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Thursday, December 25, 2014
The POINT Is !!
This Msg may change your way of
thinking!
Do read it !!
1. Name the 5 Wealthiest People in the world.
2. Name the Last 5 winners of Ms.
Universe.
3. Name the Last 10 People
Who won the Nobel prize.
How Did You Do?
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The Point is, None of us Remembers The Headlines of Yesterday,
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The Point is, None of us Remembers The Headlines of Yesterday,
Even Though These People Must
be the Best in Their Fields
Applause Dies,
Awards Are Tarnished and
Achievements
Are Forgotten!!
Are Forgotten!!
Here's another quiz:
Let's see How This Goes:
1. Name 5 Teachers Who
Added Your Journey Through School.
2. Name 5 Friends Who
Helped You Thru Difficult Times.
3. Name 5 People Who Taught
You Something Worthwhile.
4. Name 5 People Who Make's
You Feel Special.
5. Name 5 People You Enjoy
Spending Time with.
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Easier...right?
The People Who Make a
Difference in ur Life Are NOT the ones with Most Awards and Loads of money.
Life is Full of ordinary
People Who Have Made the World a Better Place for You!
Cherish them!
Hold Them Tight!
Perhaps Sometimes its
Special to be ordinary!
Worst Cyber Attack ever !!!
Highlights :-
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The
JPMorgan Chase &
Co breach is being called the worst known compromise in
history, affecting approximately 76 million households and 7 million small
businesses -- and worsening with new information.
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Probable
Intrusion Detection Month: July
·
Law Enforcement Officials including F.B.I.
investigating the attack.
Possible gap in US regulations exposed:-
“Banks are not required to report data breaches and online intrusions unless the incident is deemed to have resulted in a financial loss to customers.
Breach notification laws differ by state, but most laws require only that companies disclose a breach if customer names were stolen in conjunction with other information like a credit card, Social Security number or driver's license number”.
Summary (Courtesy: NDTV, CNN Money)
© 2014, The New York Times News Service
Story First Published: October 05, 2014 00:44 IST
(Reporting
was contributed by Michael Corkery, Nathaniel Popper, Peter Eavis and Jessica
Silver-Greenberg.)
The huge cyber-attack on JPMorgan Chase
that touched more than 83 million households and businesses was one of the most
serious computer intrusions into a US corporation. But it could have been much
worse.
Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine other financial institutions - a number that has not been previously reported - were also infiltrated by the same group of overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter. The hackers are thought to be operating from Russia and appear to have at least loose connections with officials of the Russian government, the people briefed on the matter said.
It is unclear whether the other intrusions, at banks and brokerage firms, were as deep as the one that JPMorgan disclosed Thursday. The identities of the other institutions could not be immediately learned.
The breadth of the attacks - and the lack of clarity about whether it was an effort to steal from accounts or to demonstrate that the hackers could penetrate even the best-protected US financial institutions - has left Washington intelligence officials and policymakers far more concerned than they have let on publicly. Some US officials speculate that the breach was intended to send a message to Wall Street and the United States about the vulnerability of the digital network of one of the world's most important banking institutions.
"It could be in retaliation for the sanctions" placed on Russia, one senior official briefed on the intelligence said. "But it could be mixed motives - to steal if they can or to sell whatever information they could glean."
The JPMorgan hackers burrowed into the digital network of the bank and went down a path that gave them access to information about the names, addresses, phone number and email addresses of account holders. They never made it into where the more critical financial information and personal information are stored.
The bank's security team, which discovered the attack in late July, managed to block the hackers before they could compromise the most sensitive information about tens of millions of JPMorgan customers, said several security experts and others briefed on the matter. The attack was not completely halted until the middle of August, and it was only in recent days that the bank began to tally its full extent.
US officials say they have been working with JPMorgan since the intrusion was detected, chiefly through the Treasury, the Secret Service and intelligence agencies that seek to find the source of the attacks. But that is slow work, and one official cautioned against leaping to conclusions about the identities or the motives of the attackers.
"We've been wrong before," he said.
JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank, has begun contacting customers and making clear that no money was taken from any accounts. There has been no evidence of any fraudulent use of customer information. Most of the household accounts belong to US residents. The hackers ended up with the addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of everyone who logged into JPMorgan's websites and mobile applications in the recent past.
Still, the recent attacks on the financial firms raise the possibility that the banks may not be up to the job of defending themselves. The attacks will also stoke questions about regulations governing when companies must inform regulators and their customers about a breach.
"It was a huge surprise that they were able to compromise a huge bank like JPMorgan," said Al Pascual, a security analyst with Javelin Strategy and Research. "It scared the pants off many people."
