Also, take advantage of the employees you are paying all that tuition money for. Talk to their Computer Security instructor and see what projects you can guide.
https://threatpost.com/guide-cyberintelligence-restricted-budget/175574/
A Guide to Doing Cyberintelligence on a Restricted Budget
… In a recent SANS 2021 survey, “Threat Hunting In Uncertain Times,” we were shown that 11 percent of organizations have had their threat-hunting and intelligence programs impacted by the pandemic, with 12 percent of the organizations polled stopping their hunting programs altogether. With ransomware affiliate actions on the rise and organizations constantly under the target of business email compromise (BEC) scams, this is a horrible time to be stuck with a shrinking budget.
In light of this, we’re going to go through some broad suggestions and checklists for how to do 80 percent of what you need to do on the cyberintelligence front, at just 20 percent of the typical cost for an enterprise program.
Do you have cameras in your home?
Woman finds Amazon has thousands of recordings of her – all from home devices
John Bett reports:
A woman was shocked to discover how much information Amazon had collected on her from just a few devices – and created a video to shared the shocking truth with others.
TikTok star @my.data.not.yours uploaded a clip for her fans documenting all the information that the tech giant had collected about her.
Read more on The Mirror.
Curious. Is this likely to change Facebook’s strategy going forward?
https://www.pogowasright.org/zuckerberg-to-be-added-to-facebook-privacy-suit/
Zuckerberg to Be Added to Facebook Privacy Suit
Cecilia Kang reports:
The attorney general for the District of Columbia plans to add Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to a consumer protection lawsuit, in one of the first efforts by a regulator to expose him personally to potential financial and other penalties.
The attorney general, Karl Racine, said on Tuesday that continuing interviews and reviews of internal documents for the case had revealed that Mr. Zuckerberg played a much more active role in key decisions than prosecutors had known.
The complaint against Facebook was filed in December 2018 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The suit alleges that Facebook misled consumers about privacy on the platform by allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, to obtain sensitive data from more than 87 million users, including more than half the district’s residents.
Read more on New York Times.
Thinking about data...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/16/1037303/in-unpredictable-times-a-data-strategy-is-key/
In unpredictable times, a data strategy is key
… . According to the survey, the most common value companies are hoping to take advantage of is smarter decision-making (79%). They also want to more deeply understand their customers and industry trends (61%), provide better services and products (42%), and implement more efficient internal operations (33%).
Companies also learned valuable lessons about the importance of data as they struggled to stay competitive during the pandemic. Roughly four out of 10 survey respondents, for example, report that they need to look at more sources of data, including demographic, geospatial, and competitor information. More than a third (37%) are evaluating machine learning and analytics—technologies essential to extract critical insights from their data. And 34% need help acting on the vast sums of data they gather and process.
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This adds several steps that must be documented and explained. Is it worth the added complications?
The Real Deal About Synthetic Data
… Synthetic data is artificially generated by an AI algorithm that has been trained on a real data set. It has the same predictive power as the original data but replaces it rather than disguising or modifying it. The goal is to reproduce the statistical properties and patterns of an existing data set by modeling its probability distribution and sampling it out. The algorithm essentially creates new data that has all of the same characteristics of the original data — leading to the same answers. However, crucially, it’s virtually impossible to reconstruct the original data (think personally identifiable information) from either the algorithm or the synthetic data it has created.
Motivation is a two edged sword?
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-10-20
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