Interesting. US only for now? Not clear. Only
for Microsoft clients? Even then, they have to invite you?
Microsoft
AccountGuard Service Offers Protection for Political and Election
Orgs
Microsoft has launched a pilot program aimed at
providing cybersecurity protection for political campaigns and
election authorities.
The pilot program —named AccountGuard— was
launched at the end of July, Bleeping Computer has learned, and was
set in motion for the 2018 US midterm elections.
According to the pilot's website, AccountGuard
"provides additional security and threat monitoring for
Microsoft accounts belonging to participating US campaigns,
political committees, campaign tech vendors, and their staff, who are
likely to be at a higher risk in the lead up to elections."
… Microsoft is now running a website where
participants in the 2018 US midterm elections can sign up for this
increased protection.
According to the website, this service is part of
Microsoft's "Election Defense Technologies" and is offered
on a non-partisan basis by
invitation only. Users from the following organizations
are eligible to participate:
-
US-based political campaigns
-
US-based political committees
-
Select campaign technology vendors
-
Select individuals may also participate, if invited by eligible campaigns and affiliated organizations
So, can I have a copy? Or is it a secret?
US
Department of Justice creates software blacklist to prevent foreign
attacks
The US Department of Justice wants to educate its
contractors and military software buyers about malicious software
that could infiltrate the country’s infrastructure.
For fear of nation state attacks and
cyberespionage attempts, the Pentagon has released a “Do Not Buy”
software list that has been in development for approximately six
months, writes
Defense One. The list includes all software that is not according to
“national security standards,” said Ellen Lord, defense
undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, and looks at
companies with suspicious links to Russia and China.
Any new law (or new technology) swings a pendulum
one way or another. There is always an immediate push to swing it
back the other way.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/2018/08/02/why-market-regulators-are-hunting-around-for-gdpr-exemptions/
Why Market
Regulators Are Hunting Around for GDPR Exemptions
As soon as the new European General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect at the end of May, it
was almost inevitable that organizations, companies and regulators
located outside of the EU would begin looking for exemptions. And
that’s exactly what has happened – a group of financial market
regulators from outside the European Union (including the very
influential SEC in the United States as well as regulators in both
Japan and Hong Kong) are now asking for GDPR exemptions from some of
the strict privacy guidelines put into place by the GDPR.
When is data privacy not in the public interest?
Of particular concern for these regulators is that
fact that a long-time loophole for sharing data across borders
appears to have been closed – or at least, narrowed significantly –
by the GDPR. That loophole – known as the “public interest”
exemption, enables regulators to freely share bank and trading
account data with each other across national borders as long as they
are doing so in the public interest.
Such types of GDPR exemptions, they say, are
absolutely vital to doing their jobs properly. For example, if they
are trying to crack down on securities fraud, and the paper trail
takes them out of Europe and into North America or Asia, they need to
be able to do so without dealing with all the encumbrances created by
the GDPR. The same thing is true if they are trying to crack down on
cryptocurrency fraud, or trying to prevent a group of banks from
banding together to rig key market rates (such as the LIBOR rate,
which is used to determine interest rates charged on loans).
Time to get those lawyers trained?
Cybersecurity
Role, Spend on the Rise for Corporate Legal
Association
of Corporate Counsel: “More than 40 percent of in-house lawyers
stated their companies plan to change data security standards, breach
notification procedures, and incident response plans as a result of
the upcoming European Union General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR), and 63 percent in the United States strongly favor the
implementation of a federal law that sets uniform data security and
breach notification expectations, according to the Association of
Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation: The State of Cybersecurity
Report. Released by the ACC
Foundation, which supports the mission of ACC,
and underwritten by Ballard
Spahr LLP, the report incorporated data and insights from more
than 617 in-house lawyers at over 412 companies in 33 countries.
