and as alarm grows, does the potential for retaliation grow as well? “Generals always fight the last war”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/politics/russian-hacking-government.html

As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm

On Election Day, General Paul M. Nakasone, the nation’s top cyberwarrior, reported that the battle against Russian interference in the presidential campaign had posted major successes and exposed the other side’s online weapons, tools and tradecraft.

“We’ve broadened our operations and feel very good where we’re at right now,” he told journalists.

Eight weeks later, General Nakasone and other American officials responsible for cybersecurity are now consumed by what they missed for at least nine months: a hacking, now believed to have affected upward of 250 federal agencies and businesses, that Russia aimed not at the election system but at the rest of the United States government and many large American corporations.

Three weeks after the intrusion came to light, American officials are still trying to understand whether what the Russians pulled off was simply an espionage operation inside the systems of the American bureaucracy or something more sinister, inserting “backdoor” access into government agencies, major corporations, the electric grid and laboratories developing and transporting new generations of nuclear weapons.

At a minimum it has set off alarms about the vulnerability of government and private sector networks in the United States to attack and raised questions about how and why the nation’s cyberdefenses failed so spectacularly.

Learn from the mistakes of others or become an “other” yourself.

https://syncedreview.com/2021/01/01/2020-in-review-10-ai-failures/

2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures

The global artificial intelligence market is expected to top US$40 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.39 percent, according to Market Insight Reports. AI’s remarkable achievements and continuing rapid expansion into new domains are undeniable. However, as with most nascent technologies, there are still bugs to work out.

This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of “Artificial Intelligence Failures.” Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that we can create better AI systems in the future.

(Related) Learn how to inform your clients before someone else does it for you.

https://www.databreaches.net/__trashed-3/

ROMWE’s press release reflects an abundance of …. something, but not caution.

This week, I drafted a commentary mocking ROMWE’s for claiming that they were notifying their consumers about a breach out of “an abundance of caution.” Then I decided to try to be nice, and I trashed it.

Yesterday, Marco de Felice wrote a piece about the breach that shows that it was even worse than ROMWE admitted to. Not only does he dispute their claim about the breach only impacting some consumers’ “usernames and passwords” by pointing out that the breach impacted more than 7.3 million customers, but he also points out that he had found some data from the breach on the dark web as early as February 2020 — months before ROMWE discovered it after other data appeared on a popular forum.

Read SuspectFile’s report on this breach. I’ve asked him how and where he found the earlier data dump, so there may be an update to this post.

Perspective. Yes, it’s a thing, but this is not a particularly useful Infographic.

https://insidebigdata.com/2021/01/01/infographic-the-rise-of-no-code-development-platforms/

Infographic: The Rise of No-Code Development Platforms

Our friends over at Saas Platform company in Ireland called TeamKonnect have developed new infographic called “The Rise of No-Code Development Platforms” which is provided below. This infographic is a 101 guide to No-Code Development Platforms. Rising in popularity in the last decade, these platforms offer an exciting opportunity for businesses and organizations to develop apps that meet their needs without the engagement of software engineers. Due to the lack of tech knowledge needed, it’s no wonder that Gartner projects that by 2025, 65% of all app development will be done on No-Code Development Platforms!

Because research?

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-open-access-journal-sites/

The 8 Best Open Access Journal Sites for Students

The Ethical Hacker’s dilemma.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-01-02