Security does depend on the resources you can deploy.
Wow. As far as a physical security FAIL goes,
this is a contender.
The Ahmedabad Mirror reports:
Officials of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) in Gujarat on Sunday lodged a complaint of theft of record files from their storage unit in Ahmedabad.
The DGGI storage unit is housed in an old and decrepit government quarters building in Pragatinagar area of the city. It neither has any security measures to prevent incursions nor CCTV to monitor activities there.
Read
more on Ahmedabad
Mirror. You
seriously need to take a look at that storage unit pictured in the
story.
A
look a the threats to international money transfers.
New
SWIFT Report Details Cyber Threats to International Payment Flows
According
to a new SWIFT report (“Three Years On From Bangladesh: Tackling
the Adversaries”), international cyber criminals are becoming
increasingly sophisticated in the ways that they evade detection when
carrying out fraudulent payment transactions. The report, based on
15 months of investigation after the much-heralded cyber attack on
the Bank of Bangladesh in 2016, found a constantly evolving landscape
of cyber threats to international payment flows.
A
really good suggestion and a completely unrelated survey?
UK's
NCSC Suggests Automatic Blocking of Common Passwords
A
recent survey from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC,
part of GCHQ), conducted by Ipsos Mori, suggests that 52% consider
their most prevalent online security consideration to be protecting
their privacy, while 51% consider it to be the loss of their money.
… The
survey ( PDF
),
conducted between November 2018 and January 2019, involved 1,350
telephone interviews with the general public aged 16+ and was
weighted to represent the UK population.
Absent
from this survey is any analysis of passwords specifically. This is
covered in a separate survey
that
analyzes the most commonly used passwords as found in Troy Hunt's
Have I been Pwned database.
… The
NCSC believes that if defenders automatically block the most common
passwords, then hacking will be made more difficult. To make this
practical, it has -- in conjunction with Troy Hunt – published a
list
of
the 100,000 most common passwords found in the Have I Been Pwned
database. These range from the most common '123456' to the 100,000th
most common 'crossroad'.
What
happens after I cry, “Fake news?” How will they stop
Russia from flagging the truth as fake?
Strengthening
our approach to deliberate attempts to mislead voters
… Today,
we are further expanding our enforcement capabilities in this area by
creating a dedicated reporting feature within the product to
allow users to more easily report this content to us.
… We
will start with 2019 Lok Sabha in India and the EU elections and then
roll out to other elections globally throughout the rest of the year.
… For
more on the specifics of the policy, the types of content we will be
taking action on, and our enforcement approach, visit the Twitter
Help Center here.
How
to ‘private up.’ Using the GDPR in the US?
… It
used to be that listings websites would make it very difficult for
you to remove your data. Often they would request annoying things
like printing and posting a paper form, or even requiring you to send
a fax.
But
now, thanks in part to new EU
data control laws,
the sites must give you a reasonable way to remove your details.
Even
if you live outside the EU, if the site operates within Europe then
it must allow you to remove your information. [Really?
Bob]
Unfortunately
there is no way to opt out of all these sites at once. You will have
to submit a request for your data to be removed from each site
individually. But it shouldn’t take too long. Usually you just
need to fill out an online form and the site will take down your
details within a few days.
… Here
is a list of some of the most common data collection websites with
links to their respective opt out pages:
You
can find a longer list of personal data websites with instructions on
how to remove your details from each at wiki.onerep.com.
Perspective.
Is Mark Zuckerberg hiring mentors or attack dogs?
Facebook
Hires Another Privacy Advocate and Critic
Kevin Bankston, currently director of the
privacy-focused Open Technology Institute in Washington, will be
joining Facebook as a director of privacy policy, he announced
Tuesday. Bankston joins a number of privacy advocates at the
beleaguered tech giant, as The
Information previously reported. All
have said they hope to change the company from within and help
improve its privacy practices.
This
colorful printed patch makes you pretty much invisible to AI
The
rise of AI-powered surveillance is extremely worrying. The ability
of governments to track and identify citizens en masse could spell an
end to public
anonymity.
But as researchers have shown time and time again, there are ways to
trick such systems.
The
latest example comes from a group of engineers from the university of
KU Leuven in Belgium. In a paper
shared
last week on the preprint server arXiv, these students show how
simple printed patterns can fool an AI system that’s designed to
recognize people in images.
… As
the researchers write: “We believe that, if we combine this
technique with a sophisticated clothing simulation, we can design a
T-shirt print that can make a person virtually invisible for
automatic surveillance cameras.”
I
don’t believe this is true. “Better performance” means they
make more money.
Stock
traders not ready for AI revolution, Greenwich survey finds
Traders
are hesitant about using machine-learning tools to help them gain an
edge in the stock markets, despite these being lauded by some of the
financial services industry’s biggest investors.
Three-quarters
of respondents to Greenwich Associates’ latest survey on the trends
in global electronic equity execution said they did not yet use
artificial intelligence when trading stocks. Of those that did, 37%
said algorithms powered by
such tech led to better performance.
Perspective.
Hope for old businesses willing to leap into technology?
Disney:
New Streaming Service Could Transform Its Valuation
Summary
- On Apr. 11, Disney announced its new streaming service, Disney+.
- Disney+ is priced at $6.99 per month; Disney clearly aims to undercut Netflix, the current market leader, and make a play for the streaming crown.
- Disney is attempting to forge a new narrative, positioning itself as a growth stock story akin to Netflix or even Amazon.
… Despite the long lead time and general lack
of surprises regarding Disney+, Disney shares leapt higher in the
wake of the official unveiling. The stock is now trading 12% higher
than it was the day before the advent of Disney+. That means the
market has added more than $20 billion to the company’s valuation
virtually overnight.
Perspective. Donald Trump is the opposite of the
average Twitter user?
Twitter Is
Not America
Hard
as that is for the Twitter-addicted to believe, it is true, and a
new Pew Research study
presents new evidence about the way that the platform leans.
In
the United States, Twitter users are statistically younger,
wealthier, and more politically liberal than the general population.
… They
were far more likely (60%) to be Democrats or lean Democratic than to
be Republicans or lean Republican (35%).
Perspective. “It’s a bird! It’s a plane.
It’s a drone!” Watch the video to see how this drone lowers your
package on a cable.
Google
Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval
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