Several financial regulators have warned that a coordinated attack on the banking system could set off another financial crisis.
On Friday, George Jepsen, the Connecticut attorney general, opened an investigation into the breach at JPMorgan, while Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York's top financial regulator, began calling bank officials to warn them to take the threat more seriously.
"There needs to be far more urgency," Lawsky said in an interview.
JPMorgan has also been working with law enforcement, including the FBI, since shortly after detecting the intrusion, which affected about 90 of the bank's computer servers. The bank said it believed that its systems were now secure and that the threat of the hackers' returning was over.
"To date, we have not seen any unusual fraud activity related to this incident," said Kristin Lemkau, a bank spokeswoman. "We have identified and closed the known access paths. We have no evidence that the attackers are still in our system. We have apologized to our customers."
But much remains unanswered about the intrusion including who the hackers are, which other financial institutions were hit and why the hackers went down a path inside JPMorgan's computer system that contained troves of customer information but not financial data.
The intrusion also highlights a possible gap in US regulations. Banks are not required to report data breaches and online intrusions unless the incident is deemed to have resulted in a financial loss to customers. Breach notification laws differ by state, but most laws require only that companies disclose a breach if customer names were stolen in conjunction with other information like a credit card, Social Security number or driver's license number.
In some states, companies can wait up to a month to inform customers of a breach. Other state laws are more vague.
In California, for example, banks, companies and large organizations must inform the state attorney general's office and consumers about a breach without unreasonable delay - a rule that some companies interpret liberally, officials say. This year, Kamala Harris, the California attorney general, sued the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, saying that it took more than a year for the foundation to disclose to some employees that their personal information may have been compromised.
For years, there have been attempts in Congress to force companies to more quickly inform customers that their information has been compromised, but recent bills have failed to muster enough support. One bill, sponsored by Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., would create a clearinghouse where companies could exchange information about attacks.
US bank executives say privately that they already share intelligence informally about attacks, which are occurring frequently on their systems.
This summer, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew called on Congress to pass legislation that he said would bolster the information sharing process.
"As it stands, our laws do not do enough to foster information sharing and defend the public from digital threats," Lew said.
That the hackers were apparently able to move around JPMorgan's computer system undetected for several weeks is perhaps the most troubling aspect of the recent breach, officials at other large banks say.
The hackers were able to attain high administrative privileges within JPMorgan's network, rooting more than 90 servers and rummaging through customer databases with detailed information for 76 million households and 7 million small-business online accounts.
As they looked around, according to one person with knowledge of the breach, the hackers gleaned some critical details of customers' accounts. With these, the hackers were able to determine whether the accounts fell within the private bank or in other business categories like mortgages.
Some people briefed on the results of the attack contend that it was only a matter of time before attackers could have gained access to customer funds and critical personal data. Weeks into the attack, in mid-July, unusual behavior on the bank's network was spotted, and the attackers were stopped before they had a chance to pull any customer data back to their servers abroad.
But they did make off with one file which has unnerved executives. That file contained a list of every application and program deployed on standard JPMorgan computers that hackers can cross-check with known, or new, vulnerabilities in each system in a search for a backdoor entry.
Swapping out those programs is costly and time-consuming, people say, because the bank would have to renegotiate licensing deals with technology suppliers and swap out programs and applications for hundreds of thousands of bank employees.
As one former employee explained: "It's as if they stole the schematics to the Capitol - they can't just switch out every single door and window pane overnight."
The attack came after a recent turnover within JPMorgan's information security group.
A number of staff members followed Frank Bisignano, JPMorgan's former co-chief operating officer, to First Data last year. This year, First Data agreed to pay JPMorgan over accusations that by wooing other executives to the payment processor, Bisignano had violated the terms of his former employment contract.
By then, First Data had already hired
Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine other financial institutions - a number that has not been previously reported - were also infiltrated by the same group of overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter. The hackers are thought to be operating from Russia and appear to have at least loose connections with officials of the Russian government, the people briefed on the matter said.
It is unclear whether the other intrusions, at banks and brokerage firms, were as deep as the one that JPMorgan disclosed Thursday. The identities of the other institutions could not be immediately learned.
The breadth of the attacks - and the lack of clarity about whether it was an effort to steal from accounts or to demonstrate that the hackers could penetrate even the best-protected US financial institutions - has left Washington intelligence officials and policymakers far more concerned than they have let on publicly. Some US officials speculate that the breach was intended to send a message to Wall Street and the United States about the vulnerability of the digital network of one of the world's most important banking institutions.
