The Wall Street Journal | By: Dave Michaels | WASHINGTON | May 17, 2017 1:32 p.m. ET: Finra to expand use of report cards to reduce manipulation. Wall Street is cracking down on a common, manipulative trading technique after its self-regulatory organization began grading brokers on how much bad behavior Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | By: Joel Schectman | WASHINGTON | Wed May 17, 2017 | 6:50pm EDT: A bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would require the U.S. National Security Agency to inform representatives of other government agencies about security holes it finds in software like the one that Read more…
Defense One | By: Echo Huang Yinyin | May 16, 2017: In the name of safeguarding its 1.4 billion people, China has been collecting biometric information from millions of people whom it deems potential threats—among them, Uyghurs, migrant workers, and college students—as part of national DNA database. China’s Ministry of Read more…
Reuters | Business News | Wed May 17, 2017 | 5:33am EDT: China invests $3.98 billion in Belt and Road countries over Jan-April: commerce ministry China’s non-financial outbound direct investment in 45 countries related to the Belt and Road initiative over the first four months of 2017 was $3.98 billion, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Natalia Drozdiak – Updated May 16, 2017 8:50 a.m. ET: Watchdog claims social media giant’s privacy policy breaches French rules France’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday slapped Facebook Inc. with a €150,000 ($165,616) fine on allegations the social media giant’s privacy policy breaches French law, Read more…
The Washington Post | May 16 2017: Scientists find 38 million pieces of trash on a Pacific island Henderson Island, an uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific, is so isolated that it’s one of the few places in the world “whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence.” Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brian Fung | May 16 2017: The hacking group that leaked the bugs that enabled last week’s global ransomware attack is threatening to make public even more computer vulnerabilities in the coming weeks — potentially including “compromised network data” pertaining to the nuclear or missile Read more…
The Washington Post |By: Ellen Nakashima | Craig Timberg | May 16 2017: When the National Security Agency began using a new hacking tool called EternalBlue, those entrusted with deploying it marveled at both its uncommon power and the widespread havoc it could wreak if it ever got loose. Some Read more…
Report: Is Your Compliance Program Ready For A Multipolar World? Introduction To The Report: With political volatility at home and abroad, it’s tempting to assume that the days of escalating Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC) enforcement are over. However, the facts tell a different story. The United States is doubling down Read more…
Fox News | By: Elizabeth Llorente | May 15, 2017: The GPS has increasingly become a drug dealer’s new partner in crime. Drug-smuggling groups are relying on the device to keep tabs on drug packages as they wind their way through Central America to the United States, according to published Read more…
Wall Street Journal | Joe Flint | May 15, 2017 6:38 p.m. ET: CEO says hackers claim to have stolen unreleased film, threaten to release it if not paid ransom. A hacker or hackers claim to have stolen an unreleased film from Walt Disney Co. DIS -0.51% and threatened to Read more…
Financial Times | May 16 2017: The ransomware attack shows that the internet’s age of innocence is over. The other evening I saw part of the 1969 film The Italian Job and it set me thinking. Not about the balance of payments, the Common Market or avoiding a cliff edge Read more…
Financial Times | 16 May 2017: Tool dubbed EsteemAudit available on dark web after impact of WannaCry attack. Criminal hacking groups have repurposed a second classified cyber weapon stolen from US spies and have made it available on the so-called dark web after the success of the WannaCry attack that Read more…
Financial Times | Associated Free Press | May 16 2017: Records were shared with the Google-owned AI company to trial Streams health app. The National Health Service, Britain’s largest employer and one of the biggest in the world, will pay a large bill towards the levy. DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial Read more…
Microsoft | RSA Conference 2017: From Microsoft Blog: This year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco brings the world’s security professionals together to discuss cybersecurity at a critical time. The past year has witnessed not just the growth of cybercrime, but a proliferation in cyberattacks that is both new and disconcerting. Read more…
