A clear change of our take on state sponsored hacking. Why the FBI? Shouldn’t we be using one of the military cyber teams if we expect to wind up in a (Cyber) War like we did after 9/11. That is the signal they are sending, right?
FBI Director Compares Ransomware Challenge to 9/11
… In the interview, Mr. Wray singled out Russia as harboring many of the known users of ransomware.
“If the Russian government wants to show that it’s serious about this issue, there’s a lot of room for them to demonstrate some real progress that we’re not seeing right now,” Mr. Wray said.
When you are done with an account, shut it down!
https://www.databreaches.net/hackers-breached-colonial-pipeline-using-compromised-password/
Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised Password
William Turton and Kartikay Mehrotra report:
The hack that took down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. and led to shortages across the East Coast was the result of a single compromised password, according to a cybersecurity consultant who responded to the attack.
Hackers gained entry into the networks of Colonial Pipeline Co. on April 29 through a virtual private network account, which allowed employees to remotely access the company’s computer network, said Charles Carmakal, senior vice president at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of FireEye Inc., in an interview. The account was no longer in use at the time of the attack but could still be used to access Colonial’s network, he said.
Read more on Bloomberg.
No doubt these contain many small errors which Congress will collect and expand upon in their law.
King County ban on police use of facial recognition software spotlights local movements across US
As federal legislation on law enforcement's use of facial recognition software stalls, dozens of cities and counties are taking measures into their own hands.
Facial recognition opponents rejoiced this week after the local government of King County, Washington voted to ban local police from using the technology.
The move was notable for a number of reasons. The ACLU of Washington said in a statement that the new King County ban on police use of facial recognition software was the first in the country to be county-wide and cover multiple cities.
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EU Proposal Could Limit AI Use in Recruiting and Hiring
The European Union (EU) proposed in April to regulate the use of AI, which could alter how companies recruit and hire workers for jobs across Europe.
Drafting the first legal framework on AI, the EU has determined that AI systems in hiring and recruiting are high risk, noted Amy Bird, an attorney with Clifford Chance in London.
The EU's proposal may impact recruitment and selection systems, such as advertising for job vacancies, screening or filtering applications, and evaluating candidates with interviews and tests.
"There are ethical implications of AI having an increasingly greater impact on individuals' lives," Bird said. "The EU proposal recognizes that human intelligence cannot give way entirely to artificial intelligence, and that there are boundaries into which it should not stray."
An interesting twist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/science/ai-woebot-deroy-empathy.html
Why A.I. Should Be Afraid of Us
… Empathy, of course, is a two-way street, and we humans don’t exhibit a whole lot more of it for bots than bots do for us. Numerous studies have found that when people are placed in a situation where they can cooperate with a benevolent A.I., they are less likely to do so than if the bot were an actual person.
“There seems to be something missing regarding reciprocity,” Ophelia Deroy, a philosopher at Ludwig Maximilian University, in Munich, told me. “We basically would treat a perfect stranger better than A.I.”
In a recent study, Dr. Deroy and her neuroscientist colleagues set out to understand why that is.
… Our lack of reciprocity toward A.I. is commonly assumed to reflect a lack of trust. It’s hyper-rational and unfeeling, after all, surely just out for itself, unlikely to cooperate, so why should we? Dr. Deroy and her colleagues reached a different and perhaps less comforting conclusion. Their study found that people were less likely to cooperate with a bot even when the bot was keen to cooperate. It’s not that we don’t trust the bot, it’s that we do: The bot is guaranteed benevolent, a capital-S sucker, so we exploit it.
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