Something fishy here. Clearly a major hack if they needed to restore every computer but yet they can prevent it in future with a simple purchase?
https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/school-district-reaches-out-to-fbi-following-cyberattack
School district reaches out to FBI following cyberattack
… School administrators said they were victims of a cyberattack Tuesday afternoon. "(We have) given the FBI everything they need to investigate the incident," school officials said.
Administrators said they have to go through all Windows devices in the school system, including student’s devices. They have to be scanned, reimaged, wiped, and reinstalled. The process is very time and labor-intensive.
… Administrators said they have purchased everything needed to keep this from happening again and they hope to get back to what they do best, teaching kids, on Monday.
Slicing up the law or adding to it?
Attorney General Becerra Announces Landmark Settlement Against Glow, Inc. – Fertility App Risked Exposing Millions of Women’s Personal and Medical Information
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a landmark settlement against Glow, Inc. (Glow), a technology company that operates a fertility-tracking mobile app that stores personal and medical information. The settlement, which is subject to court approval, resolves the Attorney General’s investigation of Glow's app for serious privacy and basic security failures that put women’s highly-sensitive personal and medical information at risk. In addition to a $250,000 civil penalty, the settlement includes injunctive terms that require Glow to comply with state consumer protection and privacy laws, and a first-ever injunctive term that requires Glow to consider how privacy or security lapses may uniquely impact women.
For my Ethical Hackers…
https://hackaday.com/2020/09/18/listening-to-an-iphone-with-am-radio/?web_view=true
LISTENING TO AN IPHONE WITH AM RADIO
Electronic devices can be surprisingly leaky, often spraying out information for anyone close by to receive. [Docter Cube] has found another such leak, this time with the speakers in iPhones. While repairing an old AM radio and listening to a podcast on his iPhone, he discovered that the radio was receiving audio the from his iPhone when tuned to 950-970kHz.
[Docter Cube] states that he was able to receive the audio signal up to 20 feet away. A number of people responded to the tweet with video and test results from different phones. It appears that iPhones 7 to 10 are affected, and there is at least one report for a Motorola Android phone. The amplifier circuit of the speaker appears to be the most likely culprit, with some reports saying that the volume setting had a big impact. With the short range the security risk should be minor, although we would be interested to see the results of testing with higher gain antennas. It is also likely that the emission levels still fall within FCC Part 15 limits.
(Ditto)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/spammers-use-hexadecimal-ip-addresses-to-evade-detection/?&web_view=true
Spammers use hexadecimal IP addresses to evade detection
… IP addresses can also be written in three other formats:
Octal - 0300.0250.0000.0001 (by converting each decimal number to the octal base)
Hexadecimal - 0xc0a80001 (by convert each decimal number to hexadecimal)
Integer/DWORD - 3232235521 (by converting the hexadecimal IP to integer)
… According to a report published yesterday by Trustwave, a spam group has adopted hexadecimal IP addresses for their campaigns since mid-July earlier this year.
Doom & gloom?
https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/09/18/a-beginners-guide-to-the-ai-apocalypse-killer-robots/
A beginner’s guide to the AI apocalypse: Killer robots
Welcome to the fifth article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we examine some of the most popular doomsday scenarios prognosticated by modern AI experts. Previous articles in this series include: Misaligned Objectives, Artificial Stupidity, Wall-E Syndrome, and Humanity Joins the Hivemind.
We’ve danced around the subject of killer robots in the previous four editions in this series, but it’s time to look the machines in their beady red eyes and… speculate.
Still a hot topic.
https://theconversation.com/gpt-3-new-ai-can-write-like-a-human-but-dont-mistake-that-for-thinking-neuroscientist-146082
GPT-3: new AI can write like a human but don’t mistake that for thinking – neuroscientist
Since it was unveiled earlier this year, the new AI-based language generating software GPT-3 has attracted much attention for its ability to produce passages of writing that are convincingly human-like. Some have even suggested that the program, created by Elon Musk’s OpenAI, may be considered or appears to exhibit, something like artificial general intelligence (AGI), the ability to understand or perform any task a human can. This breathless coverage reveals a natural yet aberrant collusion in people’s minds between the appearance of language and the capacity to think.
Lots of introductory videos. MS Office, Computer Basics, Job Search, Social Media, etc.
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/topics/
GCFLearnFree.org
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