"It could be in retaliation for the sanctions" placed on Russia, one senior official briefed on the intelligence said. "But it could be mixed motives - to steal if they can or to sell whatever information they could glean."
The JPMorgan hackers burrowed into the digital network of the bank and went down a path that gave them access to information about the names, addresses, phone number and email addresses of account holders. They never made it into where the more critical financial information and personal information are stored.
The bank's security team, which discovered the attack in late July, managed to block the hackers before they could compromise the most sensitive information about tens of millions of JPMorgan customers, said several security experts and others briefed on the matter. The attack was not completely halted until the middle of August, and it was only in recent days that the bank began to tally its full extent.
US officials say they have been working with JPMorgan since the intrusion was detected, chiefly through the Treasury, the Secret Service and intelligence agencies that seek to find the source of the attacks. But that is slow work, and one official cautioned against leaping to conclusions about the identities or the motives of the attackers.
"We've been wrong before," he said.
JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank, has begun contacting customers and making clear that no money was taken from any accounts. There has been no evidence of any fraudulent use of customer information. Most of the household accounts belong to US residents. The hackers ended up with the addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of everyone who logged into JPMorgan's websites and mobile applications in the recent past.
Still, the recent attacks on the financial firms raise the possibility that the banks may not be up to the job of defending themselves. The attacks will also stoke questions about regulations governing when companies must inform regulators and their customers about a breach.
"It was a huge surprise that they were able to compromise a huge bank like JPMorgan," said Al Pascual, a security analyst with Javelin Strategy and Research. "It scared the pants off many people."
Several financial regulators have warned that a coordinated attack on the banking system could set off another financial crisis.
On Friday, George Jepsen, the Connecticut attorney general, opened an investigation into the breach at JPMorgan, while Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York's top financial regulator, began calling bank officials to warn them to take the threat more seriously.
"There needs to be far more urgency," Lawsky said in an interview.
JPMorgan has also been working with law enforcement, including the FBI, since shortly after detecting the intrusion, which affected about 90 of the bank's computer servers. The bank said it believed that its systems were now secure and that the threat of the hackers' returning was over.
"To date, we have not seen any unusual fraud activity related to this incident," said Kristin Lemkau, a bank spokeswoman. "We have identified and closed the known access paths. We have no evidence that the attackers are still in our system. We have apologized to our customers."
But much remains unanswered about the intrusion including who the hackers are, which other financial institutions were hit and why the hackers went down a path inside JPMorgan's computer system that contained troves of customer information but not financial data.
The intrusion also highlights a possible gap in US regulations. Banks are not required to report data breaches and online intrusions unless the incident is deemed to have resulted in a financial loss to customers. Breach notification laws differ by state, but most laws require only that companies disclose a breach if customer names were stolen in conjunction with other information like a credit card, Social Security number or driver's license number.
In some states, companies can wait up to a month to inform customers of a breach. Other state laws are more vague.
In California, for example, banks, companies and large organizations must inform the state attorney general's office and consumers about a breach without unreasonable delay - a rule that some companies interpret liberally, officials say. This year, Kamala Harris, the California attorney general, sued the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, saying that it took more than a year for the foundation to disclose to some employees that their personal information may have been compromised.
For years, there have been attempts in Congress to force companies to more quickly inform customers that their information has been compromised, but recent bills have failed to muster enough support. One bill, sponsored by Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., would create a clearinghouse where companies could exchange information about attacks.
US bank executives say privately that they already share intelligence informally about attacks, which are occurring frequently on their systems.
This summer, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew called on Congress to pass legislation that he said would bolster the information sharing process.
"As it stands, our laws do not do enough to foster information sharing and defend the public from digital threats," Lew said.
That the hackers were apparently able to move around JPMorgan's computer system undetected for several weeks is perhaps the most troubling aspect of the recent breach, officials at other large banks say.
The hackers were able to attain high administrative privileges within JPMorgan's network, rooting more than 90 servers and rummaging through customer databases with detailed information for 76 million households and 7 million small-business online accounts.
As they looked around, according to one person with knowledge of the breach, the hackers gleaned some critical details of customers' accounts. With these, the hackers were able to determine whether the accounts fell within the private bank or in other business categories like mortgages.
Some people briefed on the results of the attack contend that it was only a matter of time before attackers could have gained access to customer funds and critical personal data. Weeks into the attack, in mid-July, unusual behavior on the bank's network was spotted, and the attackers were stopped before they had a chance to pull any customer data back to their servers abroad.
But they did make off with one file which has unnerved executives. That file contained a list of every application and program deployed on standard JPMorgan computers that hackers can cross-check with known, or new, vulnerabilities in each system in a search for a backdoor entry.
