Saturday, September 07, 2019


“Recent” seems to be a bit of a stretch. Why so long to let anyone know about the breach?
Meridian Community College Provides Notice of Data Incident
Meridian Community College ("MCC") is providing notice of a recent event that may have affected the privacy of personal information of certain individuals
In late January 2019, MCC became aware of a phishing incident that resulted in the compromise of certain user credentials. MCC immediately began reviewing this activity and commenced a diligent investigation, which included working with third party forensic investigators, to confirm the nature and scope of the activity. On April 12, 2019, this investigation determined that it could not forensically rule out access to certain employee email accounts. Additionally, the forensic investigation could not determine whether specific emails in the potentially affected accounts were subject to unauthorized access.
This review concluded on June 25, 2019. MCC then undertook a diligent effort to identify contact information for those individuals whose data was present in the relevant email accounts.




Investigation by Venn diagram. One circle is all the App downloaders. Where they overlap with other circles, you have your pool of suspects.
Thomas Brewster reports:
Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? T he U.S. government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you.
That’s because the government wants Apple and Google to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun scope app, Forbes has discovered. It’s an unprecedented move: Never before has a case been disclosed in which American investigators demanded personal data of users of a single app from Apple and Google.
Read more on Forbes.
[From the article:
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department is seeking information as part of a broad investigation into possible breaches of weapons export regulations. It’s looking into illegal exports of ATN’s scope, though the company itself isn’t under investigation, according to the order. As part of that, investigators are looking for a quick way to find out where the app is in use, as that will likely indicate where the hardware has been shipped. ICE has repeatedly intercepted illegal shipments of the scope, which is controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), according to the government court filing. They included shipments to Canada, the Netherlands and Hong Kong where the necessary licenses hadn’t been obtained.




Must tolerate frustration.
Pentagon seeks 'ethicist' to oversee military artificial intelligence
Wanted: military “ethicist”. Skills: data crunching, machine learning, killer robots. Must have: cool head, moral compass and the will to say no to generals, scientists and even presidents.
The Pentagon is looking for the right person to help it navigate the morally murky waters of artificial intelligence (AI), billed as the battlefield of the 21st century.




Gain control early.
Google files patent for using A.I. to track a baby’s body and eye movements
According to a patent application filed last year and published on Thursday, Google is researching technology that could track a baby’s eyes, movements and sounds using “intelligent” audio and video. If the behavior seems abnormal, the cloud-based system would notify parents on their device.




Perspective. How critical is the Internet?
Thousands Of Optimum Customers Without Internet & TV Service, Police Say Stop Calling 911 To Report It




As change (the introduction of new technologies) accelerates, the lifespan of old training is reduced.
120 million workers will need to be retrained due to AI, says IBM study
Artificial Intelligence is apparently ready to get to work. Over the next three years, as many as 120 million workers from the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained because of advances in artificial intelligence and intelligent automation, according to a study released Friday by IBM's Institute for Business Value. However, less than half of CEOs surveyed by IBM said they had the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by these new technologies.



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