Study these attacks because they could happen here.
A New Wiper Malware Was Behind Recent Cyberattack On Iranian Train System
A cyber attack that derailed websites of Iran's transport ministry and its national railway system earlier this month, causing widespread disruptions in train services, was the result of a never-before-seen reusable wiper malware called "Meteor."
The campaign — dubbed "MeteorExpress” — has not been linked to any previously identified threat group or to additional attacks, making it the first incident involving the deployment of this malware, according to researchers from Iranian antivirus firm Amn Pardaz and SentinelOne. Meteor is believed to have been in the works over the past three years.
"Despite a lack of specific indicators of compromise, we were able to recover most of the attack components," SentinelOne's Principal Threat Researcher, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, noted. "Behind this outlandish tale of stopped trains and glib trolls, we found the fingerprints of an unfamiliar attacker," adding the offensive is "designed to cripple the victim's systems, leaving no recourse to simple remediation via domain administration or recovery of shadow copies."
Read and despair.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/the-life-cycle-of-a-breached-database/
The Life Cycle of a Breached Database
Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database.
What will the people who wanted and purchased this equipment have to say? Are they already too useful to give up?
https://www.bespacific.com/48-advocacy-groups-call-on-the-ftc-to-ban-amazon-surveillance/
48 Advocacy Groups Call on the FTC to Ban Amazon Surveillance
Vice: “…While a number of firms offer networked surveillance devices to try and make homes “smart,” the coalition uses Amazon as a case study into how dangerous corporate surveillance can become (and the sorts of abuses that can emerge) when in the hands of a dominant and anti-competitive firm. From Amazon’s Ring —which has rolled out networked surveillance doorbells and car cameras that continuously surveil public and private spaces —to Alexa, Echo, or Sidewalk, the company has launched numerous products and services to try and convince consumers to generate as much data as possible for the company to eventually capitalize on...”
Auto recognition; it’s easier than I thought. (It’s the reporting that’s hard.)
Grafton police use artificial intelligence for new type of policing
… For example in less than 2.5 minutes, Chief Jeff Caponera found the car our TMJ4 News crew drove to the interview.
A camera installed on I-43 near the Washington Street exit, captured images of our SUV, along with every other vehicle that passes this stationary camera.
Information from those vehicles is put into a national database, where officers can check for wanted criminals, Amber Alerts, Silver Alerts or Green Alerts. It even counts how often a vehicle passes a camera.
It is called a Flock Safety camera.
Grafton has eight of them. Three were bought privately and installed at a heavily trafficked retail area called “The Commons.”
… The technology has helped solve several investigations in the two months since it was installed. This includes a homicide, retail thefts, and indecent exposure.
Chief Caponera says of the indecent exposure case, “We didn’t even have a plate. We just had a vehicle description. We were able to identify who that person was.”
A search engine attached to these cameras can narrow down the search results to specific damage to a vehicle if it has a tow hits [hitch? Bob] or even a bumper sticker. But what about privacy?
Chief Caponera ensures, “We’re not out there just searching plates randomly.”
He is well aware of those who may be weary [wary? Bob] and explains, “There’s a footprint to see who the officer was, when they looked at it, what time they looked at it, and why” [Self-described Bob]
All of the images captured purged after 30 days. [Even the national database? Bob]
… TMJ4 News Julia Fello asked the chief, "If there's a neighborhood in Grafton that may be interested in installing it, would you be open to that?"
Caponera answered, "Oh absolutely! The more the merrier."
The second country to recognize AI as the inventor. Is it a trend yet?
I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I invented that: Australian court finds AI systems can be recognised under patent law
Federal court judge says allowing artificial intelligence systems, as well as humans, to be inventors is ‘consistent with promoting innovation’
An artificial intelligence system is capable of being an “inventor” under Australian patent law, the federal court has ruled, in a decision that could have wider intellectual property implications.
University of Surrey professor Ryan Abbott has launched more than a dozen patent applications across the globe, including in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia, on behalf of US-based Dr Stephen Thaler. They seek to have Thaler’s artificial intelligence device known as Dabus (a device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience) listed as the inventor.
… “In my view, an inventor as recognised under the act can be an artificial intelligence system or device,” he said.
Beach said a non-human inventor could not be the applicant of a patent, and as the owner of the system, Thaler would be the owner of any patents that would be granted on inventions by Dabus.
That was “consistent with the reality of the current technology”, the judge said. “It is consistent with the act and it is consistent with promoting innovation.”
Perspective.
https://news.usni.org/2021/07/29/department-of-the-navy-strategy-for-intelligent-autonomous-systems
Department of the Navy Strategy for Intelligent Autonomous Systems
The following is the July document, Department of the Navy Strategy for Intelligent Autonomous Systems.
Download the document here.
For my nephew, the history major. Might work for other subjects also…
Using Google Books in History Classes
As the name implies, Google Books is a search engine for locating books. Through Google Books you’ll find books that you can read in their entirety for free and books that you can preview for free. Most importantly, Google Books lets you search for keywords within books. Searches on Google Books can be refined according to date of publication, access level (full view vs. preview-only), and publication type (book vs. periodical).
A typical example of using Google Books in a history setting is found in a search for information about the Battle of New Orleans in The War of 1812. Head to Google Books and enter a search for “War of 1812.” Then refine the search to books with a full view published in the 20th Century and you’ll quickly locate The Naval War of 1812, volume 2 authored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. You can then use the “search inside” function to find every page that makes a reference to New Orleans. You can then quickly jump to each page that references New Orleans because each page in the search result is hyperlinked. You can read those pages online or print them for reading offline.
It should also be noted that you can search within books that are marked as preview-only. The utility in that is identifying how much content there is related to your search term within a chosen book. If that search reveals that there is a substantial amount of useful content, you can then use the “get the book” function in Google Books to locate libraries in your area that have a copy of the book. The “get the book” function will also provide links to places to purchase copies.
A video overview of how to use Google Books is available here
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