If you don’t want to unleash the nukes, what’s the next best
thing?
Fossbytes reports:
A recent report by Hindustan Times stated that hackers from Pakistan attacked over 90 websites of the Indian Government. The recent escalations in tensions between the neighbors led to a surge in attacks in cyberspace, targeting key infrastructures.
The death of 40 CRPF personnel in a recent terror strike by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad led to India retaliating with airstrikes on terrorist launch pads in Balakot, Pakistan. The attack is said to have wiped out a few hundred terrorists including leader Masood Azhar’s brother in law, Yousuf Azhar.
Read more on Fossbytes.
[From
the article:
As reported
on the 18th of Feb, Indian hacktivists had retaliated in cyberspace
by hacking over 200
websites of the Pakistan Government, some
of which are still not accessible from outside Pakistan.
The constant competition of capitalist China.
1 in 5
corporations say China has stolen their IP within the last year
- Theft of intellectual property by Chinese companies is a major point of contention between the Trump administration and Chinese government.
- Just under one-third of CFOs of North America-based companies on the CNBC Global CFO Council say Chinese firms have stolen from them at some point during the past decade.
- U.S. trade policy remains a negative for businesses around the world, but right now European CFOs are expressing the biggest concerns about trade policy as an external risk factor…”
Security backgrounder.
IBM X-Force
Intelligence Threat Index 2019
“As the cyber threat landscape evolves, what we
saw in 2018 is organisations across all industries are facing
unmanageable levels of cyber threats brought on by the changing
threat landscape, the risk of exposure and an ever-growing attack
surface. The IBM
X-Force Research team is a crack team of security professionals
who run thousands of spam traps around the world and monitor tens of
millions of spam and phishing attacks daily while analysing billions
of web pages and images to detect fraudulent activity and brand
abuse. In the fight to stay one step ahead, this week we released
the IBM X-Force
Intelligence Threat Index 2019. The report contains notable
security events in 2018 and looks ahead with a pre-emptive approach.
It also shares insights and observations from data analysed via
hundreds of millions of protected endpoints and servers across over
100 countries…
Some of the key findings in the report include: Ransomware & Malware are out & cryptojacking is in…”
(Related)
Cisco
Publishes Annual CISO Benchmark Study
… Cisco's
2019 Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Benchmark Study has
one great strength. It queried more than 3,200 senior leaders with a
CISO role (if not title) from 18 different countries.
… The
report (PDF)
states, "ML, AI and more automation should be able to boost
security efforts exponentially – and next year we need to see more
respondents in the 'completely reliant' phase of implementation and
practice."
Another perspective on AI.
New on LLRX
– Nothing Artificial About It: How Law Firms (Really) Use AI in
Practice
Via LLRX
– Nothing
Artificial About It: How Law Firms (Really) Use AI in Practice –
Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase, talks about how the new age of law firm
innovation is changing legal services by moving
from anecdotal to data-driven insights and thus providing
better-informed guidance for clients. Walters also identifies the
value of analytics to manage and mitigate risk, which he points out
is almost always more cost effective than litigating the effects
after the fact. Most importantly, Walters highlights not only how
law firms are using AI, but that they are also building their own
tools to deliver new types of services as well.
My AI reading list.
What Is The
Best Book On Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
… honestly, it was just too difficult to
narrow down my favorites to one book!
Instead, I offer you my top five.
The
Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of
Humanity
Life
3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
AI
Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley And The New World Order
Human
+ Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
Not exactly household
names… How did GDPR change their practices?
Here are
the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
FastCompany:
“It’s no secret that your personal data is routinely bought and
sold by dozens, possibly hundreds, of companies. What’s less known
is who those companies are, and what exactly they do. Thanks to a
new Vermont law requiring companies that buy and sell third-party
personal data to register with the Secretary of State, we’ve been
able to assemble a
list of 121 data brokers operating in the U.S. It’s a rare,
rough glimpse into a bustling economy that operates largely in the
shadows, and often with few rules. Even Vermont’s
first-of-its-kind law, which went into effect last month, doesn’t
require data brokers to disclose who’s in their databases, what
data they collect, or who buys it. Nor does it require brokers to
give consumers access to their own data or opt out of data
collection. Brokers are, however required to provide some
information about their opt-out systems under the law–assuming they
provide one. If you do want to keep your data out of the hands of
these companies, you’ll often have to contact them one by one
through whatever opt-out systems they provide… Those include big
names in people search, like Spokeo, ZoomInfo, White
Pages, PeopleSmart, Intelius, and PeopleFinders; credit
reporting, like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion; and
advertising and marketing, like Acxiom, Oracle,
LexisNexis, Innovis, and KBM…”
Well, this didn’t take long. Apparently someone
listened to his announcement.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-john-hickenlooper-could-win-the-2020-democratic-nomination/
How John
Hickenlooper Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination
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