Centennial Man

Thursday, October 29, 2020

You might say it will impact Computer Security…

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/the-third-world-war-may-already-be-happening-online/

The Third World War May Already Be Happening … Online

How do global conflicts look when guns and cannons are replaced with keyboards and smartphones?

(Related) An intelligence tool works for anyone.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-helping-pentagon-assess-disinfo-campaigns/

The AI Company Helping the Pentagon Assess Disinfo Campaigns

Primer can quickly sort through hundreds of sources to identify, say, Russian interference in Azerbaijan. It sells its tech to Walmart too.

Interesting. I thought it was primarily the CIO who became exhausted.

https://www.law.com/2020/10/28/breach-fatigue-is-real-and-could-impact-corporate-legals-cybersecurity-messaging/

'Breach Fatigue' Is Real and Could Impact Corporate Legal's Cybersecurity Messaging

A panel held during Wednesday's Women, Influence & Power in Law Virtual Summit examined the exhaustive levels of detail required for legal departments to truly be proactive about data protection, from fine-tuning language in vendor agreements to the way duties are assigned within the company itself.

My local library has copies.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/cyber_privacy_april_falcon_doss_interview/

Can we stop megacorps from using and abusing our data? That ship has sailed, ex-NSA lawyer argues in new book

Interview: Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care is the title of a new book from April Falcon Doss, formerly associate general counsel for intelligence law at the US National Security Agency. Doss spoke to The Register about her concerns with pervasive data collection and its potential for harm.

These days the author is chair of cybersecurity and privacy at law firm Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr in Baltimore, Maryland.

A very fanciful headline.

https://www.databreaches.net/pharma-data-breaches-should-stop-once-data-protection-law-comes-into-force/

Pharma data breaches should stop once data protection law comes into force

Na Vijayshankar reports:

Three major cyber attacks in the Indian pharma industry in the last few months have left people wondering whether there is a pattern indicating the reason for this spurt. First was the Breach Candy Hospital one in February 2020 where over 121 million medical records were compromised. Of these, 120 million were images stored in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine system consisting of X-rays, scan reports, etc. One million records contained Aadhaar information, medical history, etc. The data breach reportedly occurred because the access system of the hospital was compromised. Though this was an alarming data breach, the matter was hushed up and there was no apparent investigation by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) or any further announcements in the media.

Hushed up or downplayed, indeed. That is a big breach and it never showed up in any of this site’s news searches. This is the first this site is learning about that one.

In October 2020, Dr Lal PathLabs reported a data breach of millions of records because their Cloud records reportedly did not have a password for access. Again, this was brushed under the carpet and no action was initiated by CERT-IN.

This one we at least heard about, as with this one:

More recently, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, which was testing a Covid vaccine from Russia, was attacked. Questions must be asked whether the lack of prompt action by CERT-IN earlier emboldened the criminals to continue their attacks on these pharma companies, which are soft targets holding highly valuable data assets.

Read more on IndiaLegal. The author offers an informed perspective on what a constructive approach to reducing breaches in this sector might look like.

Could AI own a company that owns a patent?

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2020/10/28/uspto-benchmark-study-artificial-intelligence-patent-landscape/id=126847/

USPTO Releases Benchmark Study on the Artificial Intelligence Patent Landscape

“The diffusion trend for artificial intelligence inventor-patentees started at 1% in 1976 and increased to 25% in 2018, which means that ‘25% of all unique inventor-patentees in 2018 used AI technologies in their granted patents.’”

On October 27, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a report titled “Inventing AI: Tracing the diffusion of artificial intelligence with U.S. patents.” The study showed that artificial intelligence (AI) patent applications increased by more than 100% between 2002 and 2018, from 30,000 to over 60,000, and the overall share of patent applications containing AI subject matter rose from 9% to nearly 16%.