Let’s hope the hackers find themselves in this court. (No details yet?)
Ransomware Hits US District Court in Louisiana
The Fourth District Court of Louisiana has been hit with ransomware, and the attackers have published court data on the Dark Web to prove their capabilities. The attack, attributed to and claimed by the "Conti" malware group, has knocked the court's website offline, along with that of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Never reuse passwords, unless you are feeling Presidential…
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/11/trump_twitter_account_recycled_password/?&web_view=true
Three middle-aged Dutch hackers slipped into Donald Trump's Twitter account days before 2016 US election
Three “grumpy old hackers” in the Netherlands managed to access Donald Trump’s Twitter account in 2016 by extracting his password from the 2012 Linkedin hack.
… Poring through the database, the trio found an entry for Trump as well as the hash for Trump’s password: 07b8938319c267dcdb501665220204bbde87bf1d. Using John the Ripper, a hash-reversing tool, they were able to uncover one of the Orange One’s login credentials.
Something to follow…
Oxford Launches Institute for Ethics in AI with Team of Philosophers
Oxford University is bringing on three philosophy professors, two philosophy postdoctoral fellows, and two philosophy graduate students to comprise the initial academic team for its new Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.
The Institute is part of the Oxford’s Philosophy Faculty, and its creation was part of an agreement reached with businessman Stephen A. Schwarzman when he donated £150,000,000 to the university last year. “The Institute aims to tackle major ethical challenges posed by AI, from face recognition to voter profiling, brain machine interfaces to weaponised drones, and the ongoing discourse about how AI will impact employment on a global scale,” according the university. Some of its work will concern the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it.
Maybe we’ve been thinking about it all wrong for years?
It’s Time for a Reckoning About This Foundational Piece of Police Technology
Criminal intelligence databases may seem unobjectionable in an era of facial recognition and predictive policing. But they are deeply flawed, too.
On Sept. 18 at noon Eastern, Future Tense will host “Power, Policing, and Tech,” an online event about the role of technology in law enforcement reform. For more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website.
… After being an early adopter of predictive policing, the Santa Cruz, California, became the first city in the United States to ban its use. An ethics committee of a police department in the United Kingdom unanimously rejected a proposal for the department to further develop an artificial intelligence system to predict gun and knife crime. And the use of pre-trial and sentencing risk assessments remain at the center of public debate on how to best address mass incarceration and racial disparities within the criminal justice system.
But a foundational piece of police technology is missing from this reckoning: criminal intelligence databases. They may be largely absent from the public debate because databases are typically considered simple record repositories, often seen as the “first stage” in the creation of more high-tech A.I. systems. But these databases perform varied and advanced functions of profiling, not unlike systems of predictive policing. The historical context and political ramifications of these systems also mirror the systematic stigmatization and “feedback loop ” that is now commonly understood as a fallout of predictive A.I. systems.
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