...and this from the people we trust to keep us safe?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/us/politics/homeland-security-personal-data-software-stolen.html

Insiders Accused of Stealing Personal Data From Homeland Security

… Three employees in the inspector general’s office for the Department of Homeland Security stole a computer system that contained sensitive personal information of about 246,000 agency employees, according to three United States officials and a report sent to Congress last week. They planned to modify the office’s proprietary software for managing investigative and disciplinary cases so that they could market and sell it to other inspector general offices across the federal government.

What my Computer Security students have in their future.

http://www.securityweek.com/five-emerging-threats-worry-global-security-professionals

Five Emerging Threats That Worry Global Security Professionals

Over the next year, five separate threats will have one major effect: the current rate of security breaches will increase and worsen. This is the view of the Information Security Forum (ISF), an international network of more than 10,000 security professionals.

The five primary threats to cyber security are the continuing evolution of crime-as-a-service; the effect of unmanaged IoT risk; the complexity of regulation; the supply chain; and a mismatch between Board expectation and Security capability.

Mandatory reading for my Computer Security students.

https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-what-im-telling-us-congress-about-data-breaches/

Here's What I'm Telling US Congress about Data Breaches

… My task is to ensure that the folks at the hearing understand how prevalent breaches are, how broadly they're distributed and the resultant impact on identity verification via knowledge-based authentication.

… That said, who knows what I'll be asked by congressmen and congresswomen on the day and they may well question what can be done to combat the alarming rise in these incidents.

Suggested reading for all my students.

The Complete Malware Removal Guide

(Related) And a detection tool.

Get Geeky and Fix your PC with HijackThis

Retirement is hard work, but I doubt a robot will replace me.

https://www.bespacific.com/mckinsey-what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages/

McKinsey – What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages

“As many as 375 million workers around the world may need to switch occupational categories and learn new skills…McKinsey Global Institute’s latest report, Jobs lost, jobs gained: Workforce transitions in a time of automation (PDF–5MB), assesses the number and types of jobs that might be created under different scenarios through 2030 and compares that to the jobs that could be lost to automation…”

Food for thought?

https://daily.jstor.org/do-we-have-moral-obligations-to-robots/

Do We Have Moral Obligations to Robots?

In 1920, the Czech novelist and playwright Karel Čapek wrote the stage play R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) in which the Rossum company makes “robots,” synthetic beings who think and feel. Robots are barely distinguishable from real people but are designed to serve humanity as slaves. The word “robot” was coined in this play, coming from word roots in Czech that mean “forced labor” and “slave.” These artificial beings rebel against their enslavement, wipe out humanity, and as the play ends are about to reproduce themselves to create a new race.

R. U. R. achieved global fame after its 1921 premiere in Prague and has been regularly revived since, because the issue it introduced remains unresolved: If we could make synthetic beings, what would be our moral obligations to them and their moral obligations to us? These questions have become more meaningful since Čapek’s time, when R. U. R. was pure fantasy. Now we may be able to actually make such beings thanks to advances in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and genetic engineering.

Another massive list of useful sites.

https://www.bespacific.com/new-on-llrx-ereference-library-link-dataset-toolkit-2018/

New on LLRX – eReference Library Link Dataset Toolkit 2018

Via LLRX – eReference Library Link Dataset Toolkit 2018 – Marcus Zillman’s guide is a comprehensive link dataset toolkit of electronic reference resources and services currently available on the Internet. Zillman provides researchers with a wide ranging A-Z pathfinder of subject matter specific sources, sites and services that provide researchers with actionable information on topical issues including: business, dictionaries and digital archives, the economy, education, energy, governance, law and legislation, news, online services provided by librarians, information maintained by US and global organizations (public, private, industry, news, academic/scholarly, government), sciences, and more.