It’s only money! Are there any institutions that hackers would avoid because an attack would start a war? What defines a digital Pearl harbor?
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/27/weak_data_protection_helped_chinese/
Weak data protection helped China attack US Federal Reserve, report says
China's cyber espionage activities are extensive and sophisticated but when the Middle Kingdom tried to steal sensitive economic data from the US Fed, poor security meant its operatives didn't have to dip too far into their bags of tricks.
Or at least that’s according to the findings of an investigation by the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, led by Republican Senator Rob Portman and released [PDF] on Tuesday.
Think about it. Nothing really new, but seldom mentioned.
5 trends making cybersecurity threats riskier and more expensive
Since the pandemic the cyber world has become a far riskier place. According to the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2022, almost half (48%) of organizations across the U.S. and Europe experienced a cyberattack in the past 12 months. Even more alarming is that these attacks are happening despite businesses doubling down on their cybersecurity spend.
Cybersecurity is at a critical inflection point where five megatrends are making the threat landscape riskier, more complicated, and costlier to manage than previously reported. To better understand the evolution of this threat landscape, let’s examine these trends in more detail.
Perspective.
https://siliconangle.com/2022/07/27/ibm-security-report-finds-data-breaches-costlier-ever/
IBM Security report finds data breaches are costlier than ever before
A new report from IBM Security today reveals that data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before.
IBM Security’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report, based on analysis of real-world data breaches experienced by 550 organizations globally between March 2021 and March 2022, found that the average cost of a data breach has hit an all-time high of $4.35 million.
Figures relating to large companies and the cost involved in dealing with data breaches may seem academic to many, but interestingly the report suggests that the increasing cost of these incidents — up 13% over the last two years — is contributing to rising costs of goods and services. Sixty percent of studied organizations raised their product or service prices after experiencing a data breach. Those increases come at a time the cost of goods is already increasing from inflation and supply chain issues.
Of course it’s surveillance software, but it’s packaged as part of the security software that will be in self-driving vehicles, even though these aren’t self driving. Either way, this data is recorded and kept forever.
Drover AI is using computer vision to keep scooter riders off sidewalks
Shared micromobility companies have been adopting startlingly advanced new tech to correct for the thing that cities hate most — sidewalk riding. Some companies, like Bird, Neuron and Superpedestrian, have relied on hyper-accurate GPS systems to determine if a rider is riding inappropriately. Others, like Lime, have started integrating camera-based computer vision systems that rely on AI and machine learning to accurately detect where a rider is.
The latter camp has largely leaned on the innovations of Drover AI, a Los Angeles-based startup that has tested and sold its attachable IoT module to the likes of Spin, Voi, Helbiz, Beam and Fenix to help operators improve scooter safety and, most importantly, win city permits.
… “Our system can tell you, for example, the rider was on the bike lane for 20% of the time, 30% of the time on the sidewalk and the rest in the street,” said Nesic. “That can inform a lot of policy decisions on where to put bike lanes or whether the bike lanes you’ve invested in are working.”
Drover has been receiving interest from transportation agencies like Transport for London, as well as insurance companies that want this kind of granular data to understand how new mobility modes are being used in the infrastructure.
We think your great uncle Willie was a criminal so we want to test your DNA. (This will make more sense when you are old enough to understand.)
Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health
Crystal Grant writes:
Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment of newborns with genetic disorders; for them, it can be the difference between a healthy life and an early death. But recent news suggests that police are seeking access to these newborn blood samples in criminal investigations. Such use of this trove of genetic material — to hunt for evidence that could implicate a child’s relative in a crime — endangers public trust in this vital health program and threatens all Americans’ right to genetic privacy.
A public records lawsuit filed in New Jersey this month details how police subpoenaed a newborn blood sample to investigate a 1996 cold case. While law enforcement’s desire to use these blood samples in criminal investigations was always a possibility — and one the ACLU has opposed — the increasing use of Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) has only increased the government’s interest in easy access to people’s DNA.
Read more at ACLU.
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