This reads like a procedure problem. Sending money based on one
email is not the way it should work.
Hackers
fooled Save the Children into sending $1 million to a phony account
Save the Children Federation, one of the country’s
best-known charities, said it was the victim of a $1 million
cyberscam last year.
The Connecticut-based nonprofit said hackers broke
into a worker’s e-mail, posed as an employee, and created false
invoices and other documents, to fool the charity into sending nearly
$1 million to a fraudulent entity in Japan. The con artists claimed
the money was needed to purchase solar panels for health centers in
Pakistan, where Save the Children has worked for more than 30 years.
… Sandy Ross, an accountant and fraud
examiner, said that most large nonprofits and businesses have
procedures to prevent such scams, such as having a second person sign
off on significant wire transfers and calling the recipient to verify
the account numbers. In all but one instance Ross could recall, she
said, the attacks have “been thwarted.”
… Save the Children Federation, also known as
Save the Children US, has since adopted similar measures, including
making sure someone confirms all new vendors and bank account
instructions via phone, as well as strengthening its technology
systems
There is talk that China is gathering (all kinds
of) information on everyone, everywhere. If that is so, consider
what they could do with it.
Sergiu Gatlan reports:
According to the Ministry’s public statement, the hackers managed to get their hands on the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of all people who had an account on the French Ariane emergency contact database.
The platform is used by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to allow citizens traveling abroad to receive security updates in case of emergency.
“Personal data recorded during registration on the Ariane platform have been stolen,” says the Ministry’s statement.
Read more on Softpedia.
[From
the article:
"As soon as we became aware of this attack,
we put in place measures, technically to prevent any further
intrusions of this type," added the Ministry.
Investigating the Twits?
Twitter
says governments are ramping up their demands for user data
… According to the
newly released data, Twitter received 6,904 government requests
for information on 16,882 accounts. Twitter turned over at least
some data in 56 percent of cases.
The U.S. took the lead with 2,231 requests for
information on 9,226 accounts — representing about one-third of all
Twitter’s demands for the first-half of the year, with Japan and
the U.K. falling behind in second and third place.
What was this about? What would have happened if
someone refused to leave the plane? Did DHS think San Francisco was
in another country?
Last October, the ACLU filed suit after an
incident that still boggles my mind. As Cecilia Wang of the ACLU
described the background at the time:
On February 22, 2017, Delta Airlines Flight 1583 departed San Francisco and headed for John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. As the plane was landing, passengers heard a strange announcement.
Speaking over the intercom, a flight attendant announced that everyone would have to show their documents in order to get off the plane. After passengers expressed their consternation, the flight attendant repeated her announcement, stating that officers would be meeting the plane and every passenger would have to show government-issued ID to deplane.
The case, Amadei v. Duke, was filed in
Eastern District New York (Duke’s the Acting Secretary of Homeland
Security). The government is not having an easy time trying to get
this case dismissed. The docket for yesterday shows:
MEMORANDUM & ORDER, For the foregoing reasons, Defendants’ motion to dismiss (Dkt. 32) is DENIED. Defendants’ motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ APA claim is DENIED. Defendants’ motion to stay discovery pending a decision on Defendants’ motion to dismiss (Dkt. 70) is DENIED as moot. So Ordered by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis on 12/13/2018. (Lee, Tiffeny) (Entered: 12/13/2018)
I’ve uploaded the memorandum and order, below.
Perspective. A new world for my students to
explore.
Internet of
Bodies: The Privacy and Security Implications - CPO Magazine
… Over the past few years, technological
advances in healthcare and medicine have combined with advances in AI
to create a brave new world that some have called the “Internet of
Bodies.” Instead of simply hooking up digital devices and
connected objects to the Internet, as with the Internet of Things, we
are now hooking up human bodies to the Internet.
With the Internet of Bodies, connected devices
from tech companies are now being implanted, ingested and affixed to
the human body in ways never before imagined. And these connected
devices are simultaneously generating tremendous amounts of data
about our behaviors, our physiology, and even our DNA. Examples of
Internet of Bodies innovations include smart contact lenses that are
able to monitor glucose levels, artificial lenses used to correct
vision, Bluetooth-equipped electronic pills, digital tattoos, and
even Fitbit devices that monitor and analyze very intimate profiles
of your health and physiological functions.
… Imagine being turned down for healthcare
coverage because an AI system detected certain warning signs in all
of your biometric or physiological data, or being required by the
state to undergo behavioral modification training for committing a
“health crime.”
Perspective.
More
Americans are making no weekly purchases with cash
“Americans are becoming less reliant on physical
currency. Roughly
three-in-ten U.S. adults (29%) say they make no purchases using cash
during a typical week, up slightly from 24% in 2015. And
the share who say that all or almost all of their weekly purchases
are made using cash has modestly decreased, from 24% in 2015 to 18%
today, according to a new
Pew Research Center survey that comes as some businesses
experiment with becoming cashless
establishments. Demographic patterns in the new survey, which
was conducted in September and October, are similar to those in a
2015
survey by the Center. Most notably, adults with an annual
household income of $75,000 or more are more than twice as likely as
those earning less than $30,000 a year to say they do not make any
purchases using cash in a typical week (41% vs. 18%). Conversely,
lower-income Americans are about four times as likely as
higher-income Americans to say they make all or almost all of their
purchases using cash (29% vs. 7%)…
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