Financial Times | May 15 2017: Group says WannaCry attack is a ‘wake-up call’ in strongly-worded blog post To read article in Financial Times – please click here. From The Original Blog By Brad Smith Of Microsoft: The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from Read more…
Reuters | World News | By: David Lawder | Washington | Sat May 13, 2017 | 10:25pm EDT: The U.S. Treasury is considering all of its available tools to deny North Korea access to the international financial system to rein in its nuclear weapons and missile development programs, a senior Read more…
The New York Times | By: Jane Perlez & Yufan Huang | May 13, 2017: Chinese workers and engineers at a tunnel being created near Vang Vieng, Laos, as part of a $6 billion Chinese rail project that will connect eight Asian countries. Adam Dean for The New York Times Read more…
Financial Times: May 14 2017: Sensitive data exposed by deep flaws at the heart of the interconnected global digital economy Authorities around the world are scrambling to tackle one of the most virulent cyber attacks to date, as fears mount over the safety of huge amounts of sensitive data, ranging Read more…
UK Gov – National Cyber Security Centre | 13th May 2017: Media reports today have rightly praised the efforts of MalwareTech to tackle the Wannacry cyber attack. The NCSC has been working in collaboration with a number organisations in the cyber security community, including MalwareTech and 2SEC4, to understand and Read more…
22-year-old spots ‘kill switch’ and helps delay spread of virus Below: Article By MalwareTech Security Researcher Who Found The Kill Switch: How to Accidentally Stop a Global Cyber Attacks – May 13, 2017 MalwareTech ms17-010, ransowmare, worm 168 So finally I’ve found enough time between emails and Skype calls to Read more…
Financial Times: May 14 2017: Cyber attack exploited vulnerability in ‘retired’ software that is still in use Microsoft has taken the rare step of issuing a fix for versions of Windows it had previously “retired”, in an attempt to halt the global spread of the malware that hit the UK’s Read more…
Financial Times: Designers super-charged ransomware using tools leaked by US National Security Agency Dozens of organisations and networks worldwide have been hit by a cyber weapon known as WannaCry. Already it has proved itself to be one of the most virulent and potentially destructive cyber attacks ever observed. What does Read more…
Fox News | Published May 12, 2017: Cyber attacks that hit 74 countries across Europe and Asia Friday, impacting the public health system in Britain, apparently involved a leaked hacking tool from the National Security Agency. The attack used ransomware, which is malware that encrypts data and locks a user from their data until they pay a ransom. The tool, which was leaked by a group known as Shadow Brokers, had been stolen from the N.S.A. as part of a wide swath of tools illegally released in 2016.
The Washington Post | May 13 2017: Computers around the world are suffering an attack from malicious software. The compromised computers have been hit by “ransomware” — software that encrypts the computer’s hard drive so that all the information on it is unavailable, and refuses to release it until a Read more…
The Washington Post | By Amanda Erickson | May 12 2017: Worldwide hack exploits flaw identified in leaked NSA document. A massive cyberattack hit tens of thousands of computers in dozens of nations. It was first reported in England — hackers gained access to the National Health Service computers, effectively Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Hayley Tsukayama | May 12 at 6:52 PM: Are you one of those people who ignores prompts to update your Windows system? Well, Friday’s massive international cyberattack may give you the best reason of all to hit “update” when prompted. Microsoft on Friday said in Read more…
Reuters | By: Dustin Volz | Washington | Cyber Risk | Sat May 13, 2017 | 7:17am EDT: A global cyber attack on Friday renewed concerns about whether the U.S. National Security Agency and other countries’ intelligence services too often hoard software vulnerabilities for offensive purposes, rather than quickly alerting Read more…
Reuters | Interfax | May 13 2017: Around 1,000 computers at the Russian Interior Ministry have been affected by the huge cyberattack that hit countries including Britain and Spain on Friday, a spokeswoman for the ministry told Interfax. A source familiar with the matter told Interfax that the ministry did Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan – San Francisco | Jenny Gross & Denise Roland – London | Updated May 12, 2017 9:28 p.m. ET: Experts say hackers targeted a software vulnerability that had allegedly been exploited earlier by the NSA. A massive cyberattack scrambled computer systems in Read more…
