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Major Cyber Attack at OMV Vendor, Louisianans Should Act Urgently to Protect Their Identities | Office of Governor John Bel Edwards – Governor John Bel Edwards
- Major Cyber Attack at OMV Vendor, Louisianans Should Act Urgently to Protect Their Identities | Office of Governor John Bel Edwards Governor John Bel Edwards
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Republican National Committee sues Jan 6. committee over subpoena of vendor Salesforce
The RNC’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday, argues that such a request goes beyond the scope of the congressional committee’s subpoena power. The bipartisan House panel is investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob trying to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college win, an attack that resulted in the deaths of one police officer and four other people and injured about 140 members of law enforcement.
The RNC’s complaint also names House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Jan. 6 committee’s individual members. It accuses them of “attempting to kneecap the RNC for political gain while trampling on free speech and freedom of political association” by requesting the Salesforce data.
“The RNC is challenging this unconstitutional overreach so that one of America’s two major political parties may not use the force of government to unlawfully seize the private and sensitive information of the other,” RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer said in a statement.
According to the complaint, Salesforce was required to turn the subpoenaed documents over to the committee by Wednesday and appear for a deposition on March 16. A Salesforce representative said Thursday the company was not commenting on the lawsuit.
The RNC’s complaint argues that the Salesforce subpoena seeks “unquestionably political information of the RNC” that is not limited to Jan. 6 and that “by any measure … exceeds the scope of Congress’ limited subpoena power.”
“The RNC had nothing to do with the violence that occurred at the Capitol and has repeatedly condemned it,” the RNC said in a statement. “In fact, the RNC was a target of violence and had a bomb placed outside of RNC headquarters, which put our staff in immediate danger and is something the committee has yet to investigate.”
Select committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said the subpoena of Salesforce had “absolutely nothing to do with getting the private information of voters or donors” but rather was issued to investigate how claims about a stolen election motivated pro-Trump rioters to storm the Capitol.
Mulvey noted that between November 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, both the Trump campaign and the RNC solicited donations by pushing false claims that the election was tainted by widespread fraud.
“These emails encouraged supporters to put pressure on Congress to keep President Trump in power,” Mulvey said. “The select committee issued a subpoena to an email fundraising vendor in order to help investigators understand the impact of false, inflammatory messages in the weeks before January 6th, the flow of funds, and whether contributions were actually directed to the purpose indicated.”
Trump has baselessly claimed for more than a year that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, even though there has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud affecting the election’s outcome.
“People were swindled financially and psychologically,” Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a member of the select committee, said this week. “People’s convictions were cynically exploited for Trump’s gain.”
California taco vendor attacked by competitor on video gets huge show of support
A viral vandalism video involving a taco vendor in Whittier, California, has led to an arrest of a competing street vendor, and overwhelming support for the business attacked.
“Why can’t we all just get along and get some money for the family Tacos La Guera La, yeah, yeah,” Rocky Padilla sang Saturday night, when hundreds of people lined up to support Tacos La Guera after the viral incident.
The incident, posted in a series of videos on TikTok, shows the suspect using a fire extinguisher to put out a grill at Tacos la Guera. The man allegedly told people working the food stand to pack up and leave before threatening their lives, according to CBSLA.
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Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Norwalk Station say the video and tips from the community led to the felony vandalism charge of an unidentified man.
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“I said this guy was going to punch us because he was close to us,” Armando Martinez, an employee for Tacos la Guera, told KABC. “Maybe he’s going to want to hurt me. So I kept my distance and stayed back.”
Tacos la Guera’s owner, Rocio Gascón, told the TV station he had previously scouted the location and didn’t see any vendors at this spot. Neighbors said the food truck seen in the viral video has set up there in the past.
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Reports say no one was injured in the vandalism incident.
Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out • The Register
Google Android devices transmit telemetry data while idle, even when users have opted out, according to study conducted earlier this year by Trinity College Dublin computer scientist Douglas Leith.