Swapping out those programs is costly and time-consuming, people say, because the bank would have to renegotiate licensing deals with technology suppliers and swap out programs and applications for hundreds of thousands of bank employees.
As one former employee explained: "It's as if they stole the schematics to the Capitol - they can't just switch out every single door and window pane overnight."
The attack came after a recent turnover within JPMorgan's information security group.
A number of staff members followed Frank Bisignano, JPMorgan's former co-chief operating officer, to First Data last year. This year, First Data agreed to pay JPMorgan over accusations that by wooing other executives to the payment processor, Bisignano had violated the terms of his former employment contract.
By then, First Data had already hired
·
JPMorgan's
chief information officer, Guy Chiarello,
·
its
cybersecurity czar, Anthony Belfiore;
·
its
head of compliance, Cindy Armine; and
·
Tom
Higgins, JPMorgan's head of operation control.
Anish Bhimani, the bank's chief information
risk officer, remained. Bhimani, who is well respected in the cybersecurity
industry, is a co-author of a 1996 book on cybersecurity, "Internet
Security for Business."
Lemkau said the bank was pleased with its current cybersecurity personnel.
"This is the highest-quality team we have ever had," she said.
Last December, JPMorgan hired Dana Deasy as chief information officer from BP. Greg Rattray, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel who specialized in cyberdefense was named the head of information security in June.
Challenges quickly followed. That same month, hackers found a way into the bank's systems.
Lemkau said the bank was pleased with its current cybersecurity personnel.
"This is the highest-quality team we have ever had," she said.
Last December, JPMorgan hired Dana Deasy as chief information officer from BP. Greg Rattray, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel who specialized in cyberdefense was named the head of information security in June.
Challenges quickly followed. That same month, hackers found a way into the bank's systems.
Guide to Enable LTE on Google NEXUS 4
Google's 2012 flagship
Nexus smartphone, Nexus 4 was successful enough
to gain popularity. But a key missing feature
was LTE connectivity. The Nexus 4 only supports 3G network speed.
Thanks to a senior XDA member, bpear96, a Nexus 4 LTE
Modem Flasher app, which enables users
to flash modems on their Nexus 4 and enable LTE connectivity on it, has now been
released. The app is available in the Play Store
and requires root permission to run.
When
the app is launched three tabs such as Stock Modems,
LTE Hybrid Modems and BUILD.PROP should be seen.
The
Stock Modems tab contains a list of all the stock modems available with Google. The LTE Hybrid Modems collect various hybrid modems to enable LTE and BUILD.PROP enables LTE and disables LTE on LTE Hybrid
Modem.
As the developer notes,
"This (app) can enable Band 4 LTE on the nexus 4. T-Mobile in the USA uses this for their entire current LTE
network. AT&T in US uses it in select locations. Various carriers in Canada
and Mexico are also using Band 4."
Head over to the development thread to know more about the
Nexus 4 LTE Modem Flasher app.
Interested
users, who wish to install Nexus 4 LTE Modem Flasher and enable LTE on their smartphone, may follow
our step-by-step guide.
Note: Nexus 4 LTE Modem
Flasher app requires root permission.
How to flash Modems on Nexus 4
Step-2: Run the app
Step-3: Browse to Stock Modems tab
Step-4: Tap on the desired Stock Modem version
Step-5: Select to delete or, preserve the downloaded model file by
switching ON or OFF the Delete
model after flash? option
Step-6: Tap on Flash
Step-7: The phone will reboot automatically into recovery mode and flash the modem
file
The Stock Modem will not
work as it does
not support LTE.
Therefore, the device needs LTE HybridModems, which are needed to enable LTE.
How to enable LTE on Nexus 4
Step-1: Run the Nexus 4 LTE Modem Flasher app
Step-2: Browse to LTE
Hybrid Modems tab
Step-3: Tap on the desired
hybrid modem version
Step-4: Select if you want to delete or preserve the downloaded modem
file by switching ON orOFF the Delete
modem after flash? option
Step-5: Tap on Flash to begin
the installation process
Step-6: The device will
reboot automatically into recovery mode and flash the modem
file
Step-7: After the device reboots successfully when the new Hybrid modem
is installed, run the app
Step-8: Browse to BUILD.PROP tab
and check Enable LTE and Reboot
New boxes
Step-9: Tap Apply.
The app will make the necessary modifications to the build.prop to enable LTE and reboot the device
You may verify the modem
version either in Bootloader Mode by switching off the phone and then pressing Volume
Down and Power buttons together or, navigating
to Settings>> About Phone and checking the Baseband
version.
