Paying
those evil hackers for stolen data? What could possibly go wrong.
(Steal to order?)
Police
Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
The
sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”
Hackers
break into websites, steal information, and then publish that data
all the time, with other hackers or scammers then using it for their
own ends. But breached data now has another customer: law
enforcement.
Some
companies are selling government agencies access to data stolen from
websites in the hope that it can generate investigative leads, with
the data including passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and
more.
No
surprise.
2020
is on Track to Hit a New Data Breach Record
… Around
16 billion records have been exposed so far this year. According to
researchers, 8.4
billion were
exposed in the first quarter of 2020 alone, a 273% increase from the
first half of 2019 which saw only 4.1 billion exposed.
What
Changed?
While
the number of publicly
reported breaches in Q1 2020 decreased by 58% compared to
2019, the coronavirus pandemic gave cybercriminals new ways to
thrive. Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during
the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users
of millions.
However,
the surprising decline in disclosed breaches is no cause to
celebrate. The lack of disclosure can also be attributed to
confusion brought on by the pandemic.
An
interesting question. I’d say yes, but not as things stand today.
Can
Our Ballots Be Both Secret and Secure?
Perspective.
The
Pentagon’s AI director talks killer robots, facial recognition, and
China
Joint
AI Center (JAIC) acting director Nand Mulchandani said one of JAIC’s
first lethal AI projects is proceeding into a testing phase now. The
JAIC was founded in 2018 to act as the Pentagon’s leader in all
things AI, and initially focused on non-lethal forms. Mulchandani
shared few specifics, but called the project “tactical edge AI”
that will involve full human control and likened it to JAIC’s
“flagship product” for joint warfighting operations.
“It
is true that many of the products we work on will go into weapons
systems. None of them right now are going to be autonomous weapon
systems, we’re still governed by 3000.09,”
he said.
Well,
I found it interesting.
As
artificial intelligence spreads throughout society, policymakers face
a critical question: Will they need to pass new laws to govern AI, or
will updating existing regulations suffice? A recently completed
study
suggests
that, for now, the latter is likely to be the case and that
policymakers may address most of this technology’s legal and
societal challenges by adapting regulations already in the books.
For
the birds…
Winners
of the 2020 Audubon Photography Awards
Audubon.org:
“Every spring, the judges of the Audubon Photography Awards gather
at Audubon’s headquarters in Manhattan to review their favorite
images and select the finalists. But as with much of life in 2020,
this
year’s awards had
to be handled differently due to pandemic-related travel, work, and
social-distancing restrictions.
Even
kids can code.
This
12-year-old CEO is offering free coding, AI classes during COVID-19
Samaira
Mehta is
a 12-year-old with lofty goals. The founder of Yes,
1 Billion Kids Can Code and
CEO of a board game company called CoderBunnyz
wants
to get 1 billion kids into coding by the time she graduates from
college around 2030.
… Through
her company, which she co-founded with her mom, the Santa Clara,
California-based middle schooler sells two different board games:
CoderBunnyz, which teaches basic coding concepts, and CoderMindz,
which is focused on artificial intelligence principles. Now, the
company also offers free
AI and
coding
curriculum online
all around the world. Mehta is also launching a new initiative
called Boss Biz, a program teaching kids how to create a business
alongside entrepreneurs across the world.
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