Handset vendors like Samsung that install proprietary versions of Android on their devices have the opportunity to offer better privacy. But they too gather data without giving users much choice in the matter, the study found.
In a paper PDF] published on Monday, Leith and Dr Paul Patras and Haoyu Liu, both with the University of Edinburgh, examined the data sent by pre-installed system apps in the Android variants installed on Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, LineageOS and /e/OS handsets in Europe.
These include the GApps package (Google Play Services, Google Play store, Google Maps, Youtube, etc.), and system apps that handset vendors install from the likes of Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
The boffins from Trinity and Edinburgh universities found that, with the exception of /e/OS, “even when minimally configured and the handset is idle these vendor-customized Android variants transmit substantial amounts of information to the OS developer and also to third-parties.”
And, they claim, there’s no way to opt-out of this data collection.
Almost nowhere to run to
LineageOS is an open source Android distribution and /e/OS is a fork of LineageOS and Android by French entrepreneur Gaël Duval that’s primarily notable for being “Google free.”
The Android OS variants from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Realme (Oppo) “all transmit a substantial volume of data to the OS developer (i.e. Samsung etc) and to third-party parties that have pre-installed system apps (including Google, Microsoft, Heytap, LinkedIn, Facebook),” the study says.
LineageOS, though distinct from Google’s version of Android, sent a similar amount of data to Google, the researchers found, but they didn’t observe data going to LineageOS developers or to pre-installed system apps aside from those operated by Google.
/e/OS, according to the boffins, sends no data to Google or third-parties and basically no information to /e/OS developers.
While Leith’s research from April showed that Android and iOS devices were found transmitting data like IMEI number, hardware serial number, SIM serial number, phone number, device ids (UDID, Ad ID, RDID, etc), location, telemetry, cookies, local IP address, device Wi-Fi MAC address, handset Bluetooth UniqueChipID, the Secure Element ID (for Apple Pay), and the Wi-Fi MAC addresses of nearby devices, these vendor-customized versions of Android are even more chatty.
The researchers note that Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme and Google all collect hardware device identifiers as well as identifiers that are resettable, ostensibly as a form of privacy protection.
“This means that when a user resets an identifier the new identifier value can be trivially re-linked back to the same device,” they explain in their paper. “This largely undermines the use of user-resettable advertising identifiers.”
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They further note that multiple parties collect data from each handset, which makes it possible to cross-link the data each party has collected. For example, on the Samsung handset tested, the Google Advertising ID was sent to Samsung servers and several Samsung system apps rely on Google Analytics and Microsoft’s OneDrive system app relies on Google’s push service.
Similarly concerning is the way some of these vendors collect user interactions. For example, the Xiaomi handset’s system app “com.miui.analytics” transmits the details of when app screens were viewed by the Xiaomi user, giving Xiaomi a picture of the timing of user phone calls. And this data gets sent outside of Europe to servers in Singapore.
Microsoft’s Swiftkey keyboard on the Huawei handset does similar usage logging.
Missing the point
What’s more, all of the handset makers, again with the exception of /e/OS, collect a list of all the apps installed on a handset, which isn’t ideal if the app reflects sensitive or controversial interests.
“I think we have completely missed the massive and ongoing data collection by our phones, for which there is no opt out,” said Leith in a statement. “We’ve been too focused on web cookies and on badly-behaved apps.”
Leith said he hopes the research will help alert the public and lawmakers that action needs to be taken to give people control over the data leaving their phones.
We asked Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Realme, and the e.Foundation for comment but we’ve not heard back. When The Register asked Google for comment about Leith’s related study in April, a company spokesperson suggested phones are supposed to phone home with telemetry data, like modern cars do, to ensure everything is working properly.
This latest study by Leith, Patras, and Liu however argues what these vendor versions of Android are doing goes beyond telemetry that’s necessary for phone maintenance.
“Although occasional data transmission to the OS developer to check for updates, etc. is to be expected, as we will see the observed data transmission by the Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme and LineageOS Android variants goes well beyond this,” the study says.
