Goodman, an elections lawyer and adviser, plans to leave Feb. 16. He will join the political law group of Wiley Rein in Washington.
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Friday, February 9, 2018
Goodman, an elections lawyer and adviser, plans to leave Feb. 16. He will join the political law group of Wiley Rein in Washington.
Saturday, June 6, 2015
With A Series Of Major Hacks, China Builds A Database On Americans
China is building massive databases of Americans’ personal information by hacking government agencies and U.S. health-care companies, using a high-tech tactic to achieve an age-old goal of espionage: recruiting spies or gaining more information on an adversary, U.S. officials and analysts say.
Groups of hackers working for the Chinese government have compromised the networks of the Office of Personnel Management, which holds data on millions of current and former federal employees, as well as the health insurance giant Anthem, among other targets, the officials and researchers said.
“They’re definitely going after quite a bit of personnel information,” said Rich Barger, chief intelligence officer of ThreatConnect, a Northern Virginia cybersecurity firm. “We suspect they’re using it to understand more about who to target [for espionage], whether electronically or via human recruitment.”
Read the full story: www.washingtonpost.com
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Sunday, May 31, 2015
Internet Founders Saw Its Promise--But Did Not Foresee Users Hacking Each Other
David D. Clark, an MIT scientist whose air of genial wisdom earned him the nickname “Albus Dumbledore,” can remember exactly when he grasped the Internet’s dark side. He was presiding over a meeting of network engineers when news broke that a dangerous computer worm — the first to spread widely — was slithering across the wires.
One of the engineers, working for a leading computer company, piped up with a claim of responsibility for the security flaw that the worm was exploiting. “Damn,” he said. “I thought I had fixed that bug.”
But as the attack raged in November 1988, crashing thousands of machines and causing millions of dollars in damage, it became clear that the failure went beyond a single man. The worm was using the Internet’s essential nature — fast, open and frictionless — to deliver malicious code along computer lines designed to carry harmless files or e-mails.
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Monday, May 11, 2015
'Terrorism has gone viral': US officials, lawmakers warn of growing jihad-inspired attacks
Top U.S. officials and lawmakers on Sunday intensified concerns about the growing threat of jihad-inspired terror attacks against the United States, after last week’s attempt in Texas and the dire FBI warning that followed.
“I think there’s been an uptick in the stream of threats out there,” Texas GOP Rep. Mike McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re seeing these directives on almost a daily basis. It’s very concerning. Terrorism has gone viral.”
McCaul’s comments follow the May 3 attack by two gunmen outside a “Draw Muhammad” event in Garland, Texas.
Tweets by one of the two gunmen, killed by police in the attack, appear to link him to radical Islamic terror groups. And Internet chatter purportedly tipped off officials about a possible attack on the event.
On Thursday, FBI Director James Comey said the attack, in which a security officer was shot in the leg, highlights the difficulties the FBI faces -- as social media facilitates communication between terror groups and potential homegrown extremists.
He also said the Islamic State terror group has thousands of English-language followers on Twitter, including many in the U.S.
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America For Future Battle
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Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Muller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt, and Michael Sontheimer, Jan. 17, 2015, Der Spiegel
An intern's tasks might also include remotely destroying the functionality of hard drives. Ultimately, the goal of the internship program was "developing an attacker's mindset."
The internship listing is eight years old, but the attacker's mindset has since become a kind of doctrine for the NSA's data spies. And the intelligence service isn't just trying to achieve mass surveillance of Internet communication, either. The digital spies of the Five Eyes alliance -- comprised of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- want more.
Read more: www.spiegel.de
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An intern's tasks might also include remotely destroying the functionality of hard drives. Ultimately, the goal of the internship program was "developing an attacker's mindset."
The internship listing is eight years old, but the attacker's mindset has since become a kind of doctrine for the NSA's data spies. And the intelligence service isn't just trying to achieve mass surveillance of Internet communication, either. The digital spies of the Five Eyes alliance -- comprised of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- want more.
Read more: www.spiegel.de
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Christmas Returns Hit New High
Joel Lewin, Dec. 28, 2014, Financial Times
“The growth of ecommerce has been astronomical, but the processes to support the returns part of ecommmerce hasn’t matched it,” said Nila Patel, business development manager at Norbert Dentressangle, one of the UK’s largest parcel carriers.
Across ecommerce, returns average 15-20 per cent, although fashion eretailers see much higher rates of up to 50 per cent.
