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Android devices shipped with backdoored firmware as part of the BADBOX network

Security Affairs

Human Security identified a supply chain of a Chinese manufacturer that was compromised to backdoor the firmware of several products delivered to resellers, physical retail stores and e-commerce warehouses. Products containing the malicious backdoor have been found on public school networks throughout the United States.

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Millions of IoT Devices exposed to remote hacks due to iLnkP2P flaws

Security Affairs

Roughly 50% of vulnerable devices is manufactured by Chinese company Hichip. The expert reported the flaws to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at the Carnegie Mellon University, the Chinese CERT was also informed of the discovery. The researcher published technical details on his discovery here. Pierluigi Paganini.

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University of Florida Brings eDiscovery Teachings to a Chinese University: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

discovery obligations, but also understand the methodologies and technologies associated with managing eDiscovery. William Hamilton, legal skills professor and executive director of the University of Florida’s E-Discovery Project, led the course, which took place at Southeast University during the last two weeks of August.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

Hackers send offensive, sexual messages to Chicago suburban school districts (unknown) ‘Beyond troubling’ emails sent from hacked teacher’s account (1) South African firm Absa accuses employee of leaking customer data (unknown). In other news….

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

McDonald’s is building AI solutions for customer care with IBM Watson AI technology and NLP to accelerate the development of its automated order taking (AOT) technology. Not only will this help scale the AOT tech across markets, but it will also help tackle integrations including additional languages, dialects and menu variations.

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CILIP and Nielsen Book announce major new partnership

CILIP

Building on their existing work together, CILIP and Nielsen will collaborate on their common vision of a vibrant, sustainable library, book and e-book ecosystem, promoting readership and diversity for all ages. Jo Shaw, Sales Director, Book Discovery & Commerce Solutions at Nielsen Book said; ?We About Nielsen Book. About Nielsen.

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About Half of Surveyed Companies Haven’t Started Preparing for CCPA: Data Privacy Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Last week at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference , I talked about the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) as one of the things that organizations need to be prepared to address these days as part of their compliance obligations. Does this sound familiar?