Monday, February 10, 2020

Also, insurers are paying the ransom as the cheaper option. That means almost any attack will pay off.
Ransomware Attacks Are Causing Cyber Insurance Rates to Go Through the Roof; Premiums up as Much as 25 Percent
… The central issue is the cost of fulfilling claims. When ransomware attacks lock a policyholder out of their network, there are effectively only two options; pay the ransom or restore from backups. If the client doesn’t have adequate backups, they’re locked into option A. The insurance policy may not need to cover just the ransom amount, but also costs of recovery if the hackers fail to make good on unlocking the compromised systems.


How to avoid CCPA convictions?
INSIGHT: First CCPA-Related Case Foreshadows Five Issues
The first lawsuit to cite to the California Consumer Privacy Protection Act is unlikely to test the law’s limits, but should serve as a call for businesses to be ready, write Troutman Sanders attorneys. They offer five steps for preparing for more lawsuits.


Is there a more useful task for AI? (Okay, perhaps flagging those very rare moments when a politician speaks the truth?)
In the Eternal Quest to Decode Fedspeak, Here Come the Computers
After taking the helm of the Federal Reserve in the 1980s, Alan Greenspan liked to say he had mastered the art of the strategic mumble. With financial markets prone to soar or dip based on what came out of his mouth, he learned to speak in an opaque and sometimes baffling fashion.
The idea, in part, was to avoid giving traders, politicians or anyone else any hint what the central bank was thinking of doing. “If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said,” he once joked.


Supplements.
Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative Launches Tool to Advance Adoption of Open Educational Resources
University of Maryland– “The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative–a priority project for the University System of Maryland’s William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation and state higher education partners-has launched M.O.S.T. Commons (https://most.oercommons.org/), a collaborative, online space designed to support faculty and staff in adopting, creating, and sharing open educational resources (OER). M.O.S.T. Commons serves as the foundation for the M.O.S.T. initiative, which is supporting statewide collaboration on affordable, high-quality educational resources that are openly licensed and fully accessible. Open educational resources (OER) are freely available, fully accessible instructional materials that either reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits the use, revision, improvement, and redistribution by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support learning (adapted from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s definition) …”

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