After
shooting at each other on the border, is this an escalation or merely
a return to ‘actions less than war?’
40,300
hacking attempts suspected from entities in China to cripple utility,
infra services
… Between
Tuesday to Friday, there were up to 40,300 hacking attempts, also
referred to as ‘probes’, seeking to cripple the working of
public-private service providers located in New-Delhi and Mumbai,
cyber police sources said.
Though
the hacking attempts have been unsuccessful so far in doing any
concrete damage, their activities are unprecedented, the sources
said.
The
number of the hacking probes, 40,300, is unprecedented as for
instance, there were zero
such attempts from entities /individuals based in China last week,"
a source said.
Is
this a recent breach or something the underground has been tapping
for years?
‘BlueLeaks’
Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
Hundreds
of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments
across the United States were leaked online last week. The
collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks”
and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at a Texas
web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law
enforcement data-sharing portals.
The
collection — nearly 270 gigabytes in total — is the latest
release from Distributed
Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets),
an alternative
to Wikileaks that
publishes caches of previously secret data.
… KrebsOnSecurity
obtained an internal June 20 analysis by the National Fusion Center
Association (NFCA), which confirmed the validity of the leaked data.
The NFCA alert noted that the dates of the files in the leak actually
span nearly 24 years — from August 1996 through June 19, 2020 —
and that the documents include names, email addresses, phone numbers,
PDF documents, images, and a large number of text, video, CSV and ZIP
files.
“Additionally,
the data dump contains emails and associated attachments,” the
alert reads. “Our initial analysis revealed that some of these
files contain highly sensitive information such as ACH routing
numbers, international bank account numbers (IBANs), and other
financial data as well as personally identifiable information (PII)
and images of suspects listed in Requests for Information (RFIs) and
other law enforcement and government agency reports.”
How
would we make this function completely neutral?
Australia
warned to not ignore domestic misinformation in social media
crackdown
The
Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media has
been tasked with probing the risk posed to the nation's democracy by
foreign actors online, but it's been warned against ignoring the
power of domestic influence in spreading misinformation.
It's
also been cautioned against simply enforcing content blocking and
leaving the responsibility to a handful of mostly US-based tech
companies.
IF
the US breaks the patent, who pays to deliver a vaccine to the rest
of the world? (and a few thousand other questions)
The
Covid-19 Vaccine Should Belong to the People
The
Nation – The
US government has the authority under existing law to break patent
monopolies.
“…The idea that some people would not receive a vaccine was once
unthinkable. In a now legendary story, Jonas Salk developed the
polio vaccine in 1955—and then gave it away for free. An
interviewer once asked Salk who owned the patent for his polio
vaccine. He responded, “Well, the people, I would say. There is
no patent.” Salk was incredulous. “Could you patent the sun?”
Since then, pharmaceutical corporations have patented the medical
equivalent of the moon and the stars. Patent monopolies have fueled
the current drug pricing crisis, and they may block access to any
future Covid-19 vaccine… The public should get a say. Like Salk,
Bancel has benefited greatly from public dollars. His corporation
received millions in funding as early as 2013 to help develop its new
way of making vaccines. Federal scientists helped design the new
Covid-19 vaccine and are now running the critical human tests. The
government also just gave $483 million to scale manufacturing. The
public is paying at every stage for this potential vaccine—and so
many others. All five candidates Trump is expected to short-list
have benefited from public funding…”
Perspective.
(Who knew?)
Google's
U.S. Ad Revenue Is Expected to Decline in 2020, eMarketer Says
Google’s
U.S. advertising revenue will decline this year for the first time
since eMarketer began modeling it in 2008, the research firm said,
largely because Google’s core search product is so reliant on the
pandemic-battered travel
industry.
Historical
perspective.
How
the Web was Won
On
June 23, 1980 – 40 years ago tomorrow – English computer
scientist Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland,
began working on a project he called ENQUIRE. This work would
eventually evolve into hypertext, HTML and the World Wide Web.
I’ll
remember this testing method!
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