HSBC has been awfully quiet on this. Are they still counting
victims?
HSBC bank
confirms US data breach
HSBC has said some of its US customers' bank
accounts were hacked in October.
The lender said that the perpetrators may have
accessed information including account numbers and balances,
statement and transaction histories and payee details, as well as
users' names, addresses and dates of birth.
… The bank said the online accounts were
breached between 4 and 14 October.
It is not clear whether the attackers have tried
to make use of the data to steal savings.
A template of the alert sent to customers has been
posted online by the California
Attorney General's Office, although the hack was not limited to
that state.
One expert said it appeared that the technique
involved was a "credential stuffing" in which personal
details harvested from elsewhere had been used to gain unauthorised
access to the accounts. [Password
reuse should be the customer’s problem, not the bank’s. Bob]
I suspect more will follow. (Yes, I have a very
negative view of the election process.)
Don’t Be
Fooled: There Was Election Interference in 2018
With Election Day 2018 behind us, many are
breathing a sigh of relief. Those following closely the prospect of
widespread election interference are indicating
that, despite fears of everything from the changing of votes to the
spread of disinformation, the 2018 midterms saw relatively little by
way of such interference, or at least less than occurred in 2016.
It’s true that there have been no credible reports of actual vote
changing of the type that could call into question the Election Day
results, and that’s reassuring. But, all told, it’s
unfortunately misguided to suggest that this campaign season and
ultimately this election were free from election interference.
That’s for at least three reasons.
(Related) “Discovered” on Monday?
Facebook
connects Russia to 100+ accounts it removed ahead of mid-terms
How did they identify the criminals in the mix?
By looking at everyone? (Won’t the FBI be jealous?)
Police
crack encrypted chat service IronChat and read 258,000 messages from
suspected criminals
Dutch police have revealed that they were able to
spy on the communications of more than 100 suspected criminals,
watching live as over a quarter of a million chat messages were
exchanged.
The encrypted messages were sent using IronChat, a
supposedly secure encrypted messaging service available on BlackBox
IronPhones.
… Criminals
were amongst those who purchased the IronPhones, and used
the IronChat app to communicate openly about their activities,
believing that they were safe as they paid up US $1500 for a six
month subscription to the service. What they did not realise was
that the app had been compromised by police.
… In a statement,
police in the Netherlands explained that as a result of their
surveillance, law enforcement agencies have seized automatic weapons,
large quantities of hard drugs (MDMA and cocaine), 90,000 Euros in
cash, and dismantled a drugs lab.
… “This operation has given us a unique
insight into the criminal world in which people communicated openly
about crimes,” said Aart Garssen, Head of the Regional Crime
investigation Unit in the east of the Netherlands.
Will the FBI ask Facebook to retain the deleted
messages? After all, they might contain evidence of a crime that
will be unavailable to investigators. (Like encrypted messages)
Facebook’s
unsend feature will give you 10 minutes to delete a message
Facebook Messenger will soon
allow you to delete sent messages up to 10 minutes after you’ve
originally sent them. The feature is listed as “coming soon” in
the release notes for version 191.0 of Messenger’s iOS client.
Compared to the hour
Facebook gives you to delete an erroneous WhatsApp message, 10
minutes doesn’t give you too much time to correct yourself. But
it’s a lot better than having your mistakes preserved eternally.
Start planning.
https://www.securityweek.com/starter-pistol-has-been-fired-artificial-intelligence-regulation-europe
The Starter
Pistol Has Been Fired for Artificial Intelligence Regulation in
Europe
Paul
Nemitz is principal advisor in the Directorate-General Justice and
Consumers of the European Commission. It was Nemitz who transposed
the underlying principles of data privacy into the legal text that
ultimately became the European Union's General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR).
Now
Nemitz has fired the starting gun for what may eventually become a
European Regulation providing consumer safeguards against abuse from
artificial intelligence (AI). In a new paper
published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, he
warns that democracy itself is threatened by unbridled use of AI.
A case for my Architecture students.
Why Doctors
Hate Their Computers
The New Yorker –
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient.
But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
… A 2016 study found that physicians spent
about two hours doing computer work for every hour spent face to face
with a patient—whatever the brand of medical software. In the
examination room, physicians devoted half of their patient time
facing the screen to do electronic tasks. And these tasks were
spilling over after hours. The University of Wisconsin found that
the average workday for its family physicians had grown to eleven and
a half hours. The result has been epidemic levels of burnout among
clinicians. Forty per cent screen positive for depression, and seven
per cent report suicidal thinking—almost double the rate of the
general working population.
Something’s gone terribly wrong. Doctors are among the most technology-avid people in society; computerization has simplified tasks in many industries. Yet somehow we’ve reached a point where people in the medical profession actively, viscerally, volubly hate their computers…”
Perspective. I liked the quote, “My kids are
trying to order by tapping on the images.”
Amazon
looks to the past by sending out holiday toy catalogs
… Amazon has again taken a leaf from the
brick-and-mortar world by launching its own catalog for the very
first time, reports
CNBC.
… The difference, however, is that Amazon's
catalog has no prices listed on any of its pages, making parents use
the Amazon app to scan product images to add it to their cart.
Something to learn and teach?
Facebook’s
GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
GraphQL, the
Facebook
-incubated data query language, is moving into its own
open-source foundation. Like so many other similar open-source
foundations, the aptly named GraphQL
Foundation will be hosted by the Linux
Foundation.
… At its core, GraphQL is basically a language
for querying databases from client-side applications and a set of
specifications for how the API on the backend should present this
data to the client. It presents an alternative to REST-based APIs
and promises to offer developers more flexibility and the ability to
write faster and more secure applications. Virtually every major
programming language now supports it through a variety of libraries.
So that’s what my students are calling
me!
Green’s
Dictionary of Slang to Go Free
“GDoS Online [Green’s
Dictionary of Slang] was launched two years ago, in October 2016.
… Two years into the project, and having no
intention to abandon my researches, I have decided that the
dictionary in its entirety – headwords, etymologies, definitions
and citations – will henceforth be made available for free…”
For my student vets…
Veterans
Day discounts: Your comprehensive guide to free pizza, farm supplies,
desserts, hotel stays and more
It’s not the same as reading, but it might lead
to it.
This is not what we teach our students.
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