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OCTOBER is National CyberSecurity Month

TEST YOUR CYBERSMARTS–  choose from four game options: Balloon Pop, Horse Race, Hoop Shoot, and Plinko. Through each game, users receive questions and challenges to “test cybersecurity knowledge and teach useful tips for staying safe online.” For example, Horse Race quizzes users on malware infection and identity theft protection, and Hoop Shoot tests players on smart social media practices. Though the bonus prizes and coupons (since closed) were only available to Texas A&M students and staff, anyone can continue to play the game online. And, the real prize is the “cybersmarts” knowledge gained along the way.

FBI reorganizes cyber-crime and foreign cyber-espionage divisions as cases rise 
The goal is to reinforce investigations into computer hacking perpetrated by organized cyber-criminals, as well as by foreign states aiming to steal government and corporate secrets. According to the Reuters news agency, the FBI made the decision to reorganize its cyber divisions after Internet-based crime and espionage cases rose to unprecedented levels in the past year, a trend that is partly driven by the COVID-19 epidemic. Aside from the damage caused to national security, the financial loss associated with computer hacking is said to be incalculable
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is reorganizing its cyber-crime and foreign cyber-espionage divisions in order to combat growing activity in those areas, while also increasing its cross-agency contacts. The goal is to reinforce investigations into computer hacking perpetrated by organized cyber-criminals, as well as by foreign states aiming to steal government and corporate secrets.

Russian operation masqueraded as right-wing news site to target U.S. voters – sources

 

FACEBOOK TURD

MARK ZUCKERBERG

who sat behind a screen rating girls for college bros cause he can’t relate to people has total control  of the biggest website bomb that completely detroys  the way people relate online. This Moron has No college degree, no ability to relate to people, is in charge of a website that is killing democracy

FACEBOOK WORKERS UNITE
FORM A UNION
STOP YOUR WORK

After months of talks, Democrats say Facebook isn’t ready for the election. Democratic Party leaders are “banging their head against the wall” after private meetings with Facebook on election misinformation.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE – THROW ZUCKERBERG OUT

Facebook shut down malware that hijacked accounts to run ads
Wired ($): Hackers drained $4 million from victims during a hacking spree that involved compromising Facebook accounts and buying malicious ads to promote scams on the platform

Social media is the perfect petri dish for bias.
The solution is for tech companies to slow us down. Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt, the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, says Nextdoor reduced racial profiling by 75 percent by introducing a tiny bit of friction for users.

ANTI TRUST LAW

NYU’s Professor Galloway outlines 7 antitrust questions Tim Cook may be asked

NYU professor and author Professor Scott Galloway has outlined seven antitrust questions Tim Cook may be asked when he appears before Congress on Wednesday. Apple is one of four tech giants due to be grilled by the House Judiciary Committee – alongside Amazon, Facebook, and Google – and Galloway is well-qualified to discuss the antitrust issues around all of them … Galloway has now written a blog post listing four key antitrust questions he thinks need to be put to all of the tech giants, with a further three for Apple specifically. The first four share a common theme: are the companies now so large that they make it almost impossible for smaller players to compete?

HIGHER ED SECURITY

Nearly a quarter of former students in Citizen’s survey say they can’t stay current on their debt payments, and almost two-thirds say they’re uncomfortable with their debt load. Almost half say they would have reconsidered going to college entirely if they knew how burdensome their debts would be years or even decades later.

 

NYU Professor Scott Galloway: The Coming Disruption
Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite cyborg universities will soon monopolize higher education. The post-pandemic future, he says, will entail partnerships between the largest tech companies in the world and elite universities. MIT@Google. iStanford. HarvardxFacebook. According to Galloway, these partnerships will allow universities to expand enrollment dramatically by offering hybrid online-offline degrees, the affordability and value of which will seismically alter the landscape of higher education. Galloway, who also founded his own virtual classroom start-up, predicts hundreds, if not thousands, of brick-and-mortar universities will go out of business and those that remain will have student bodies composed primarily of the children of the one percent.

Who needs a college degree?

What happened during the pandemic?
Remember…..
Robots are supposed to set us free from having to work. Then Universal Basic Income will protect us all from being destitute because we no longer have a job.
Did all those robots that replace workers happen for Jeff Bezos and the Amazon factory line worker? NO? No no no they did not! why not?

Bezos made 18 Billion during the pandemic so far  — so yes he can pay everyone $25,000 a year UBI, keep his robots employed. He can get taxed by how many robots he employs.

CyberPlayGround NetHappenings©1989K12 School Security

Confidential information released after school district refused to pay hackers’ ransom demand (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/us/nevada-school-district-hack-ransom/index.html)
CNN: Hackers who launched a data-stealing ransomware attack on the fifth-largest school district in the U.S. have published the information they stole after the school district failed to pay the ransom. The ransomware operators published employee Social Security numbers, addresses and retirement paperwork. For students, information released includes a data file with names, grades, birth dates, addresses and the school attended. The district has about 320,000 students
More: Wall Street Journal (R) (https://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-releases-information-on-las-vegas-area-students-after-officials-dont-pay-ransom-11601297930) | Clark County School District (https://www.ccsd.net/district/dataincident/)

Elizabeth Warren says her plan to eliminate student loan debt can bypass Congress

Colleges with high default rates may lose their eligibility to participate in federal student aid programs.

F’CKING COMPUTERS

Microsoft outage prevents millions from logging in Office, Outlook, and Teams accounts because of an outage with Azure’s Active Directory.

Microsoft says Russia behind most nation-state cyberattacks
Bloomberg: In a new report, Microsoft said that Russia-based hackers are responsible for the majority of nation-state attacks on its customers. That is, to be clear, detected attacks. Microsoft issued 13,000 alerts about nation-backed hacking incidents between July 2019 and June 2020. More than half were attributed to Russia, and about one-quarter were blamed on Iran.

Helping to pay off ransomware hackers could draw big penalties from the feds
Cyberscoop: In a new advisory this week, the U.S. Treasury said ransomware victims and cybersecurity firms that help companies respond to attacks could face severe penalties if they pay the ransom that then goes on to fund attackers on the U.S. sanctions list. It comes after the Garmin attack  in July, which sources said paid the ransom, even though the group allegedly behind the attack is on a U.S. sanctions list.

Google is creating a special Android security team to find bugs in sensitive apps
ZDNet: Google is hiring to create a new Android security team that will try to find vulnerabilities in high-profile apps on Google Play, like coronavirus contact tracing and election-related apps.

PRIVACY

This is what Palantir and the LAPD know about you
Newly obtained documents reveal how for more than a decade the LAPD used technology built by Palantir, the secretive data analytics and surveillance startup, which went public this week. The documents show that dozens of police depts, sheriff’s offices, airport police, universities, and school districts gave their data to the LAPD’s Palantir database. The documents give an unprecedented look into how the technology works. This is a really incredible read.

TOOLS

Freelan is VPN software that provides a virtual LAN that connects computers anywhere in the world as if they were on the same network switch. with Freelan, geographically disparate machines can play LAN-only games, access shared drives (for example, from a NAS device), access network printers, access home automation devices, and perform any other network tasks as if they were all in the same location. A number of configuration examples are provided on the Freelan front page that demonstrate the different modes in which the software can operate. The Downloads page provides installers for Windows and macOS desktops. Users of Linux and BSD systems can find Freelan in their package repositories.

CRYPTO

Justin Sun: the crypto millionaire who acquired BitTorrent — and waded into the trade war

 

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