Friday, May 01, 2020


Perspective.
Ransomware mentioned in 1,000+ SEC filings over the past year
A growing number of public companies have started listing ransomware as a forward-looking risk factor in their SEC documents.


(Related)
Sixth Annual Data Security Incident Response Report Released – Managing Enterprise Risks and Leveraging Data in a Digital World
There are many firms that issue yearly reports on data breach trends and incident response based on their experience. When a law firm has been involved in more than 1000 cases, it’s worth taking a look at their findings. I have always found my discussions with BakerHostetler lawyers to be informative. I’m looking forward to reading their newest report.
Today, Theodore J. Kobus III of BakerHostetler writes:
We are excited to present our sixth Data Security Incident Response Report (DSIR).
[…]
This year, we are reporting on statistics from 950 of the 1,000+ incidents we helped manage in 2019. The incidents we worked on cover all industries and sizes of organizations.




Is anyone documenting the changes made “to fight the pandemic” so we can reverse them when it’s over?
Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
Civil-rights groups are tolerating these measures—emergency times call for emergency measures—but are also urging a swift return to normal when the virus ebbs. We need “to make sure that, when we’ve made it past this crisis, our country isn’t transformed into a place we don’t want to live,” warns the American Civil Liberties Union’s Jay Stanley. “Any extraordinary measures used to manage a specific crisis must not become permanent fixtures in the landscape of government intrusions into daily life,” declares the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights group. These are real worries, since, as the foundation notes, “life-saving programs such as these, and their intrusions on digital liberties, [tend] to outlive their urgency.”


(Related)
Coronavirus: GCHQ gets access to NHS data to beef up security
Health secretary gave GCHQ emergency powers to obtain information relating to the security of its networks and IT systems at the beginning of April, it has emerged




Not very, but still an interesting article.
How Close We Are to Fully Self-Sufficient Artificial Intelligence




Perspective. Pandemics are expensive.
Amazon says it’ll spend $4 billion or more dealing with COVID-19
Amazon expects to spend $4 billion or more — the predicted operating profit for the company’s entire coming quarter — just on COVID-19-related expenses. In a quarterly earnings release today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the expenses will come from spending on personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning for facilities, “higher wages for hourly teams,” and expanding its own COVID-19 testing capabilities.




Keeping my students busy.
TOP FREE 9 RESOURCES TO LEARN PYTHON FOR MACHINE LEARNING
Python is one of the most preferred high-level programming languages, which is being increasingly utilised in data science and in designing complex machine learning algorithms. In one of our articles, we discussed why one should learn the Python programming language for data science and machine learning.
In this article, we list down the top 9 free resources to learn Python for Machine Learning.
(The list is in no particular order)




Improving the practice interview tool.
LinkedIn Now Has an AI to Help With Your Interview Game
LinkedIn’s unveiled AI-powered instant feedback to popular interview questions as the newest addition to its interview prep tools, which the company originally launched last year. Here’s how it works: You record your answers to the standard interviewing fare (you know, questions about your greatest weaknesses and strengths, your five-year plan, etc.), to receive an artificially generated assessment based on “pacing, how many times filler words are used, and sensitive phrases to avoid,” according to LinkedIn.



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