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Daily Links: Slow news day
- Weakness at CB "will be exploited" in 2014 [Rant Sports]
- Recapping the "Town Hall" event [The Jet Press]
- GGN readers discuss their favorite Jets memories [Gang Green Nation]
- Fan wants to blast Sanchez jersey into space [NFL.com]
- A new era for rookie contract negotiations [MMQB]
Personally, I think we should just embrace our warts. Until we prove otherwise, we're the butt fumbles. I was there that night and that makes me a butt fumble, too. And you know what? I'm also a fake spike victim....
I don't get how the Jets are weak at CB....This makes no sense to me.....Millner was a top 10 overall pick in the 2013 draft who looked great in December and now knows the defense. The guy's talent is there. Patterson when healthy is very good......and the Jets have Pryor now and good depth at CB......I am NOT worried about the secondary at all
This season comes down to Geno Smith limiting his mistakes (turnovers)......Vick also.......If the Jets do this they will be in the playoffs
"Gino and the Jets" running out of the 2 hole in the 6th at Belmont today. Got a chance at 8-1 on the morning line.
I think McDougle will step in and impress, out of the gate. CB will be fine. O Line is my ?
We have an improved running attack which will help us control the clock, we also have one of the best young D-lines in football & Antwan Barnes will be back & remind people of what a pass rush threat he was before he hurt himself vs the Falcons. The young secondary will be improved & helped by Barnes return along with what I believe will be a stud at safety.
Whoever wins the QB spot just needs to make the most of his over the middle weapons & stay within himself, Geno threw awful passes last season just sickening passes & Vick is known to make a foolish pass himself here & there. So whoever ends up starting just needs to stay within the program & not over do it.
The CB situation is overblown. Cromartie was atrocious last year:
"According to Pro Football Focus, he gave up 937 yards and seven touchdowns -- both third-worst in the league -- and allowed passers throwing into his coverage to post a 100.7 quarterback rating. All-in-all, he graded out as the 103rd-ranked cornerback (out of 110) at Pro Football Focus."
I don't think we'll have elite CB play. Our CB are young and will give up some big plays. Milliner has the upside to be elite. We'll see about McDougle. However, can't do much worse than Cro did last season. We were 22nd in passing defense last year. With Cro out and Pryor over the top I believe that will improve. Additionally, we were second to last in passing offense last year. With them addition of Breno (who was rated as a better pass and run blocker than Howard per PFF) CJ (MM will utilize extensively as a catching RB), Decker, and Amaro that will also improve. Unfortunately we have a tough schedule. Unless the team really gets together I can't see anything better than a 10-6 season (at best).
The more I think about this the more amazing it is. Geno who came from a simple college offense and had to learn an entire pro system as a raw rookie with no supporting cast, and what little he did have was always hurt and off the field, still managed a .500 season and the last 4 games had the second best qb rating in the entire league behind Peyton Manning! Aside from that, the other day a poster had clips of the Jets which showed many shots of Geno in action and what I noticed and stood out aside from his progression at the end of the season, is that he does something that cant be taught.... even when he knows he will be be crushed, he stands and delivers! Also, when the pocket breakdowns, he is now using his legs more to turn the play into positive yards and the great thing is, is that he slides and runs out of bounds and doesn't take unnecessary punishment like other scrambling QBs. Call me overly optimistic, but I see something special in him. I have seen solid vets stumble who had no supporting cast around them, and when you look at what this kid did considering all the circumstances and being thrown into the fire, you have to be really impressed. I can't wait to see him in action this season. As long as the line plays consistent, he will make a HUGE jump.
A big Congrats to the Rangers and their OT win last night, what a game!
I remember Wilks citing last season that the secondary was making matters difficult for the pass rush. He stated that if they could cover wrs a little longer it would give the pass rush the time it needs but the opposing wrs were not covered well enough and it affected the pass rush. I know in Rex's system top CB play is a must, that is what baffled me on why Idzik didn't go after a proven top notch vet in FAcy, but I am sure they have their reasoning.
I think the CB weakness thing is overblown. Milliner will be ok he isnt the finished product but will continue to improve. Hank told me Patterson is good and we are lucky to get him so Im going with that. I mean who knows Miami players better than Hank?
Can Walls be the man? I admit, I am a little unsettled on our CB situation with Milliner still learning and the question mark on the other side, but if Milliner can continue from where he left off and show why he was an early 1st round pick, that would be huge. We have a lot of depth at CB, so if Patterson or Walls can become a bonifide starter opposite Milliner we will be ok. I know there are serious questions in this area, but it just might turn out fine. Wilson is solid in the slot and on long passing downs, and we do have some depth, so if Walls can rise to the occasion, and he did show some promise filling in for Dee last season, Patterson can be utilized in packages in the slot or the other way around with Walls. Sure, I would have liked a solid vet to be acquired in last Facy but that ship has sailed and now we have to hope for the best. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2075490-who-will-win-the-new-york-jets-2nd-cornerback-battle
@bradysucks I'm with you. I think Walls and Lankster are even marginal starters (which means they're solid depth).
@harvlis How many 3rd round CBs do you know that just hit the ground running their first season from the getgo? Even the TOP 1ST rounders need time as we seen with Milliner. If what you say is true, it will be like winning the lottery! He could be a gem, but still will need plenty of time.
@Hanknaples Now theres an optimistic article.
@Hanknaples Hanky panky, wazz up brother!!!!!
@jake100 "the last 4 games had the second best qb rating in the entire league behind Peyton Manning!"
No he didn't. His rating for those games was 83.6 - certainly respectable by his own standards, but nowhere near the top of the league.
He was 2nd in ESPN's QBR but that's a totally different statistic which includes subjectivity.
If we're going to use a subjective statistic, why not use PFF's grades? At least they're transparent about how they calculate these. Geno's NFL rank over the last four games: 4th, 3rd, 22nd, 13th
However that only takes into account overall rating. If we isolate his grades for passing only he places 10th, 8th, 22nd, 18th.
Clearly there's no way this should translate to "second best passer in the NFL behind Peyton Manning" over that span.
This leads me to realize something: It seems that ESPN's QBR takes into account runs (yes, it does: http://espn.go.com/nfl/qbr ) so actually that explains why Geno was up there because he had a few TDs over that span. Of course you could argue that an evaluation of a QB's performance should include runs, but as currently presented it's misleading to portray him as the second best passer in the league over that span. Sorry, Rex.
@levi I agree, while it is a concern and with valid reasons, there is reasonable potential that it could turn out positive.
@jake100 Wilson, Patterson, Walls and Lankster have all displayed competence (if not better) when given an extended role.
And Ras-I Dowling might have more upside than any of them.
This might be the most overblown story of the offseason.
@williamg1 @bradysucks
I am pretty psyched about the upcoming season.....
Only very stupid people (and there are SO many of them) are going to question the Jets about not having a competitive defense that will keep them in games in 2014. Rex will be Rex and he will put a great defense on the field.
What excites me is the offense. The Jets have guys now who can score. It is pathetic that it took the team so long to get to this point but the Jets offense has finally arrived (meaning the talent has arrived). This is actually an offense with some firepower and depth at the skill positions.
Geno and Vick must must must protect the football.......This is a no brainer....and yet it HAS to be repeated over and over because the QB's have been so terrible for the Jets in recent years protecting the ball
His injury led to his draft position. He looks like a leader and an all-around force. Players like him move up quickly. Can't wait to see him do it.
@jake100 @harvlis Milliner is not a good example because Alabama cornerbacks always start slow due to the way Saban uses them.
As Desmond Trufant showed last year, sometimes you can step right in as a first round pick. And even a third rounder, like Tyrann Mathieu last year, can make an immediate impact if they fit the system.
However, for a third rounder like McDougle to leapfrog the handful of players ahead of him that have all proven they can handle an extended role might be optimistic. It would certainly be a good sign if he could, though!
