Mr. Byrne shows you how to swat a bug.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/03/watch-me-unravel-email-scam.html
Watch Me Unravel an Email Scam
As you know, I am a huge advocate for teaching students and teachers to respect copyright. To that end I always advocate for using your own media or media that is in the public domain whenever possible. So when an email with the subject line "DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice" landed in my inbox this morning, I immediately opened it. It turned out to be the second attempt by the same person to scam/ threaten me into linking to a website.
I outlined the basics of a similar scam a couple of years ago. In short, the person emails you to say that you are using an image in violation of their copyright or that of someone they represent (in this case the person was claiming to be an attorney). They then say that you have to link to a particular website within seven days or they will pursue some kind of legal action.
I was in a particularly bad mood this morning when I received this email so I decided to fight fire with fire. I did a little research on the person who claimed to be an attorney and then told her to get lost! If you're interested in the whole process that I went through, here's the video I made to explain it.
In the video you'll see me do the following:
Identify the fairly obvious red flags in the email.
Show the original image as found here on Pixabay.
Conduct an email trace (this video shows you all the steps).
Uncover that the "law firm" doesn't actually exist.
Discover that the "attorney" probably isn't even a real person.
Conduct a WHOIS look up.
Use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to view changes in a website.
Everything I missed?
U.S. AI, IoT, CAV, and Privacy Legislative Update – First Quarter 2022
This quarterly update summarizes key federal legislative and regulatory developments in the first quarter of 2022 related to artificial intelligence (“AI”), the Internet of Things (“IoT”), connected and automated vehicles (“CAVs”), and data privacy, and highlights a few particularly notable developments in the States.
Say what you mean, mean what you say.
https://www.pogowasright.org/geofence-warrants-are-the-future-and-thats-a-good-thing/
Geofence Warrants Are the Future (and That’s a Good Thing)
Eugene Volohn writes:
Jane Bambauer, a leading information law scholar (both on the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment side), wrote up these thoughts on the recent geofencing case, on which Orin had also written; I’m delighted to be able to pass them along:
Last week, Judge Lauck of the Eastern District of Virginia handed down the first thorough Fourth Amendment analysis of the police investigation process known as “geofencing.” Judge Lauck found that the geofence warrant at issue in the case was unconstitutional. Moreover, the infirmities she found would be very difficult to cure in most police investigations where geofenced data might be helpful.
Civil liberties organizations have praised the opinion, but like Orin Kerr, I found the opinion confusing and poorly reasoned in its handling of key Fourth Amendment precedent. So I’ll take this opportunity to add a few additional doctrinal critiques to Orin’s excellent summary.
Read more at Reason.
Should provide more information than we have had before, but I expect a lot of “corrections” to the initial reports.
President Biden Signs Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Payment and Cyber Incident Reporting into Law
Ashden Fein, Robert Huffman, Moriah Daugherty, and Hensey A. Fenton III of Covington and Burling write:
On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2022, a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package to fund the government through September 2022. The omnibus spending package includes the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (the “Act”), which establishes two cyber incident reporting requirements for covered critical infrastructure entities: a 24-hour requirement to report any ransomware payments to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) and a 72-hour requirement to report all covered cyber incidents to CISA. These requirements will take effect upon the issuance of implementing regulations from the Director of CISA.
Read more at InsidePrivacy.
(Related) “Ye olde days”
SEC filings show hidden ransomware costs and losses
The ransomware scourge reached unprecedented levels in 2021, with ransomware threat actors demanding, and in many cases receiving, ransom payments in the millions of dollars.
… CSO ‘s examination of 8-K filings at the SEC found 30 publicly traded companies that reported a ransomware incident, paid ransomware-related expenses, or received ransomware-related insurance reimbursements during 2020 and 2021. Although most of these filings deemed the ransomware attacks as not material or lacked financial data to spell out the costs experienced in dealing with the incidents, seven contained sufficient cost data to shed light on how high the costs of a ransomware incident can go.
Ransomware costs one company $50 million in legal expenses, another $64 million in lost revenue
The following are snapshots of what these filings had to say.
I want to write better. This seems like good advice.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tips-for-writing-long-emails/
5 Tips for Writing Long Emails That Recipients Can Read
Sending long emails to your clients and coworkers is typically frowned upon. However, there are times when you just need to send a lengthy update or overview.
In that case, you'll want to do yourself and the recipient a favor by getting right to the point and ensuring they don't need to dig through lengthy paragraphs for information.
In this article, we’ll take you through sometimes you can use to help make your longer emails more readable and easier to respond to.
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