The New York Times | By: Dan Bilefsky and Nicole Perlroth | May 12, 2017: LONDON — Hackers using a tool stolen from the United States government conducted extensive cyberattacks on Friday that hit dozens of countries around the world, severely disrupting Britain’s public health system and wreaking havoc on Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Christopher Mims – Updated March 9, 2017 7:27 a.m. ET: May 13 2017 – Bringing the above article to your attention. It’s Time for VIPs to Take the Hacker Threat Seriously—and Personally: WikiLeaks’ purported CIA hack shows that old iPhones and laptops, not to Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | Fri May 12, 2017 | 5:46pm EDT: British Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to create new powers allowing her to punish social media and communications companies that fail to look after users’ data, and to demand cash from firms to pay for policing the internet. Read more…
Reuters | By: Jonathan Stempel | Fri May 12, 2017 | 6:13pm EDT: Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) may have opened as many as 3.5 million unauthorized customer accounts, far more than previously estimated, according to lawyers seeking approval of a $142 million settlement over the practice. The new estimate Read more…
Reuters: Environment | Fri May 12, 2017 | 4:07am EDT: By: Seng Li Peng and Florence Tan | SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR: Demand for gasoline in Asia may peak much earlier than expected as millions of people in China and India buy electric vehicles over the next decade, threatening wrenching change for Read more…
The Economist: From Print Edition – May 6th 2017: The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules. A new commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now Read more…
Tribune de Geneve: Finances: 11.May.2017 | 14:27 CET: Original Article In French: La Suisse n’a jamais eu autant de cash. To read original article – please click here. Physical money is still very popular in Switzerland. Citizens feel reassured in the current context. The Swiss bet on cash. No country Read more…
The Wall Street Journal: By: Drew Hinshaw | Updated May 11, 2017 5:55 p.m. ET: Move part of yearslong probe into flows of funds from the Central African nation Federal agents have seized nearly a half-million dollars from a Washington lobbyist accused of helping the ruling family of Gabon and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal: Scott Patterson | May 11, 2017 | 7:03 a.m. ET: A complex web of deals shows how aluminum firm China Zhongwang was able to route metal around the globe Money from state-run Chinese companies was used to help finance the buildup of a massive aluminum stockpile Read more…
Reuters: Technology News | By: Dustin Volz | Washington | Thu May 11, 2017 | 5:11pm EDT: U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to bolster the government’s cyber security and protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, marking his first significant action to address what he has Read more…
Reuters: Technology News | Thu May 11, 2017 | 2:46pm EDT: France’s central bank on Tuesday said there had been an increase in phishing attempts using its name and logo and email addresses purporting to be Bank of France ones. The Bank of France in a statement called the general Read more…
Financial Times: By: Shawn Donnan | Washington – Patti Waldmeir | Chicago – Tanya Powley | London: Brussels demands explanation as airline executives say move is ‘foregone conclusion’ The US is considering extending a ban on laptops in aircraft cabins to transatlantic services from Europe, in what would be a Read more…
Financial Times | 11th May 2017: China:Foreign direct investment and exports are down, but construction revenue is up. China’s President Xi Jinping will host 28 heads of state this weekend for a summit to promote his signature Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious programme of economic diplomacy that analysts have Read more…
Article 1: The Day After – Priorities In Reconstruction: The legend of the Tower of Babel taught us that without communication there is no coherent nation. This holds just as true today — communication and working communication infrastructures are a vital element in reconstruction or rebuilding after a war, crisis Read more…
Business News | Wed May 10, 2017 | 2:51pm EDT: The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday. The budget surplus was $106 billion in April 2016, according to Treasury’s monthly budget statement. Read more…
An Intelligence in Our Image | The Risks of Bias and Errors in Artificial Intelligence: Rand Corporation: By: Osonde A. Osoba, William Welser IV: Machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence systems influence many aspects of people’s lives: news articles, movies to watch, people to spend time with, access to credit, Read more…
