Perhaps China looking for politicians to support or compromise.
Australia
accuses foreign government of cyber attack on lawmakers
A cyber attack on Australian lawmakers that
breached the networks of major political parties was probably carried
out by a foreign government, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on
Monday, but did not name any suspects.
As Australia heads for an
election due by May, lawmakers were told this month told
to urgently change their passwords after the cyber intelligence
agency detected an attack on the national parliament’s computer
network.
… Morrison did not reveal what information was
accessed, but he said there
was no evidence of election interference. [The
best kind of hack! Bob]
Investors are still securing local networks, said
Alastair MacGibbon, head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the
government department responsible for online security.
… “When you consider motivation, you would
have to say that China is the leading suspect, while you wouldn’t
rule out Russia either,” said Fergus Hanson, head of the
International Cyber Policy Centre at think-tank the Australian
Strategic Policy Institute.
“It is the honey pot of juicy political gossip
that has been hoovered up. Emails
showing everything from the dirty laundry of internal fights through
to who supported a policy could be on display.”
Ties with China have deteriorated since 2017,
after Canberra accused Beijing of meddling in its domestic affairs.
(Related)
Australia
political parties hacked by 'sophisticated state actor'
… The announcement on Monday came 10 days
after the launch of a probe into the cybersecurity
breach of the parliament's computer network.
Morrison told parliament that, while investigating
the parliament hack, "we also became aware that the networks of
some political parties, Liberal, Labor and Nationals have also been
affected"
… He added that the hackers were sophisticated
enough to get into the network, but "not sophisticated enough to
remain undetected".
He said it was unclear whether the attackers
gained access to sensitive data or emails.
"We don't know. These are very early days,"
he said. "We genuinely do not know."
My Enterprise Architecture students will find the
frameworks interesting.
The latest
AI trends you need to know
KERAS
It is an open source python based neural networks library that can run over Microsoft CNTK (Cognitive Toolkit), Tensorflow and many other frameworks.
KERAS is best to be used by beginners in AI development.
PYTORCH
Pytorch is an open source machine learning code library based on python for natural language processing.
SONNET
Sonnet is a python based AI development code library built on top of TensorFlow to build complex neural networks for deep learning. SONNET is best for Artificial Intelligence research and development it is not easy for beginners to develop in SONNET.
MXNET
Apache MXNET is an open source deep learning software framework for training and deploying neural networks. It has a scalable training model which supports multiple programming languages Go, R, Scala, Perl, C++, Python, Julia, Matlab, JavaScript for AI development.
I’m beginning to think that someone who knew how
Facebook operated reversed that thinking and created the GDPR.
Germany
Sets New Data Collection Precedent with Facebook Anti-Trust Ruling -
CPO Magazine
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO), the
country’s competition law authority, set a new precedent recently
with an antitrust ruling against Facebook. The ruling may force
Facebook to make major changes to their data collection practices –
at least in Germany.
The ruling sharply limited Facebook’s ability to
collect data on user activities outside of the site. According to
the company’s official
line, Facebook collected anonymous data on anyone visiting a site
that has one of their services or apps integrated. Testimony to the
United States Congress by Mark Zuckerberg in 2018 revealed that the
scope of this data collection was beyond what Facebook had previously
been willing to be transparent about, however. The public learned
that Facebook was creating
“shadow profiles” using every scrap of information they could
harvest, including profiles on people who do not have a Facebook
account. This collection was not disclosed to end users, and would
require logging in to Facebook to opt out of it.
… Within the boundaries of Germany, this
ruling is devastating to Facebook’s advertising revenue streams.
However, at this point, this is not something that applies to the
company across the whole of the European Union. Facebook can
continue with their current data collection in the country for the
time being as they work through the appeal process. Should the
appeal be denied, Facebook will immediately be required to provide
notice of and obtain consent for all of the applicable data types and
uses.
It’s all about employee retention. The marginal
cost to Purdue of one more online student is pretty low, so I suspect
Papa John’s isn’t likely to go broke on this.
Papa John’s
offering employees free college tuition
… The pizza company is offering employees free
college tuition.
The chain has teamed up with Purdue University
Global.
Employees are eligible for free tuition at the
online-only institution if they have worked more than 20 hours per
week for at least 90 days.
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