Once upon a time, this would have been considered
a huge breach.
Nissan
Canada Informs 1.1 Million Customers of Data Breach
Nissan
Canada revealed on Thursday that the personal information of some
customers may have been compromised as a result of a data breach
discovered by the company on December 11.
The
incident affects individuals who have financed their vehicles through
Nissan Canada Finance (NCF) and INFINITI Financial Services Canada.
The exact number of impacted customers has yet to be determined, but
Nissan is notifying all 1.13 million current and past customers.
Plodding
through the muddle?
Intelligence
Committee Outlines UK's Offensive and Defensive Cyber Posture
The
UK Intelligence and Security Committee, which has oversight of the UK
intelligence community, published its 2016-2017 annual report (PDF)
on Wednesday. With the rider that the report was written prior to
April 2017, but delayed in publication, it provides insight into the
UK perspective on global cyber threats. Its discussion includes
commentary on nation state adversaries, the potential impact of the
Trump administration on UKUSA, and the effect of Brexit
on GCHQ operations.
The
primary cyber threats are perceived to come from state actors,
organized criminals and terrorist groups.
I
guess I see no problem with this as long as it is, “Is this the guy
we’re looking for? No? Delete all records of this scan.”
Unfortunately, that’s not how it will work.
Ron Nixon reports:
A
new report concludes that a Department of Homeland Security pilot
program improperly gathers data on Americans when it requires
passengers embarking on foreign flights to undergo facial recognition
scans to ensure they haven’t overstayed visas.
The
report, released on Thursday by researchers at the Center on
Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University’s law school,
called the system an invasive surveillance tool that the department
had installed at nearly a dozen airports without going through a
required federal rule-making process.
Read more on The
New York Times.
[From
the Report:
… DHS should not be scanning the faces of
Americans as they depart on international flights—but DHS is doing
it anyway.
… CBP recommends that its partners delete the
matching results within 14 days . . . . However, once the images are
shared with CBP, the airline or airport authority, along with their
approved integrator or vendor, may choose to retain the
newly-captured photos consistent with their contractual relationship
with the traveler.
Is North Korea a naughty boy or a criminal? Why
are we debating this question?
WannaCry
and the International Law of Cyberspace
… Assuming that the ransomware attacks were
attributable to North Korea, a topic discussed below, the question is
whether the operation breached any international law obligations
North Korea owed another State, such that it constituted an
“internationally wrongful act.” In cases involving States, the
international law rules most likely to be violated are the
prohibition on the use of force, the prohibition on intervention into
other States’ internal or external affairs, the obligation to
respect the sovereignty of other States, and the obligation to
exercise due diligence.
… The WannaCry attacks raise an interesting
question of law that is not fully resolved in the cyber context. The
extent to which the attacks were directed at particular entities is
unclear. But, assuming for the sake of discussion that the attacks
were indiscriminate, could they nevertheless qualify as uses of force
vis-à-vis States that might have suffered qualifying consequences?
In our view, they could, so long as the nature of the consequences
was foreseeable, even if the attacker may not have known precisely
where they would manifest. We hasten to add that this issue remains
unresolved.
We could probably do better. Would you trust a
courtroom designed and managed by Facebook?
New York
State Courts Announce High-Tech Courtrooms
National Center for State Courts – “A
state-of-the-art courtroom designed to speed the progress of complex
commercial cases is now up and running in Westchester County
Supreme Court’s Commercial Division, which serves as a forum for
the resolution of complicated business disputes. The Division’s
Integrated Courtroom Technology (ICT) part, located in Westchester
County’s Supreme and County Courthouse in White Plains, has been
specially outfitted to ease the handling of complex commercial cases,
with such features as:
-
Atech-based evidence system that enhances the presentation of evidence, permitting attorneys to display physical and electronic evidence-and witnesses to annotate the evidence-in a controlled fashion to all court participants
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Wireless internet access for all courtroom participants, including secure wi-fi access for judges with state-issued “smart” tablets and laptops
-
Advanced acoustical elements to ensure proper sound levels throughout the courtroom, including assistive-listening aids for hearing-impaired individuals
-
Real-time court reporting capabilities for instantaneous voice-to-text transcription•Advanced audio-recording equipment
-
Audio-visual conferencing capabilities
The White Plains ICT
part seamlessly incorporates multiple high-tech components in a
modular, user-friendly platform designed to ensure full access to all
court participants. The New York Courts’ first ICT part opened in
Westchester, in Yonkers Family Court in 2016. The new White Plains
high-tech courtroom is the latest in a series of technological
advances introduced over the years by the New York State Supreme
Court’s Commercial Division, which in addition to Westchester
County operates in Albany, Kings, Nassau, New York, Onondaga and
Queens counties and in the State’s Seventh Judicial District and
Eighth Judicial District….”
Perspective.
YouTube Now
Clocks Over 100 Million Hours Watch-Time on TVs per Day
YouTube is now seeing
over 100 million hours of watch time on living room devices every
single day. The new data point was revealed by Google
CEO Sundar Pichai during
the company’s Q3 2017 earnings call Thursday, where executives
also once again called out the video service as a major revenue
driver. “YouTube
continues to see phenomenal growth,” said Pichai.
This was
the first time Google
specifically referenced the total watch time on smart TVs and other
living room devices. Earlier this year, the company revealed that it
now sees more than 1
billion hours of watch time across all devices.
This means that viewing on TV is accounting for
roughly 10 percent of all YouTube watch time. The company previously
said that more than half of its views come from mobile devices.
Perspective. “Ye Olde Internet”
Newly
discovered map shows what internet looked like in 1973
What
the Entire Internet Looked Like in 1973: An Old Map Gets Found in a
Pile of Research Papers – “Modern “maps” of the internet
can indeed look like sprawling clusters of star systems, pulsing with
light and color. But the “weird combination of physical and
conceptual things,” Betsy Mason remarks
at Wired, results in such an abstract entity that it can
be visually illustrated with an almost unlimited number of graphic
techniques to represent its hundreds of millions of users. When the
internet began as ARPANET in the late sixties, it included a total of
four locations, all within a few hundred miles of each other on the
West Coast of the United States. (See a sketch
of the first four “nodes” from 1969 here.) By 1973, the
number of nodes had grown from U.C.L.A, the Stanford Research
Institute, U.C. Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah to include
locations all over the Midwest and East Coast, from Harvard to Case
Western Reserve University to the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer
Science in Pittsburgh, where David Newbury’s father worked (and
still works). Among his father’s papers, Newbury found
the map above from May of ’73, showing what seemed like
tremendous growth in only a few short years…”
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