Reality. What a concept!
US
Officials Say Foreign Election Hacking Is Inevitable
The hacking of
U.S. election systems, including by foreign adversaries, is
inevitable, and the real challenge is ensuring the country is
resilient enough to withstand catastrophic problems from cyber
breaches, government officials said Wednesday.
(Related) You
hack, we nuke?
NATO
Warns Russia of 'Full Range' of Responses to Cyberattack
The head of
NATO told Russia and other potential foes Thursday that the Western
military alliance was ready to use all means at its disposal to
respond to cyber attacks.
Jens
Stoltenberg's warning came with the bloc's members on alert for
interference in European Parliament elections that kicked off in
Britain and the Netherlands on Thursday.
… "For
deterrence to have full effect, potential attackers must know we are
not limited to respond in cyber space when we are attacked in cyber
space," Stoltenberg said during a joint press appearance in
London with UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Plan to notify
your providers or expect them to take actions you might not like.
Google
disables Baltimore's Gmail accounts used during ransomware recovery
Gmail
accounts used by Baltimore officials as a workaround while the city
recovers
from the ransomware attack were
disabled because the creation of a large number of new accounts
triggered Google’s automated security system, a spokesman for the
company said.
Lester
Davis, a spokesman for Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young,
said city employees began realizing there was a problem Thursday
morning and were able to talk to senior executives at Google later in
the day to resolve the issue.
… A
Google system detects when a large number of accounts is being
created in one place and steps in because they might be used to send
spam or commit fraud.
Google
provides both a free Gmail service and a paid system for businesses
and other organizations. The reason for the misunderstanding over
the cause of the suspensions was not clear, but the
creation of a large number of new addresses on a business account
would not have been treated as suspicious by Google’s system.
Data that
proves identity could provide a defense as well.
Online
identification is getting more and more intrusive
The
Economist [paywall] – Phones
can now tell who is carrying them from their users’ gaits
“…LexisNexis
Risk Solutions, an American analytics firm, has catalogued more than
4 billion phones, tablets and other computers in this way for banks
and other clients. Roughly 7% of them have been used for shenanigans
of some sort. But device fingerprinting is becoming less useful.
Apple, Google and other makers of equipment and operating systems
have been steadily restricting the range of attributes that can be
observed remotely. That is why a new approach, behavioral
biometrics, is gaining ground. It relies on the wealth of
measurements made by today’s devices. These include data from
accelerometers and gyroscopic sensors, that reveal how people hold
their phones when using them, how they carry them and even the way
they walk. Touchscreens, keyboards and mice can be monitored to show
the distinctive ways in which someone’s fingers and hands move.
Sensors can detect whether a phone has been set down on a hard
surface such as a table or dropped lightly on a soft one such as a
bed. If the hour is appropriate, this action could be used to assume
when a user has retired for the night. These traits can then be used
to determine whether someone attempting to make a transaction is
likely to be the device’s habitual user…”
I’m
sure there are legitimate reasons to create such videos. Right?
https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-ai-deepfake-can-fabricate-a-video-clip-of-you-from-a-single-photo/
Samsung
deepfake AI could fabricate a video clip of you from a single photo
Imagine
someone creating a deepfake video of you simply by stealing your
Facebook profile pic. Luckily, the bad guys don't have their hands
on that tech yet.
Software
for creating
deepfakes –
fabricated clips that make people appear to do or say things they
never did – usually requires big data sets of images in order to
create a realistic forgery. Now Samsung has developed a new
artificial
intelligence system
that can generate a fake clip by feeding it a little as one photo.
My
students have been concerned about the “curb to door” gap.
Here’s Ford’s solution.
Watch
Ford’s Delivery Robot That Walks On Two Legs Like A Human
Ford partnered with Agility Robotics to create
Digit, a two-legged robot that could deliver your packages straight
to your door in the future. Ford claims this robot can carry
packages up to 40 pounds, navigate stairs, and go around unexpected
obstacles.
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