Une Guerre Nouvelle a Commencé Internet: Un Nouveau Champ de Bataille La Terrorisme à l’Épreuve de l’Informatique To read or download PDF, please click image below: Pour lire ou télécharger le PDF, cliquez sur l’image ci-dessous:
FCPA Blog: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 9:08AM | By: Kent Kroeker and Andy Spalding: Nearly 100 percent of the FCPA Blog’s readers have experienced traveling in a car when it broke down. But how many have experienced a commercial airplane breakdown while in flight? Almost zero percent. Why the Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | Graham Warwick and John Croft | Apr 28, 2017: An AeroVironment Puma AE small unmanned aircraft inspected a dozen miles of power lines in rural Virginia in April to demonstrate flights beyond the operator’s line of sight. The FAA issued a “Drotam” to alert Read more…
Lenders face new levy as Canberra looks to balance budget and keep triple-A rating Australia’s big banks are to bear the brunt of a new tax on balance sheet liabilities, as the country’s treasurer revealed an annual budget aimed at returning the country to surplus and preserving its triple-A sovereign Read more…
By John Moody | Published May 09, 2017 | Fox News: A fascinating battle is shaping up between two American entrepreneurs for control of a desert mine in California that could be the key to reviving domestic production of rare earths, the metals and materials that are critical to our Read more…
Reuters: Business News | Tue May 9, 2017 | 10:33pm EDT: By: Swati Pandey and Jane Wardell | CANBERRA: The Australian government pledged to deliver a small budget surplus in 2020/21, slapping big banks with new taxes to end more than a decade of deficits that have threatened its prized Read more…
By: Dan Boylan | The Washington Times | Tuesday, May 9, 2017: NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, warned Washington lawmakers Tuesday that America’s enemies in the cyberspace realm “have grown more sophisticated and assertive” — especially Russia — which is increasingly attempting to undermine Read more…
The FCPA Blog: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 8:28AM: If you gather anti-corruption professionals from six continents in a classroom for intensive discussion, extraordinary things are bound to happen. Here are five lessons I’ve learned in my years of teaching in the Master in Anti-Corruption Studies program at the International Read more…
Helen Massy-Beresford | Paris | Aviation Week | May 1-14, 2017: Airlines are able to deal more efficiently with disruptions in scheduling thanks to the social media revolution. Most passengers possess smartphones and endless apps so, ideally, keeping travelers apprised (and sanguine) about delays is easy to accomplish. But this Read more…
By: John Croft | Washington | Aviation Week | May 1-14, 2017: With a blizzard set to slam the Northeast U.S. on a Monday night in mid-March, airlines on the preceding Saturday began pre-emptively canceling flights. Flight-tracking website Flightaware.com listed more than 9,000 operations that had been canceled between Sunday Read more…
The FCPA Blog: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 7:28AM: Tom Fox recently wrote a post for the FCPA Blog about allegations that Shell made a £1.1 billion ($1.42 billion) payment for an oil field license in Nigeria, with half the money ending up in a company owned by a Nigerian Read more…
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and Read more…
Implementing The United Nations “Protect, Respect And Remedy” Framework: Context: The “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework” were developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The Read more…
SUMMARY OF ANNUAL FOIA REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016: Every year, the Office of Information Policy (OIP) compiles a summary of the information contained in the Annual Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) Reports that are prepared by each of the federal agencies subject to the FOIA. The Annual FOIA Reports Read more…
Techcrunch | By: Matt Burns | May 8, 2017: Parrot today announced packages for its consumer drones aimed at small businesses. The company has long served the professional market, but this announcement repositions the Bebop and Disco drones as off-the-shelf solutions for 3D modeling, mapping and agricultural uses. After all, Read more…
By Danielle Paquette | The Washington Post | May 8 2017: Fed Chair Janet Yellen has a cure for the lackluster economy. It has nothing to do with interest rates. Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen has prescribed an unusual remedy for the United States’ aging, low-growth economy: harness the Read more…
Financial Times / Reuters | May 6th 2017: More than 500 ministries and departments hit by attacks using open-source tools Researchers have unearthed a cyber espionage campaign that has compromised more than 500 government ministries and departments worldwide — by hiding in plain sight. The hackers behind the attacks are Read more…
