Doublecheck
your MySQL database!
Catalin
Cimpanu reports:
At least one Chinese hacking crew is currently scanning the internet for Windows servers that are running MySQL databases so they can infect these systems with the GandCrab ransomware.
These attacks are somewhat unique, as cyber-security firms have not seen any threat actor until now that has attacked MySQL servers running on Windows systems to infect them with ransomware.
Read
more on ZDNet.
[From
the article:
While
most system administrators typically protect their MySQL servers with
passwords, the purpose of these scans appeared to be the
opportunistic exploitation
of misconfigured or passwordless databases.
A
cautionary tale. “Those
who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
A
Lesson From 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media
A
little late to start planning...
AI
Ethics in the Post-GDPR World
The
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) creates a seemingly large
hurdle for artificial intelligence (AI) implementation. Yet it can
also be an opportunity for ensuring your AI is maximising the privacy
of individuals. High profile data breaches have diminished public
trust around data privacy, but companies restore that trust by
embracing GDPR and taking a transparent approach to AI with a focus
on privacy.
… A
set of specific GDPR provisions are targeted towards AI-based
decisions, specifically concerning automated decision making (“ADM”)
and profiling. ADM is the process of deciding by automated means,
without any human involvement, such as an algorithm deciding if an
individual is eligible for a loan, whether a candidate is compatible
with a job vacancy, or which call-centre agent is best suited to
answer a customer’s concern.
Profiling
refers to any form of automated processing of personal data to
evaluate certain personal aspects relating to an individual. This
may include analysing online behaviour for targeted marketing or
advertising, analysing credit history to create a credit profile, or
analysing qualifications and online presence to assess a candidate’s
skill set.
Organisations
should keep the following topics in mind when utilising ADM and
profiling:
Worth
a read?
Artificial
Intelligence: Some ethical issues and regulatory challenges
This
article offers a brief overview of some of the ethical challenges
raised by artificial intelligence (AI), in particular machine
learning and data science, and summarizes and discusses a number of
challenges for near-future regulation in this area. This includes
the difficulties of moving from principles to more concrete measures
and problems with implementing ethics by design and responsible
innovation.
Perspective.
Interesting graphic.
Internet Ad
Revenue Has Crossed $100 Billion Mark
It’s no secret that all of the big name tech
companies out there, from Facebook to Google, earn a lion’s share
of their revenue from ad revenue. However, the sheer scale of ad
revenue that is earned throughout the various Internet platforms
earning from such a source may surprise you, and there are two
numbers in particular that you should take into consideration when
you are thinking about ad revenue and how it affects your internet
experience.
The first of these two numbers is that the total
amount of ad revenue that is earned across all platforms on the
internet has now officially exceed $100 billion per year (in the
United States), as reported by IAB and PwC. The second of these two
numbers is that over the past decade, the total revenue earned by
platforms that exist online has increased by an incredible 386%.
The way that this revenue is earned has changed
quite a bit as well over the past decade. For starters, about half
of all advertising revenue that is currently being earned is coming
through mobile ad sources. This is in stark contrast to how things
were ten years ago, when mobile ads weren’t even on the map when
you were calculating things like total revenue and the like.
I think talkers still outnumber listeners.
Investing
in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019
… Over the course of the last 10 years,
podcasts have steadily grown from a niche community of audiobloggers
distributing files over the internet, to one-third of Americans now
listening monthly and a quarter listening weekly.
People are already spending a lot of time on
podcasts, and it’s growing: listeners are consuming 6+ hours per
week and consuming more content every year.
The
demographic of podcast listeners is not your average American.
Roughly half of podcast listeners make $75,000 or more in annual
income; a majority have a post-secondary degree; and almost one-third
have a graduate degree [source].
Nerdy, but
useful?
Simply put, Git is a powerful, open source version
control software, which allows multiple people to work on a project,
and different versions of that project, without interfering with each
other.
… And,
as Git is a distributed
version
control system, each developer working on the project has a complete
copy of everything. This means that you’re not completely reliant
on a central server. Therefore, if the central server goes down, the
developers still have access to everything they need to continue
working.
As
you can imagine, there’s much more to Git than this. We’ve
written our
own guide to file versioning with Git.
But if you want something even more in-depth, then go ahead and
download
this ebook.
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