[Source: Droid Views]
What killed Ranjan Das and Lessons for Corporate India
A month
ago, many of us heard about the sad demise of Ranjan Das from Bandra, Mumbai.
Ranjan, just 42 years of age, was the CEO of SAP-Indian Subcontinent, the
youngest CEO of an MNC in India. He was very active in sports, was a fitness
freak and a marathon runner. It was common to see him run on Bandra's
Carter Road. Just after Diwali, on 21st Oct, he returned home from his gym
after a workout, collapsed with a massive heart attack and died. He is survived
by his wife and two very young kids.
It was
certainly a wake-up call for corporate India. However, it was even more
disastrous for runners amongst us. Since Ranjan was an avid
marathoner (in Feb 09, he ran Chennai Marathon at the same time some of
us were running Pondicherry Marathon 180 km away), the question came as to why
an exceptionally active, athletic person succumb to heart attack at 42 years of
age.
Was it the
stress?
A couple
of you called me asking about the reasons. While Ranjan had mentioned that he
faced a lot of stress, that is a common element in most of our lives. We used
to think that by being fit, one can conquer the bad effects of stress. So I
doubted if the cause was stress.
The Real
Reason
However,
everyone missed out a small line in the reports that Ranjan used to make do
with 4-5 hours of sleep. This is an earlier interview of Ranjan on NDTV in the
program 'Boss' Day Out':
Here he
himself admits that he would love to get more sleep (and that he was not proud
of his ability to manage without sleep, contrary to what others extolled).
The
Evidence
Last
week, I was working with a well-known cardiologist on the subject of ‘Heart
Disease caused by Lack of Sleep’. While I cannot share the video nor the slides
because of confidentiality reasons, I have distilled the key points below in
the hope it will save some of our lives.
Some Excerpts:
· Short sleep
duration (<5 or 5-6 hours) increased risk for high BP by 350% to 500% compared
to those who slept longer than 6 hours per night. Paper published in 2009.
As you know, high BP kills.
· Young
people (25-49 years of age) are twice as likely to get high BP if
they sleep less. Paper published in 2006.
· Individuals
who slept less than 5 hours a night had a 3-fold increased risk of heart
attacks. Paper published in 1999.
· Complete
and partial lack of sleep increased the blood concentrations of High
sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-cRP), the strongest predictor of
heart attacks. Even after getting adequate sleep later, the levels stayed high!!
· Just one night
of sleep loss increases very toxic substances in body such as
Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-alpha) and C-reactive
protein (cRP). They increase risks of many medical conditions, including cancer,
arthritis andheart disease. Paper published in 2004.
· Sleeping
for <=5 hours per night leads to 39% increase in
heart disease. Sleeping for <=6 hours per night leads to 18%
increase in heart disease. Paper published in 2006.
Ideal
Sleep
For lack
of space, I cannot explain here the ideal sleep architecture. But in brief,
sleep is composed of two stages: REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and non-REM. The
former helps in mental consolidation while the latter helps
in physical repair and rebuilding. During the night, you
alternate between REM and non-REM stages 4-5 times.
The
earlier part of sleep is mostly non-REM. During that period, your pituitary
gland releases growth hormones that repair your body. The latter part of sleep
is more and more REM type.
For you
to be mentally alert during the day, the latter part of sleep is more
important. No wonder when you wake up with an alarm clock after 5-6
hours of sleep, you are mentally irritable throughout the day (lack of REM
sleep). And if you have slept for less than
5 hours, your body is in a complete physical mess (lack of
non-REM sleep), you are tired throughout the day, moving like a zombie and
your immunity is way down (I’ve been there, done that L)
Finally,
as long-distance runners, you need an hour of extra sleep to repair the running
related damage.
If you
want to know if you are getting adequate sleep, take
Epworth Sleepiness Test below.
In conclusion:
Barring
stress control, Ranjan Das did everything right: eating proper food, exercising
(marathoning!), maintaining proper weight. But he missed getting proper and
adequate sleep, minimum 7 hours. In my opinion, that killed him.
If you are not getting enough sleep (7 hours), you are playing with
fire, even if you have low stress.
I always
took pride in my ability to work 50 hours at a stretch whenever the situation
warranted. But I was so spooked after seeing the scientific evidence last week
that since Saturday night, I ensure I do not even set the alarm clock under 7
hours. Now, that is a nice excuse to get some more sleep. J
Unfortunately,
Ranjan Das is not alone when it comes to missing sleep. Many of us are doing
exactly the same, perhaps out of ignorance. Please forward this mail to as many
of your colleagues as possible, especially those who might be short-changing
their sleep. If we can save even one young life because of this email, I would
be the happiest person on earth.
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