By: Ben DiPietro | May 5, 2017 7:38 am ET: The lack of a market standard in how cyber risks are assessed is making it difficult for insurers to expand their levels of cybersecurity coverage, but advances in cyber risk modeling are improving the ability of insurers to more accurately Read more…
By: Emily Feng | May 04 2017: Air pollution readings reach extreme levels in crisis blamed partly on coal mining A haze of sand has enveloped northern China, leading to extreme air pollution in Beijing as the country’s expanding deserts blow into cities hundreds of kilometres away. Local governments point Read more…
By Caroline Houck | May 4, 2017: The Trump’s administration’s approach to border security starts 1,500 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Thursday. In a 20-minute talk at the Atlantic Council, Kelly offered a distilled version of his approach. The former commander of U.S. Read more…
By: Yeganeh Torbati and Mica Rosenberg | Thu May 4, 2017 | 3:33pm EDT: WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: The U.S. Department of State has proposed tougher questioning of visa applicants believed to warrant extra scrutiny, according to a document published Thursday, in a push toward the “extreme vetting” that President Donald Trump has Read more…
By: Karen E. Gray | The FCPA Blog – The FCPA Blog | Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 8:28AM The award-winning films “Spotlight” and “All the President’s Men” both chronicled investigative journalism that uncovered huge scandals. But in re-watching those movies, I’ve noticed something else they have in common — Read more…
By: The Financial Times | Wednesday 3rd May 2017: FCA pushes ahead with new regulations to try to clean up the City after scandals UK branches of foreign banks will have to adhere to whistleblowing rules that allow staff to voice concerns to City watchdogs without having to tell their Read more…
By: Robin Sidel | April 30, 2017 2:04 p.m. ET: How Secure Is the Swift Network? Payment-transfer network left banks largely responsible for their own cyberdefense; old passwords at Bangladesh’s central bank: A series of recent cyberattacks targeting banks raises questions about the security of Swift, the global messaging network Read more…
By: Steven Norton | Apr 28, 2017 5:35 pm ET Many fail to recognize digital shift as more than continuation of industrial revolution NEW YORK — Existing government policies and approaches to education don’t do enough to to address the broader structural changes being brought about by automation, panelists said Read more…
US News: By CHARLIE SAVAGE | APRIL 28, 2017 WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency said Friday that it had halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form of wiretapping that dates to the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 expansion of national security Read more…
Business News: By Julie Zhu | HONG KONG | Thu Apr 27, 2017 | 7:22pm EDT: Chinese conglomerates, still eager to snap up assets abroad, are rushing to raise money offshore in order to get around capital outflow curbs that have made it much tougher for Chinese bidders to complete Read more…
By Joseph Marks – DefenseOne | April 27, 2017 The government’s failure thus far to fix long delays and dangerous imprecision in the government’s security clearance and vetting system is one of James Clapper’s greatest regrets from his time in office, the former Director of National Intelligence said Wednesday. Clapper’s Read more…
There Are Two Types Of Globalization – Hostile & Benign: Hostile Globalization is a very real though somewhat occult process, which is supported both overtly and covertly by an ideology commonly referred to these days as, “Globalism”. Fundamentally, Hostile Globalization operates in service of increasing the power, wealth and control Read more…
We Ensure The Security, Safety & Sustainability Of Super-Systems: With the emergence of the Benign Globalization process we are witnessing the rise of regional and local empowerment and involvement. The USA Regions and States, for example, are showing a great cultural diversity and are seeking increased administrative independence. The same Read more…
We Provide Systems & Solutions To Enable Humanity & Enrich The Planet: It is not uncommon to hear or read statements which are along the lines of, “Human beings are selfish, ignorant, brutish, aggressive and untrustworthy creatures who will, if given the chance, lie, cheat, steal, destroy and even kill Read more…
A Shift Has Happened From A Singular Bottom Line Focus, To A Triple Bottom Line Focus: Once upon a time, completely in support of Milton Friedman’s famous conclusion that, “The Business of Business is Business”, the world of business and almost all individual enterprises within it, used to focus on Read more…