount of interference that is acceptable…”
Interesting.
I wonder what other questions trigger monthly charges?
Consumers
can now ask Amazon’s Alexa device for their credit score. But
it will cost them $25 a month.
… The
company said it hopes the skill will especially appeal to
millennials. To access a report through Alexa, the user must give
their username and password by voice command, as well as a four-digit
personal key, which only lasts five minutes. If a user starts a new
session after five minutes, they will be prompted for the personal
key again.
… The
cost of a device that supports Alexa ranges from $50 for the Amazon
Echo to $150
for an Echo Plus. And enabling many features of the Experian
service on Alexa comes with a monthly fee.
The Alexa/Experian service is only available once
consumers sign up for CreditWorks, a subscription service for credit
monitoring that Experian sells. It comes in a “standard” version
that is free, and a “premium” version that costs a steep $24.99 a
month, after an introductory month for $4.99.
Those who use the standard, free version can only
use two features: Hearing a summary of their credit and debt, and
credit alerts.
We love
you and we hate you? We hate you but we want you?
Survey
Says Tech is Embraced and Mistrusted at the Same Time
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 31, 2017
Axios:
“More than 70% of Americans believe technology has had a positive
or somewhat positive effect on society, according to an Axios/
SurveyMonkey
poll, and most Americans are optimistic about the impact of
technology on the future. But that doesn’t mean they trust tech
companies — 78% thought it was a “bad thing” that tech
companies are able to collect so much information about their users.”
A simple
question?
Da
computer biz.
Microsoft's
Office 365 subscription push pays off; what it means for biz
The
company now has about 120 million active monthly users, and those
subscriptions appear to be generating more revenue for Microsoft than
it used to get from one-time licenses. That could entice the company
to push subscriptions even harder.
… If
just 10% of the Office audience now accounts for more than 50% of the
revenue, it would seem that Microsoft has an opportunity to generate
enormous amounts of revenue, assuming it eventually offers only
subscriptions and can turn every user into a subscriber. Analysts
believe the first is inevitable. The second? Not so much.
Could
this replace PowerPoint?
Sutori
Updates Allow for Additional Embedding
Sutori
is a great tool that allows you to create
multimedia timelines. The product was just updated to include
some features that make it better than ever.
Users
are now able to embed nearly anything into a Sutori including
Flipgrids, Padlets, Quizlets, Thinglinks, Instagrams, Buncees,
History Channel videos, Prezi, and Tweets, as well as Google Docs,
Forms, Slides, Presentations, and Maps. More option will be added in
the near future.
The
other update is single sign-on for teachers and students using
Microsoft Office 365.
Check
out this video to learn more about Sutori.
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