Read more: www.ft.com
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“The growth of ecommerce has been astronomical, but the processes to support the returns part of ecommmerce hasn’t matched it,” said Nila Patel, business development manager at Norbert Dentressangle, one of the UK’s largest parcel carriers.
Across ecommerce, returns average 15-20 per cent, although fashion eretailers see much higher rates of up to 50 per cent.
Read more: www.ft.com
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
WaPo: North Korea¹s Internet Is Going Suspiciously Haywire
Brian Fung, Dec. 22, 2014, Washington Post
Is this an attack? The chances aren't zero, considering that the few North Koreans who can actually get online tend to be government and military officials. Even if the outages are the result of somebody's deliberate act, however, proving that the United States did it would be difficult.
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Is this an attack? The chances aren't zero, considering that the few North Koreans who can actually get online tend to be government and military officials. Even if the outages are the result of somebody's deliberate act, however, proving that the United States did it would be difficult.
Read more: www.washingtonpost.com
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Saturday, December 6, 2014
Fears For Children As Google Targets Under-13s
Cahal Milmo, Dec. 5, 2014, The Independent
Google declined yesterday to say which of its panoply of products – ranging from its basic and highly lucrative search facility to YouTube and its Google Plus social media service to the Chrome browser – are to be made child-friendly.
Read more: www.independent.co.uk
Google declined yesterday to say which of its panoply of products – ranging from its basic and highly lucrative search facility to YouTube and its Google Plus social media service to the Chrome browser – are to be made child-friendly.
Read more: www.independent.co.uk
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Black Friday Brings Rough Sales Numbers For Music Retailers, High Notes For Vinyl And Online
Ed Christman, Dec. 4, 2014, Billboard
According to Nielsen Music, album sales declined 15.2 percent for the week ending Nov. 30, when sales were 7.28 million units, versus the nearly 8.6 million units scanned last year during the corresponding week ending Dec. 1. That decline is significantly higher than the 12.3 percent decline in album sales that the industry has experienced so far this year.
Read more: www.billboard.com
According to Nielsen Music, album sales declined 15.2 percent for the week ending Nov. 30, when sales were 7.28 million units, versus the nearly 8.6 million units scanned last year during the corresponding week ending Dec. 1. That decline is significantly higher than the 12.3 percent decline in album sales that the industry has experienced so far this year.
Read more: www.billboard.com
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Ted Cruz Says Net Neutrality Is 'Obamacare For The Internet
Colin Campbell, Nov. 10, 2014, Business Insider
Cruz, who is mulling a run for president in 2016, compared the entire concept of "net neutrality" — which posits that internet companies should not be allowed to speed or slow down their services for certain users — to Obama's much-maligned healthcare reform.
'"Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government," Cruz wrote on Twitter.
Cruz's spokeswoman, Amanda Carpenter, added that net neutrality would place the government "in charge of determining pricing, terms of service, and what products can be delivered. Sound like Obamacare much?"
Read more: www.businessinsider.com
Cruz, who is mulling a run for president in 2016, compared the entire concept of "net neutrality" — which posits that internet companies should not be allowed to speed or slow down their services for certain users — to Obama's much-maligned healthcare reform.
'"Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government," Cruz wrote on Twitter.
Cruz's spokeswoman, Amanda Carpenter, added that net neutrality would place the government "in charge of determining pricing, terms of service, and what products can be delivered. Sound like Obamacare much?"
Read more: www.businessinsider.com
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
Suppose each time you ran low on an item in your kitchen—olive oil, bananas, napkins—your instinctive response was to drop everything and race to the store. How much time would you lose? How much money would you squander on gas? What would happen to your productivity?
We all recognize the inefficiency of this approach. And yet surprisingly, we often work in ways that are equally wasteful.
The reason we keep a shopping list and try to keep supermarket trips to a minimum is that it’s easy to see the cost of driving to the store every time we crave a bag of potato chips. What is less obvious to us, however, is the cognitive price we pay each time we drop everything and switch activities to satisfy a mental craving.
Shifting our attention from one task to another, as we do when we’re monitoring email while trying to read a report or craft a presentation, disrupts our concentration and saps our focus. Each time we return to our initial task, we use up valuable cognitive resources reorienting ourselves. And all those transitional costs add up. Research shows that when we are deeply engrossed in an activity, even minor distractions can have a profound effect. According to a University of California-Irvine study, regaining our initial momentum following an interruption can take, on average, upwards of 20 minutes.
