Gabriel Kojima

The company, one of the world's biggest makers of smartphones and telecommunications equipment, took the unusual step of publishing an open letter to Australian lawmakers on Monday. Recent public comments linking Huawei to security concerns "are ill informed and not based on facts," Huawei Australia's chairman and two board directors wrote in the letter. Australian wireless carriers will soon need to hire companies to build new superfast mobile networks. But Huawei faces opposition from Australian national security agencies, according to reports last week from outlets including the Australian Financial Review and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The concerns are linked to alleged ties between Huawei and the Chinese government, according to the reports. Related: What is 5G? In its open letter, the company insisted that it is "a private company, owned by our employees with no other shareholders." But the company has been dogged by securi...

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/ 18/technology/apple-911- location/index.html Your smartphone knows your location well enough to send a car to where you're standing in a busy city, map a morning run through the woods, or navigate inside an airport. But if you call 911 from that same mobile phone, emergency responders will only have a vague sense of where to send an ambulance, fire truck, or police car. The difference in distances can be the difference between life and death. Apple is rolling out a new feature in its next iPhone software update to send emergency responders instant, precise location information in the US. The update, coming in iOS 12 later this year, calculates a caller's location based on data collected from WiFi access points, nearby cellular towers, and GPS. The tricky part isn't finding out where a caller is — Apple has been using its hybrid location technology since 2015 — but relaying that information to a fragmented and aging 911 system built f...

Virtually everything that’s connected to the internet can be hacked With that in mind, questions have been raised over the past few years regarding whether the increasing digitization of airline operations and flight controls puts in-flight aircrafts at risk of becoming the victims of cyber threats. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported in government documents, obtained by Motherboard, that it’s “only a matter of time” before cyber criminals are able to hack and remotely control an airplane. “Potential of catastrophic disaster is inherently greater in an airborne vehicle,” a section of a recent presentation from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a Department of Energy government lab, reads. https://globalnews.ca/news/ 4267715/airplane-hack-only- matter-of-time/

OTTAWA–Canada’s electronic spies have been given almost total responsibility for defending the federal government’s computer networks against cyber attacks and hacks. Under the Liberal government’s updated cyber security plan, released Tuesday, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) will become a “one-stop shop” for defending federal networks and systems. The federal government has announced the establishment of a new Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the centre will provide expert support to governments, businesses and individuals. (The Canadian Press) “(We’ll) be defending Government of Canada networks, unlike (our assistance) to the private sector where we’ll typically be providing advice and guidance,” Scott Jones, the head of CSE’s IT Security branch, told the Star. “It’ll be an integrated defence for any Government of Canada organization.” Currently the responsibility to protect the federal government’s networks is shar...

As part of efforts to bolster the nation's readiness to deal with health disasters and emergencies - natural and man-made - Congress is considering beefing up the focus on healthcare sector cybersecurity issues in legislation to reauthorize the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, which was enacted in 2006. A Wednesday hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health focused on bipartisan draft legislation, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2018 introduced by Rep. Susan Brooks R-Ind., and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif. The legislation seeks to beef up the nation's ability to prepare for and respond to health threats from infectious diseases, bioterrorism, chemical attacks, radiological emergencies and cybersecurity incidents. https://www.databreachtoday. com/congress-considers-ways- to-beef-up-healthcare- cybersecurity-a-11060

How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge Analytica Making statistically informed guesses about Americans’ political beliefs and pet issues is a common business these days, with dozens of firms selling data to candidates and issue groups about the purported leanings of individual American voters. Few of these firms have to give your data. But Cambridge Analytica is required to do so by an obscure European rule. How You Can Request Your Data From Cambridge Analytica: 1.       Visit Cambridge Analytica’s website here and  fill out this web form . 2.       After you submit the form, the page will immediately request that you email to  data.compliance@ cambridgeanalytica.org  a photo ID and two copies of your utility bills or bank statements, to prove your identity. This page will also include the company’s bank account details. 3.       Find a way to send ...