Why Use Muscle? Big Data Can Collect Debt
Apr 19 2021, 6:05 AM
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April 19 2021, 6:05 AM
(Bloomberg Opinion) A 2021 remake of Get Shorty might not have much use for John Travoltaâs Miami mobster character. The debt collector role could go to a bot.
(Bloomberg Opinion) A 2021Â remake of
Get Shorty might not have much use for John Travoltaâs Miami mobster character. The debt collector role could go to a bot.
You can test this hypothesis in a most unlikely place to roll out a new technology: the Indian countryside. The setting is perhaps not as odd as it seems, with about 5% to 10% of the countryâs farmers not repaying their tractor loans on time. The explanations for tardiness range from failed crops to medical emergencies and strategic defaults in anticipation of state-mandated debt waivers, a regular feature of the political economy.
Diagram of attack scenario (Source: Forescout and JSOF)
Forescout Research Labs and the Israeli security firm JSOF have found nine Domain Name System vulnerabilities affecting four TCP/IP stacks that, if exploited, could lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks - potentially on millions of devices.
The group of vulnerabilities, dubbed Name:Wreck, affects the FreeBSD, IPNet, NetX and Nucleus NET stacks. The widespread use of these stacks, together with external exposure of the vulnerable DNS clients, could dramatically increase the attack surface for organizations, JSOF says. Organizations in the healthcare and government sectors are in the top three most affected for all three stacks, Forescout says. If we conservatively assume that 1% of the more than 10 billion deployments … are vulnerable, we can estimate that at least 100 million devices [could potentially be] impacted by Name:Wreck.
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(Bloomberg) Last summer, Katherine “Kitty” Green received some disturbing news about the computer network at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she oversees a foundation for private donors.