Agatakotlowska's List: Tuesday News Day

• THE personal data you entrust to companies is at greater risk than you realise

  • What kind of risks? How is it leaked?
• Personal information of up to 750,000 Japan Airlines (JAL) customers was leaked last week due to a cyber attack. This followed the celebrity nude photo leak from earlier this month, where explicit photos showing more than 100 female stars, including Jennifer Lawrence, hit the internet.

  • Many things are being leaked recently? Things that should be hard to figure out are being exposed. How? Why? Is the whole internet just a huge spying technique? 
• In general, organisations are better prepared through a huge number of small attacks.”

  • Prepare for cyber attacks.
• hey know where you live, they know everything about yo
• , so they create an email that says ‘You get a special disco
• unt if you book through this website’ and,
• unker said.
• ang, they’ve got your credit card number,” Dr B

  • This is how fraud sites work. Every site wants personal information released. 
• because it’s happening right now,” he said.
• It doesn’t matter how big or small you are, your data is of use to someone.

  • We are useful to someone, anything can be digged up. 
• he general public could learn from the celebrity nude photo hacking scandal, because it’s not just the picture itself that can be valuable, but the metadata contained in the image.

  • "The metadate in the image" ??? 
• but the metadata tells you exactly where the picture was taken and this can be just as dangerous, in the hands of the wrong people, such as a stalker.

  • This ca be anyone not just celebs. 
• “This has to be taken seriously, because actually your info is of incredibly good use to the cyber attacker.”

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• Instant Checkmate aggregates hundreds of millions of publicly available criminal, traffic, and arrest records and posts them online so they can easily be searched by anyone.
• Members of the site can literally begin searching within seconds, and are able to check as many records as they like (think: friends, family, doctors, teachers, neighbors, etc. etc.).

  • Nothing is private. Big violation of privacy. Info isn't anyone's business.
• or the information might not have been available at all. With websites like Instant Checkmate, however, a background check takes just a few clicks of the mouse

  • Why is it so easy? Do people have a say if they want to be on this? Can you be taken off? Do you need special requirements to look someone up? Is it free?
• o my dismay, the search revealed several items I’d long forgotten—one of them being for the possession of a fake ID I was (embarrassingly) issued back in college when I was just 18 years old.

  • That can ruin many opportunity. 
• One of the most interesting aspects of Instant Checkmate is that it shows not only criminal records, but also more general background information like marriage records, divorce records, various types of licenses

  • Is this site legal??? 
• but he was definitely a registered sex offender. Scary stuff.

  • That is CRAZY. Is he fired now? Was it hidden before the site?
• Anyone can start running background checks on Instant Checkmate within a few seconds

  • Cant tell if its a good or bad thing. 

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• accounting system are putting thousands of state employees’ and contractors’ personal information at risk.
• The fear
• financial information

  • Info like this can be dangerous.
• includes the name, bank account number, bank routing number, and social security number for employees who have received reimbursements

  • This quote shows how truly nothing is private and these employs are having all their information exposed.
• We were able to reduce the access to just 70 employees

  • 70 employs is not a lot. Leaked info like this can get many people in trouble. 
• made critical adjustments to keep the project moving forward.

  • Need to fix things asap because fraud is a high possibility. 
• looked at what the critical path was for the project success and we ensured we had absolutely great working solutions in place.”

  • How did it happen? How is access to this info so easy? 
• Lawmakers aren’t so sure and are calling for their own investigation into CORE.

  • What action are they going to take? What are they going to investigate? 

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• 77 million user accounts, hackers have gone far. This time, the FBI has charged four different hackers responsible for breaching the online security and stealing from several big gaming companies

  • What are they stealing? 
• $100 to $200 million was stolen

  • Thats alot? In a short amount of time??? 
• The indictment alleges that the group was planning to sell all this information for profit.

  • Very useful to them for money.
• 22-year-old
• 28-year-old
• 20-year-old
• 18-year-old

  • They are all so young.
• online ventures will always have to fend off virtual thieves. Occasionally, they will let one slip by.

  • One can cause so much damage.

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• Jewel-Osco, for the second time in less than two months, has been targeted by hackers who may have accessed customer data.
• in the networks that process debit and credit card transactions

  • Was anyone stolen from?
• Illinois, Iowa or Indiana

  • This is where
• If it can happen in a large establishment like Jewel

  • Are there other records of stores this happen to?
• is your money safe?

  • Is anyones??
• "I guess every place has had problems lately, so you're kind of running out of options in terms of finding another place to go

  • No one is really safe?! Risks shopping???
• she is going to start writing checks again,

  • Might be the smartest thing to do. 

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