So if you average those four grades he was ranked either 10 or 11 over the last 4 games. If he can be the 11th ranked QB this season the Jets will make the playoffs and go deep.
Rex is not the only person to have said this.....glad to see you straightening this silliness out Bent.
@Bent @jake100 I said I was being overly optimistic, but even you said he did show a lot of progress down the stretch, and considering all the circumstances that he faced, the arrow is definitely pointing up, so stop throwing cold water on my parade, it is very rare that I am this positive, just enjoy it, or I will start with all my CONCERNS again, lol
I remember something where they asked him about the play of the DBs, and wilk said something like "we all gotta do a better job and help each other out". Very vanilla comment but seeing how he's the star of the D - clearly doing HIS job well - I see how it could be construed that he was calling out the DBs.
Well, not by a rational person, but by the NY media.
If I remember correctly, we were saying similar things last season........how deep the CB position was and how we weren't concerned with them for the upcoming season.
@Bent @jake100 Believe it or not I am starting to believe that, now can drench me in some kool aid with the oline, lol All jokes aside, you very well could be right but the physics folks say not all potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy, but at least having the potential is a a good start. So in essence, I guess it looks like we have some potential and it could turn out fine but the operative word is could. This training camp will be awesome!
@a57se @harvlis I think everyone is minimizing the effect of Wilson who has been developing steadily, I could see times with Wilson and Milner, then in a nickel add Patterson and get Wilson back in the slot. then the pressure isn't too much on McDougle., but then again what do I know, I'm a Jet fan.
@Hanknaples @levi They have some weapons in the pass goame so I expect a fairly balanced attack this year as long as Geno can handle it if not Vick will.
@Hanknaples @jake100 Thanks! You know it, we went nutso!!!!! We still have work to do, but I am very impressed with this Rangers team!
I agree. My personal minimum goal would be for the Jets QB to be ranked middle of the pack. No lower than 18. I believe with that they will make the playoffs.
@Pete 57 There, that's a more reasonable expectation. I'd still be surprised but I do think the Jets could make the playoffs even without the QB being rated that high.
@High$ocietyJet I didn't realize that runs were taken into account until today though, so this carries more weight that "the QBR stat is stupid" so let's ignore it, which was the crux of my previous argument.
57 I could have swore both and Bent have straighten this out more than once and Joey knows it.
@Bent @jake100 Got ya! I just know that with the upgraded supporting cast and a solid year under his belt with another training camp, and from the encouraging signs at the end of last season, that he will make a nice jump, but again, obviously there are other factors like the play of the oline, injuries, ect, but from his situation last year being thrown into the fire, learning a pro offense and the dearth of weapons, this year he will think he is in heaven, lol I am sticking with the kid, I like the signs that I am seeing of growth and again, the circumstances have to be considered. It was not like he had what Sanchez had his first season- a well rounded supporting cast, a #1 oline, #1 running game and #1 defense. I truly think we will see a nice jump this season barring a collapse of the oline and or major injuries on offense.
@jake100 The comment was aimed more at Rex than you. Hence "Sorry, Rex" at the end.
That's something Rex actually said, so you could be forgiven for repeating it. It's misleadingly optimistic though. Past performance has little to do with how we can expect Geno to play this year, anyway.
I'm pretty sure it was a post game press conference after one of the later losses....maybe the Buffalo game?
Hopefully there is a healthy balance of violence and technique.
Haha...that is a unique way to put it!
@Bent I expect to see more jamming this year and just over all more aggressiveness from the secondary. I think it will produce turnovers but is also more likely to get burnt too. Hopefully there is a healthy balance of violence and technique.
@Bent I wont get into the coaches here but I would like to know what was being confused. Was it the jamming at the line?
@a57se @Bent True, but then Walls, Wilson and Lankster all performed well when they were used...they just weren't used enough.
The poor play last year was all down to Dee and Cro (although Dee turned it around and Cro had a viable excuse), not the inadequacies of any of those other players. I think some level of disconnect between the coaches played a part too but they seem to have that ironed out.
I would hope that the decision to let Dee take his lumps will continue to pay dividends and there will be no sentiment that they can't bench a highly paid player when he's underperforming (because there is no highly paid player at this position) this time around. I can see why they did both of those things, but it definitely hurt the team in the short term.


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'Cloak of Invisibility' lets you hide from Google: Padded coat blocks radio waves to stop firms accessing your phone's data
Data collection has become a growing concern for many users of smart technology, which can record numerous personal details, some of which is collected without their knowledge. With that in mind Coop Himmelb(l)au, an Austrian architecture company, created the Jammer Coat to protect the wearer from unwanted data collection. The Jammer Coat is a padded cloak that contains metallic fibres designed to block radio waves, shielding the wearer from tracking devices.
All signals are designed to be blocked from reaching devices once they are stored inside the coat, meaning vital information from important items such as credit cards is protected from those looking to obtain it. This also means it is blocked from WI-Fi networks, mobile providers and more. And with numerous pockets of different sizes the coat can accommodate smartphones, tablets and a range of other devices. The white coat is also patterned with black spots, which have been designed to mask the wearer's true body shape.
'The CHBL Jammer Coat is a piece of clothing that enables its user to disappear: Google cannot find you anymore,' said a spokesperson for Coop Himmelb(l)au. The piece is made of metallised fabrics, which are blocking radio waves and shielding the wearer against tracking devices. You are no longer reachable on your mobile phone and no information from your credit card can be captured.
Even though it looks like duvet, I rather like it, but then I've always liked the elegance of desert robes, especially their coolness in the summer heat.
Hackers are holding the world to ransom: Cyber attacks cost the global economy more than £328 billion a year, claims report
Failing to protect yourself online is so irresponsible, it could threaten the economy of entire nations.
That's according to a security report by California-based group, McAfee, which suggests cybercrime is now such big business, it is worth more than the wealth of some countries.
As a business, cybercrime would be ranked 27th in the world based on revenue, and the attacks are currently costing the world more than £328 billion ($400 billion) a year.
They claim the big problem remains a lack of understanding among the public about different threats that exist.
As part of the report, Samani revealed there are 20 to 30 cybercrime groups that are operating on a 'nation-state level'.
This means they are working on an industrial scale, and overcome almost any sort of web defence they face.
'We want the economy to grow, and it's being held back by cybercrime.
'If you're not taking important measures you're contributing to criminals, and I mean nasty criminals, making money off you. Not taking action is resulting in people losing their jobs,' he said.
The report found that more than 200,000 jobs had been lost as a result of cybercrime - through reputation damage or loss of assets.
The news comes in the wake of continued efforts to improve web security before the 'two-week threat' elapses, and two viruses that have infected thousands of computers are active again.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged users to install anti-virus software on their computer and ensure that the latest operating systems were also installed on their computers.
If systems do not offer automatic updates, people should enable it, the department said.
It also advised changing passwords, as original passwords may have been compromised during the infection.
Beware of doing online banking on your mobile phone. Security expert reveals that ANYONE can hack a bank's app using free internet tools
Mobile security expert Wilson Bond, a technical manager at mobile security firm Arxan Technologies has demonstrated how a banking app can be hacked.
He built a dummy app and used reverse engineering to connect to a server. When sending money, the server was able to obtain the user's password
It was then programmed to piggyback onto the payment and transfer money to the hacker's account. There are also tools and online tutorials to teach hackers the process. He did point out that iOS apps and software are more secure and closely monitored than Android, for example - except on jailbroken devices.
'Jailbreaking' is the process of removing certain restrictions Apple places on apps and downloads, for example, and makes it easier for developers to adjust settings.
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eBay hit by major cyber attack: 128 million are urged to change their password NOW after hackers access personal details
What personal details were stolen?
Hackers gained access to eBay customers' names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.
It is unclear whether all, or any, of the details were taken but security experts are warning people to assume the worst.
