NOW
will you listen to the experts and do something about security?
(Probably not.)
An
11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state
website in under 10 minutes
An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into
a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting
results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest
yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.
… Nico Sell, the co-founder of the the
non-profit r00tz Asylum,
which teaches children how to become hackers and helped organize the
event, said an 11-year-old girl also managed to make changes to the
same Florida replica website in about 15 minutes, tripling the number
of votes found there.
Sell said more than 30 children hacked a variety
of other similar state replica websites in under a half hour.
“These are very accurate replicas of all of the
sites,” Sell told the PBS NewsHour on Sunday. “These things
should not be easy enough for an 8-year-old kid to hack within 30
minutes, it’s negligent
for us as a society.”
Sell said the idea for the event began last year,
after adult hackers were able to access similar voting sites in less
than five minutes.
“So this year we decided to bring the voting
village to the kids as well,” she said.
Of course they can be hacked.
As they proliferate, police body cameras have
courted controversy because of the contentious
nature of the footage they capture and questions about how
accessible those recordings should be.
But when it comes to the devices themselves, the
most crucial function they need to perform—beyond recording footage
in the first place—is protecting the integrity of that footage so
it can be trusted as a record of events. At the DefCon security
conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, though, one researcher will
present findings that many body cameras on the market today are
vulnerable to remote digital attacks, including some that could
result in the manipulation of footage.
… In all but the Digital Ally device, the
vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to download footage off a
camera, edit things out or potentially make more intricate
modifications, and then re-upload it, leaving no indication of the
change. Or an attacker could simply delete footage they don't want
law enforcement to have.
Think
of a technology that allows you to print out some data you have in
your computer, send it electronically then require the recipient to
re-enter it into their computer. Gosh I hate Fax machines.
Technology invented before the Civil War is probably not the optimal
technology to use today.
Hackers
could use fax machines to take over entire networks, researchers warn
Researchers at Nasdaq-listed Check
Point Software Technologies said that fax machines — which
still reside in many offices — have serious security flaws. Those
vulnerabilities could potentially allow an attacker to steal
sensitive files through a company's network using just a phone line
and a fax number.
In a report
released on Sunday, Check Point researchers showed how they were able
to exploit security flaws present in a Hewlett
Packard all-in-one printer. Standalone fax machines are a rarity
in companies today, but the fax function is still present in
commonplace all-in-one printers.
American parents would panic. Is it possible the
French can’t figure out how to use Smartphones in the classroom?
Mon Dieu!
French
school students to be banned from using mobile phones
French school students will be banned from using
mobile phones anywhere on school grounds from September, after the
lower house of parliament passed what it called a “detox” law for
a younger generation increasingly addicted to screens.
The centrist president Emmanuel
Macron had promised during his election campaign that he would
outlaw children’s
phones in nursery, primary and middle-schools, until around the
age of 15.
The new law bans phone-use by children in school
playgrounds, at breaktimes and anywhere on school premises.
Legislation passed in 2010 already states children should not use
phones in class.
Perspective. An interesting article.
AI is
bringing a new set of rules to knowledge work
The rules of the physical world are either not
applicable or are severely diminished. Things move from sparsity to
abundance, where consumption does not lead to depletion. To the
contrary, the more an object is consumed, the more valuable it
becomes. Cost of production and distribution is no longer critical,
and the concept of inventory is no longer applicable.
When things go digital, they also move from linear
to exponential – a world in which new technologies and new players
can enter and dominate an industry in just a few years.
Consider that each year more people take online
courses offered by Harvard than the number of students who attended
Harvard in its 380-year history. Each year, three times more people
use online dispute resolutions to resolve disputes on eBay® than
lawsuits filed in the United States. Each day, five billion videos
are watched on YouTube®. For context, the first YouTube video was
uploaded in 2005. I was talking to a gentleman at Facebook®
recently who said, “I joined Facebook three years ago and 70
percent of the company started after me.” Talk about hyper-growth
businesses!
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