Searching for politicians to blackmail?
https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-russia-election-2020-5486323e455277b39cd3283d70a7fd64
Justice Department says Russians hacked federal prosecutors
… The department said 80% of Microsoft email accounts used by employees in the four U.S. attorney offices in New York were breached. All told, the Justice Department said 27 U.S. Attorney offices had at least one employee’s email account compromised during the hacking campaign.
The Justice Department said in a statement that it believes the accounts were compromised from May 7 to Dec. 27, 2020. Such a timeframe is notable because the SolarWinds campaign, which infiltrated dozens of private-sector companies and think tanks as well as at least nine U.S. government agencies, was first discovered and publicized in mid-December.
… Jennifer Rodgers, a lecturer at Columbia Law School, said office emails frequently contained all sorts of sensitive information, including case strategy discussions and names of confidential informants, when she was a federal prosecutor in New York.
“I don’t remember ever having someone bring me a document instead of emailing it to me because of security concerns,” she said, noting exceptions for classified materials.
Perspective.
CSO Global Intelligence Report: The State of Cybersecurity in 2021
Any lingering indifference to cybersecurity risk has evaporated in the face of spiking ransomware attacks, software supply chain threats, and the challenges of securing remote workers. That’s the clear message of CSO’s Global Intelligence Report: The State of Cybersecurity in 2021, fielded via online survey in May and June of this year.
CSO Global Intelligence Report: The State of Cybersecurity in 2021
The continuing back and forth of ‘almost war.’. I would like more particulars. Were the drones armed with explosives? How far did they fly before hitting the ship. Were they autonomous?
Multiple Iranian drones used in deadly attack on Israeli-operated ship – report
Several Iranian drones were apparently used in a strike on an oil tanker operated by an Israeli-owned company, killing two on board, unnamed Israeli officials told the New York Times on Saturday.
The Israeli officials told the newspaper that the strike earlier this week was apparently carried out by a number of Iranian drones that slammed into the ship’s living quarters underneath the vessel’s command center as it sailed off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea.
An unnamed US official confirmed to the newspaper that multiple drones were involved in the attack but it was as yet unknown how many had hit the vessel.
An Israeli intelligence official also told the paper that the timing of Thursday’s attack could mean that Iran was expanding its maritime operations by apparently responding at sea to a land attack which Tehran blamed on Israel.
Previously Iran carried out sea attacks only in response to maritime operations it attributed to Israel.
Build your own Terminator?
Facebook AI Open-Sources ‘Droidlet’, A Platform For Building Robots With Natural Language Processing And Computer Vision To Understand The World Around Them
Bad decisions just keep on giving...
RI treasurer sues Facebook, Zuckerberg over alleged financial losses due to data breach
Katie Mulvaney reports:
The state retirement system is suing Facebook and its co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the social media giant and its leaders breached their financial duties in connection with the collection of private data of millions of users.
“As Treasurer, my job is to stand up for the financial wellbeing of all Rhode Islanders, including the teachers, first responders and other community servants who depend on the Rhode Island pension fund for their retirement security,” General Treasurer Seth Magaziner said in a news release announcing the lawsuit filed by the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island. “When Facebook leaders improperly allowed user data to fall into the hands of bad actors trying to influence elections in support of Donald Trump and others, they not only put our democratic system of government at risk, they also put shareholder capital at risk.”
Read more on The Providence Journal.
[From the article:
Facebook user data was obtained by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica in the years leading up to the 2016 election without users’ consent and was used to push for Donald Trump’s election as president as well as Ted Cruz’s run for Senate, and the pro-Brexit movement.
Facebook agreed to pay a $5 billion fine to the Federal Trade Commission for the breach, a significant fine that Magaziner alleges “materially” impacted the value of Facebook stock and harmed Facebook shareholders, including the state retirement system. The system currently holds 151,533 shares of Facebook.
A record, but not for long.
Luxembourg DPA Fines Amazon 746 Million Euros for GDPR Violations
On July 16, 2021, the Luxembourg data protection authority (Commission nationale pour la protection des donées, “CNPD”) imposed a record-breaking €746 million fine on Amazon Europe Core S.à.r.l. for alleged violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The CNPD also ordered Amazon to revise certain of its practices. As Amazon has its EU headquarters in Luxembourg, the CNPD acts as Amazon’s lead supervisory authority in the EU.
Based on press reports and Amazon’s public statements, the fine appears to relate to Amazon’s use of customer data for targeted advertising purposes.
The next area of confusing and conflicting AI law?
AT THE INTERSECTION OF AI AND DATA PROTECTION LAW: AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING RULES, A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (CPDP LATAM PANEL)
On Thursday, 15th of July 2021, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) organised during the CPDP LatAm Conference a panel titled ‘At the Intersection of AI and Data Protection law: Automated Decision Making Rules, a Global Perspective’. The aim of the Panel was to explore how existing data protection laws around the world apply to profiling and automated decision making practices. In light of the European Commission’s recent AI Regulation proposal, it is important to explore the way and the extent to which existing laws already protect individuals’ fundamental rights and freedoms against automated processing activities driven by AI technologies.
… Watch a recording of the panel HERE.
Some interesting stuff…
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-free-online-courses-from-top-universities
The 18 most popular online courses you can take from each of the top schools in the US — from computer science at Harvard to the psychology of happiness at Yale
… To narrow down all the free options, we outlined the most popular free online classes from the top 20 universities, as ranked by US News. We determined popularity by the highest number of current enrollments, and included courses that are part of longer certificate programs as you can still audit them for free.
Returning to work.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-07-31
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