Microsoft SSL Vulnerability gives attackers opportunity to gain control of leading banking sites Microsoft has issued a fix for a security hole that has exposed tens of thousands of SSL servers to potential compromise. The bug, a buffer overflow in Microsoft's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) library, enables remote attackers to gain control of Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 servers handling banking and e-commerce transactions. [via Netcraft]
It’s a new expression I haven’t heard before. ‘Civilisational data mining.’
Let me start by putting it in some context. Every character, you or I have typed into the Google search engine or Facebook over the last decade, means something, to someone or perhaps ‘something,’ if it’s an algorithm.
In May 2014, journalists revealed that the United States National Security Agency, the NSA, was recording and archiving every single cell-phone conversation that took place in the Bahamas. In the process they managed to transform a significant proportion of a society’s day to day interactions into unstructured data; valuable information which can of course be analysed, correlated and transformed for whatever purpose the intelligence agency deems fit.
And today, I read that a GOP-hired data company in the United States has ‘leaked’ personal information, preferences and voting intentions on… wait for it… 198 million US citizens.
Within another decade or so, the cost of sequencing the human genome …
Let me start by putting it in some context. Every character, you or I have typed into the Google search engine or Facebook over the last decade, means something, to someone or perhaps ‘something,’ if it’s an algorithm.
In May 2014, journalists revealed that the United States National Security Agency, the NSA, was recording and archiving every single cell-phone conversation that took place in the Bahamas. In the process they managed to transform a significant proportion of a society’s day to day interactions into unstructured data; valuable information which can of course be analysed, correlated and transformed for whatever purpose the intelligence agency deems fit.
And today, I read that a GOP-hired data company in the United States has ‘leaked’ personal information, preferences and voting intentions on… wait for it… 198 million US citizens.
Within another decade or so, the cost of sequencing the human genome …
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