Are my credit cards details safe?
The firm said that the infiltrated part of the network did not contain any financial details, so in theory, yes.
Will changing my password solve the problem?
Changing passwords will stop hackers from being able to use any login details that were stolen.
However, they could still use names, addresses and birth dates to commit identity fraud.
It's a good idea to change passwords following any attack such as this. It's also important to update login details on any sites that use the same password.
If a hacker has your password and email address they could use it to attempt to access other sites that use the same combination.
As a rule, the same password should never be used across different sites.
Should I change my PayPal password as well?
PayPal, which owns eBay, has confirmed its accounts and customers have not been affected by this cyber attack.
However, as a matter of course, it's good practice to change all related passwords across different sites, including PayPal.
Which countries are affected?
At the moment, we can assume that all eBay customers worldwide will be affected by this breach, until eBay says otherwise.
Is this hack a result of the Heartbleed bug?
When Heartbleed was exposed, eBay announced its customer's account were secure and had not been affected. This suggests the latest hack is a separate attack.
How did hackers steal the information?
It is unclear how the hackers got hold of the information but eBay said it is working with forensic teams to get an answer to this question.
Why did it take so long for eBay to inform customers of the breach?
MailOnline has contacted eBay for an answer to this question. It is unclear what caused the delay.
Typically, following cyber attacks, a firm will investigate the breach to try and determine how many people are affected, and the severity of the attack, before issuing advice.
The biggest flaw in Internet history affecting as many as two-thirds of the world's websites.
The Heartbleed bug lets hackers eavesdrop on supposedly secure communications.
German developer Dr Robin Seggelmann admitted he wrote the code. It was then reviewed by other members and added to OpenSSL software. This addition led to the Heartbleed flaw in the open-source program
Code was added in December, 2011, and no-one picked up the error.
As if the fact that we all have to change our passwords yet again were not bad enought, Bloomberg reports NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years
Putting the Heartbleed bug in its arsenal, the NSA was able to obtain passwords and other basic data that are the building blocks of the sophisticated hacking operations at the core of its mission, but at a cost. Millions of ordinary users were left vulnerable to attack from other nations' intelligence arms and criminal hackers.
"It flies in the face of the agency's comments that defense comes first," said Jason Healey, director of the cyber statecraft initiative at the Atlantic Council and a former Air Force cyber officer. "They are going to be completely shredded by the computer security community for this."
"We've never seen any quite like this," said Michael Sutton, vice president of security research at Zscaler, a San Jose, California-based security firm. "Not only is a huge portion of the Internet impacted, but the damage that can be done, and with relative ease, is immense."
The potential stems from a flawed implementation of protocol used to encrypt communications between users and websites protected by OpenSSL, making those supposedly secure sites an open book. The damage could be done with relatively simple scans, so that millions of machines could be hit by a single attacker.
Ace comments What the hell. What the unholy hell.
This is scary. I'm not even so much bothered by the NSA itself preserving a backdoor into my private stuff. I always figured they could do that anyway, if they wanted.
But they've also exposed everyone to criminal hacking and even compromise by foreign intelligence services.
What the hell. What the unholy hell.
Biz Insider Here's How To Protect Yourself From The Massive Security Flaw That's Taken Over The Internet
Security firms are urging users to only change passwords on sites that have confirmed they are safe
'Changing your password on a vulnerable site makes little difference because the site is still open to attack….'This means your old password would have been at risk, but you're also giving hackers access to your new password - a double whammy.
Affected sites include a number of Google services, including Gmail and YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Yahoo and Dropbox. All of these sites have been patched and security experts are advising people to change their passwords on these accounts, even if the sites themselves aren't issuing the advice.
Business Insider Find Out Instantly If A Site Has Been Infected By 'Heartbleed'
I never knew that some smartphone apps
contain computer code that allow the app developer to use the cell phone's camera or microphone at any time, and record cell phone conversations at any time. Listening to a cell phone conversation in the past would require that the police take evidence to a court and ask a judge to sign a warrant allowing a police wiretap. Yet today, many apps effectively usurp the privacy of downloaders at the push of a phone button.
Can we give away our constitutional rights by accepting to download a free app?
Right now these rights can be taken away by the state only after a long and arduous legal process. A convicted felon, for example, will lose his right to vote.
Up to now, a person could give away copyright rights to a photograph, for example, only by physically signing a photo release. Or he could sign away the copyright protections for a piece of music to a record company. But apps today could sneak in language that states that any music transmitted by a smartphone becomes the property of the person who developed the app. This was all made possible because written signatures were replaced by the e-signature, and now only a click of the "accept" button is required.
John McAfee has had enough of excessive app permissions launched Cognizant on March 1st
The product is called Cognizant, a free to download app for Android mobile phones and tablets. It protects those devices by empowering the user to be fully aware of all the permissions that applications have been granted on a device, knowingly or not.
In a non-descript Montreal office building, McAfee demonstrated how one popular chat application in particular had by default been granted what can only be described as excessive permissions. The application has access to things like: all call history, contacts, GPS, camera access, the ability to silently make calls and even turn off notifications of these activities to the user. I install the app on my own phone to see this and sure enough, it's pretty shocking. If you think about it, if one were to describe a program that did all of these things on a PC, it could be called malware. McAfee states that there are thousands upon thousands of apps out there doing the exact same thing, taking more permissions than are clearly necessary or that you may be comfortable with.
While awaiting a similar app for the iPhone, I just got rid of a bunch of apps that I never used.
Just as the Pew Research Center released a survey showing Americans would give up TV before they would give up the Internet.
53 percent of US Internet users would find it "very hard" to give up Web access, up from 38 percent in 2006….
35 percent of all US adults television would be very hard to give up, compared with 44 percent in 2006…..
Using the Web -- browsing it, searching it, sharing on it -- has become the main activity for hundreds of millions of people around the globe," Pew said.
Comes this news of the "'mind boggling' stash of 360 million stolen web site credentials for sale online in what could be biggest breach in history
A cybersecurity firm has uncovered stolen credentials from 360 million accounts that are available for sale on cyber black markets…they warn the discovery could represent more of a risk to consumers and companies than stolen credit card data because of the chance the sets of user names and passwords could open the door to online bank accounts, corporate networks, health records and virtually any other type of computer system….'The sheer volume is overwhelming.'….
Alex Holden, chief information security officer of Hold Security LLC….believes the 360 million records were obtained in separate attacks, including one that yielded some 105 million records, which would make it the largest single credential breaches known to date.
He said he believes the credentials were stolen in breaches that have yet to be publicly reported. The companies attacked may remain unaware until they are notified by third parties who find evidence of the hacking, he said.
'We have staff working around the clock to identify the victims,' he said.
Do you think this will change anyone's mind?
Medical Identity Theft and Obamacare
Michael Ollove, a reporter for Stateline, noted that 43 percent of identity-theft incidents in the United States are medical-related, "a far greater chunk than identity thefts involving banking and finance, the government and the military, or education. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that since it started keeping records in 2009, the medical records of between 27.8 million and 6.7 million people have been breached."
Regardless, as many as 31 states do not conduct background checks on Obamacare navigators, who have access to enrollees' names, Social Security numbers, financial records, and health information. A recent NR report found that in California, at least 43 navigators approved by the state health exchange had prior convictions, including for forgery and welfare fraud.
All American Credit Cards Will Disappear In 2015 And Be Replaced With This New Tech
Every credit card in the U.S. will be replaced by October 2015 with new cards that contain the chip-and-PIN technology that the rest of the world has had for years, according to the Wall Street Journal. Both Visa and MasterCard are committed to the switch, which will render extinct the plastic in your wallets and purses right now.
No more black magnetic stripes; no more signing on the dotted line.
