Monday, March 04, 2019

If you don’t want to unleash the nukes, what’s the next best thing?
Fossbytes reports:
A recent report by Hindustan Times stated that hackers from Pakistan attacked over 90 websites of the Indian Government. The recent escalations in tensions between the neighbors led to a surge in attacks in cyberspace, targeting key infrastructures.
The death of 40 CRPF personnel in a recent terror strike by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad led to India retaliating with airstrikes on terrorist launch pads in Balakot, Pakistan. The attack is said to have wiped out a few hundred terrorists including leader Masood Azhar’s brother in law, Yousuf Azhar.
Read more on Fossbytes.
[From the article:
As reported on the 18th of Feb, Indian hacktivists had retaliated in cyberspace by hacking over 200 websites of the Pakistan Government, some of which are still not accessible from outside Pakistan.




The constant competition of capitalist China.
1 in 5 corporations say China has stolen their IP within the last year
  • Theft of intellectual property by Chinese companies is a major point of contention between the Trump administration and Chinese government.
  • Just under one-third of CFOs of North America-based companies on the CNBC Global CFO Council say Chinese firms have stolen from them at some point during the past decade.
  • U.S. trade policy remains a negative for businesses around the world, but right now European CFOs are expressing the biggest concerns about trade policy as an external risk factor…”




Security backgrounder.
IBM X-Force Intelligence Threat Index 2019
“As the cyber threat landscape evolves, what we saw in 2018 is organisations across all industries are facing unmanageable levels of cyber threats brought on by the changing threat landscape, the risk of exposure and an ever-growing attack surface. The IBM X-Force Research team is a crack team of security professionals who run thousands of spam traps around the world and monitor tens of millions of spam and phishing attacks daily while analysing billions of web pages and images to detect fraudulent activity and brand abuse. In the fight to stay one step ahead, this week we released the IBM X-Force Intelligence Threat Index 2019. The report contains notable security events in 2018 and looks ahead with a pre-emptive approach. It also shares insights and observations from data analysed via hundreds of millions of protected endpoints and servers across over 100 countries…
Some of the key findings in the report include: Ransomware & Malware are out & cryptojacking is in…”


(Related)
Cisco Publishes Annual CISO Benchmark Study
Cisco's 2019 Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Benchmark Study has one great strength. It queried more than 3,200 senior leaders with a CISO role (if not title) from 18 different countries.
The report (PDF) states, "ML, AI and more automation should be able to boost security efforts exponentially – and next year we need to see more respondents in the 'completely reliant' phase of implementation and practice."




Another perspective on AI.
New on LLRX – Nothing Artificial About It: How Law Firms (Really) Use AI in Practice
Via LLRXNothing Artificial About It: How Law Firms (Really) Use AI in Practice – Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase, talks about how the new age of law firm innovation is changing legal services by moving from anecdotal to data-driven insights and thus providing better-informed guidance for clients. Walters also identifies the value of analytics to manage and mitigate risk, which he points out is almost always more cost effective than litigating the effects after the fact. Most importantly, Walters highlights not only how law firms are using AI, but that they are also building their own tools to deliver new types of services as well.




My AI reading list.
What Is The Best Book On Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
… honestly, it was just too difficult to narrow down my favorites to one book!
Instead, I offer you my top five.
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley And The New World Order
Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI




Not exactly household names… How did GDPR change their practices?
Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
FastCompany: “It’s no secret that your personal data is routinely bought and sold by dozens, possibly hundreds, of companies. What’s less known is who those companies are, and what exactly they do. Thanks to a new Vermont law requiring companies that buy and sell third-party personal data to register with the Secretary of State, we’ve been able to assemble a list of 121 data brokers operating in the U.S. It’s a rare, rough glimpse into a bustling economy that operates largely in the shadows, and often with few rules. Even Vermont’s first-of-its-kind law, which went into effect last month, doesn’t require data brokers to disclose who’s in their databases, what data they collect, or who buys it. Nor does it require brokers to give consumers access to their own data or opt out of data collection. Brokers are, however required to provide some information about their opt-out systems under the law–assuming they provide one. If you do want to keep your data out of the hands of these companies, you’ll often have to contact them one by one through whatever opt-out systems they provide… Those include big names in people search, like Spokeo, ZoomInfo, White Pages, PeopleSmart, Intelius, and PeopleFinders; credit reporting, like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion; and advertising and marketing, like Acxiom, Oracle, LexisNexis, Innovis, and KBM…”




Well, this didn’t take long. Apparently someone listened to his announcement.
How John Hickenlooper Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination


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