Know the enemy.
US Army report says many North Korean hackers operate from abroad
North Korea has at least 6,000 hackers and electronic warfare specialists working in its ranks, and many of these are operating abroad in countries such as Belarus, China, India, Malaysia, and Russia, the US Army said in a report published last month.
Named "North Korean Tactics," the report a tactical manual that the US Army uses to train troops and military leaders, and which the Army has made public for the first time last month.
The 332-page report contains a treasure trove of information about the Korean People's Army (KPA), such as military tactics, weapons arsenal, leadership structure, troop types, logistics, and electronic warfare capabilities.
Perspective.
Publicly reported data breaches down 52%, exposed records way up!
… The report explores in detail how supply chain disruptions, brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, has impacted data breach reporting and influenced other trends. In addition, Risk Based Security explains the cause behind the alarming amount of records exposed.
“Misconfigured databases and services have been the key driver behind the growing number of records exposed. When entire databases are left open and freely accessible, a considerable amount of data is put at risk. It is a small handful of these events in Q2 that are responsible for the explosion in the number of records exposed. In the second quarter of 2020, just two breaches alone were responsible for more than 18 billion of the 27 billion records put at risk,” Goddijn concluded.
In case you missed it.
GAO Releases Report on Privacy, Discrimination Risks of Facial Recognition
From EPIC.org:
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a key report about privacy and discrimination risks posed by the commercial use of facial recognition. The GAO completed the report in response to research showing the disparate impact the technology has on minorities, including a National institute of Science and Technology study which found that facial recognition systems misidentify Black women at disproportionately high rates. The GAO report finds that, despite improvements in facial recognition technology, “differences in performance exist for certain demographic groups.” The GAO report reiterates the office’s 2013 recommendation urging Congress to update the federal consumer privacy framework to reflect changes in technology. EPIC advocates for a comprehensive federal privacy law and has called for a moratorium on face surveillance.
Should the Secret Service be banned from purchasing data anyone can buy?
Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms
Joseph Cox reports:
The Secret Service paid for a product that gives the agency access to location data generated by ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones, an internal Secret Service document confirms.
The sale highlights the issue of law enforcement agencies buying information, and in particular location data, that they would ordinarily need a warrant or court order to obtain. This contract relates to the sale of Locate X, a product from a company called Babel Street.
Read more on Vice.
You mean, published is not public?
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/navigating-the-legal-landscape-surrounding-web-scraping/
Navigating the Legal Landscape Surrounding Web Scraping
The arrival of the internet brought with it a flood of expansive and predominantly unstructured information. As the economic value of this unstructured information has grown, new technologies for collecting and synthesizing web data have also developed, including the practice of web scraping. By definition, web scraping is the practice of using software programs (sometimes referred to as ‘bots’, ‘crawlers’ or ‘spiders’) to extract information and data from websites, which are then automatically downloaded and sorted, Today, there are approximately 44 trillion gigabytes (44 zettabytes) of data on the web, and web scraping accounts for approximately 52% of web traffic. Businesses across all industries use web scraping for a variety of reasons, including harvesting data for AI, machine learning, or for retail companies to collect competitor prices and adjust their own prices accordingly. In 2014, 22% of website visitors were identified as web scrapers, with a 17% increase in scraping across all industries.
Despite the ubiquitous nature of web scraping, the legality of scraping practices is not widely understood. Even those who work in the cybersecurity field have incorrectly concluded that web scraping is legal because the information on the internet is public domain.
… Breach of contract liability rests on the theory that a contract is formed between a website provider and a visitor through the respective website’s terms of use.
… Under the Copyright Act, copyright protection exists in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression.
… The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is violated when someone “intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains … information from any protected computer.”
What’s tattooed on all litigators?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/who-is-responsible-for-responsible-ai/
Who is responsible for responsible AI?
In 2019, Forrester predicted that there will be three high profile AI-related PR snafus in 2020. It's only August and we've already seen plenty of examples of AI going wrong – the ACLU sued facial recognition provider Clearview for violating a well-known Illinois state biometric law in the US, the UK's Home Office was forced to abandon its visa processing algorithm which was deemed to be racist, and researchers recently found that automated speech recognition systems from Amazon, Apple, IBM, Google, and Microsoft perform much worse for black speakers than white ones.
AI will continue to err. And it will continue to surface thorny legal and accountability questions, namely – who is to blame when AI goes wrong? I am not a lawyer, but my father spent his career as a litigator so I posed this question to him when I kicked off this research. His response: "That's easy -- a lawyer would say, 'Sue everybody!'"
Perspective.
https://www.bespacific.com/remote-work-is-changing-how-productivity-is-measured/
Remote work is changing how productivity is measured
FastCompany: “In March 2020, the largest “work-from-home” experiment in history began. The moment entire companies moved their workforces remote, business owners and employees alike both started to realize new realities about their jobs. For years, people had been told, “It’s essential for you to be in the office,” only to suddenly realize that being in the office wasn’t so essential after all. Zoom calls easily replaced dozens of weekly in-person meetings. Manual tasks such as filling out paperwork suddenly couldn’t be performed the same way, forcing companies to accelerate their digital transformation efforts. Processes that seemed to work fine in a physical office space suddenly showed how dated and inefficient they were. And every executive or manager’s fears of remote employees doing nothing but watching Netflix and playing Xbox all day at home instead of working were eased. Companies all over the world have realized that working from home is not only more efficient but more suitable for the wants and needs of today’s workers. According to one company interviewed by Forbes, as well as research by Harvard Business Review, working from home boosts company-wide productivity—it doesn’t squander it…”
Perspective. (Podcast)
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-social-media-is-shaping-political-campaigns/
How Social Media Is Shaping Political Campaigns
… “If you look at the way that politicians communicate today, it’s very different than the way that they used to communicate five, 10 years ago,” Wharton marketing professor Pinar Yildirim said. “They would speak through the official speakers or they would be on TV. They would be in print or official online newspapers. Today, they are communicating through places like Twitter. And I think that begs a question, why are they doing that? Is there any benefit to communicating on channels like Twitter?”
(Related)
TikTok starts a Twitter account and website, aggregating positive news stories, to "set the record straight" about "misinformation" regarding TikTok
TikTok said Monday that it started a website and Twitter account to address what it called rumors in real time
Will they ever return?
Startups Tap a New Talent Pool: Pandemic-Weary College Students
With campuses locked down, internships have extended into the academic year.
Tools. (Number Five might be very useful for my International students.)
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/search-engines-find-more-than-google-shows/
5 Search Engines to Find More Than What Google Shows
“Google is synonymous with searching the web, but did you know there’s a lot that Google isn’t showing you? Here are some alternative search engines to search the internet in a way Google won’t. There is nothing wrong with Google Search when it comes to finding web pages. But Google can’t search within your computer and cloud accounts to find a file. Google also restricts itself to the language you’ve set. And why are we helping a corporation get bigger by handing over data in exchange for them earning ad revenue?
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