Americans who have traveled to Europe in recent years will know that the U.S.'s credit card system is embarrassingly old-fashioned by comparison. It's often difficult to use American credit cards abroad because the Europeans abandoned magnetic stripes and signatures years ago — they were too easily hacked. Credit and debit cards in the U.S. are about 10 years behind the rest of the world.
The new cards contain a microchip and require the owner to enter a PIN into a payment machine at checkout. They are more secure for a couple of reasons.
First, requiring the PIN prevents checkout staff from handling your card — they will simply hand you the point-of-sale device and customers will insert their cards and verify payment themselves.
Second, the chip replaces the magnetic stripe, which is easily copied and therefore vulnerable to hackers, as the Target sting proved. In France, chip-and-PIN allegedly reduced credit-card fraud by 80% (although the sourcing for this number is vague).
It's not just Healthcare.gov that's a "honeypot for hackers" where applicants have "no reasonable expectation of privacy"
Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures against even modestly skilled hackers.
The report…paints a broader picture of chronic dysfunction, citing repeated failures by federal officials to perform the unglamorous work of information security. That includes installing security patches, updating anti-virus software, communicating on secure networks and requiring strong passwords. A common password on federal systems, the report found, is "password".
The report levels particularly tough criticism at the Department of Homeland Security, which helps oversee cybersecurity at other federal agencies. The report concluded that the department had failed even to update essential software — "the basic security measure just about any American with a computer has performed."
Report: 4 in 10 Government Security Breaches Go Undetected DHS, DOJ, DOD, EPA, NASA, Energy, State routinely hacked
Nearly every agency has been attacked, including the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Defense, State, Labor, Energy, and Commerce. NASA, the EPA, the FDA, the U.S. Copyright Office, and the National Weather Service have also been hacked or had personal information stolen.
In one example, hackers breached the national Emergency Broadcast System in February 2013 to broadcast "zombie attack warnings" in several midwestern states.
Even worse, nearly four in 10 intrusions into major civilian agencies go undetected….
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which contains volumes of information on the nation's nuclear facilities, "regularly experiences unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information," according to the report.
The agency has "no official process for reporting" breaches, cannot keep track of how many laptops it has, and kept information on its own cybersecurity programs, and its commissioner's "passport photo, credit card image, home address, and phone number," on an unsecure shared drive.
"Weaknesses in the federal government's own cybersecurity have put at risk the electrical grid, our financial markets, our emergency response systems, and our citizens' personal information," Coburn, ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement. "While politicians like to propose complex new regulations, massive new programs, and billions in new spending to improve cybersecurity, there are very basic—and critically important—precautions that could protect our infrastructure and our citizens' private information that we simply aren't doing."
The people who are STILL living like it's 1951: Captivating portraits take a look inside America's Rockabilly community
Photographer Jennifer Greenburg, an assistant professor of photography at Indiana University, has been photographing the Rockabilly culture for 10 years.
People that not only dress like it's the Fifties, but also drive perfectly preserved Cadillacs and decorate their homes with furniture to rival the retro sets of Mad Men.
'At first I thought the culture was about fashion,' the 36-year-old photographer told MailOnline. 'Then I realized it was much, much, more than that. I realized that this was a culture of people who functioned as a community.'
The community of people Ms Greenburg has documented, she believes, usually have a desire for this kind of joyousness that was lost in the 21st Century. 'Happiness, I believe, is everyone's primary full-time job. And living a life that resembles, visually, the 1950's helps make that just a little easier,' she said.
From re-wiring a lamp, to re-sewing the seams of a Fifties cocktail dress, Ms Greenburg added that most true participants of the culture are skilled at repairing and restoring most of their possessions.
'I realized what a special and lovely thing I found myself a part of,' she said. 'I have a friend in every city in America that I can call today and go visit tomorrow. That friend will open up his door to me, and, help me with anything that I need -- a laugh, a drink of water, a shoulder to cry on -- just like only the best of friends do.'
From Reflections of a Paralytic » Sperm Donor Recalls Meeting His Donor-Daughter Decades Later
All Narelle Grech from Australia knew of her father was that his code name was T5, he was brown-haired and brown-eyed with O-positive blood type. "When I was a teenager, I carried that information around with me on a scrap of paper, the way other kids carried a photograph of their dad," she said. "It was my way of keeping a link to him because I had nothing else."
Born in 1983, Narelle started searching for her biological father fifteen years ago. That search became even more urgent when she was diagnosed her with advanced bowel cancer in 2011, a disease which doctors said might kill her within the next five years. The disease is genetic and she didn't get it from her mother's side. Shortly after her diagnosis, Grech has also discovered that she has eight half-siblings created with her biological father's sperm: "Each one may be a genetic time bomb waiting to go off and it's probable that they don't know anything about it."
Narelle was finally united with her biological father in February of 2013, she passed away just one month later at the age of 30. Last October Ray Tonna was a guest on an Australian talk show to discuss his experience with anonymous sperm donation. In this teaser video for the episode, he recalls what it was like meeting his daughter for the first time:
It's complicated Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master. Have we finally reached our limits?
We are now living with the unintended consequences: a world we have created for ourselves that is too complicated for our humble human brains to handle….a world where nearly self-contained technological ecosystems operate outside of human knowledge and understanding. As a scientific paper in Nature in September 2013 put it, there is a complete 'machine ecology beyond human response time' in the financial world, where stocks are traded in an eyeblink, and mini-crashes and spikes can occur on the order of a second or less. When we try to push our financial trades to the limits of the speed of light, it is time to recognize that machines are interacting with each other in rich ways, essentially as algorithms trading among themselves, with humans on the sidelines.
ever since the Enlightenment, we have moved steadily toward the 'Entanglement', a term coined by the American computer scientist Danny Hillis. The Entanglement is the trend towards more interconnected and less comprehensible technological surroundings. Hillis argues that our machines, while subject to rational rules, are now too complicated to understand. Whether it's the entirety of the internet or other large pieces of our infrastructure, understanding the whole — keeping it in your head — is no longer even close to possible.
Intellectual surrender in the face of increasing complexity seems too extreme and even a bit cowardly, but what should we replace it with if we can't understand our creations any more?
The examples Samuel Arbesman uses include: the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), financial trading, software, our legal system which includes the tax code and Obamacare and evolutionary programming.
In Wired, How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same.
The hard-earned trust that the tech giants had spent years building was in danger of evaporating—and they seemed powerless to do anything about it. Legally gagged, they weren't free to provide the full context of their cooperation or resistance. Even the most emphatic denial—a blog post by Google CEO Larry Page and chief legal officer David Drummond headlined, "What the …"—did not quell suspicions. How could it, when an NSA slide indicated that anyone's personal information was just one click away? When Drummond took questions on the Guardian website later in the month, his interlocutors were hostile:
"Isn't this whole show not just a face-saving exercise … after you have been found to be in cahoots with the NSA?"
"How can we tell if Google is lying to us?"
"We lost a decade-long trust in you, Google."
"I will cease using Google mail."
"The fact is, the government can't put the genie back in the bottle," says Facebook's global communications head, Michael Buckley. "We can put out any statement or statistics, but in the wake of what feels like weekly disclosures of other government activity, the question is, will anyone believe us?"
At an appearance at a tech conference last September, Facebook's Zuckerberg expressed his disgust. "The government blew it," he said. But the consequences of the government's actions—and the spectacular leak that informed the world about it—was now plopped into the problem set of Zuckerberg, Page, Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, Steve Ballmer, and anyone else who worked for or invested in a company that held customer data on its servers.
"At first we were in an arms race with sophisticated criminals," says Eric Grosse, Google's head of security. "Then we found ourselves in an arms race with certain nation-state actors [with a reputation for cyberattacks]. And now we're in an arms race with the best nation-state actors." Primarily, the US government.
Research estimates that as much as $180 billion could be lost due in large part to overseas companies choosing not to patronize the American-based cloud. "American companies are feeling shellacked by overeager surveillance," says US senator Wyden. "It reduces our competitiveness in a tough global economy."
