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New regulation, new basis for lawsuits. How many
additional lawyers/firms were added just for this?
Activists
Are Already Targeting Google and Facebook Over Europe's New Data
Privacy Law That Went Live Today
Europe’s sweeping
new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and
privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles. One
organization has already made official data protection complaints
about Google,
Facebook,
WhatsApp and Instagram, while another is going after the shadowy data
brokers that trade people’s information behind the scenes.
The complaints about Google, Facebook and
Facebook’s subsidiaries come from a group called None Of Your
Business (NOYB)—a non-profit founded
by the very successful serial Facebook litigant Max Schrems.
Schrems, the Austrian lawyer who annihilated
the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor data-sharing agreement a few years ago,
formed the crowdfunded NOYB in order to take on big tech firms that
break the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR.)
What starts as digital may not remain digital.
UK Warns
That Aggressive Cyberattack Could Trigger Kinetic Response
UK
Says it Doesn't Need to Demonstrate Attribution Before Engaging Cyber
Retaliation
The
scene was set last week when Air Marshall Phil Collins (Chief of
Defence Intelligence, UK Ministry of Defence) spoke at the Royal
United Services Institute (RUSI). In his speech
Collins talked about the growing use of non-kinetic (primarily cyber)
warfare.
"We
can see numerous examples of this today," he said:
"unprecedented industrial espionage activity against the UK and
Allies; private security contractors being used in high-end
expeditionary warfare in Syria; cyber-attacks against national
infrastructure and reputation across Europe; information operations
that attempt to pervert political process and frustrate the rule of
law; and attempted assassinations."
He
warned that the nature of modern warfare is becoming broader, more
strategic, and features "continuous full spectrum competition
and confrontation."
… The
implication is that the UK requires the ability (and he makes it
clear that he believes the UK has that ability) to both respond to
cyber-attacks and if necessary launch preemptive cyber-attacks
effectively in self-defense.
This will be interesting. (In a kind of “Did
too!” “Did not!” way.)
Facebook
releases its U.S. political ad archive
Facebook’s new archive for U.S. political ads —
created to give users more information about who is advertising on
Facebook and who they are trying to target — went live today. The
archive was first announced
in October.
The archive is available to view at
facebook.com/politicalcontentads.
The archive contains both ads promoting candidates for political
office as well as those that Facebook has deemed to be “issue ads”
— ads that touch on a list of 20 hot-button topics that Facebook
released earlier this month. These ads will also be labeled in
users’ news feeds starting today, with a “paid for by” tag.
Political and issue ads on Instagram will also be labeled.
For my Software
Architecture class to design a fix and my Computer Security class to
fix this design.
Amazon
might have a serious Alexa problem on its hands
News broke out earlier this week that Amazon’s
Alexa assistant recorded a private conversation between two people
and then sent that recording to a third party. Alexa, of course, is
supposed to listen to everything you say but only act when you utter
the designated hotwords that invoke the assistant.
… Amazon explained
to Recode what caused this privacy infringing incident.
Here’s what happened — we’ve broken down Amazon’s statement
into all the steps Alexa went through to dispatch the message:
Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like “Alexa.”
Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a “send message” request.
At which point, Alexa said out loud “To whom?” At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customer’s contact list.
Alexa then asked out loud, “[contact name], right?” Alexa then interpreted background conversation as “right.”
As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.”
All this sounds extremely unlikely but it also
kind of explains what happened perfectly. To recap, the woman was
talking to her husband and a partial recording of their chat was then
sent to one of his employees who lives in a different state.
It’s always possible that one of the two people
in the chat said a word that sounded like Alexa, triggering a
sequence of events as described above. They may have also mentioned
a name that sounded just like the name of the man’s employee and
used words that may have been interpreted as confirmation to send a
message.
But, no matter how you look at it, this is a
serious issue. Apparently, Alexa can misinterpret its own hotword,
which is definitely not something you want from the assistant.
(Related) Using this system to confirm the
validity of stolen information?
Here’s something we don’t see everyday, and it
involves Kentucky-based health insurer Humana.
Humana’s technology team became suspicious after there
were a number of calls to an 800 number of Humana’s that involved
their Interactive Voice Response system where the
caller was able to authenticate as a member by providing date of
birth, zip code, and Humana ID number or Social Security Number, but
then never went further with the system to request anything.
So were the calls simply to verify the accuracy of member
information in preparation for some other attack or misuse? It wasn’t
clear, but Humana wisely took action.
Humana blocked the phone numbers associated with
the suspicious calls, notified
members, and offered them protective services through Equifax’s
Credit Watch Gold service. And of course, they continue to monitor
for any other suspicious behavior.
Designing in Security checks is good. Ignoring
Security checks is all too common.
Another
Deutsche Bank Error Revealed: $30 Billion 2014 Gaffe
A 28 billion-euro ($35 billion) payments
error at Deutsche Bank AG in March wasn’t the first such
blunder to befall the lender.
In March 2014, the German bank mistakenly sent 21
billion euros to Macquarie
Group Ltd. as collateral for an over-the-counter derivatives
trade, according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to
be identified. That incident led directly to the introduction of
fail-safes, though these didn’t catch the latest gaffe, the person
said.
… While the New York Fed warned the firm in
late 2013 about persistent deficiencies in its processes, lapses have
continued, demonstrating the challenge facing new Chief Executive
Officer Christian Sewing as he seeks to return the bank to growth and
placate
U.S. regulators.
… The 2018 error was caused by the input of
euros instead of yen, Sewing told shareholders in Frankfurt on
Thursday…
… The 2014 over-payment was a result of human
error while using a collateral management system, the person familiar
said. A control system that requires at least two pairs of eyes to
look at transactions of a certain size also failed, they said.
Following the error, Deutsche Bank designed an
enhanced “bear trap” system, whereby all payments over a certain
size were subjected to increased scrutiny, according to the person.
Yet that failed to prevent the more recent gaffe in March of this
year.
… The German bank also ran into payment
difficulty in June 2015 when a junior member of its Frankfurt-based
foreign-exchange sales team mistakenly
sent $6 billion to a U.S. hedge fund client.
I hope my game creating students remember their
poor old professor when they become rich.
Fortnite
made nearly $300 million in the month of April
Epic Games’ Fortnite
generated $296 million in the month of April across mobile, console,
and PC platforms, according to digital game sales tracker SuperData
Research. That amount is more than double what
the game generated in the month of February, when it earned $126
million and surpassed Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds in
monthly sales for the first time.
The big difference between
the games, and what really makes Fortnite shine, is Epic’s
free-to-play
model, which gets the title into as many players’ hands as possible
and recoups the money, and then some, by way of in-game purchases.
Epic sells players cosmetic
items that do not affect gameplay, including goofy and
topical character costumes and in-game dance moves purely for vanity
purposes. It also sells a season subscription called the Battle Pass
for around $10. Still, the company sells these items at such an
alarming quantity that Fortnite made more money in April
than Avengers:
Infinity War did on its opening weekend later that same
month.
Ignore the source, try it for the benefits.
Pornhub
launches its own VPN
Pornhub is launching
its own VPN service today with free
and unlimited bandwidth. The VPN is supposed to help
users avoid ISP throttling and geographic limitations. It’s also
designed to let users transmit data anonymously without saving or
collecting any of that data.
… The VPN service is available on Mac,
Windows, Android, and iOS
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