Thursday, September 29, 2022

Incident response guides help you create a plan or check the one you have.

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/ciso/22/i/incident-response-services.html

Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

No matter the size of a business, it faces the risk of a cyberattack. Over 50% of organizations experienced a cyberattack. And while proactive protection is ideal, there is no silver bullet when it comes to security—meaning you should plan for incident response as well. Yet, 63% of C-level executives in the US do not have an incident response plan, according to a report by Shred-It.





Strange that Dyson et al. can detect Child Porn, but Twitter can not…

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-brands-blast-twitter-ads-next-child-pornography-accounts-2022-09-28/

Exclusive: Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts

Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes and PBS Kids have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters.





How ‘backed-up’ do you need to be? Consider what you would do if you lost access to your computer…

https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-back-up-your-digital-life/

How to Back Up Your Digital Life

Wired: “Nowadays I back up my data at least three times, in three physically separate places. I know what you’re thinking—wow, he is really bummed about missing out on that mai tai. It may sound excessive, but it costs next to nothing and happens without me lifting a finger, so why not? If the perfect backup existed, then sure, three would be overkill, but there is no perfect backup. Things go wrong with backups too. You need to hedge your bets. At the very least, you should have two backups, one local and one remote. For most people, this strikes the best balance between safety, cost, and effort…”





Find alternatives to “censorship.”

https://www.insideprivacy.com/technology/fifth-circuit-upholds-texas-law-restricting-online-censorship/

Fifth Circuit Upholds Texas Law Restricting Online “Censorship”

On September 16, the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in NetChoice L.L.C. v. Paxton, upholding Texas HB 20, a law that limits the ability of large social media platforms to moderate content and imposes various disclosure and appeal requirements on them. The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court’s preliminary injunction, which previously blocked the Texas Attorney General from enforcing the law. NetChoice is likely to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision.

HB 20 prohibits “social media platforms” with “more than 50 million active users” from “censor[ing] a user, a user’s expression, or a user’s ability to receive the expression of another person” based on the “viewpoint” of the user or another person, or the user’s location. HB 20 also includes various transparency requirements for covered entities, for example, requiring them to publish information about their algorithms for displaying content, to publish an “acceptable use policy” with information about their content restrictions, and to provide users an explanation for each decision to remove their content, as well as a right to appeal the decision.



(Related) (Only in Texas…)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/netchoice-paxton-first-amendment-social-media-content-moderation/671574/

Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet?

Occasionally, something happens that is so blatantly and obviously misguided that trying to explain it rationally makes you sound ridiculous. Such is the case with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’s recent ruling in NetChoice v. Paxton. Earlier this month, the court upheld a preposterous Texas law stating that online platforms with more than 50 million monthly active users in the United States no longer have First Amendment rights regarding their editorial decisions. Put another way, the law tells big social-media companies that they can’t moderate the content on their platforms. YouTube purging terrorist-recruitment videos? Illegal. Twitter removing a violent cell of neo-Nazis harassing people with death threats? Sorry, that’s censorship, according to Andy Oldham, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals and the former general counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott.





No one said good laws come easily.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/indonesia-data-protection-law-includes-potential-prison-time-asset-seizure-right-to-compensation-for-data-breaches/

Indonesia Data Protection Law Includes Potential Prison Time, Asset Seizure, Right to Compensation for Data Breaches

An Indonesia data protection law that has been in development since 2016 includes some of the harshest penalties yet seen in national data privacy regulations, allowing for prison time for illegally obtaining or falsifying data along with large fines and the potential for asset forfeiture. Residents of Indonesia will also be granted a right to compensation for data breaches.

However, in spite of these terms, some privacy analysts remain unconvinced that the law will be effective. The central issue is that there are existing privacy protection terms scattered throughout a number of other laws that potentially conflict with the new bill, yet the new bill makes clear that these existing terms remain valid.





Tools & Techniques. Could one of these write this Blog for me? Perhaps the great AImerican novel?

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-ai-writing-extensions-chrome/

The 5 Best AI Writing Extensions for Google Chrome



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