"I was naive," says Ray Ozzie, who as the inventor of Lotus Notes was an early industry advocate of strong encryption. "I always felt that the US was a little more pure. Our processes of getting information were upfront. There were requests, and they were narrow. But then came the awakening," he says. "We're just like everybody else."
Gizmondo offers advice on How to Erase Yourself from the Internet, especially from the four largest social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn
Facebook's rule change may help pedophiles to target 13-year-olds
Until now 13 to 17-year olds barred from making posts visible to all users. But Facebook removed that protection and images can be shared publicly. Move condemned as a 'disaster' by campaigners.
Study: Facebook Use Predicts Decline In Happiness
A new study shows that Facebook may help people feel connected, but it doesn't make them any happier. In fact, according to the research, which was conducted by the University of Michigan, Facebook use actually predicts a decline in a person's well-being.
Facebook users are committing 'virtual identity suicide' in droves and quitting the site over privacy and addiction fears
Report suggests Facebook recently lost active users in the U.S and UK. The majority of people quitting the site blamed concerns over privacy. Other reasons included fear of addiction, and shallow conversations
Facebook tracks everything you type even if you DON'T post the update or comment
A Facebook data scientist studied the HTML code of 3.7 million profiles to discover 71% of users regularly type comments and statuses before deciding not to post them. The study, also found men are more likely to abandon a post on the social network site, than women.
From Neatorama Facebook Security Simulator
Most epic read of our time? Google's terms and conditions, say scientists
Google's latest terms and conditions are more difficult to understand than Anglo-Saxon saga Beowulf, say researchers
Google will soon put your face, name, and content in its ads
If you always wanted to see your shining face next to Google ads, your wish will soon be granted. Today Google announced plans to roll out "shared endorsements," which will augment its own advertisements with information from users who rated, reviewed, or gave a +1 to the service or location in question.
The move echoes Facebook's "sponsored stories," where the social network started turning users' likes or check-ins into ads on its site, all without asking permission or even notifying them. A public outcry, class-action lawsuit, $20 million settlement, and limitations on the use of users' content followed.
Google revealed its shared endorsements scheme in a change to its terms of service. The updates state that going forward, friends, family, "and others" may see a user's Google profile name, photo, and any endorsement they've created for a company alongside ads for that company.
Users are opted in to Google's new scheme by default. In the past, Google gave itself permission to use users' +1s alongside advertisements unless the user specifically opted out. The new "shared endorsements" are an extension of that setting, wherein Google gives itself permission to take even more of a user's content and place it alongside ads.
To opt out of being a shared endorsement, Google users must go to the "shared endorsement" settings page, which is currently not linked anywhere from either their Google+ account or privacy settings (the ads have yet to go into effect, so Google may be waiting to integrate the page until the feature is live). At the bottom of the page is a checkbox next to the phrase "Based upon my activity, Google may show my name and profile photo in shared endorsements that appear in ads."
MIT Technology Review The Real Privacy Problem
As Web companies and government agencies analyze ever more information about our lives, it's tempting to respond by passing new privacy laws or creating mechanisms that pay us for our data. Instead, we need a civic solution, because democracy is at risk.
Our instincts for privacy evolved in tribal societies where walls didn't exist. No wonder we are hopeless oversharersm'. Thinking about online privacy doesn't come naturally to us,' Loewenstein told me when I spoke to him on the phone. 'Nothing in our evolution or culture has equipped us to deal with it.'
When a boy hit puberty, he disappeared into the jungle, returning a man. In today's digital culture this is precisely the stage at which we make our lives most exposed to the public gaze
The need for privacy remains, but the means to meet it — our privacy instincts — are no longer fit for purpose.
Over time, we will probably get smarter about online sharing. But right now, we're pretty stupid about it. Perhaps this is because, at some primal level, we don't really believe in the internet. Humans evolved their instinct for privacy in a world where words and acts disappeared the moment they were spoken or made. Our brains are barely getting used to the idea that our thoughts or actions can be written down or photographed, let alone take on a free-floating, indestructible life of their own. Until we catch up, we'll continue to overshare.
With less than three weeks to sign up for insurance or pay a penalty, problems with the healthcare.gov website are still unresolved. It is impossible to imagine the anxiety and suffering of the millions who lost their health care policies and who don't want to put their identities at risk by going online to healthcare.gov.
Expert: Healthcare.gov Security Risks Even Worse After 'Fix'
"It doesn't appear that any security fixes were done at all," David Kennedy, CEO of the online security firm TrustedSec, told the Washington Free Beacon.
Kennedy said fundamental safeguards missing from Healthcare.gov that were identified by his company more than a month ago have yet to be put in place.
After warning Americans when testifying before Congress on Nov. 19 to stay away from Healthcare.gov, Kennedy now says the situation is even worse.
"They said they implemented over 400 bug fixes," he said. "When you recode the application to fix these 400 bugs—they were rushing this out of the door to get the site at least so it can work a little bit—you're introducing more security flaws as you go along with it because you don't even check that code."
Get this. The Federal Government doesn't have to notify anyone if the site is hacked.
"States are required to notify in the event of a breach, the federal government is not," he added. "So in the event that Healthcare.gov gets compromised and all their information gets taken out of it they don't have to notify anybody."
Kennedy said the team working on Healthcare.gov is more likely to hide its security flaws than address them. When it was revealed that the most popular searches on the website were hack attempts—confirmed by entering a semicolon in the search bar—the website simply removed the tool.
The White House won't even give classified briefings to Congress about the security problems of healthcare.gov. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers said,
"They could not even provide someone — CMS and HHS, the two folks responsible for the HealthCare.gov website — in a classified setting to come up and talk about the breaches that they know have happened. That's just unconscionable."
He warned that there is currently no coordinated effort within the administration to test the website's newly-written code which was completed over the past two months of repairs, leaving it vulnerable to breaches. "You're encouraging people to go to a site that our own government knows doesn't meet safety standards when it comes to security of private information."
78% Fear ObamaCare Site Security, Could Deter Signups
The latest IBD/TIPP Poll finds that 78% say Americans should be worried about the security of the ObamaCare exchange website, and 53% say they should be "very concerned." This view was shared across parties, with 69% of Democrats saying security concerns are warranted.
More worrisome for the law's success, 82% of those aged 18-24 say concern is justified. These are among the people ObamaCare most desperately needs to enroll to keep overall premiums from spiraling out of control.
John Podhoretz writes in Commentary, No, Healthcare.Gov Isn't Working. Much of the backend hasn't been constructed yet.
There is no such thing as a functioning website if the "back end" isn't working. The "back end" is the catchall phrase for everything you don't see when you visit a website. It refers to the software that translates pictures and words into what you see here. It refers to the software that mediates the relationship between 1) users who enter information, 2) the servers that store the website's information, and 3) third parties hired to take some (but not all) of the information and process it on their servers and computers. It refers to the security systems put in place so that the website cannot be disabled by an outside attack and so that the data entered cannot be stolen or otherwise compromised.
In other words, the back end is the website. What many people are seeing now at healthcare.gov is a visual demonstration of a sign-in. If the sign-in data are not transferred to a database, nothing has happened. It's like taking a practice test; it's not scored and it's not registered and it means nothing.
New Obamacare Headache: Is Your Enrollment Real?
Obama administration officials acknowledged today that some of the roughly 126,000 Americans who completed the torturous online enrollment process in October and November might not be officially signed up with their selected issuer, even if the website has told them they are.
While the front-end of the website has been vastly improved, the back-end glitches remain a serious concern, IT experts and industry officials say.
For those who thought they enrolled in a plan through the federal exchange since October, the Obama administration now advises that individuals contact their insurance company to verify coverage and if none exists, to start all over again.
