A
challenge for my Computer Security students.
Connected
Cars Could be a Threat to National Security, Group Claims
The
cyber threat to connected cars (cars with a connection to the
internet) is known and accepted. Now Los Angeles-based Consumer
Watchdog (CW) has elevated that threat to one of national security in
a new report titled, "Kill
Switch: Why Connected Cars Can be Killing Machines and How to Turn
Them Off."
CW
claims to have talked to an unnamed but concerned group "of car
industry technologists and engineers" in compiling its report
(PDF
).
Who
would you like to win and by how much?
The
scramble to secure America’s voting machines
Paperless
voting devices are a gaping weakness in the patchwork U.S. election
system, security experts say. But among these 14 states and their
counties, efforts to replace these machines are slow and uneven, a
POLITICO survey reveals.
Not
“raised” in the Venture Capital sense, more in the Bonnie &
Clyde sense.
UN
Report: North Korea Cyber Experts Raised Up to $2 Billion
A
panel monitoring U.N. sanctions says North Korean cyber experts have
illegally raised money for the country’s weapons of mass
destruction programs “with total proceeds to date estimated at up
to $2 billion.”
The
experts said in a new report to the Security Council that North Korea
is using cyberspace “to launch increasingly
sophisticated attacks to steal funds from financial
institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges to generate income” in
violation of sanctions.
… The
experts’ report, seen Monday by The Associated Press, said
large-scale attacks
against cryptocurrency exchanges by North Korea allow
the country “to generate income in ways that are harder to trace
and subject to less government oversight and regulation than the
traditional banking sector.”
North
Korea also continues to have access to the global financial system,
“through bank representatives and networks operating worldwide”
as a result of “deficiencies” by U.N. member states in
implementing financial sanctions and Pyongyang’s “deceptive
practices,” the experts said.
When
$5,000,000,000 is chicken feed.
EPIC
Privacy Group to Challenge $5 Billion FTC-Facebook Settlement
Perhaps
it was inevitable. As soon as the FTC announced that it was letting
social media giant Facebook off the hook with what now appears to be
an incredibly lenient penalty
of $5 billion,
privacy advocates went into overdrive, challenging the fairness and
adequacy of the Facebook settlement. Within days of the announced
FTC-Facebook settlement, consumer privacy group EPIC (Electronic
Privacy Information Center) filed a motion with a federal district
court in Washington, asking it to intervene in the settlement.
“Banking
for the un-banked” is a big market.
Privacy
Watchdogs Warn Facebook Over Libra Currency
Global
privacy regulators joined forces Tuesday to demand guarantees from
Facebook on how it will protect users' financial data when it
launches its planned cryptocurrency, Libra.
The
watchdogs from Australia, the US, EU, Britain, Canada and other
countries issued an open letter calling on Facebook to respond to
more than a dozen concerns over how it will handle sensitive personal
information of users of the digital currency.
… The
watchdogs said that Facebook and its subsidiary Calibra "have
failed to specifically address the information handling practices
that will be in place to secure and protect personal information".
Facebook's
handling of user data, highlighted by the Cambridge Analytica
scandal, had "not met the expectations of regulators or their
own users", they said.
My
students tell me they VPN to EU servers so they can access US
resources without tracking. Are we seeing a flight to stronger
Privacy laws?
Twitter
users are escaping online hate by switching profiles to Germany,
where Nazism is illegal
“Seeking to shield themselves from online hatred, some Twitter users say they’ve switched their account locations to Germany where local laws prevent pro-Nazi content.
While German laws make it harder for explicitly hateful content to remain online, local researchers say it is not a hate-free internet utopia.
Germany has imposed stricter laws on social media companies about content moderation as some conservative American lawmakers have criticized the companies of showing bias in their content removal decisions…”
Will
we reach a point where “everything has already been invented?”
Two
AI-led inventions poke at future of patent law
A
University of Surrey-based team have filed the first
patent applications for inventions created by a machine.
Applications were made to the US, EU and UK patent offices; they are
for a machine using artificial intelligence as the inventor of two
ideas for a beverage container and a flashing light.
Media's
attention toward this move resonates with last year's prediction by
Baker McKenzie that "Patentability
of
AI-created inventions, liability for infringement by AI, and patent
subject-matter
eligibility of AI technologies are the top three areas of patent law
that will be disrupted by AI."
… There
is now a site for a project focused on intellectual
property rights and
the output of artificial intelligence. This is the Artificial
Inventor Project,
and it can clarify why the topic of AI and patents is so relevant
today.
Mr
Zillman collects very complete (huge) and useful lists.
Healthcare
Bots and Subject Directories 2019
This guide focuses on a wide range of selected
resources from health sciences, technology, academic, government and
genetic research sectors, identifying traditional, complimentary and
alternative sources to execute expert healthcare related subject
matter searches. It is divided into three categories: 1) Search
Engines and Selected Bots and 2) Directories, Subject Trees and
Subject Tracers 3) Health Forums Online for Expert Support.
My students seem divided on the digital vs paper
bit. (But agree, cheaper is better.)
The Radical
Transformation of the Textbook
Wired
– Digital-first.
Open source. Subscription. The way textbooks are bought and sold is
changing—with serious implications for higher education:
“For several decades, textbook publishers followed the same basic
model: Pitch a hefty tome of knowledge to faculty for inclusion in
lesson plans; charge students an equally hefty sum; revise and update
its content as needed every few years. Repeat. But the last several
years have seen a shift at colleges and universities—one that has
more recently turned tectonic. In a way, the evolution of the
textbook has mirrored that in every other industry. Ownership has
given way to rentals, and analog to digital. Within the broad
strokes of that transition, though, lie divergent ideas about not
just what learning should look like in the 21st century but how
affordable to make it…
“The major publishers are publicly traded companies, under pressure to demonstrate constant growth. Pearson’s digital-first strategy is a significant step toward a more sustainable business model. Under the new system, ebooks will cost an average of $40. Those who prefer actual paper can pay $60 for the privilege of a rental, with the option to purchase the book at the end of the term. The price of a new print textbook can easily reach into the hundreds of dollars; under digital-first, students have to actively want to pay that much after a course is already over, making it an unlikely option for most…”
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