Saturday, November 04, 2017

Strange that they could expend so much effort to “clear” their executives and so little effort to manage their security.
At the time, Equifax claimed that its executives had no idea about the massive data breach when they sold their stock. Today, the credit reporting company released further details about its internal investigation that cleared all four executives of any wrongdoing.
The report, prepared by a board-appointed special committee, concludes that “none of the four executives had knowledge of the incident when their trades were made, that preclearance for the four trades was appropriately obtained, that each of the four trades at issue comported with Company policy, and that none of the four executives engaged in insider trading.” The committee says it reviewed 55,000 documents to reach its conclusions, including emails and text messages, and conducted 62 in-person interviews.
Equifax’s internal investigation into the hack itself is still underway. “The Special Committee continues to review the cybersecurity incident, the Company’s response to it, and all relevant policies and practices,” [I wonder if that will include notifying senior management in a timely manner? Bob] the committee said in a statement.




Don’t worry, it couldn’t possibly happen here. Could it Mr President? (Why no, Bob. But it might happen in Guantanamo.)
US woman charged over tweet allegedly insulting Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean police have charged an American citizen with a new offence of plotting to overthrow a constitutionally elected government, her lawyer has said.
Martha O’Donovan had earlier been charged over a tweet that appeared to insult Robert Mugabe, weeks after the president appointed a cybersecurity minister to police social media.
O’Donovan was detained on Friday morning, a US embassy spokesman told the Associated Press. Her lawyer, Obey Shava, said she faced two charges – undermining the authority of or insulting the president and plotting to overthrow the government - of tweets that police claimed were “emanating from her IT address”
The exact words of the insult are unclear. Shava said his client had been accused of tweeting “We are being led by a selfish and sick man” from the Twitter handle @matigary.


(Related) If insults are encrypted, we can arrest or otherwise intimidate the author!
Afghanistan Orders WhatsApp Blocked
Afghan authorities have ordered internet service providers to block Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp, triggering condemnation from civil-liberties groups and protests from users on social media.
In a letter sent to service providers on Thursday, Afghanistan’s Telecommunication Regulatory Authority didn’t say why it was ordering the providers to shut WhatsApp, as well as Telegram, another encrypted messaging app, for 20 days “without delay.”




Not all free advice is bad advice. (I love the last line of this article.)
Attorney to ex-Twitter worker who deactivated Trump account: 'Get a lawyer'
A prominent attorney for cybersecurity issues has this advice to the unnamed Twitter worker said to have pulled the plug on President Trump's Twitter account: "Don't say anything and get a lawyer."
Tor Ekeland told The Hill that while the facts of the case are still unclear and the primary law used to prosecute hackers is murky and unevenly applied, there is a reasonable chance the Twitter worker violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
"You will probably see this as a law school exam question this year," said Ekeland.




Yet more and more countries (e.g. the GDPR) tries to force the world to follow their laws.
U.S. court rejects Canadian court order requiring Google to remove search results globally
After years of litigation in two countries, a federal court in the US has weighed in on a thorny question: Does Google US have to obey a Canadian court order requiring Google to take down information around the world, ignoring contrary rules in other jurisdictions? According to the Northern District of California, the answer is no.




A simple guide to propaganda?




For my Spreadsheet students.


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