Just because we don’t want it to be true does not mean it isn’t.
New Gartner Report, Quick Answer: Ransomware — What Happens If You Pay?
There's one surefire way to end ransomware once and for all: Stop paying. If every organization that suffered a ransomware attack refused to pay up, the threats would lose their income stream, and the work would dry up leading to the end of these attacks as we know them.
Simple, right? It turns out, not so much.
The ransomware industry has become increasingly adept at generating demand. While there are both government and private entities working to dissuade organizations from paying, including legislation that may ban ransom payments for certain sectors, or the phasing out of ransom payment coverage by cyber insurance companies, the hold that cyber ransom has on its victims makes it likely that breached companies will continue paying the ransom. Organizations that do not pay ransomware risk potential losses that far outweigh the financial hit taken from an extortion fee, which gives attackers a clear advantage.
… If your organization is ever faced with that hard question, refer to Gartner's Quick Answer as a starting place.
Allowing you to select the cheapest, easily assembled from readily available ingredients… I wonder if it works as well on antidotes?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx
AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference.
All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
Teachers have more rights than parents?
Federal violation? Anchorage school district keeps student gender pronouns a secret from parents
Suzanne Downing reports:
Parents logging into the Q/ParentConnection database in the Anchorage School District’s web pages can find up-to-date information about their students, including items such as grades, contact information, and class news. Some parents know this website as Zangle.
What they don’t see is what the school district officials can see — the student’s preferred pronoun. That information only shows up on the district’s side of the database — hidden from parents’ view.
One Anchorage parent, who is also a teacher, happened to notice the difference between the information shown to teachers and administrators, and information that she as a parent can see from the parent portal.
Read more at MustReadAlaska.
We’ll be talking about this, a lot!
https://www.bespacific.com/the-law-of-war-and-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/
The Law of War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
CRS Legal Sidebar, The Law of War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, March 6, 2022 – “In the days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many countries condemned the action as a violation of international law governing when countries may use force against one another. Since then, several observers, including the U.S. Secretary of State and other foreign government officials, have cited evidence that the Russian military has targeted civilians, struck protected sites, and taken other actions that violate international law regulating the conduct of war. This Legal Sidebar provides a brief introduction to the international legal framework governing the use of force in the invasion of Ukraine and concludes with a discussion of avenues for accountability and options for Congress.”
See also from CRS – War Crimes: A Primer March 15, 2022; and CRS Insight Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: NATO Response, March 15, 2022.
Because I need to study everything to learn anything.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/stanford-artificial-intelligence-index-report/
Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. This report shows how we got here.
Artificial intelligence is getting cheaper, better at the tasks we assign it, and more widespread—but concerns over bias, ethics, and regulatory oversight still remain. At a time when AI is becoming accessible to everyone, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence put together a sweeping 2022 report analyzing the ins and outs of the growing field.
This is exactly how I encourage my students!
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-18
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