Has the fear of Cyberwar finally got their attention?
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports:
From April at the earliest, the government will ask operators of crucial infrastructure (see below) such as power and water suppliers to store their electronic data on servers located in Japan, as part of security measures against the threat of cyberwar.
The measure is aimed at protecting information indispensable for the security of people’s lives and for industrial competitiveness, with an eye on possible cyber-attacks by China and other countries.
Read more on The
Japan News.
Some timely resources for my Computer Security
students.
Eli Richman reports:
Email phishing attacks, ransomware attacks and attacks against connected medical devices are among the greatest cyberthreats that health systems need to protect against, according to new cybersecurity guidance for health systems from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Released last week, the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices were released to help the industry identify ways to reduce its risk from cyberthreats. The result of a two-year effort between HHS and private entities, the guidance fulfills a mandate of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
Read more on Fierce
Healthcare.
The main guidance is embedded below the following
links, but also see:
- Technical Volume 1: Cybersecurity Practices for Small Health Care Organizations: Technical Volume 1 discusses the ten Cybersecurity Practices along with Sub-Practices for small health care organizations.
- Technical Volume 2: Cybersecurity Practices for Medium and Large Health Care Organizations: Technical Volume 2 discusses the ten Cybersecurity Practices along with Sub-Practices for medium and large health care organizations.
- Resources and Templates: The Resources and Templates portion includes a variety of cybersecurity resources and templates for end users to reference.
- Cybersecurity Practices Assessments Toolkit (Appendix E-1): This tool helps organizations prioritize their cyber threats and develop their own action plans using the assessment methodology outlined in the Resources and Templates volume. This tool is still under development. To receive an advance copy, please contact us at CISA405d@hhs.gov.
Companies are being paid to gather the DNA needed
to identify Jack the Ripper (assuming we have any of his DNA)
In April, a citizen scientist named Barbara
Rae-Venter used a little-known genealogy website called
GEDMatch to help investigators find a man they’d been looking
for for nearly 40 years: The
Golden State Killer. In the months since, law enforcement
agencies across the country have flocked to the technique, arresting
a flurry of more than 20 people tied to some of the most notorious
cold cases of the last five decades. Far from being a forensic
anomaly, genetic genealogy is quickly on its way to becoming a
routine police procedure. At least one company has begun offering a
full-service genetic genealogy shop to law enforcement clients. And
Rae-Venter’s skills are in such high demand that she’s started
teaching her secrets to some of the biggest police forces in the US,
including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
For my Enterprise Architecture students.
Data
Science: What to Expect in 2019
Data
science is rapidly changing. New advances in AI
and machine
learning mean that data can be applied in brand new ways, and in
unprecedented modeling systems, to do much more than was possible
just a few years ago. The cloud
is also ushering in a new era of data science by making software more
portable and versatile.
Techopedia asked the experts what we might see in
the year ahead. Here’s some of what’s likely to come our way in
2019.
For me? Sounds interesting.
Digital
Data Flows Masterclass: Emerging Technologies
Digital Data
Flows Masterclass is a year-long educational program designed
for regulators, policymakers, and staff seeking to better understand
the data-driven technologies at the forefront of data protection law
& policy. The program will feature experts on machine learning,
biometrics, connected cars, facial recognition, online advertising,
encryption, and other emerging technologies.
Sign up to receive email updates.
https://www.fpf.org/classes-enroll
Visit the Digital Data Flows
Masterclass Archive
to view the relevant curriculum materials and resources for previous
classes:
No doubt available in public kiosks
(confessionals) provided by the ever caring Big Brother.
Could AI
counselling be the future of therapy?
Charities are
considering switching to so-called ‘woebots’
to meet the growing demand for mental health treatment
[The
last line of this article is terrifying:
“Have you tried switching your husband off and
on again?”
China would love it. Is that sufficient reason to
drop restrictions?
U.S. Plan
to Restrict AI Exports Could Backfire
Right now, the position of world
leader in artificial intelligence is up for grabs — but soon,
it could be out of the United States’s reach.
… industry insiders worry that proposed rules
limiting or even outright banning the export of American AI services
and technologies will prevent the nation from dominating the global
AI industry. And that wouldn’t just hurt the U.S. economy — it
could also jeopardize the nation’s security.
On November 19, the U.S. Department of Commerce
published a proposal
listing various types of AI software that it thinks could benefit
from export restrictions
… According to the proposal, the purpose of
the restrictions would be to bolster the U.S.’s national security —
after all, AI has many potential military uses, so why would the U.S.
want to put that technology in the hands of nations such as China or
North Korea?
Perspective.
Norway's
electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales
Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last
year were pure electric, a new world record as the country strives to
end sales of fossil-fueled vehicles by 2025.
In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air
pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and
offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a
shift from diesel and petrol engines.
Congratulations China. I hope the US goes back to
the moon some day.
China's
lunar probe makes history with first-ever landing on far side of the
moon
This won’t work for long. After all, it’s a
guide to fixing these problems.
AI can
generate fake faces now. Here’s how to spot them
… AI-generated faces bear some telltale signs.
This week, computational artist Kyle McDonald published
a guide on how to identify a fake. These tips probably won’t
be reliable forever, and they’re certainly not applicable to every
picture—some generated images are extraordinarily convincing. But
every little bit of information helps.
It’s a good day for free stuff.
How to
Find, Download, and Borrow Books from the Internet Archive
On Tuesday hundreds of thousands of works entered
the public domain. That includes early movies, pictures, early
audio recordings, and many pieces of literature. Many of those works
are available through the Internet
Archive. The Internet Archive offers millions of texts that can
be borrowed and or downloaded for free. In the
following video I demonstrate how you can borrow ebooks and
download ebooks through the Internet Archive.
Free stuff from Apple?
Apple has released six exclusive audiobooks just
for Apple Books users. Five are classic titles newly narrated by
celebrities, while the sixth is a collection of Winnie the Pooh
stories as told in the style of Disney. All of them are available
for free.
A “free stuff” resource.
O’Reilly
Media
Get free book
samplers, ebooks, webcasts, tutorials and more
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