It also points to /e/OS as an example of privacy done right. “We find that /e/OS collects essentially no data and in that sense is by far the most private of the Android OS variants studied,” the study says. ®
Louder Than Life vendor found dead after apparent overdose
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Thursday brought the first day of the popular Louder Than Life rock festival in Louisville. It also brought tragedy.
A vendor was found dead early Friday morning from an apparent overdose.
Even producer Danny Wimmer Presents issued the following statement Friday afternoon:
“The well-being of our festival goers, staff, vendors, volunteers and artists is our primary concern, and we work diligently to ensure the safest event possible. Overnight, a member of our team discovered an unresponsive contract vendor in a working zone. EMS was dispatched immediately and confirmed the death as an apparent overdose. Our deepest condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends.”
The festival runs through the weekend at the Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Expo Center.
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Xiaomi overtakes Apple as number two smartphone vendor for first time
Xiaomi is now the second largest smartphone vendor based on worldwide shipments in the second quarter of 2021, according to a new report from Canalys. The Chinese company captured 17 percent of global market share, according to the research firm, just behind Samsung’s 19 percent but ahead of Apple’s 14 percent.
BBK’s Oppo and Vivo rounded out the list of top five vendors at 10 percent apiece. All five companies grew their shipments year on year, but what’s notable is just how much Xiaomi has managed to increase its volume — it shipped 83 percent more phones than in Q2 2020, whereas Samsung grew shipments 15 percent and Apple by just one percent.
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“Xiaomi is growing its overseas business rapidly,” Canalys Research Manager Ben Stanton says, citing sales boosts in regions including Western Europe, Africa, and Latin America. “It is still largely skewed toward the mass market, however, and compared with Samsung and Apple, its average selling price is around 40% and 75% cheaper respectively. So a major priority for Xiaomi this year is to grow sales of its high-end devices, such as the Mi 11 Ultra.”
Canalys says global smartphone shipments grew by 12 percent last quarter. Much of the growth seen by smartphone makers is at the expense of Huawei, however, which itself overtook Apple in 2019 but has since been essentially shut out of the worldwide market due to US-imposed sanctions and trading bans. So far, Xiaomi appears to be the biggest beneficiary.
Iowa State Fair will now require food vendors to use credit, debit payment systems
You may need less cash at the Iowa State Fair next month. The fair is requiring all food and drink vendors to take credit and debit cards this year. The fair says it’s all about making it easier for fairgoers to buy their favorites foods. This was supposed to take effect during last year’s fair, which was canceled due to the pandemic.“We’re embracing technology and give people the opportunity…so many people today don’t carry cash,” said Gary Slater, fair general manager.Slater said they’ve been experimenting with a credit card system for the past few years. It turns out customers seem to love the idea. So now all food and beverage vendors must provide a credit card or debit card payment option. At least one vendor says it’s a no-brainer. “Actually, it’s worked really well. My employees love it,” said Connie Boesen, a long-time fair vendor. Boesen operates the Applishus stands at the fairgrounds. She began using the credit card system several years ago. She says customers can get faster service and her business can get more sales data.“It shows how much we sold. I never knew, it was kind of a guessing game on how much slush I sold, how many sliced apples, how many egg rolls. So at the end of the day, I get a printout of the items that I sold so I know it helps project out what you’re going to need,” Boesen said.The fair said cash is still welcome but expects fewer visitors to use it, which may help the bottom line. And I think the vendors will see that people will probably spend more money on a credit card. I know I do,” Slater said. He also says the fair collects 19.5% of vendor food sales and 25% for alcohol sales. The credit card system will also make it easier to keep track of those numbers.
You may need less cash at the Iowa State Fair next month. The fair is requiring all food and drink vendors to take credit and debit cards this year.
The fair says it’s all about making it easier for fairgoers to buy their favorites foods.
This was supposed to take effect during last year’s fair, which was canceled due to the pandemic.