Errors plague one third of Obamacare online enrollees
The Washington Post is reporting the bad news for Obama; about ⅓ of consumers enrolled through healthcare.gov have serious errors in the plans they chose.
The mistakes include failure to notify insurers about new customers, duplicate enrollments or cancellation notices for the same person, incorrect information about family members, and mistakes involving federal subsidies.
The spying by the government on American citizens is so far beyond what anyone thought was possible, it's hard to comprehend its scope. Except that it gets bigger and bigger.
New York Times. N.S.A. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.S.
To conduct the surveillance,' reads the report, 'the NSA. is temporarily copying and then sifting through the contents of what is apparently most e-mails and other text-based communications that cross the border…[the] computer searches the data for the identifying keywords or other "selectors" and stores those that match so that human analysts could later examine them.'
Revealed: How the NSA will spy on you if you just put the word Osama in an email, text message or Facebook chat
By identifying the recipient of the emails or text messages as the target of the surveillance instead of the sender, the NSA sidesteps a 2008 law that allows spying on domestic soil without warrants as long as the target was a noncitizen abroad.
The official said the remaining emails, those not selected by the software, are deleted. Nonetheless, privacy proponents were in disbelief.
'The program described by the New York Times involves a breathtaking invasion of millions of people's privacy,' American Civil Liberties Union deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said in a statement. 'The NSA has cast a massive dragnet over Americans' international communications, collecting and monitoring virtually all of them, and retaining some untold number of them in government databases. This is precisely the kind of generalized spying that the Fourth Amendment was intended to prohibit.'
Reuters. Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence - information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.
"I have never heard of anything like this at all," said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011. Gertner and other legal experts said the program sounds more troubling than recent disclosures that the National Security Agency has been collecting domestic phone records. The NSA effort is geared toward stopping terrorists; the DEA program targets common criminals, primarily drug dealers.
"It is one thing to create special rules for national security," Gertner said. "Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations."
In a follow-up article Reuters reports Exclusive: IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence
Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years.
The practice of recreating the investigative trail, highly criticized by former prosecutors and defense lawyers after Reuters reported it this week, is now under review by the Justice Department. Two high-profile Republicans have also raised questions about the procedure.
Meanwhile, Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. Compiles
"It's a very common complaint about N.S.A.," said Timothy H. Edgar, a former senior intelligence official at the White House and at the office of the director of national intelligence. "They collect all this information, but it's difficult for the other agencies to get access to what they want."
"The other agencies feel they should be bigger players," said Mr. Edgar, who heard many of the disputes before leaving government this year to become a visiting fellow at Brown University. "They view the N.S.A. — incorrectly, I think — as this big pot of data that they could go get if they were just able to pry it out of them."
Report: Feds Demand Major Internet Companies Turn Over User Passwords
The federal government has demanded that major internet companies turn over users' stored passwords, two sources told the respected tech website CNet.
"If the government is able to determine a person's password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user," the report says. "Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused." But it doesn't end there. The government is not only requesting the passwords, but its also asking for algorithms and even security questions:
At the same time, the government is doing everything it can to protect its own secrets, today's example, the EPA
The EPA's Game of Secret Science The agency pursues rules that will cost billions but refuses to reveal its research.
As the Environmental Protection Agency moves forward with some of the most costly regulations in history, there needs to be greater transparency about the claimed benefits from these actions. Unfortunately, President Obama and the EPA have been unwilling to reveal to the American people the data they use to justify their multibillion-dollar regulatory agenda.
To cite a few examples of where the EPA would like to take the country, the agency is moving forward with strict new limits on ozone that by its own estimates will cost taxpayers $90 billion per year, which would make the regulation the most costly in history. Other examples include a Mercury and Air Toxics Standard for power plants (previously known as "Utility MACT") that the EPA estimates could cost up to $10 billion a year. Yet more than 99% of the EPA's health-based justifications for the rule are derived from scientific research that the EPA won't reveal. Taxpayers are supposed to take on faith that EPA policy is backed by good science.
Was this computer nerd killed after discovering how to murder anyone with a pacemaker?
When the acclaimed television drama series Homeland climaxed with a devious plot by terrorists to kill America's vice-president by hacking into his electronic pacemaker, critics scoffed at the ludicrousness of the idea.
But the outrageous storyline was thought credible by many in the world of computer security. Among those was the New Zealand-born computer hacker Barnaby Jack. The 35-year-old — who, unlike many in the business, used his skills 'ethically' — had spent his career demonstrating the dangers posed by unscrupulous hackers combined with computer manufacturers' failure to install proper safety devices on equipment.
Jack thought it highly plausible that a terrorist could hack into someone's pacemaker and speed up their heartbeat until it killed them. He also believed it was possible to infect the pacemaker companies' servers with a bug that would spread through their systems like a virus.
'We are potentially looking at a "worm" with the ability to commit mass murder,' he said. 'It's kind of scary.' Jack certainly knew what he was talking about — having become famous after demonstrating how he could sabotage cash machines and make them dispense large sums of money (a trick he called 'Jackpotting') by hacking into a bank's computer system.
Another stunt was to reveal how a diabetic's insulin pump — which is designed to deliver insulin to the body day and night — could be hacked from 300ft away, so it could dispense a fatal dose.
Jack, who had been obsessed with computers since childhood, emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 21 and joined a firm specializing in computer security issues.
In recent years, he had developed a specific interest in what is known as 'embedded' technology, the hardware and software built into everyday objects such as cars, banking systems, home appliances and medical devices. Jack thought it plausible that someone could hack into a pacemaker and speed up their heartbeat until it killed them
He was preparing to demonstrate his work two days ago at a major computer-hacking convention in Las Vegas.
In an address to the Black Hat convention titled 'Implantable medical devices: hacking humans', Jack was due to show an audience of hackers and cyber security experts at Caesar's Palace how he could hack into devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators.
However, he was never to give the demonstration. A week beforehand, Jack was found dead in his flat in the San Francisco neighborhood of Nob Hill. His body was believed to have been found by his girlfriend, Layne Cross, a 31-year-old model. According to friends, he was found dead in bed.
To say his sudden death remains shrouded in mystery is putting it mildly.
Predictably, for someone who worked in such a shadowy world, there have been countless theories about how he was killed. Hackers are a suspicious bunch who have become even more paranoid since the U.S government's efforts to silence whistleblowers such as ex-soldier Bradley Manning (who faces jail for leaking secret government cables to WikiLeaks). The absence of even the most basic details about Barnaby Jack's untimely death has ignited a firestorm of speculation that foul play could be involved.
U.S. Says Ring Stole 160 Million Credit Card Numbers
A prolific gang of foreign hackers stole and sold 160 million credit card numbers from more than a dozen companies, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, federal prosecutors charged on last Thursday in what they described as the largest hacking and data breach case in the country.
The scheme was run by four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian, said the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, Paul J. Fishman, who announced the indictments in Newark.
The victims in the scheme, which prosecutors said ran from 2005 until last year, included J. C. Penney; 7-Eleven; JetBlue; Heartland Payment Systems, one of the world's largest credit and debit processing companies; and the French retailer Carrefour.
"It is a really potent reminder of what researchers have been saying: The bigger threat is coming from criminal gangs, most of which are coming from Russia," said Fred H. Cate, director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University in Bloomington. "It's far more immediately impactful than threats coming from China."
The Hackers Who Stole 160 Million Credit Cards and Almost Got Away
In a scam that dated back to 2005, the suspects first targeted retailers, surreptitiously visiting their checkout counters and exploiting vulnerabilities in the payment systems they used. By 2007, they were hacking into the financial systems of Nasdaq, the largest US electronic stock market, and major corporations like 7-Eleven, France's Carrefour SA, JCPenney and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain.
They hit the real paydirt, authorities allege, when they hacked directly into some of the biggest credit card payment processors themselves to steal literally oceans of personal financial data.
