October is ‘Lets commit a cybercrime’ month.
October is high season for cyberattacks, Infosec Institute study shows
There has been an exponential increase in cyberattacks around the globe in the last five years and a major chunk of it happened in October each year, according to a study by Infosec Institute.
A similar offensive appears to be building up this month, judging from the study's projections for an "October surprise" as well as observations of cyberattacks that have occurred so far.
The study underscores that the attacks that have occurred in the month of October in the past five years have been traced back to mainly five offending entities — Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and a catchall grouping termed anonymous. The anonymous grouping is used to refer to unclaimed attacks with unknown assailants and could not be linked to any offending parties or nations.
Defense against one type of attack…
https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-combat-the-most-prevalent-ransomware-threats/
How to combat the most prevalent ransomware threats
Tech Republic: “Ransomware has turned into one of the most devastating cyberthreats as criminal gangs launch destructive attacks against specific industries and organizations. Attackers also have upped their game through multiple strategies, such as the double-extortion tactic in which they vow to publicly release the stolen data unless the ransom is paid. In its latest Advanced Threat Research Report, McAfee looks at the most prominent ransomware strains for the second quarter of 2021 and offers advice on how to combat them…”
All resources welcome.
https://www.pogowasright.org/new-resources-on-privacy-harms/
New resources on privacy harms
Professors Daniel Solove and Danielle Citron have revised their important article, Privacy Harms, forthcoming 102 B.U. Law Review __ (2022). You can download the latest draft for free on SSRN.
“Among other things,” Dan writes, “we rethought the typology to add top-level categories and subcategories.”
Other papers on harms that the two have co-authored:
Standing and Privacy Harms: A Critique of TransUnion v. Ramirez, 101 B.U. L. Rev. Online 62 (2021)
Risk and Anxiety: A Theory of Data Breach Harms, 96 Texas Law Review 737 (2018)
Perhaps it should protect properly programmed (not self-taught) replicants?
https://www.bespacific.com/the-first-amendment-does-not-protect-replicants/
The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants
Lessig, Lawrence, The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants (September 10, 2021). Social Media and Democracy (Lee Bollinger & Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford 2022), Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3922565 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3922565
“As the semantic capability of computer systems increases, the law should resolve clearly whether the First Amendment protects machine speech. This essay argues it should not be read to reach sufficiently sophisticated — “replicant” — speech.”
A look at AI.
https://sifted.eu/articles/artificial-intelligence-startups-safety/
Artificial intelligence is becoming a ‘force multiplier’ — for good and bad
Some of the military applications of AI that are being developed are “pretty terrifying,” says Ian Hogarth in the State of AI report.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving out of the lab and becoming a technological “force multiplier” in an ever-widening range of real-world cases, including drug development, healthcare, energy, logistics and defence, according to the latest State of AI report.
… In their fourth annual report, a 188-slide monster pack that provides one of the most useful snapshots of the sector, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth flag the most interesting developments in AI over the past year in terms of research, people, industry and politics.
Deep geek!
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/13/1037027/podcast-the-story-of-artificial-intelligence/
Podcast: The story of AI, as told by the people who invented it
Welcome to I Was There When, a new oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the people who witnessed them. In this first episode, we meet Joseph Atick— who helped create the first commercially viable face recognition system.
Perspective. Podcast
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-the-u-s-housing-boom-isnt-a-bubble/
Why the U.S. Housing Boom Isn’t a Bubble
… While the red-hot real estate market is finally showing signs of cooling, its meteoric rise has many Americans wondering if housing prices are a bubble that is about to burst, much like the collapse that triggered the Great Recession.
Wharton real estate and finance professor Benjamin Keys says that’s not the case.
“I come down very strongly against that view. I don’t think that it’s likely that we’re going to see a bubble burst in the way that we saw in 2008, 2009, and 2010,” he said during an interview with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM. (Listen to the podcast above.)
For my next math class...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tools-solve-math-problems/
6 Tools to Help You Solve Difficult Math Problems
Math is fairly tricky, so what better way to get help than with the tech in your pocket? Here are six tools to help you solve difficult math problems.
A security resource.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month - Safety Tips Sheets, Posters, and Lesson Plans
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