In order to secure you we first must violate your privacy?
Researchers Create New Framework to Evaluate User Security Awareness
… Unlike other security awareness evaluation techniques that rely heavily on questionnaires and the self-reported behavior of users, the new approach is based on actual data gathered from end user smartphones, PCs, network traffic to and from devices, and attack simulation.
Something for my students to play with…
https://www.securityweek.com/us-government-launches-cyber-career-path-tool?&web_view=true
U.S. Government Launches Cyber Career Path Tool
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week announced the availability of a free tool designed to help users identify and navigate a potential career path in cyber.
The new Cyber Career Pathways Tool focuses on five workforce categories: IT, cybersecurity, cyber effects (i.e. defensive and offensive cyber capabilities), cyber intelligence, and cross functional (i.e. management and law enforcement). There are a total of 52 work roles across these categories.
Users can select a work role and the tool will provide a description of that job, the tasks they perform, as well as the knowledge, skills and abilities one needs for the job.
I thought I was missing something. Turns out there was no something. Is it all ‘political theater?’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/politics/tiktok-security-threat.html
Is TikTok More of a Parenting Problem Than a Security Threat?
TikTok has long presented a parenting problem, as millions of Americans raising preteens and teenagers distracted by its viral videos can attest. But when the C.I.A. was asked recently to assess whether it was also a national security problem, the answer that came back was highly equivocal.
Yes, the agency’s analysts told the White House, it is possible that the Chinese intelligence authorities could intercept data or use the app to bore into smartphones. But there is no evidence they have done so, despite the calls from President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to neutralize a threat from the app’s presence on millions of American devices.
Perspective.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-08-07/us-has-ai-competition-all-wrong
The U.S. Has AI Competition All Wrong
Computing Power, Not Data, Is the Secret to Tech Dominance
… Computing power in AI has undergone a radical transformation in the last decade. According to the research lab OpenAI, the amount of compute used to train top AI projects increased by a factor of 300,000 between 2012 and 2018. To put that number into context, if a cell phone battery lasted one day in 2012 and its lifespan increased at the same rate as AI compute, the 2018 version of that battery would last more than 800 years.
Politically correct, antitrust edition? In “The gang that couldn’t shoot straight,” crooks are trying to hide from police wiretaps by referring to guns as shirts. Then they ask, “did you get bullets for the shirts?”
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/08/07/google-documents-show-taboo-words-antitrust
To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo
As Google faces at least four major antitrust investigations on two continents, internal documents obtained by The Markup show its parent company, Alphabet, has been preparing for this moment for years, telling employees across the massive enterprise that certain language is off limits in all written communications, no matter how casual.
The taboo words include “market,” “barriers to entry,” and “network effects,” which is when products such as social networks become more valuable as more people use them.
“Words matter. Especially in antitrust law,” reads one document titled “Five Rules of Thumb for Written Communications.”
The technology of war?
https://news.usni.org/2020/08/07/report-to-congress-on-emerging-military-technologies-2
Report to Congress on Emerging Military Technologies
The following is the Aug. 4, 2020, Congressional Research Service report, Emerging Military Technologies: Background and Issues for Congress.
… This report provides an overview of selected emerging military technologies in the United States, China, and Russia:
artificial intelligence,
lethal autonomous weapons,
hypersonic weapons,
directed energy weapons,
biotechnology, and
quantum technology.
A tool for Python programmers?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-open-sources-one-of-instagrams-security-tools/?&web_view=true
Facebook open-sources one of Instagram's security tools
… Named Pysa, the tool is a so-called static analyzer. It works by scanning code in a "static" form, before the code is run/compiled, looking for known patterns that may indicate a bug, and then flagging potential issues with the developer.
… This concept isn't new and is something that Facebook has already perfected with Zoncolan, a static analyzer that Facebook released in August 2019 for Hack -- the PHP-like language variation that Facebook uses for the main Facebook app's codebase.
Both Pysa and Zoncolan look for "sources" (where data enters a codebase) and "sinks" (where data ends up). Both tools track how data moves across a codebase, and find dangerous "sinks," such as functions that can execute code or retrieve sensitive user data.
When a connection is found between a source and a dangerous sink, Pysa (and Zoncolan) warn developers to investigate.
… Facebook has formally open-sourced Pysa on GitHub today, along with several bug definitions required to help it find security issues.
Entertainment for shut-ins. Other groups, other decades?
The best films of 1970 coming to an internet near you
How good a year for movies was 1970?
It was good enough that when Cinema St. Louis wanted to have a retrospective of movies from 50 years ago, they came up with 14 movies of note to show.
The series, Golden Anniversaries, begins Monday at 7:30 p.m. and will stream online every Monday at the same time through Oct. 26. Each film will be introduced by a film critic, scholar or enthusiast, who will also lead a discussion after the screening.
The events are free, but participants must register at the Cinema St. Louis website.
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