When the shoeshine boys are doing it, it’s time to move on ..
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TSB: How it all went so wrong for the bank BBC
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Prudential Inquiry into the CBA – Executive summary
"How can this happen in a bank of CBA’s stature and sophistication?"
Crackdown plan on Scottish limited partnerships BBC (Richard Smith). Richard Smith: “Fame at last!”
Out of 50
top government information technology contractors, 49 aren’t completely
securing their email systems against spoofing and phishing attacks, according
to a study released Wednesday.
Britain’s
financial firms need to pull together to fight cyber crime, working with government
and law enforcement to attack criminals’ infrastructure and put them out of
business, a report by KPMG and industry body UK Finance said on Monday. The
report argues the growing threat cyber crime poses to the financial sector
cannot be countered just by spending more money, and that a revamped approach
is needed. This includes working together and with governments and law
enforcement to render the markets, tools and systems cyber criminals use
ineffective, it said. “(That) imposes cost on them (the criminals), because
they then have to reconstruct that botnet, those phishing sites,” said David
Ferbrache, technical director and head of cyber and space at KPMG. “For us it’s
very much a bit of a call to arms across the community ... There’s a lot more we
can do,” he said. Some groups, such as the Cyber Defence Alliance, whose
members include some of the world’s biggest banks, are already doing this, but
different initiatives need to be linked up, report authors Ferbrache and Dan
Crisp, interim director of technology and digital policy at UK Finance, told
Reuters.
CyberScoop
April 23,
2018
A
NATO-backed group that’s designed to coordinate international cybersecurity
efforts is getting two new members: Australia and Portugal. The two countries
will join the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) based in
Tallinn, Estonia, according to separate announcements on Monday. The organization
acts as a think tank for the development of global cyber norms, cybersecurity
training requirements and also helps communicate goals shared between different
countries. “We are glad to welcome Portugal, another strong NATO Ally joining
the Centre. CCDCOE offers a unique opportunity for all NATO Allies to practice
together new interdisciplinary approaches in cyber defence,” Merle Maigre,
director of CCDCOE, said in a statement. The CCDCOE is known for hosting cyber
warfare training simulations that are intended to build relations between
member countries.
An overlooked platform for misinformation
The
influence of misinformation among Chinese-speaking immigrants in the United
States offers important clues for how fake news is constructed and distributed,
according to a
new paper published by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
Chi
Zhang found that, while many popular web hoaxes in the U.S. deal with jobs, the
economy and healthcare, many hoaxes on WeChat — a popular messaging app
among Chinese immigrants — deal with issues like affirmative action or
illegal immigration. That disparity, as well as the low barrier to entry for
new publishers, allows misinformation to go unchecked.
Research you can use
- In a paper for the Knight Foundation, Syracuse University researcher Emily Thorson says fact-checking is unlikely to be effective unless fact-checkers know what their audiences do and don’t understand.
- First Amendment enthusiasts typically believe the answer to false speech is more speech and that truth will triumph. Not necessarily so, says a Duke University professor.
- New York University hoovers up current research on social media misinformation and identifies the “gaps” that still need to be studied.
This is how we do it
- New fact-checking collaborations launch in Sweden and in Africa, and a “fact-checking center” opens in Taiwan.
- Here’s a short video tutorial from Poynter with tips for how to run a breaking news verification project.
- Boom and SMHoaxslayer talk with India’s NDTV about fighting misinformation in a country where fake news can “spread like wildfire.”
(Shutterstock)This is bad
- Sellers are using Facebook to get fake reviews on Amazon.
- This student loan expert has been cited in publications like The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. There’s just one problem: He doesn’t exist.
- In El Pais: Meet the “everyday Spanish people” whose lives have been ruined by the spread of misinformation.
This is fun
- This is how Van Morrison fights fake news.
- Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper will be interviewed by The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart tomorrow at a live event in D.C.
- Sadly, there is no green moon, there was no green moon, and there will never be a green moon.
(U.S. Embassy Nairobi/Twitter via AP)A closer look
- People in Kenya are learning about fake news in their country — from the U.S. State Department.
- Facebook’s project to fight nefarious political advertising went into effect this week. But Nieman Lab asks if Facebook can really “beat back fake news” in Ireland; and The Conversation has some advice for the platform in Canada.
- At least two social platforms think they’ve got this fake news thing figured out. Read Wired’s interview with Flipboard, and the Axios interview with LinkedIn. On the other hand, Snapchat...
If you read one more thing
African
journalists are using drones and satellites to fight misinformation in
remote regions. But the government hasn’t made it easy.
12 quick fact-checking links
- We were not fans of this headline on a New York Times story about Facebook’s Campbell Brown.
- Fake “models” on Instagram are not as harmless as you think.
- Here’s a short, new video on how anyone can fact-check news in Malaysia.
- NewsGuard will have a “fake news hotline.”
- Fact-checkers in Brazil are bracing for an onslaught of fake news going into this fall’s election.
- Here are our quick thoughts on today's European Commission report on tackling disinformation.
- Here’s everything else you need to know about misinformation in the EU this week.
- Who do most Americans want to fight fake news? Tech companies – not the government.
- A Florida politician’s campaign got some attack ads pulled after citing PolitiFact in a cease and desist letter.
- Here are 16 ways to fact-check hoaxes on WhatsApp, from the IFCN’s International Fact-Checking Day tip sheets.
- BuzzFeed News rounded up the rumors about the Toronto van attack suspect.
- PBS begins a four-part series on "Facebook's battle against misinformation."
via Daniel, Jane, and Alexios
One of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) marketplaces has
been shut down by European law enforcement. Webstresser[dot]org, closed by
Europol on Wednesday, boasted more than 100,000 users
The Thai
government says it has seized servers used by a group that's been tied to cyber
espionage attacks, while preserving the servers for review by law enforcement
agencies.