Cyber is becoming part of the military arsenal, but what exists now
is probably spread too thin.
U.S.
National Guard’s Evolving Mission Includes Assisting Local
Governments Experiencing Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks on municipalities have been on the
rise in the past year, particularly in smaller cities that have
inadequate resources to deal with them. In the smallest of towns and
cities, local government relies on state and federal resources to
deal with remediation in the wake of a breach. For some, those
resources now include the National Guard.
… As little as a few years ago, cyber defense
was not even on the radar of most National Guard agencies. In the
past two years, cyber brigades have begun to spring up around the
country as the need for proactive defense and response to
nation-state cyber attacks has become clear.
Though each state has its own National Guard
agency, many of these cyber brigades are responsible for covering
multiple states. For example, the Army Nation Guard’s 91st Cyber
Brigade is based in Virginia but is tasked
with overseeing cyber response units in 30 states.
AI hates my face.
Who Stole
My Face? The Risks Of Law Enforcement Use Of Facial Recognition
Software
Via
LLRX – Who
Stole My Face? The Risks Of Law Enforcement Use Of Facial Recognition
Software
– Lawyer
and Legal Technology Evangelist Nicole
L. Black discusses
the “reckless social experiment” that facial surveillance
represents across all aspects of life in America. It is the norm on
social media, in air travel, as a mechanism for state, local and
federal government to identify location and means of travel (car,
train, bus), in banking and financial transactions (smile next time
you use your ATM), and as a security feature to unlock your phone, to
name but some of its applications. You
cannot opt-out
of the use of your data nor the multifaceted ways that it impacts
your diminishing privacy and civil liberties.
Perspective. Rumba today, much more tomorrow?
Internet of
Robotic Things (IoRT) Market will Generate Massive Revenue in Future
| ABB; KUKA AG; FANUC CORPORATION; Amazon Web Services, Inc.; Google;
Cisco
The Internet-of-Robotic-Things (IoRT) is an
emerging paradigm that brings together autonomous robotic systems
with the Internet of Things (IoT) vision of connected sensors and
smart objects pervasively embedded in everyday environments. This
merger can enable novel applications in almost every sector where
cooperation between robots and IoT technology can be imagined: From
assisted living, to precision farming, to packaging and dispatching
goods in manufacturing and logistic applications, to cleaning and
maintenance of civil infrastructure, to waste collection and
recycling, to mapping, inspection, repair and dismantling in offshore
and nuclear facilities.
Perspective.
TikTok hits
1.5 billion downloads, report says
TikTok
has
passed
1.5 billion downloads worldwide
on the App Store and Google Play, according to a Thursday report from
mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The social video app is
currently the third most downloaded non-gaming app of the year, after
WhatsApp at No. 1 and Messenger at No. 2, according to the firm.
Facebook and Instagram rank in fourth and fifth place, respectively,
the survey says.
Perspective.
Deutsche
Bank says robots are already replacing workers as it ramps up a plan
to axe 18,000 jobs
Deutsche
Bank is using robots to replace the 18,000 staff it plans to cut,
according to Financial
News.
… Matthews
told FN that the machine learning tools helped to save "680,000
hours of manual work" and that it "so far used bots to
process 5 million transactions in its corporate bank and perform 3.4
million checks within its investment bank."
One of the very few trends I saw coming.
Should the
internet be a public utility? Hundreds of cities are saying yes
… A
different vision of how the internet could operate is already taking
shape across the United States. In recent years, many cities and
towns around the country have built
their own broadband networks.
These communities are often seeking to provide affordable high-speed
internet service to neighborhoods that the for-profit network
providers aren’t adequately serving.
One
of the best-known efforts is in the city of Chattanooga,
Tennessee,
which built its own high-speed fiber-optic internet network in 2009.
Chattanooga’s
experiment has been an unequivocal success: According to a
2018 survey conducted
by Consumer Reports, Chattanooga’s municipal broadband network is
the top-rated internet provider in the entire U.S.
More
than 500
other communities around
the country operate publicly owned internet networks. In general,
these networks are cheaper,
faster, and more transparent in their pricing than
their private sector counterparts, despite lacking Comcast and
Verizon’s gigantic economies of scale. Because the people
operating municipal broadband networks serve communities rather than
large shareholders on Wall Street, they have a vested interest in
respecting net neutrality principles.
No
SciFi category? Perhaps I’ll make my own list.
TIME
– The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
The
100 Must-Read Books of 2019 – Stirring
novels and short stories, thought-provoking histories, affecting
memoirs and more. These are the books that captured our attention
Some
definitions for my Security students.
Understanding
the difference between risk, threat, and vulnerability
(Ditto)
What is the
difference between encoding, encryption, and hashing?
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