Saturday, February 19, 2022

Free is good!

https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/us-cybersecurity-agency-publishes-list.html

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Publishes List of Free Security Tools and Services

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday published a repository of free tools and services to enable organizations to mitigate, detect, and respond effectively to malicious attacks and further improve their security posture.

The "Free Cybersecurity Services and Tools resource hub comprises a mix of services provided by CISA, open-source utilities, and other implements offered by private and public sector organizations across the cybersecurity community.



Think of the fun we could have disrupting traffic on I25 or those mountain roads with no guardrails!

https://thenextweb.com/news/cars-security-and-source-code

Your car is a computer on wheels — and its code can be hacked

We aren’t joking when we talk about cars as big fat data generating computer centers on wheels. If you go on Glassdoor, there’s even an interview question, “How many lines of code does a Tesla have?”

I’m not entirely sure, but even a decade ago, premium cars contained 100 microprocessor-based electronic control units (ECUs), which collectively executed over 100 million lines of code. Then there’s telematics, driver-assist software, and infotainment system, to name but a few other components that require code.



Hire an AI lawyer or get left behind?

https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/2022/02/19/international-artificial-intelligence-in-the-administration-of-justice310122/

International: Artificial Intelligence in the administration of justice

In the not too distant past, many were convinced that Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) would not substantially change the practice of law. The legal profession was considered to be — by its very nature — requiring specialist skills and nuanced judgment that only humans could provide and would therefore be immune to the disruptive changes brought about by the digital transformation. However, the application of ML technology in the legal sector is now increasingly mainstream, particularly as a tool to save time for lawyers and provide a richer analysis of ever-larger datasets to aid legal decision-making in judicial systems throughout the world.



Have we learned to counter disinformation by preemption? Will this work domestically?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/18/preempting-putin-washingtons-campaign-of-intelligence-disclosures-is-complicating-moscows-plans-for-ukraine/

Preempting Putin: Washington’s campaign of intelligence disclosures is complicating Moscow’s plans for Ukraine

In 2014, the United States and its allies were caught flat footed —not just by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but by the campaign of falsehoods that accompanied it. Designed to warp public perceptions of the annexation of Crimea, delegitimize the government in Kyiv, cast doubt on the existence of Russian operatives in eastern Ukraine, and evade blame for their downing of passenger jet MH-17, these information operations took Western governments by surprise. The U.S. government was slow to coordinate with partners, and some Western journalists, not yet wise to the Kremlin’s playbook, covered “both sides” of events, unwittingly feeding the uncertainty and nihilism about the existence of truth on which Putin thrives.

The Biden administration in particular seems to have learned lessons from this experience. By launching a proactive campaign to call the Kremlin’s bluffs, the White House hopes to foil Moscow’s plans. But even if, as seems likely, it falls short of that goal, Washington’s campaign of disclosures could make it more difficult for the Kremlin to deploy disinformation to deflect culpability for its actions in the aftermath of an intervention, and help build public support in the United States and Europe for a sharper response.



Ready or not…

https://www.makeuseof.com/ways-metaverse-will-change-work/

7 Ways the Metaverse Will Forever Change How We Work

It's going to change everything. The metaverse is coming, and it'll even change how we work, where we work, and the jobs we can do.


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