Do
we not care?
Election
Officials Are Vulnerable to Email Attacks, Report Shows
Many
of the thousands of county and local election officials who will be
administering November’s presidential election are running email
systems that could leave them vulnerable to online attacks, a
new report has found.
Cybersecurity
vendor Area 1 Security Inc. tracked more than 12,000 local officials
and determined that over 1,600 used free or nonstandard email
software that often lacks the configuration and management protection
found with large cloud-service providers. More than half of the
officials used email systems with limited protection from phishing
attacks, Area 1 said. The findings underscore problems with the
country’s diverse, locally administered election system that
attracted the attention of state-sponsored hackers four years ago.
Not
just a security risk. Could this invalidate some IP claims?
Document bias?
Source
code from dozens of companies leaked online
Source
code from exposed repositories of dozens of companies across various
fields of activity (tech, finance, retail, food, eCommerce,
manufacturing) is publicly available as
a result of misconfigurations in their infrastructure.
A
public repository of leaked code includes big names like Microsoft,
Adobe, Lenovo, AMD, Qualcomm, Motorola, Hisilicon (owned by Huawei),
Mediatek, GE Appliances, Nintendo, Roblox, Disney, Johnson Controls;
and the list keeps growing.
…
Kottmann
told BleepingComputer that they
find hardcoded credentials
in the easily-accessible code repositories, which they try
to remove as
best as they can, to prevent direct harm and avoid contributing in
any way to a larger breach.
… Kottmann
believes there are thousands of companies that expose proprietary
code by failing to properly secure SonarQube installations.
Backdoor
issues.
Atlassian
says encryption-busting law has damaged Australia’s tech reputation
Asha
Barbaschow reports:
Atlassian
believes Australia’s encryption-busting legislation continues to
have a negative impact on the country’s technology sector, both
from the perspective of partnering with an Australian company and
attracting tech talent down under.
“The
Act’s passage has significantly degraded the global reputation of
the Australian tech sector, as local companies and multinationals
alike question whether actions compel them to the Act will degrade
industry’s ability to secure customer data and place their
employees at individual peril,” Atlassian head of IP, policy, and
government affairs Patrick Zhang said.
Read
more on ZDNet.
...and
Mark Zuckerberg giggles all the way to the bank.
Twitter
and Facebook become targets in Trump and Biden ads
Social
media has become the target of a dueling attack ad campaign being
waged online by the sitting president and his election rival.
They’re shooting the
messenger while giving it lots of money.
President
Donald Trump has bought hundreds of messages on Facebook to accuse
its competitor, Twitter, of trying to stifle his voice and influence
the November election.
Democratic
challenger Joe Biden has spent thousands of dollars advertising on
Facebook with a message of his own: In dozens of ads on the platform,
he’s asked supporters to sign a petition calling on Facebook to
remove inaccurate statements, specifically those from Trump.
Probably
not the right formula.
Why
Hundreds of Mathematicians Are Boycotting Predictive Policing
Popular
Mechanics –
“Several
prominent academic mathematicians want to sever ties with police
departments across the U.S., according to a letter submitted to
Notices
of the American Mathematical Society on
June 15. The letter arrived weeks after widespread protests against
police brutality, and has inspired over 1,500 other researchers to
join the boycott.
These mathematicians are urging fellow researchers to stop all work
related to predictive policing software, which broadly includes any
data analytics tools that use historical data to help forecast future
crime, potential offenders, and victims. The technology is supposed
to use probability to help police departments tailor their
neighborhood coverage so it puts officers in the right place at the
right time…”
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