Once inside the network, they used malware (malicious code) to create a "back door" that gave them return access, even after some companies identified breaches and thought they had fixed them. Then they installed "sniffers," or programs to identify, collect and steal vast amounts of personal financial data, individually known as dumps, that they secreted in a network of computers around the world.
John Fund reports on Obamacare's Branch of the NSA Community organizers will use a Federal Data Hub to sign up people for subsidies — and even ballots.
The Department of Health and Human Services is about to hire an army of "patient navigators" to inform Americans about the subsidized insurance promised by Obamacare and assist them in enrolling. These organizers will be guided by the new Federal Data Hub, which will give them access to reams of personal information compiled by federal agencies ranging from the IRS to the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration. "The federal government is planning to quietly enact what could be the largest consolidation of personal data in the history of the republic," Paul Howard of the Manhattan Institute and Stephen T. Parente, a University of Minnesota finance professor, wrote in USA Today. No wonder that there are concerns about everything from identity theft to the ability of navigators to use the system to register Obamacare participants to vote.
This spring, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lawyers were also told by HHS that, despite the fact that navigators will have access to sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and tax returns, there will be no criminal background checks required for them. Indeed, they won't even have to have high-school diplomas. Both U.S. Census Bureau and IRS employees must meet those minimum standards, if only because no one wants someone who has been convicted of identity theft getting near Americans' personal records. But HHS is unconcerned. It points out that navigators will have to take a 20–30 hour online course about how the 1,200-page law works, which, given its demonstrated complexity, is like giving someone a first-aid course and then making him a med-school professor.
Indeed, voter registration is among the goals of the folks hawking Obamacare. The People's World newspaper reports: "California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen is designating the state's new Health Benefit Exchange, Covered California, as a voter registration agency under the National Voter Registration Act. That means Covered California will be incorporating voter registration into every transaction — online, in-person and by phone — it has with consumers." It seems as if some Obama supporters have found a new way to fill the void left by the bankruptcy of ACORN, the notorious left-wing voter-registration group that saw dozens of its employees in multiple states convicted of fraud.
"Giving community organizers access to the Federal Data Hub is bad policy and potentially a danger to civil liberties," House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan told me recently. "But it's one of the most underreported stories I've seen. If people only knew about this Data Hub program, it would touch off a huge public outcry."
Obamacare data hub a 'honey pot' for ID thieves, warn critics
"It's the greatest collection of private identification information ever assembled on Americans that will be put into one place," said Rep. Patrick Meehan, who chairs a House cybersecurity subcommittee. "It is every bit of sensitive information one would need to know to completely take over the identification of a person," said the Pennsylvania lawmaker.
The Obamacare data hub, he added, "creates a honey pot and the day that it goes online it is going to be a target for hackers and others and they are unprepared to protect the system."
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To Avoid Cyber Espionage, Russia's Switching Back to Typewriters
Hackers aren't going anywhere any time soon, so Russian spies are wising up and taking their most sensitive intelligence offline. Not offline like off the internet. Offline like off computers altogether.
The Russian state procurement agency FSO recently announced that it was interested in spending up to 486,000 rubles (about $14,800) on at least 20 old fashioned typewriters to handle top secret documents. After all, cyber security isn't an issue when ink and tree are involved.
Little known search engine that refuses to store data on users doubles web traffic amid NSA tapping scandal
Web-users who want to protect their privacy have been switching to a small unheard of search engine in the wake of the 'Prism' revelations.
DuckDuckGo, the little known U.S. company, sets itself aside from its giant competitors such as Google and Yahoo, by not sharing any of its clients' data with searched websites. This means no targeted advertising and no skewed search results.
Aside from the reduced ads, this unbiased and private approach to using the internet is appealing to users angered at the news that U.S. and UK governments (the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. and GCHQ in the UK), have direct access to the servers of big search engine companies, allowing them to 'watch' users.
Entrepreneur Mr Weinberg had the idea for the company in 2006….From there he had the idea to develop a 'better' search engine, that does not share any user information with any websites whatsoever.
Search data, he told the paper, 'is arguably the most personal data people are entering into anything. You're typing in your problems, your desires. It's not the same as things you post publicly on a social network.'
DuckDuckGo, named after an American children's tag game Duck Duck Goose (though not a metaphor), was solo-founded by Mr Weinberg in 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He self-funded it until 2011 when Union Square Ventures, which also backs Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare and Kickstarter, and a handful of angel investors, came on board.
The 33-year-old CEO, who lives in Paoli, a suburb of Philadelphia, PA, with his wife and two children, explains that when other search engines are used, your search terms are sent to that site you clicked on; this sharing of information is known as 'search leakage'.
'For example, when you search for something private, you are sharing that private search not only with your search engine, but also with all the sites that you clicked on (for that search),' he points out on his website.
'In addition, when you visit any site, your computer automatically sends information about it to that site (including your User agent and IP address). This information can often be used to identify you directly.
'So when you do that private search, not only can those other sites know your search terms, but they can also know that you searched it. It is this combination of available information about you that raises privacy concerns,' he says.
I'm switching.
Computer virus found on Facebook steals bank details and money from accounts when users click on links
A computer virus that steals bank details and empties money from accounts has been found on Facebook.
Eric Feinberg, who controls the U.S National Football League Facebook page, discovered the malicious links were being posted on his brand's page by fake profiles.
The links are believed to be controlled by the Russian Business Network - an online criminal gang accused of stealing internet users' identities and private information.
The link discovered by Feinberg was for a page called 'Bring the N.F.L to Los Angeles'. The page has since been removed.
Security firm Trend Micro claim that there may be many more hidden on pages, or even being spread inadvertently by Facebook friends.
When a Facebook user clicks the links the Trojan - which gets its name from the Trojan horse the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy undetected - is installed on their computer. It then scans all the personal files and steals any private information.
The malware is also able to collect login details, even if they aren't stored in documents on your PC, by using keystroke logging. Keystroke logging, also known as keylogging, can record which keys on a keyboard are being pressed. It can then wait until the user types in their online banking address and login details and steal them.
Once they have the logins, the cybercriminals can enter your online accounts and steal your money.
It is a six-year-old malware program that has seen a resurgence recently on Facebook and other social network sites. The Zeus Trojan, also known as ZBOT, has infected millions of computers worldwide - with reports claiming 3.6 million are in the U.S alone - and can sit in the background dormant and virtually undetected.
'If you tell me your date of birth and where you're born on Facebook, I'm 98 per cent of the way to stealing your identity,'
Catch Me If You Can conman issues stark warning on the dangers of revealing personal information on Facebook
'World's greatest conman' Frank Abagnale says social network is rich seam for identity thieves. He said children in particular need to be made aware of the serious risks of unwittingly revealing information online…..'Technology breeds crime.'
'What I did 40 years ago as a teenage boy is 4,000 times easier now,' said Mr Abagnale, who is known as one of the most successful impostors of all time, assuming the identities of pilots, doctors, lawyers, and even a U.S. prison agent.
Is Facebook setting you up for identity theft?
"Something seemingly innocent, like posting our birthday on Facebook, can provide thieves with just enough information to access bank accounts, credit cards, sign up for credit and more."
You also give away a few more pieces of the identity puzzle by sharing whom or what you "like" or "follow." When you like a particular store or your neighborhood bank, for instance, you are giving a potential thief one more link to steal your information.
Hackers utilize the following distribution "touch points" to deceive users: malicious links and code, spam, friend requests, private messaging, user groups, gaming forums, videos and music.
"Social networking scams are 10 times more effective in spreading malware than email" is, said George Waller, executive vice president and co-founder of StrikeForce Technologies in Edison, N.J.
Blanton, who was once a police officer, added that people have always used personal information to commit crimes.
"The Internet just makes it easier," she said. And now social media has provided a gold mine for bad guys.