In-house lawyers anticipate their role in
cybersecurity prevention and response, as well as cybersecurity
budgets, to increase over the next 12 months. In fact, 63 percent of
respondents noted growth in company funds dedicated to cyber
incidents, compared to 53 percent in 2015. Chief legal officers
(CLO) and general counsel (GC) at large companies are also more
likely to serve as members of a data breach response team, compared
with those at smaller companies.
“With the rising number of high-profile data breaches and increased
focus on technology, it’s no shock to see protection
of corporate data become the fastest rising area of concern
for legal and business executives,” said Veta
T. Richardson, ACC president and CEO. “Data can be a company’s
most valuable and most vulnerable resource. Legal departments play
an essential role in formulating policies and procedures to mitigate
cyber risk.”
How do you make money with a free App. (I bet
governments will never use this.)
WhatsApp
finally earns money by charging businesses for slow replies
Today WhatsApp
launches its first revenue-generating enterprise product and the
only way it currently makes money directly from its app. The
WhatsApp Business API is
launching to let businesses respond
to messages from users for free for up to 24 hours, but will charge
them a fixed rate by country per message sent after that.
Businesses
will still only be able to message people who contacted them first,
but the API will help them programatically send shipping
confirmations, appointment reminders or event tickets. Clients also
can use it to manually respond to customer service inquiries through
their own tool or apps like Zendesk, MessageBird or Twilio. And
small businesses that are one of the 3 million users of the WhatsApp
For Business app can still use it to send late replies one-by-one for
free.
Oracle was never a competitor, now they can’t
keep up as a vendor?
Amazon
plans to move completely off Oracle software by early 2020
Amazon's
emergence as a major provider of data center technology has turned
many of its longtime suppliers, including Oracle,
into heated rivals.
Now Amazon is dealing yet another blow to Oracle.
The e-commerce giant, having already moved much of its infrastructure
internally to Amazon Web Services, plans to be completely off
Oracle's proprietary database software by the first quarter of 2020,
according to people familiar with the matter.
… Meanwhile, Oracle is about the same size it
was four years ago and the stock is just above where it was trading
at the end of 2014. Oracle shares dropped by about 1 percent after
the initial report Wednesday.
… The primary issue Amazon has faced on Oracle
is the inability for the database technology to scale to meet
Amazon's performance needs, a person familiar with the matter said.
Another person, who said the move could be completed by mid-2019,
added that there hasn't been any development of new technology
relying on Oracle databases for quite a while.
I think this nails it!
What Russia
Understands about Trump
… I’d be very
surprised if Trump was a standard intelligence recruit, the type of
guy who’d meet his handler under a bridge in Vienna and who’d be
paid for influence. There’s almost a commercial aspect to how the
Russians deal with him rather than an asset-running one. It’s a
trusted relationship with someone they can nudge without having to
instruct or order.
Burton Gerber, a thirty-nine-year veteran of the
CIA and mentor to both Hall and Sipher, agrees with this assessment.
The notion of Trump in certain precincts of the media as a Manchurian
candidate, a Russian asset owned and run by the Kremlin, is
ridiculous, he argues:
Trump
is basically a man with low self-esteem, which he has worked against
by being a bully and a narcissist. His actions scream,
“Take me, I’m yours if you’ll admire and compliment me.” The
Russians would never want to recruit him, just continuously have
access to him and be able to influence him.
Perspective. How sad.
U.S. adults
now spend nearly 6 hours per day watching video
If you’ve been wondering why every major media
platform has been doubling down on its video efforts in recent
months, Nielsen’s
new
report has the answer. According to the firm’s research, U.S.
adults are now spending almost 6 hours per day on video, on average.
That includes time spent watching both live and time-shifted TV,
watching videos in an app or mobile website on a smartphone or
tablet, watching video over a TV-connected device like a DVD player,
game console or internet device such as Roku, and watching videos on
a computer.
That data on video viewing was collected during
the first quarter of 2018 – and accounts for a sizable chunk of the
11 hours per day Americans
spend listening to, watching, reading or otherwise interacting with
media.
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