Just in case you thought this had been resolved….
Would a non-cyber (old timey) bank robbery be likely to create an
international incident?
Philippine
Bank Accuses Bangladesh of Heist 'Cover-Up'
A
Philippine bank on Tuesday accused Bangladesh's central bank of a
"massive cover-up" over an $81-million
cyber-heist last year, as it rejected allegations it was mostly
to blame.
Unidentified
hackers shifted $81 million in February last year from the Bangladesh
central bank's account with the US Federal Reserve in New York to a
Manila branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC).
The
money was quickly withdrawn and laundered through
Manila casinos.
With
only a small amount of the stolen money recovered
and frustration building in Dhaka, Bangladesh's Finance Minister
A.M.A Muhith said over the weekend he wanted to "wipe out"
RCBC.
RCBC
on Tuesday said Muhith's remarks were "extremely irresponsible".
"Last
year's theft of $81 million of Bangladesh's Central Bank's (BB) funds
was an inside job and BB is engaging in a massive cover-up by
maligning RCBC and refusing to divulge its findings," the bank
said in a statement on Tuesday.
… The
Philippines last year imposed a record $21-million fine on RCBC after
a "special examination" of the bank and its role in the
audacious cyber heist.
Philippine
authorities have filed money laundering charges against the RCBC
branch manager.
Some
vendors to monitor your employees, customers, or neighbors.
John Russell reports:
The Legal Aid Society has sued the Manhattan district attorney for refusing to divulge whether he buys information from social-media companies as a way to track civil rights protesters and conduct other “social monitoring.”
Though the district attorney’s office is the only defendant in the Article 78 Petition, the nonprofit Legal Aid Society specifically asks for information on “the extent to which the state of New York and New York City employ the services of Geofedia, Inc., Media Sonar Technologies Inc., and X1 Discover, Inc.”
Read more on Courthouse
News.
(Related).
The Legal
Risks of Monitoring Employees Online
A simple tool for the Computer Security toolkit.
Catalin Cimpanu reports:
A team of three researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has created a tool that can detect when user-registration-based websites suffer a data breach.
The tool, named Tripwire, works on a simple concept. Researchers say that Tripwire registers one or more accounts on websites by using a unique email address that they do not use for anything else.
Each email account and the website profile used the same password. Tripwire would check at regular intervals if someone used this password to access the email account, which would indicate the website suffered a breach and an attacker used the stolen account data to log into the associated email account.
Tripwire finds 19 data breaches during test run
In a live test, researchers said they registered accounts at over 2,300 sites. At the end of the study’s period, scientists said that attackers accessed email accounts for 19 of these sites, including one with a userbase of over 45 million.
UCSD researchers reached out to each website, but to their astonishment, none notified users of the breach.
Read more on BleepingComputer.
[From
the article:
UCSC researchers published the source code for the
Tripwire tool on
GitHub, and they hope that companies would deploy it internally
as an additional breach detection system.
The research team also presented their work on
Tripwire at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in London, this
November. Their work on Tripwire is documented in a research paper
titled "Tripwire:
Inferring Internet Site Compromise."
A “Proof of concept” exercise?
Traffic to
Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia
Internet
traffic for some of the world’s largest tech firms was briefly
rerouted to Russia earlier this week in what appeared to be a Border
Gateway Protocol (BGP) attack.
OpenDNS-owned
Internet monitoring service BGPmon reported the incident on Tuesday.
BGPmon noticed that 80 IP prefixes for organizations such as Google,
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, NTT Communications, Twitch and Riot Games
had been announced by a Russian Autonomous System (AS).
It
happened twice on Tuesday and each time it only lasted for roughly
three minutes. The first event took place between 04:43 and 04:46
UTC, and the second between 07:07 and 07:10 UTC.
Soon, only Russia will provide “facts.”
Report –
A big year for fact-checking, but not for new U.S. fact-checkers
Duke Reporter’s Lab – Following
a historic pattern, the number of American media outlets verifying
political statements dropped after last year’s presidential
campaign.
“All the talk about political lies and
misinformation since last year’s election has been good for the
fact-checking business in the United States — but it has not meant
an increase in fact-checkers. In fact, the number has dropped, much
as we’ve come to expect during odd-numbered years in the United
States. We’re still editing and adding to our global list of
fact-checkers for the annual census we’ll publish in January.
Check back with us then for the final tally. But the trend line in
the United States already is following a pattern we’ve seen before
in the year after a presidential election: At the start of 2017,
there were 51 active U.S. fact checkers, 35 of which were locally
oriented and 16 of which were nationally focused. Now there are 44,
of which 28 are local and 16 are mainly national. This count
includes some political fact-checkers that are mainly seasonal
players. These news organizations have consistently fact-checked
politicians’ statements through political campaigns, but then do
little if any work verifying during the electoral “offseason.”
And not all the U.S. fact-checkers in our database focus exclusively
— or even at all — on politics. Sites such as Gossip
Cop, Snopes.com
and Climate
Feedback are in the mix, too…”
My guess is that this is much too logical to gain
much support. How can you “spin” the facts if anyone can refute
your claims?
POGO –
Revealing the Lost World of Government Reports
POGO – “Congress is considering a simple but
important step in overseeing federal agencies. A recently introduced
bill would require a one-stop, easy-to-use, online location for all
congressionally mandated reports. This may put an end to the world
of lost and hidden government reports. Each year, Congress mandates
that federal agencies report on programs, laws, and other aspects of
government, big and small. Whether it’s an analysis of Medicare’s
ability to provide health care to seniors, the price impact of
agricultural subsidies, problems with the Navy’s aircraft carrier
program, or Amtrak’s ability to keep the trains running on time,
Congress wants to know. In fact, agencies complete several thousand
congressionally mandated reports annually in order to keep both
elected officials and the public informed. Of course, government
reports are intended to shine a light on government operations and
national issues, but in an odd and persistent twist, Congress, the
press, and the public can’t always find the reports after they are
published. Surprisingly, no government agency or congressional
office currently has the job to keep
track of the reports. Instead, each agency has its own system of
issuing and transmitting reports. Major reports of national and
political focus are closely tracked and covered in the press.
However, those that are less notable, but still important, may slip
between the bureaucratic cracks…”
Clearly, “useful” is in the eye of the
beholder. Who else will Office share information with?
Microsoft
levels up Word, Excel, and Outlook with more AI capabilities
Microsoft is adding a host
of new capabilities to its Office productivity suite that are
aimed at using machine learning to help people get their work done
more efficiently. Outlook, Excel, and Word will all benefit, with
new features rolling out to a limited set of users in the coming
months and then expanding to a broader set of people later on.
Outlook’s web client will provide users with an
interface that will
automatically offer them responses to questions layered inside
emails, while Excel has a new feature that suggests charts
and pivot tables. Word will get a feature that will help
users define acronyms based on information shared within their
organization.
… Microsoft isn’t alone in pushing
intelligent productivity capabilities, either: Google has spent time
pushing its own machine learning-based features inside G Suite,
including support for automatically generating charts and pivot
tables. Inbox, Google’s experimental email product that’s
focused on productivity, has a marquee Smart Reply feature that’s
supposed to allow users to quickly respond to the content of emails
they receive by clicking on one of three buttons.
The mouse goes to India to learn Cricket?
Analysis:
Fox's Star to bring Disney cash and cricket in India
… Through the $75 billion deal, which a source
said is expected to be announced Thursday morning, Disney would be
able to distribute its programming on Star India, operator of 69 TV
channels in eight languages, as well as the popular Hotstar streaming
service. Disney also would gain global rights to professional
cricket.
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