7 Ways to Avoid Identity Theft Before Facebook Gets Hacked
1. Change your name. If you tweak your name just a little, or use a nickname, life will be easier for you after the inevitable hack.
2. Stop geotagging your photos.
3. Lie about your age. While it's fun to get birthday greetings on your wall, it's a key piece of information needed to steal your identity. At least post the wrong year.
4. Don't store your credit card information on the site. Facebook has several services that require a credit card. Buyer beware.
5. Have some boundaries. When Facebook asks you where your photo was taken, keep it to yourself.
6. Less is more (peace of mind). …. Go through your timeline and remove posts that provide personally identifiable information.
7. Deactivate your account.
Bonus Pro Tip: Don't use your Facebook password anywhere else. That's making it way too easy for the bad guys.
Suicide is now the leading cause of injury deaths. Too many people are living lives of despair as the miserable economy takes its toll.
More people commit suicide than die in car crashes. A report in the American Journal of Public Health says suicide ranks first followed by car crashes, poisoning, falls and murder.
"Suicides are terribly undercounted; I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe," said study author Ian Rockett, a professor of epidemiology at West Virginia University…. For the study, Rockett's team used data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics to determine the cause of injury deaths from 2000 to 2009.
Deaths from intentional and unintentional injury were 10 percent higher in 2009 than in 2000, the researchers noted. And although deaths from car crashes declined 25 percent, deaths from poisoning rose 128 percent, deaths from falls increased 71 percent and deaths from suicides rose 15 percent, according to the study.
In 2009, more than 37,000 Americans took their own lives, and more than 500,000 were at risk of suicide, according to Pamela Hyde, administrator of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us.
Medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets a week. A surgeon with five simple ways to make health care safer.
All of them have to do with transparency
A staggering 94 million Americans exposed to potential identity theft through breaches in government agencies. And it's probably much worse.
Furthermore, out of 268 breach incidents reported since 2009, the 67 of the public agencies responsible (and I use that term loosely) couldn't even figure out how many records were lost. That fact alone will tell anyone with basic math skills and a lick of common sense that this epidemic is much worse than we know. …..
Premeditated attacks by hackers accounted for only 40 breaches since 2009, a mere 15 percent of the total….Plain and simple stupidity and negligence caused most of the rest.
the sad truth is that our own government's security policies -- or lack thereof -- have put us all at risk. …The GAO's report found that out of 24 major government agencies, 18 had inadequate information security controls….the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Health and Human Services, each of which have met just over 50 percent of the law's requirements.
Robert Morgenthau: The Death of Peter Wielunski
For every soldier killed in combat, 25 veterans are dying by suicide. It's time to broaden efforts against PTSD.
Cloud safety: Internet storage service Dropbox admits security breach as fears grow over storing information online
Online storage service Dropbox has admitted to a security breach that led to many of its members receiving unsolicited emails. A stolen password had been used to access an employee's accounts and copy a 'project document' containing user emails addresses.
The US company said that usernames and passwords stolen from other sites had also been used to sign in to some of its members' accounts.
'The Dropbox incident underlines the necessity of having different passwords for every website,' said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. 'As people pile more confidential information onto the web, hackers are being given a greater incentive to penetrate accounts.
Matt Honan over at Wired tells how his entire digital life was destroyed.
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.
In many ways, this was all my fault. My accounts were daisy-chained together. Getting into Amazon let my hackers get into my Apple ID account, which helped them get into Gmail, which gave them access to Twitter. Had I used two-factor authentication for my Google account, it's possible that none of this would have happened, because their ultimate goal was always to take over my Twitter account and wreak havoc. Lulz.
Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn't have had to worry about losing more than a year's worth of photos, covering the entire lifespan of my daughter, or documents and e-mails that I had stored in no other location.
An amazing illusion that I found here.
Speaking of illusions, how safe are you from identity theft?
A report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reveals that that taxpayer identity theft more than doubled in 2011, skyrocketing to 641,052 taxpayers affected as compared to 270,518 the prior year.
As Eileen Ambrose of the Baltimore Sun explains, once a fraudster has someone's Social Security number, all they have to do is "make up W-2 information, submit a return before the legitimate taxpayer files and receive a refund directly deposited on a debit card."
That, said Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson during a July 10th House Judiciary Committee hearing, can mean a nightmare for victims. "Identity theft wreaks havoc on our tax system in many ways," explained. "Victims not only must deal with the aftermath of an emotionally draining crime, but may also have to deal with the IRS for years to untangle the resulting tax account problems. Identity theft also impacts the public …(Treasury)… as Treasury funds are diverted to pay out improper refunds claimed by opportunistic perpetrators….Identity theft is not a problem the IRS can solve on its own."
Phishing emails, stolen Social Security numbers, and fraudulent tax preparers are all cited as potential pathways for taxpayer identity fraud to occur.
Amy Feldman, writing for Reuters, says that "Fighting taxpayer identity theft is a bit like going after Nigerian email scammers, a constant battle that seems unlikely to be won anytime soon."
Cary Doctorow in Technology Review, The Curious Case of Internet Privacy, Free services in exchange for personal information. That's the "privacy bargain" we all strike on the Web. It could be the worst deal ever.
What we agree to participate in on the Internet isn't a negotiated trade; it's a smorgasbord, and intimate facts of your life (your location, your interests, your friends) are the buffet.
Why do we seem to value privacy so little? In part, it's because we are told to. Facebook has more than once overridden its users' privacy preferences, replacing them with new default settings. Facebook then responds to the inevitable public outcry by restoring something that's like the old system, except slightly less private. And it adds a few more lines to an inexplicably complex privacy dashboard.
People don't value privacy until they lose it.
You aren't the customer, you're the product being sold says Michael van der Gallen in The 8 ways Big Brother's Facebook's New Changes Alienate Its Users
Most of the changes aren't meant to make life easier for users — that means: for you and me — but for advertisers. The goal clearly is to make it easier for them to target people whose Internet behavior implies they may be interested in a company's products. If that means that you and I have a more difficult time using the world's largest social network, so be it. Facebook has more important things to consider, namely money.
I am horrified to learn that Facebook is asking users to share their medical history, that the new profiles are "The biggest Breach of Your Privacy in Facebook's History" and that its new "Open Graph" creates a permanent record over which the user has no control.
Lauren Weinstein — an expert on the Internet and privacy – adds rather succinctly: Biggest fans of Facebook's new Open Graph:
FBI, CIA, NSA, TSA, + (all Department of Homeland Security departments and assets)
Local Law Enforcement
Your boss
Your medical and life insurance companies
Your auto insurance company
Department of Motor Vehicles
All lawyers (especially divorce and personal injury)
Anyone else who might want to know how you've spent your time, at any point in the future, based on the permanent data record created automatically by your activities at vast numbers of sites, all collected in one place for ease of court orders.


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I debated whether or not to just re-create the one from the comic. Seemed stupid to me.
I like this one. It's fun.
EDIT: Damn, the text shows up really funky. I had to make it an image because of how I cut it up and then place it in InDesign. Any tips on how to get it to look nicer? I set the Photoshop (which doesn't handle text well anyway) doc to 300 dpi, but…beyond that, what can I do to get it nice and sharp?


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Hi all
Interested to see how people integrate new pupils and staff in SIMS with Active Directory accounts.
We currently export a csv file from SIMS with data of new pupils, we then modify the csv file using concatenate formula to create username (year joined, form class letter, first initial and surname i.e. 10AJDavies) and set password to same as username. Using this csv file we import the users into AD using RM Management console.
But we are planning on moving away from RM and going vanilla so will be doing something similar with a csv file and bulk importing users into AD. Just wondering how others do it - i know some people are able to export SIMS data directly into AD without use of csv files? ive also seen this site Integrate Moodle, LDAP and SIMS.net - MoodleDocs but seems to incorporate moodle which at this point i dont want do.