“We’re embracing technology and give people the opportunity…so many people today don’t carry cash,” said Gary Slater, fair general manager.
Slater said they’ve been experimenting with a credit card system for the past few years. It turns out customers seem to love the idea. So now all food and beverage vendors must provide a credit card or debit card payment option. At least one vendor says it’s a no-brainer.
“Actually, it’s worked really well. My employees love it,” said Connie Boesen, a long-time fair vendor.
Boesen operates the Applishus stands at the fairgrounds. She began using the credit card system several years ago. She says customers can get faster service and her business can get more sales data.
“It shows how much we sold. I never knew, it was kind of a guessing game on how much slush I sold, how many sliced apples, how many egg rolls. So at the end of the day, I get a printout of the items that I sold so I know it helps project out what you’re going to need,” Boesen said.
The fair said cash is still welcome but expects fewer visitors to use it, which may help the bottom line.
And I think the vendors will see that people will probably spend more money on a credit card. I know I do,” Slater said.
He also says the fair collects 19.5% of vendor food sales and 25% for alcohol sales. The credit card system will also make it easier to keep track of those numbers.
Pinellas vaccine vendor to contact patients registered for vaccine
There will be no more mad dashes to score an appointment for a coronavirus vaccine through Pinellas County’s online portal.
Beginning with the next shipment of vaccine from the state of first doses for residents 65 and older, Pinellas County’s contracted vendor, CDR Maguire, will contact pre-registered patients to schedule an appointment.
The new arrangement will replace the first-come first-served protocol that’s been in place since the county launched the CDR online portal and call center last month. In that system, users had to log on the website or call on a specific date and time in order to book an appointment for a limited number of doses received that week.
Patients who did not receive appointments were met with a frozen website, error messages and wasted hours trying to get through.
“We understand people’s frustration on that,” county administrator Barry Burton said at a virtual press conference on Friday. “We’ve been working tirelessly with the vendor to fix it. A lot of people said ‘fire them.’ But where do I go and how long would it take to stand up a new system versus fix this?”
Pinellas County signed a $3 million contract on Jan. 10 with CDR Maguire, a Miami-based emergency management firm that set up an online portal and phone bank to make appointments and track doses the county is administering in partnership with the Florida Department of Health.
Burton did not provide a date of when the county expects to get another batch of vaccine for residents to receive first doses. He said next week’s shipment will go towards those patients in need of a second dose.
Officials urged residents to also seek the vaccine through other distributors, including pharmacies, community health centers and hospitals – noting all of those outlets have their own registration and protocols.
County Commission Chair Dave Eggers acknowledged the dysfunction but noted that all 28,000 doses the county has received in conjunction with the Department of Health in Pinellas to date have been successfully administered “in arms.”
“We have made some mistakes as far as rolling out the vaccine and actually having the signing up, the registration process and actually getting appointments,” county commission chair Dave Eggers said in the conference Friday. “Many of you have experienced anxiety because of that, frustration, anger, fear and for that I’m really sorry. We need to do better.”
Following more than a month of confusion over how to score an appointment for a vaccine, Florida last week unveiled a new statewide pre-registration system. But not all counties are participating in the system. Burton said he did not even know about the state’s new system until Friday.
Pinellas is operating its own sites to administer the vaccine that are run by county paramedics. Dr. Ulyee Choe, Director of the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas said officials hope to be able to offer more access points so transportation and other burdens are not a factor for residents.
But a lack of supply remains an issue. The vaccine is still limited to people ages 65 and older, health care works and long-term care facility patients.
But with 250,000 seniors in Pinellas, Burton said the demand is overwhelming.
“The reality is 90 percent of the people coming into that are going to be unhappy because we don’t have the supply necessary,” Burton said. “But the people that are there should be able to see where their at, know whether they’re able to be able to get a vaccine or they have to come back at a later time.”
Patients can register for a vaccine through Pinellas County by going to www.patientportalfl.com or calling 844-770-8548. The vendor will call pre-registered patients when appointments are available.
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