Remember, some hackers can read.
GAO
Identifies Significant Cybersecurity Risks in US Electric Grid
The new report released by the Government
Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the nation’s electric grid
is becoming more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
[The
report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/701079.pdf
(Related)
U.S. Navy
to Appoint Cyber Chief Following a Blistering Audit
… The new position is part of a broader effort
to improve cybersecurity in the Navy and among its private-sector
industry partners, coming after
a scathing internal audit earlier this year found that
repeated compromises of national-security secrets threatened the
U.S.’s standing as the world’s top military power.
For my security students: know the enemy!
Before this one becomes law, lets design a tougher
one!
CCPA 2.0? A
New California Ballot Initiative is Introduced
On September 13, 2019, the California State
Legislature passed the final CCPA amendments of 2019. Governor
Newsome is expected to sign the recently passed CCPA amendments into
law in advance of his October 13, 2019 deadline. Yesterday,
proponents of the original CCPA ballot initiative released the text
of a new initiative (The California Privacy Rights and Enforcement
Act of 2020) that will be voted on in the 2020 election; if
passed, the initiative would substantially expand CCPA’s
protections for consumers and obligations on businesses.
While the new proposal preserves key aspects the current CCPA
statute, there are some notable additions and amendments.
[The
bill:
https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/19-0017%20%28Consumer%20Privacy%20%29.pdf
No surprise.
Most
Companies Worldwide Are Not Prepared for New Privacy Regulations
As
new privacy regulations continue to appear globally, there is
mounting evidence to suggest that most organizations – regardless
of size or type of business – are unprepared to deal with them in
an effective manner. That’s one of the big takeaways from a recent
September 2019 report
from
the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA), which analyzed
more than 1,200 privacy statements from organizations around the
world to see how well they adhered to new privacy regulations such as
the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and Canada’s Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA).
… In
many ways, the enactment of the European GDPR in May 2018 set into
motion an entirely new approach to data privacy and data security.
This paradigm shift included new thinking about how to manage the
enormous flows of data passing into and out of organizations on a
daily basis, and how to report this information to customers and
users. And it also established the fact that organizations would
have to start dealing with enormous fines and penalties for any
lapses in data privacy or any data security breaches.
From
devices to algorithms.
FDA
clarifies how it will regulate digital health and artificial
intelligence
…
In
releasing the guidelines on mobile
health software and
CDS
tools,
the FDA is attempting to communicate how it will implement provisions
within the 21st Century Cures Act, a law passed in late 2016 that
sought to exempt several categories of health software from FDA
review. The legislation gave FDA discretion to determine which
specific products will fall under its purview.
A
not very scientific assumption.
Don’t
Fear the Terminator
Artificial
intelligence never needed to evolve, so it didn’t develop the
survival instinct that leads to the impulse to dominate others
… Takeover
by AI has long been the stuff of science fiction. In 2001: A Space
Odyssey, HAL, the sentient computer controlling the operation of an
interplanetary spaceship, turns on the crew in an act of
self-preservation. In The Terminator, an Internet-like computer
defense system called Skynet achieves self-awareness and initiates a
nuclear war, obliterating much of humanity. This trope has, by now,
been almost elevated to a natural law of science fiction: a
sufficiently intelligent computer system will do whatever it must to
survive, which will likely include achieving dominion over the human
race.
To
a neuroscientist, this line of reasoning is puzzling. There are
plenty of risks of AI to worry about, including economic disruption,
failures in life-critical applications and weaponization by bad
actors. But the one that seems to worry people most is power-hungry
robots deciding, of their own volition, to take over the world. Why
would a sentient AI want to take over the world? It wouldn’t.
Perspective.
No need to plug in. No need to change batteries.
Photovoltaic-powered
sensors for the 'Internet of Things'
By
2025, experts estimate the number of Internet of Things
devices—including sensors that gather real-time data about
infrastructure and the environment—could rise to 75 billion
worldwide.
… MIT researchers have designed
photovoltaic-powered sensors that could potentially transmit data for
years before they need to be replaced. To do so, they mounted
thin-film perovskite cells—known for their potential low cost,
flexibility, and relative ease of fabrication—as energy-harvesters
on inexpensive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags.
Perspective.
Internet
sector contributes $2.1 trillion to U.S. economy: industry group
The rapidly growing internet sector accounted for
$2.1 trillion of the U.S. economy in 2018, or about
10% of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), an
industry group said on Thursday.
… The study says the internet sector
represents the fourth largest sector of the U.S. economy, behind real
estate, government and manufacturing.
Something to watch for…
This
Website Will Turn Wikipedia Articles Into “Real” Academic Papers
BuzzFeedNews
–
“The
digital
product agency MSCHF released
a site called M-Journal
on
Tuesday that will turn any Wikipedia article into a “real”
academic article. You can screenshot it, you can cite it — and you
can send a link to your teacher. What MSCHF did was republish the
entirety of Wikipedia under its own academic journal. If you go over
to the site, you can search any Wikipedia article or paste in a link,
and it’ll generate a citation that refers to MSCHF’s M-Journal,
not Wikipedia…”
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