Security ain’t easy. Are their Boards of Directors asleep?
Travel Industry Giants Failed to Secure their Websites Despite High-Profile Data Breaches, New Research Shows
… That’s the conclusion of an investigation by Which?, which found hundreds of data security vulnerabilities on popular travel companies including Marriott, British Airways, and EasyJet, all of who have previously suffered a severe data breach.
We don’t much care about securing the election, but maybe we should cover our a**?
With election cybersecurity experts in short supply, some states call in the National Guard
… The National Guard is often associated with more physical tasks such as helping with disaster relief, or in recent months, responding to protests over police brutality against Black Americans. But some states across the country are increasingly calling on the guard’s cybersecurity specialists to help with the routine but vital task of providing basic cybersecurity help to election officials. The aid is especially important in rural areas or small jurisdictions that may be short-staffed — and which federal authorities say are most vulnerable to hackers.
Perspective. (Some interesting slides, too)
Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020
Cyber insurance claims ranged in size from $1,000 to well over $2,000,000 per security incident.
Perspective.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/09/ranking-national-cyber-power.html
Ranking National Cyber Power
Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center published the “National Cyber Power Index 2020: Methodology and Analytical Considerations.”
So how will I research election misinformation?
https://www.bespacific.com/google-to-block-some-search-suggestions-to-stop-election-misinformation/
Google To Block Some Search Suggestions to Stop Election Misinformation
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance: “Google said it will block some autocomplete search suggestions to stop misinformation spreading online during the U.S. presidential election in November. The autocomplete feature of the world’s largest search engine regularly recommends full queries once users begin typing words. The company said on Thursday it will remove predictions that could be interpreted as claims for or against any candidate or political party. In addition, Google said it will pull claims from the autocomplete feature about participation in the election, including statements about voting methods, requirements, the status of voting locations and election security. For instance, if you type in “you can vote” into Google’s search engine, the system may have suggested a full query that includes misleading or incorrect information. Typing those three words into Google on Thursday produced the full phrase “You can vote yourself into socialism” as the top recommended query…”
(Related) Will this be skewed by Google’s blocks?
https://www.bespacific.com/opensecrets-unveils-new-online-ads-database/
OpenSecrets unveils new online ads database
“With the digital-dominated 2020 election shifting into high gear, OpenSecrets is releasing a new searchable, sortable online ads database that provides comprehensive details about political ad spending on Google and Facebook. OpenSecrets is tracking over 80,000 online political advertisers, more than four times the number of committees registered with the Federal Election Commission. Each advertiser has its own profile, which includes:
Its total spending on both Facebook and Google ads over time
Information about and links to each of the Facebook and Google pages where it runs ads
Its total Facebook ad spending in each state
Online ads are at the center of strategies to misinform and deceive voters ahead of Election Day. This section will help users identify the online forces behind political messages and better understand their affiliations with political groups. Mysterious “dark money” organizations, industry groups and fake news websites are among the advertisers pouring millions into ads to influence voters…”
Should be an interesting debate. Would they be willing to take over the responsibility for preservation?
Publishers Are Taking the Internet to Court In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive
The Nation – the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book. “…The Internet Archive is far more than the Open Library; it’s a nonprofit institution that has become a cornerstone of archival activity throughout the world. Brewster Kahle is an Internet pioneer who was writing about the importance of preserving the digital commons in 1996. He built the Wayback Machine, without which an incalculable amount of the early Web would have been lost for good. The Internet Archive has performed pioneering work in developing public search tools for its own vast collections, such as the television news archive, which researchers and journalists like me use on an almost daily basis in order to contextualize and interpret political reporting. These resources are unique and irreplaceable.
The Internet Archive is a tech partner to hundreds of libraries, including the Library of Congress, for whom it develops techniques for the stewardship of digital content. It helps them build their own Web-based collections with tools such as Archive-It, which is currently used by more than 600 organizations including universities, museums, and government agencies, as well as libraries, to create their own searchable public archives. The Internet Archive repairs broken links on Wikipedia – by the million. It has collected thousands of early computer games, and developed online emulators so they can be played on modern computers. It hosts collections of live music performances, 78s and cylinder recordings, radio shows, films and video. I am leaving a lot out about its groundbreaking work in making scholarly materials more accessible, its projects to expand books to the print-disabled—too many undertakings and achievements to count.
For-profit publishers like HarperCollins or Hachette don’t perform the kind of work required to preserve a cultural posterity. Publishers are not archivists. They obey the dictates of the market. They keep books in print based on market considerations, not cultural ones. Archiving is not in the purview or even the interests of big publishers, who indeed have an incentive to encourage the continuing need to buy…”
Will “Sports betting” evolve into this?
https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-09-11
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