With articles like these, it is easy to keep my
students interested.
If you
shopped at these 15 stores in the last year, your data might have
been stolen
Never rely on the word of a vendor? Several flaws
are detailed.
Between
You, Me, and Google: Problems With Gmail's “Confidential Mode”
With Gmail’s new
design rolled
out to more and more users, many have had a chance to try out its
new “Confidential
Mode.” While many of its features sound promising, what
“Confidential Mode” provides isn’t confidentiality. At best,
the new mode might create expectations that it fails to meet around
security and privacy in Gmail.
… With its new Confidential Mode, Google
purports to allow you to restrict how the emails you send can be
viewed and shared: the recipient of your Confidential Mode email will
not be able to forward or print it. You can also set an “expiration
date” at which time the email will be deleted from your recipient’s
inbox, and even require a text message code as an added layer of
security before the email can be viewed.
Unfortunately, each of these “security”
features comes with serious security problems for users.
… It’s important to note at the outset that
because Confidential Mode emails are not end-to-end
encrypted, Google
can see the contents of your messages and has the technical
capability to store them indefinitely, regardless of any “expiration
date” you set. In other words, Confidential Mode provides zero
confidentiality with regard to Google.
Moving forensics into the cloud.
Netflix
Cloud Security SIRT releases Diffy: A Differencing Engine for Digital
Forensics in the Cloud
The Netflix Security
Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) announces the release of Diffy
under an Apache 2.0 license. Diffy is a triage tool to help digital
forensics and incident response (DFIR) teams quickly identify
compromised hosts on which to focus their response, during a security
incident on cloud architectures.
… It's called "Diffy" because it
helps a human investigator to identify the differences
between instances
Why I had my Software Architecture students design
a mobile banking app.
Banks Freed
From Branches Use Mobile Apps to Go After Customers
U.S.
Bancorp this week was the latest to say it will build a
nationally available checking-account product as lenders introduce
mobile offerings that let consumers do their full banking without a
branch. The move follows similar announcements by some of the
country’s largest banks including JPMorgan
Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and PNC Financial Services Group
Inc.
The “fake news” concept seems to be catching
on. Definitions seem to vary a bit.
Egypt
targets social media with new law
Egypt’s parliament has passed a law giving the
state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists
held to be publishing fake news.
Under the law passed on Monday social media
accounts and blogs with more than 5,000 followers on sites such as
Twitter and Facebook will
be treated as media outlets, which makes them subject to
prosecution for publishing false news or incitement to break the law.
Perspective. Holy Mackerel! It’s not an error,
it’s a message from God?
Why Is
Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
Type the word “dog” into Google Translate 19
times, request that the nonsensical message be flipped from Maori
into English, and out pops what appears to be a garbled religious
prophecy.
“Doomsday Clock is three minutes at twelve,”
it reads. “We are experiencing characters and a dramatic
developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly
approaching the end times and Jesus' return.”
I still don’t get it.
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