Multitasking, as many studies have shown, is a myth. A more accurate account of what happens when we tell ourselves we’re multitasking is that we’re rapidly switching between activities, degrading our clarity and depleting our mental energy. And the consequences can be surprisingly serious . An experiment conducted at the University of London found that we lose as many as 10 IQ points when we allow our work to be interrupted by seemingly benign distractions like emails and text messages.
The trouble, of course, is that multitasking is enjoyable. It’s fun to indulge your curiosity. Who knows what that next email, tweet or text message holds in store? Finding out provides immediate gratification. In contrast, resisting distraction and staying on-task requires discipline and mental effort.
And yet each time we shift our focus, it’s as if we’re taking a trip to the store. Creativity expert Todd Henry calls it a “task-shifting penalty.” We pay a mental tax that diminishes our ability to produce high-level work.
So what are we to do?
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Monday, June 30, 2014
By Bruce Urbin, Jun. 18, 2014, Forbes.com
The denial of service attack gets few props for novelty in a field that prizes novelty. In a denial of service (DoS) attack, hackers flood a Web site or application with pointless requests that clog or overwhelm network resources and potentially shut it down. DoS is a cudgel, not a lockpick designed to open up sensitive areas. Lately, though, its perpetrators are making up in volume what they’ve lacked in flair.
The chart below shows the biggest DDoS attacks by month, measured in billions of bits (gigabits) per second by security firm Arbor Networks. Most of these are DDoS attacks, the extra D stands for distributed, or originating from multiple computers. The spikes are getting higher, peaking with a 320 Gbps attack in February. That same month Cloudflare tracked a 400 Gbps attack. These are whoppers, people. A single DDoS surge of 100 gigabits per second is enough to disrupt most corporate networks. 300 gigs could flatten one.
Something has changed in the security landscape when you’re seeing spikes like these. Attacks larger than 20 gigabits per second rose eightfold in 2013 compared with 2012. As of April 2014 the Neustar Security Operations Center had already dealt with more than twice as many 100-plus Gbps attacks compared to all of last year. The average DDoS attack has gone up in size but is still in the range of 1 to 5 Gbps.
DoS was always seen as bothersome but not lethal. The cost is in downtime ($1 million/day on average). But security experts say these quick, sharp DDoS attacks are often smokescreening, a diversionary tactic from the main break-in for credit card numbers or other sensitive data. Hackers are also increasingly able to amplify their DDoS attacks by going after vulnerable Internet servers known as NTP or UDP servers that are fooled into thinking the packet is coming from the targeted server so they dutifully spew out vast quantities of responses to a target IP address. Depending on how powerful and networked the vulnerable server is, an attacker with a mere 1 Gbps connection can generate a 200 Gbps DDoS attack.
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| A geography of who's hitting whom in denial of service cyber attacks. The large unknown reflects the difficulty of measuring the threat. / Credit: Forbes.com |
The chart below shows the biggest DDoS attacks by month, measured in billions of bits (gigabits) per second by security firm Arbor Networks. Most of these are DDoS attacks, the extra D stands for distributed, or originating from multiple computers. The spikes are getting higher, peaking with a 320 Gbps attack in February. That same month Cloudflare tracked a 400 Gbps attack. These are whoppers, people. A single DDoS surge of 100 gigabits per second is enough to disrupt most corporate networks. 300 gigs could flatten one.
DoS was always seen as bothersome but not lethal. The cost is in downtime ($1 million/day on average). But security experts say these quick, sharp DDoS attacks are often smokescreening, a diversionary tactic from the main break-in for credit card numbers or other sensitive data. Hackers are also increasingly able to amplify their DDoS attacks by going after vulnerable Internet servers known as NTP or UDP servers that are fooled into thinking the packet is coming from the targeted server so they dutifully spew out vast quantities of responses to a target IP address. Depending on how powerful and networked the vulnerable server is, an attacker with a mere 1 Gbps connection can generate a 200 Gbps DDoS attack.
Read the full story: www.forbes.com
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
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A previously unreleased White House document among the 7,500 published by the Clinton presidential library Friday warns that the burgeoning Internet of 1995 is being “seized” by the “right wing” and turned into a “communication stream of conspiracy commerce.”
The 1995 report, titled “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce,” describes the Internet as a new method of communication ”employed by the right wing” and used to “convey their fringe stories into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media.”
Among those “fringe stories” were the now-infamous reports and lawsuits alleging extra-martial affairs with the president, including accusations from model and actress Gennifer Flowers, and murmurings about former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones, Mashable reports.
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