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Developers Keep Leaving Secret Keys to Corporate Data Vulnerable on GitHub
The hackers
who stole data on 50,000 Uber drivers in 2014 didn’t have to do much hacking at
all. They got into the company’s database using login credentials they’d found
on GitHub, the code-sharing website used by more than 14 million developers. An
Uber employee had uploaded the credentials to GitHub by accident, and left them
on a public page for months. For years, developers have been inadvertently
publishing credentials that grant access to myriad systems, such as databases,
web hosting accounts, encrypted email, and various apps. It’s an easy mistake
to make that can lead to catastrophic breaches, particularly when the
credentials can unlock systems that are crucial to business functions. In a
blog post published last week, the security firm Detectify said it analyzed
public GitHub repositories and found more than 1,500 unique “access tokens”
that could be used to retrieve private messages from Slack—the popular office
messaging app that many companies rely on as their primary communication
platform. “These tokens belong to different users and companies,” the firm said
in its post, adding that some of the tokens were linked to “Forbes 500
companies, payment providers, multiple Internet service providers and health
care providers."
Guido Menzio an economist at the University of Pennsylvania–author of Block Recursive Equilibria for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job among other papers–was pulled from a plane because…algebra is suspicious. From FB:
Addendum: here is the Washington Post on the story
Unbelievable…Algebra, of course, does have Arabic origins plus math is used to make bombs.
Flight from Philly to Syracuse goes out on the tarmac, ready to take off. The passenger sitting next to me calls the stewardess, passes her a note. The stewardess comes back asks her if she is comfortable taking off, or she is too sick. We wait more. We go back to the gate. The passenger exits. We wait more. The pilot comes to me and asks me out of the plane. There I am met by some FBI looking man-in-black. They ask me about my neighbor. I tell them I noticed nothing strange. They tell me she thought I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper. I laugh. I bring them back to the plane. I showed them my math.
It’s a bit funny. It’s a bit worrisome. The lady just looked at me, looked at my writing of mysterious formulae, and concluded I was up to no good. Because of that an entire flight was delayed by 1.5 hours.
Trump’s America is already here. It’s not yet in power though. Personally, I will fight back.
Addendum: here is the Washington Post on the story
A turf
battle involving three House panels has erupted over who will determine the
future of technology that protects privacy but makes it tougher for law
enforcement to pry open phones. The fight involves the heads of the Homeland
Security, Energy and Commerce and Judiciary panels, all of which have signaled
they want their hands on an already controversial issue that is only expected
to get hotter. Congress is under pressure from both law enforcement and the
technology industry to arbitrate the encryption debate, with the terrorist
attacks on San Bernardino, Calif., and Paris ratcheting up the stakes. And at
this point, lawmakers are furiously jockeying for responsibility over the
issue. That’s because widespread use of robust, commercially available
encryption touches on almost every facet of private industry and government,
with long-term implications for intelligence agencies and homeland security
officials, businesses of every stripe and private citizens. This makes it
attractive territory for a lot of lawmakers who have come to recognize what a
complex and pervasive policy question the technology presents, according to one
industry source tracking the issue.
Please
Don't Pay Ransoms, FBI Urges Gov Info
Security
Memo from
the FBI: Please don't pay ransoms. "The FBI does not condone payment of
ransom, as payment of extortion monies may encourage continued criminal
activity, lead to other victimizations, or be used to facilitate serious
crimes," says Christopher Stangl, section chief of the FBI's Cyber
Division. But despite repeated warnings since 2014, many individuals and
organizations continue to suffer ransomware infections. As a result, victims
are faced with the question of whether they should remediate and restore
systems - if up-to-date backups have been maintained and stored offline - or
take a chance on paying a ransom - which at least in the United States isn't
illegal - and potentially being able to immediately restore affected systems.
Neither scenario is a zero-sum game, since even restoring from backups will
take time and thus potentially impact productivity or profitability.
