Was “safety and accuracy” attacked? Would
they admit it if it had been?
Malfunction
Shuts Vietnam’s Main Stock Exchange for a Second Day
Vietnam’s main stock exchange, home to the
nation’s benchmark VN Index, will remain shut for a second day on
Wednesday following a malfunction, its longest halt in nearly 10
years.
The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange said that
while the technical issue that occurred on Monday has been solved, it
needs to run tests with securities firms to
ensure the “safety and accuracy” of the trading system.
… “Being shut for multiple days will start
to have an affect on market sentiment, especially from the offshore
foreign investors who have recently joined, or are planning on
joining the market,” he said. “What we are hoping to hear is
clarity from the exchange on what the causes are, when we can expect
trading to resume and that the issues have been resolved.”
Something to get my Data Management and my
Computer Security students thinking.
Ian Health reports that Appleby, a firm at the
centre of the Paradise
Papers data leak, has hired a high-profile media lawyer to help
block further releases of confidential client data. Health reports:
Appleby have maintained that the documents were illegally hacked from their files and have since initiated legal proceedings against the BBC and the Guardian, who they claim have not co-operated with information requests they have made.
The firm issued a claim for breach of confidence on 4 December, as well as an application for disclosure and information. Appleby says that it needs to know what documents were taken from its files so it can advise its clients.
Read more on Jersey
Evening Post.
For its part, Appleby issued the following media
statement to explain its reasons for its litigation: [Omitted.
Bob]
All that you save by not securing data will
disappear at the first hint of a breach?
… On Tuesday, researchers at Tel Aviv-based
app security firm Checkmarx demonstrated that Tinder still lacks
basic HTTPS encryption for photos. Just by being on the same Wi-Fi
network as any user of Tinder's iOS or Android app, the researchers
could see any photo the user did, or even inject their own images
into his or her photo stream. And while other data in Tinder's apps
are HTTPS-encrypted, Checkmarx found that they still leaked enough
information to tell encrypted commands apart, allowing a hacker on
the same network to watch every swipe left, swipe right, or match on
the target's phone nearly as easily as if they were looking over the
target's shoulder. The
researchers suggest that lack of protection could enable anything
from simple voyeuristic nosiness to blackmail schemes.
Stolen IDs are cheaper than Health Insurance?
Protenus, Inc. has released its 2017 review of
breaches involving health data. It is the second annual review they
have published since we began collaborating on data collection and
analyses.
[...]
You can access Protenus’s full report here.
Obviously, they are not responsible for my opinions or my
predictions. They have enough problems without taking responsibility
for me.
Remember that scene in “The Hunt for Red
October” where the Captain assures his XO that you don’t need
papers to travel state-to-state?
That anywhere within 100 miles of the border
means that agents can demand pretty much anyone in Florida on a bus
to show proof of citizenship. Do you carry your papers with you
everywhere you go? I sure as hell don’t…. nor should I have to
within my own country.
Jenny Jarvie reports:
The two uniformed U.S. Border Patrol agents clambered aboard a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and instructed passengers to show proof of citizenship.
“This is new?” a woman on the bus from Orlando to Miami asked fellow passengers as agents questioned another woman several seats in front of them. “You ridden on the bus before?”
“Yeah,” another passenger replied. “A police officer is not even allowed to ask for immigration papers.… You have no right to stop me and ask me for ID.”
Minutes later, the agents escorted the woman they had been questioning off the bus.
Read more on the Los
Angeles Times.
Perspective. What if they all started to whisper,
“Vote for Oprah?” What if they knew what might convince you to
vote for Oprah?
Apple says
that 500 million customers use Siri
… Apple doesn't specify what exactly counts as
a "user," nor whether these are daily or monthly users; the
latter being more likely.
Before the press release, Apple had given an
update on Siri usage last June, at its 2017 WWDC conference, where it
said that some
375 million customers regularly used it.
"Siri, now actively used on over half a
billion devices, has developed a deep knowledge of music and
understands your preferences and tastes," the statement reads.
(Related) AR needs to know what you see to avoid
things like placing game “treasure” in dangerous places (like a
highway median). Incidentally, that means they know a lot about your
home or office.
Apple’s
AR system can now recognize more real-world objects
(Related) And it’s not just Apple.
If you’re
using an Android phone, Google may be tracking every move you make
(Related) It’s not limited to phones. Any
connected device will do.
Cory Doctorow writes:
Millions of new cars sold in the US and Europe are “connected,” having some mechanism for exchanging data with their manufacturers after the cars are sold; these cars stream or batch-upload location data and other telemetry to their manufacturers, who argue that they are allowed to do virtually anything they want with this data, thanks to the “explicit consent” of the car owners — who signed a lengthy contract at purchase time that contained a vague and misleading clause deep in its fine-print.
Car manufacturers are mostly warehousing this data (leaving it vulnerable to leaks and breaches, search-warrants, government hacking and unethical employee snooping), and can’t articulate why they’re saving it or how they use it.
Read more on BoingBoing.
I’ve programmed my computer to think about this.
… It’s critical for companies to understand
the range of opinions on this issue, because implicitly or
explicitly, they will influence the way business leaders create the
workforce of the future.
… In a new Accenture survey (titled Reworking
the Revolution, which will be published on January 23rd)
of 1,200 C-level executives worldwide, 75% say that they are
currently accelerating investments in AI and other intelligent
technologies. And 72% say they are responding to a competitive
imperative — they recognize the need for new tools to keep up with
rivals, both by improving productivity and by finding new sources of
growth. Some companies are transforming themselves into “intelligent
enterprises,” in which all processes are digitized, decisions are
data-driven, and machines do the heavy lifting — both physical and
cognitive.
Something to share with my geeks.
If you wish Windows was open source, you should
look into ReactOS!
… In this article, we’ll take a look at what
ReactOS is, how to install it, and how it handles some existing
Windows applications.
… The main goal of the project is to build an
operating system that will run
any Windows application you throw at it.
A programming resource!
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