How
can you not follow even the simplest Best Practices? Was
this more than a random hack?
Ransomware
Attack in Florida Forces Prosecutor to Drop Charges in Drug Cases
When
a ransomware attack hits an institution or company, expectations are
roughly the same. People either pay to restore services, which
doesn’t always guarantee a decryption key from the attackers, or
they don’t pay and lose the information entirely. If
they’re lucky, they have backups. [No
luck required! Bob]
The entire process is followed by the purchase of new equipment and
services. This means the overall cost of a ransomware attack is
usually much higher than the ransom itself, and way
higher than the cost of avoiding the whole problem in the first place
by setting up a security solution.
In
the Stuart incident, the ransomware hit police servers and
infrastructure, resulting in the loss of data that included evidence
against various defendants. After the dust settled, the
State Attorney’s Office had to drop 11 narcotic cases for loss of
evidence.
Much
of the non-physical evidence in a trial is stored on police
computers. Things like photos and videos were wiped clean, setting
back the prosecutorial process so much that it was impossible to
continue with the cases.
The
problem with collecting lots of data useful to hackers.
(Perhaps they do not store the data on servers they own?)
Clearview
AI has billions of our photos. Its entire client list was just stolen
Clearview
AI, a startup that compiles billions of photos for facial recognition
technology, said it lost its entire client
list to
hackers.
The
company said it has patched the unspecified flaw that allowed the
breach to happen.
In
a statement, Clearview AI's attorney Tor Ekeland said that while
security is the company's top priority, "unfortunately, data
breaches are a part of life. Our
servers were never accessed."
He added that the company continues to strengthen its security
procedures and that the flaw has been patched.
…
In
a notification sent to customers obtained
by Daily Beast,
Clearview AI said that an intruder "gained unauthorized access"
to its customer list, which includes police forces, law enforcement
agencies and banks. The company said that the person didn't obtain
any search histories conducted by customers
(Related)
Perhaps we need databases of all parts and pieces?
This
AI needs your help to identify child abusers by their hands
Algorithms
will match the suspect's hands to those found in images of abuse
Hacking
the election with social engineering rather than social media.
Online
'Impersonator' Tried to Contact Campaigns, DNC Says
The
Democratic National Committee has warned its presidential candidates
to be cautious after Bernie Sanders’ campaign reported that an
“impersonator” with a domain registered overseas had posed as one
of its staffers and sought conversations with members of at least two
other campaigns.
Bob
Lord, the DNC’s chief security officer, wrote in an email to his
party’s presidential campaigns on Wednesday that “adversaries
will often try to impersonate real people on a campaign” to get
people to “download suspicious files, or click on a link to a
phishing site.” Lord said attackers may also try to set up a call
or in-person meeting that they can record and publish.
Follow-up.
Nigerian
man arrested 3 years after $850,000 stolen from Boulder Valley School
District
Dara
Bitler reports:
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says a Nigerian man has been arrested more than three years after $850,000 was stolen from the Boulder Valley School District in an email scam.
According to the arrest affidavit, Sherifdeen Mogaji, 39, was arrested on February 21 and booked into the Boulder County Jail on suspicion of theft of $100,000 to $999,000, computer crime and forgery.
Read
more on KDVR.
Speeding
the maturity of IoT?
This
law
journal article discusses
the role of class-action litigation to secure the Internet of Things.
Basically,
the article postulates that (1) market realities will produce
insecure IoT devices, and (2) political failures will leave that
industry unregulated. Result: insecure IoT. It proposes proactive
class action litigation against manufacturers of unsafe and unsecured
IoT devices before
those devices cause unnecessary injury or death. It's a lot
to read, but it's an interesting take on how to secure this otherwise
disastrously insecure world.
Perhaps
Oceania has not always been at war with Eastasia?
Brave
Browser Integrates Wayback Machine to View Deleted Web Pages
Bleeping
Computer –
“Brave
Browser has now integrated the Wayback Machine to display web pages
that have been removed from a web site or not available due to a web
site issue. The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the web that
is operated by the nonprofit organization Archive.org. Using the
Wayback Machine you can save snapshots of existing web pages for
archival or retrieve archived versions to see changes over time or
deleted pages. With today’s release of Brave Browser 1.4, when you
visit a web page and it returns a ‘404 Not Found’ HTTP error code
indicating that a page is missing, the browser will prompt you to
load the page on the Archive.org’s Wayback
Machine instead.
As an example, Brave’s announcement uses the Whitehouse.gov’s
Climate
Change page that
was deleted soon after Trump became president. When visiting the
page in Brave, the web server will respond with a ‘404 Not Found’
error code, which will cause Brave to prompt you to check if a saved
version is available on the Wayback Machine…”
For
all my students.
How
to protect your privacy on Instagram
Perhaps
the ‘Next Big Thing’ hides in these?
10
Breakthrough Technologies 2020
- Unhackable internet
- Hyper-personalized medicine
- Digital money
- Anti-aging drugs
- AI-discovered molecules
- Satellite mega-constellations
- Quantum supremacy
- Tiny AI
- Differential privacy
- Climate change attribution
I
guess not everyone has gone vegan.
Dunkin’s
latest release is quite simply a bag of bacon
… Starting
Wednesday, Snackin' Bacon was available at Dunkin' restaurants
nationwide.
What's
that, you wonder? It's just like it sounds: Eight half-strips of
bacon wrapped up in a sleeve.
"Here
at Dunkin', we've been working hard to formulate the
perfect afternoon pick-me-up [???
Bob]
and really, what's better than a bag full of bacon?" the company
said in a blog post.
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