Credit Cards Compromised In Month-Long Kmart Data Breach Kmart revealed that an undisclosed number of credit card numbers were stolen in a month-long data breach which began in early September, according to an SEC filing on Friday. A subsidiary of Sears Holding Corporation, Kmart is the latest in a long string of retailers to suffer a credit card breach this year.According to the filing, the breach was discovered by Kmart’s IT team on Thursday, October 9, and has likely been going on since early September. Security experts...
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
World's Top Privacy Experts Worry About Internet Of Things
World's Top Privacy Experts Worry About Internet Of Things Meeting in one of the world’s most remote and private locations – the island of Mauritius off the coast of Africa – top global privacy regulators could have focused on any number of issues. But they were especially concerned that the Internet of things, everything from health sensors to monitors in a car, depends on connectivity which could expose users to significant...
Can China's New Internet Conference Compete with the West in Defining Norms of Cyberspace?
Can China's New Internet Conference Compete with the West in Defining Norms of Cyberspace? Not wanting to be left out, after the United Kingdom, Hungary, and South Korea (PDF) all held conferences on cyberspace governance, China has announced that it will be hosting the World Internet Conference from November 19 to 21. The conference, planned by the Cyberspace Administration of China (formerly named the State Internet Information Office), has the stated mission to promote the...
Size Matters: Time For Smaller Businesses To Think Big About Security
Size Matters: Time For Smaller Businesses To Think Big About Security n the world of cyber security, size matters. The smaller you are, the larger the threat you face. Leaders of small and midsize businesses tend to think their size makes them unappealing to cyber thieves when the opposite is true. Smaller companies don’t always see the need to protect their data as thoroughly as larger organizations. The idea being – with a smaller...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
VSCO Cam Brings Manual Exposure To iPhone Photographers
VSCO Cam Brings Manual Exposure To iPhone Photographers On the day iOS 8 launched, camera app VSCO Cam got an update that takes advantage of something Apple AAPL +2.14% Sr. VP Craig Federighi promised developers back in June at the company’s WWDC event: manual controls for the iSight camera. In its newest release VSCO Cam lets you set ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and yes, manual focus. You can also set exposure compensation...
Analysts Put Apple Pay To The Test - And It Works
Analysts Put Apple Pay To The Test - And It Works Apple AAPL +2.14% Pay finally went live on Monday with the release of a new update to Apple’s mobile platform, iOS 8.1, and analysts at Piper Jaffray were among the first to test it out with their shiny new iPhone 6′s. The results in a nutshell: Apple Pay works, though not everyone behind the counter knew about it. The analysts tested...
Smartisan T1 - An iPhone4 Reincarnation With An Android Soul
Smartisan T1 - An iPhone4 Reincarnation With An Android Soul Ever the marketing master, Steve Jobs knew where to place emphasis when introducing the new Apple AAPL +2.14% product at Apple’s 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference:It was “the most precise thing, and one of the most beautiful we’ve ever made,”And “it’s like a beautiful old Leica camera.”A rather lofty goal he set for iPhone4– No all vintage cameras have the markup...
Monday, 20 October 2014
Facebook Closes $19 Billion WhatsApp Deal
The Facebook/WhatsApp Deal Is Bad News For TelcosFacebook’s purchase of WhatsApp shows that the market for messaging is far from dead. But it’s just gotten worse for the telcos. We’ve already discussed the underlying reasons in a report — but the fact that Facebook put $19 billion on the table, of which $4 billion is in cash, for a global messaging service with 55 staff should scare telcos, with their millions of employees and high-cost structures. Over-the-top communications tools like WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat, and...
10 Job Interview Questions You Should Ask
10 Job Interview Questions You Should AskMany job seekers focus so hard on answering interview questions well that they forget something very important: You are there to ask questions, too.Asking the right questions at an interview is important for two reasons:First, when done correctly, the questions you ask confirm your qualifications as a candidate for the position.Second, you are interviewing the employer just as much as the employer is interviewing you. This is your opportunity to find out if this is an organization where...
Don't Try To Be A Man, And More Honest Tips From Highly Successful Women
Don't Try To Be A Man, And More Honest Tips From Highly Successful Women If you’re a woman who’s spent any time at all in the corporate world, you might recognize yourself in Ruzwana Bashir’s story. Before cofounding travel site Peek, British-born Bashir spent the formative years of her career in the relative boys clubs of Goldman Sachs and Blackstone.At the latter, Bashir, now 31, was the first woman in her group. She often felt...
Zuckerberg Seeks Revenge As Facebook Sues Paul Ceglia's Lawyers
Zuckerberg Seeks Revenge As Facebook Sues Paul Ceglia's Lawyers Back in 2011, my colleague Kashmir Hill wrote a piece titled “Paul Ceglia to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg: Bring It On.”Facebook did just that, digging up evidence the convicted felon had a history of dubious financial behavior and may have falsified the 2003 contract he said promised him 84% of the social-networking firm. Ceglia was indicted for fraud over the allegations...
Is Alibaba's Data Tampering An Isolated Incident?
Is Alibaba's Data Tampering An Isolated Incident? You may have heard it – Tmall, the B2C platform of New York Exchanges-listed Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has tampered with its online data.For readers who have not been following this story, here is a brief version of what happened: Someone noticed a sudden, inexplicable spike in the pre-order numbers of the new 4G Smartisan T1 smart phone on Tmall.com and dug into it, suspecting...
Microsoft Plans To Launch A Wearable Device Within Weeks
Microsoft Plans To Launch A Wearable Device Within Weeks A Samsung Gear S smart watch on display at a trade fair on September 5, 2014 (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Microsoft MSFT +2.08% is gearing up to launch a wearable device within the next few weeks, Forbes has learned. The gadget is a smart watch that will passively track a wearer’s heart rate and work across...
Apple iOS 8.1 To Launch Today. Here's What Is Coming In The Update
Apple iOS 8.1 To Launch Today. Here's What Is Coming In The Update Apple AAPL +1.46%’s senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said that Apple iOS 8.1 will be releasing today. Apple iOS 8.1 includes bug fixes, functionality for several Continuity features, the iCloud Photo Library, Apple Pay and the return of the Camera Roll.ContinuityContinuity lets you easily switch between your iPhone, iPad and Mac or...
Sunday, 19 October 2014
How To Hack The Sky
How To Hack The SkySatellites can bring a digital signal to places where the Internet seems like a miracle: off-the-grid desert solar farms, the Arctic or an aircraft carrier at sea. But in beaming data to and from the world’s most remote places, satellite Internet may also offer its signal to a less benign recipient: any digital miscreant within thousands of miles.In a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Spanish cybersecurity researcher Leonardo Nve presented a variety of tricks for gaining access to and...
Security And The Internet Of Things
Security And The Internet Of ThingsOne of the terms out there that is getting more and more visibility is the “Internet of Things” or IoT. I’ll admit that I have fought hard against even invoking the term for fear some evil apparition would appear if I were to say it three times. Alas, it has come to the point where I know I have to comment. I’m realizing that, when relatives are asking me how to know if their refrigerator is online or not,...
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