“That which
does not kill
us, makes
us stronger?”
Impressive defense. I
wonder who is ready for this and who will be scrambling in the dark?
On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm ET, 1.35
terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform
GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of
service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular
DDoS method, no botnet required.
GitHub briefly struggled with intermittent outages
as a digital system assessed the situation. Within 10
minutes it had automatically
called for help from its DDoS mitigation service, Akamai
Prolexic. Prolexic
took over as an intermediary, routing all the traffic coming into
and out of GitHub, and sent the data through its scrubbing centers to
weed out and block malicious packets. After eight minutes, attackers
relented and the assault dropped off.
A mere 294 breaches, with 16,060 records
compromised per breach. Probably not time to start bragging.
Rajiv Leventhal reports:
In 2017, the number of individuals affected by breaches within the healthcare sector reached a four-year low, according to a new report from Campbell, Calif.-based security company Bitglass.
The report revealed that the majority of breaches were due to hacking and IT incidents (71 percent), and that percentage has continued to grow since 2014. The fourth annual Healthcare Breach Report aggregates data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Wall of Shame—a database of breach disclosures that is required as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)—to identify the most common causes of data leakage.
Read more on Healthcare
Informatics.
Perhaps they should try to hire someone who knows
how to run a bank? “Harm the victims” is definitely a “customer
last” strategy!
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Wells-Fargo-is-accused-of-harming-fraud-victims-12721171.php
Wells Fargo
is accused of harming fraud victims by closing accounts
When signs of fraud appear on a customer’s
account, such as a counterfeit check or an unauthorized withdrawal, a
bank is required by law to investigate whether criminal activity has
occurred.
Wells Fargo had a simpler solution, according to a
former employee: Close the account and drop the customer.
For my Data Management students.
How to Turn
‘Data Exhaust’ into a Competitive Edge
A vast amount of
data that is discarded — the so-called ‘data exhaust’ —
actually hold a lot of value and could be tapped to create new
competitive advantages, according to this opinion piece by Scott
Snyder, a Wharton senior Fellow, and Alex Castrounis, vice
president of product and advanced analytics for Rocket Wagon, an
Internet of Things, digital and AI company.
Instead of the Internet of Things (IoT), perhaps
we should call it the data of things or the internet of data?
IoT will generate a staggering 400 zettabytes (or
400 trillion gigabytes) of data a year by 2018, according to the 2016
Cisco Visual Networking Index. This is being driven by everything
from wearables and smart home devices to high-end connected platforms
like the Boeing 787, which generates 40 terabytes per hour of flight,
or a Rio Tinto mining operation that can generate up to 2.4 terabytes
of data a minute (more than 20 times what Twitter generates in a
day).
Despite this huge growth in data from IoT devices,
only a small amount (8.6 Zettabytes) will actually be sent to data
centers for storage and subsequent analysis — the ‘data exhaust’
is much bigger than what’s actually being analyzed for insights.
… On the B2B side, companies like John Deere
have used IoT data to shift their business model. The average farm
went from generating 190,000 data points per day in 2014 to a
projected 4.1 million data points in 2020 fueled by the significant
growth in sensorization of fields and equipment. By turning these
data streams into insights and prescriptive analytics, or automated
decisions based on data, Deere moved from selling farm equipment to
delivering ‘Precision Farming’ services, guided by their data
advantage.
Perspective.
Pew –
Social Media Use in 2018
A
majority of Americans use Facebook and YouTube, but young adults are
especially heavy users of Snapchat and Instagram: “A new Pew
Research Center survey of U.S. adults finds that the social media
landscape in early 2018 is defined by a mix of long-standing trends
and newly emerging narratives. Facebook and YouTube dominate this
landscape, as notable majorities of U.S. adults use each of these
sites. At the same time, younger Americans (especially those ages 18
to 24) stand out for embracing a variety of platforms and using them
frequently. Some 78% of 18- to 24-year-olds use Snapchat, and a
sizeable majority of these users (71%) visit the platform multiple
times per day. Similarly, 71% of Americans in this age group now use
Instagram and close to half (45%) are Twitter users. As has
been the case since the Center began surveying about the use of
different social media in 2012, Facebook remains the primary platform
for most Americans. Roughly two-thirds of U.S. adults (68%) now
report that they are Facebook users, and roughly three-quarters of
those users access Facebook on a daily basis. With the exception of
those 65 and older, a majority of Americans across a wide range of
demographic groups now use Facebook. But the social media story
extends well beyond Facebook. The video-sharing site YouTube –
which contains many social elements, even if it is not a traditional
social media platform – is now used by nearly three-quarters of
U.S. adults and 94% of 18- to 24-year-olds. And the typical (median)
American reports that they use three of the eight major platforms
that the Center measured in this survey…”
Which auto makers will survive a rides-on-demand
future where individuals will not buy cars?
Toyota
venture to spend $2.8 billion to develop self-driving technology
Toyota Motor Corp said a new venture would be
investing more than $2.8 billion to develop automated-driving
software - the latest salvo in an increasingly frenetic battle to be
ahead in a sector hit by a slew of disruptive technologies.
(Related)
Uber is
driving patients to their doctors in a big grab for medical transit
market
Uber announced the launch of
a new digital tool meant to book rides for patients who need
assistance getting to and from their appointments. A health care
provider can book a ride for patients and caregivers immediately,
within a few hours, or with 30 days’ notice. The company is
positioning itself as a cheaper and more reliable option than most
non-emergency medical transportation.
… The non-medical-emergency medical
transportation market is worth more than $3
billion, according to the Transit Cooperative Research Program, a
federally funded independent research entity. A lot of that money is
for people who can’t drive — either because of age or poverty —
and so Medicare and Medicaid providers foot the bill. Uber has
clearly become interested in the industry.
For my geeks.
Microsoft
Gives Devs More Open Source Quantum Computing Goodies
Microsoft this week announced the first major
upgrade to its Quantum Development Kit since its introduction last
year. It has added several new features designed to open the
platform to a wider array of developers, including support for Linux
and macOS, as well as additional open source libraries.
Further, the kit will be interoperable with the
Python computing
language.
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