A
milestone, but probably not the end of this story.
Facebook
agrees to pay Cambridge Analytica fine to UK
Facebook
has agreed to pay a £500,000 fine imposed by the UK's data
protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
It
had originally appealed the penalty, causing the Information
Commissioner's Office to pursue its own counter-appeal.
As
part of the agreement, Facebook has made no admission of liability.
Perhaps
North Korea will cross the line in another country before they push
us too far. How would a country line India make war on North Korea?
Nuclear
Power Plant in India Hit by North Korean Malware: Report
Reports
of a breach at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant located in the
Indian state of Tamil Nadu emerged on Monday after a Twitter user
posted a VirusTotal
link pointing
to what appeared to be a sample of a recently discovered piece of
malware named Dtrack.
The
malware was configured to use a hardcoded username and password
combination that referenced KKNPP, the acronym for the Kudankulam
Nuclear Power Plant.
India-based
cybersecurity expert Pukhraj Singh reposted the tweet, revealing
that
attackers had gained domain controller-level access to the Kudankulam
nuke plant and that other “extremely mission-critical targets”
had also been hit.
Singh
pointed to a tweet that he posted in early September, in which he
said he had witnessed a “casus belli,” a Latin expression used to
describe an event that is used to justify war. He
later clarified that the other targets he had become aware of were
even “scarier than KKNPP,” which is why he “went all hyperbolic
about casus belli.”
… However,
some Indian officials have categorically denied that any kind of
breach took place at the nuclear power plant. On the other hand, a
statement from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India confirms that
the plant was targeted by a cyberattack, but highlighted that control
systems are not connected to the local network or the internet and
claimed that an attack on the facility’s control systems “is not
possible.” Singh also confirmed that there was no evidence of
control systems being impacted.
A
warning and a sales pitch?
Cyber
attack on Asia ports could cost $110 billion: Lloyd's
A
cyber attack on Asian ports could cost as much as $110 billion, or
half the total global loss from natural catastrophes in 2018, a
Lloyd’s of London-backed report said on Wednesday.
Cyber
insurance is seen as a growth market by insurance providers such as
Lloyd’s, which specializes in covering commercial risks, although
take-up in Europe and Asia remains far behind levels in the United
States.
It’s
3AM in Australia, do you know where your data is?
‘C.L.O.U.D.’s
On the Horizon: How Law Enforcement Electronic Data Requests Are
Going Global
… Cybercrime
often involves a crime in one country—a hack of a school teacher’s
email account in the United Kingdom, for example—but the evidence
of the crime often physically resides on servers in another country,
such as malware and login records maintained by a social media or
online company in California. However, law enforcement agencies
investigating multi-country crimes are often bound by the geographic
limits of their jurisdictions or must rely on slow diplomatic
channels, such as mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), to
request and obtain the evidence that they need. This slow process
necessarily restricted the number of international requests received
by U.S. companies.
The
2018 Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act)
authorizes the U.S. to enter into executive agreements with foreign
governments to facilitate law enforcement access to cross-border
data. The U.S. and the U.K. signed the
first CLOUD Act Executive Agreement on October 3, 2019.
Now, law enforcement agencies in either country can, according to the
U.S. Department of Justice, “demand
electronic evidence directly from tech companies based in the other
country, without legal barriers.”
The
alternative would be to stop politicians from lying. And we all know
that’s impossible.
This
man is running for governor of California so he can run false
Facebook ads
… Facebook
allows politicians,
including candidates for public office, to run ads on its platform
that are not fact-checked. That policy has drawn criticism from
Democrats who say it will help President Trump's re-election
campaign. Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign wrote
to Facebook asking
the company to remove a false ad the Trump campaign ran about Biden
and Ukraine earlier this month. Facebook denied Biden's request.
I
would have thought this would be a condition for a license. Would it
not also show demand?
Uber
sues Los Angeles to keep scooter location data private
The
ride-hailing company doesn't want to share everything with the city's
government.
Los
Angeles wants a peek at the location data collected by the Uber
scooters in its city. The company, better known for its ride-hailing
service, doesn't want to give up the information, and is taking legal
action to keep the data private.
On
Monday, Uber filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles after months of
refusing to give the Department of Transportation access to its
scooter location data. In September 2018, LADOT instituted a
requirement
for all scooter companies to provide location data on
the vehicles. The city said it was for city planning purposes.
What
architecture best supports AI?
Five
Traits Of Artificial Intelligence Trailblazers
Artificial
intelligence is a must-have in today’s economy. However, for the
most part, it’s still not delivering business value in a profound
way. Yet, everyone has high hopes.
That’s
the word from a survey
of
2,555 executives published by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston
Consulting Group, which finds those companies achieving success with
AI are those that pay close attention – extremely
close
attention – to organizational factors.
“A
growing number of leaders view AI as not just an opportunity but also
a strategic risk,” the study’s co-authors, led by Sam Ransbotham
of Boston College, report. “’What if competitors, particularly
unencumbered new entrants, figure out AI before we do?’”
… Ransbotham
and his co-authors identified five common traits that the AI winners
exhibit:
- AI trailblazers “integrate their AI strategies with their overall business strategy.
- They “take on large, often risky, AI efforts that prioritize revenue growth over cost reduction.
- They “align the production of AI with the consumption of AI, through thoughtful alignment of business owners, process owners, and AI expertise to ensure that they adopt AI solutions effectively and pervasively.
- They “unify their AI initiatives with their larger business transformation efforts.
- They “invest in AI talent, data, and process change in addition to – and often more so than – AI technology. They recognize AI is not all about technology.”
Some interesting points. Very interesting
graphics.
Gartner:
The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial
intelligence uses vast amounts of data and sophisticated
probabilistic algorithms to offer "the intimacy of a small town
in a big city scale," Gartner VP Svetlana Sicular said at the
company's
annual IT Symposium last week.
… She
said, "something is stalling AI adoption." (In another
conversation with her, she said the biggest issue in AI is the lack
of ideas.)
… She
shared a framework of how Gartner thinks organizations should
consider AI projects in the short-, medium, and long-term. She said
companies should plan on scaling volume, quality, and innovation in
that order.
… in the short term, Sicular said people
should implement what is easy to adopt and easy to measure.
I’ll ask my students if they have ever seen a
floppy disk.
US nuclear
forces have quietly kissed their floppy disks goodbye
For
more than 50 years, the Defense Department has used
8-inch floppy disks to
control the operational functions of the United States' nuclear
arsenal — until now.
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