Imagine the consequences…
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/canada_cybersec_threats/
Chinese
attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India
makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
A
report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information
from government networks for five years.
The
biennial National
Cyber Threat Assessment described
the People's Republic of China's (PRC) cyber operations against
Canada as "second to none." Their purpose is to "serve
high-level political and commercial objectives, including espionage,
intellectual property (IP) theft, malign influence, and transnational
repression."
… The
report also named Russia and Iran as significant hostile states –
which isn't surprising.
The
inclusion of India, named for the first time as an emerging threat,
may be. Canada and India are, after all, both democracies and share
membership of the UK-centric Commonwealth of Nations.
Should
the people with the passwords also be posting tings online?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/colorado-voting-system-partial-passwords-accidentally-posted-government-website-2024-10-30/
Colorado
voting system partial passwords accidentally posted on government
website
Partial
passwords to some parts of the state's voting systems that were
accidentally posted
online pose no threat to Nov. 5 general election, the Colorado
Department of State said on Tuesday.
The
department said a spreadsheet located on its website "improperly"
included a hidden tab including partial passwords to certain
components of Colorado voting systems.
Tasteless.
Seems trivial but could kill.
https://databreaches.net/2024/10/30/fbi-investigated-disney-world-cyberattack-after-restaurant-menus-were-changed/
FBI
investigated Disney World cyberattack after restaurant menus were
changed
Gabrielle
Russon reports on your latest reminder of the insider threat:
A
fired Disney
World employee
is accused of hacking into an online system and altering Disney World
restaurant menus by changing fonts and prices, adding profanity and
manipulating the food allergy warnings, according
to new federal documents.
The cyberattack caused at least $150,000
in damage and has gotten the FBI involved. Disney printed the wrong
menus but realized the mistake in time. The menus were not sent to
restaurants or distributed to the public.
A
criminal complaint against Michael
Scheuer was
filed last week in U.S. District Court’s Orlando division. He was
arrested on Oct. 23.
Read
more at Florida
Politics.
Note that this allegedly vengeful former employee
also risked public health and safety. By editing the menus to
suggest that certain items were safe for people with peanut allergies
when they weren’t, he risked people having life-threatening
anaphylactic incidents. There is no allegation that anyone was
actually harmed or injured, however, as Disney detected the
alterations before menus could be sent out to restaurants.
There seems to be a lot more to this case, as the
affidavit in support of the complaint refers to DDoS attacks and
Scheuer allegedly “doxing” his victims.
DataBreaches reminds readers that a complaint is
just unproven allegations at this point.
To
be expected? AI algorithms generate formulaic speech.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-text-ai-generated-figured-method.html
How
can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a
new method
Have
you ever looked at a piece of writing and thought something might be
"off"? It might be hard to pinpoint exactly what it is.
There might be too many adjectives or the sentence structure might be
overly repetitious. It might get you thinking, "Did a human
write this or was it generated by artificial intelligence?"
In
a new paper, researchers at Northeastern University set out to make
it a little easier to answer that question by analyzing the syntax,
or sentence
structure,
in AI-generated text. What they found is that AI models tend to
produce specific patterns of nouns, verbs and adjectives more
frequently than humans.
The
work is published
on
the arXiv preprint
server.
"It
empirically validates the sense that a
lot of these generations are formulaic," says Byron
Wallace, director of Northeastern's data science program and the Sy
and Laurie Sternberg interdisciplinary associate professor.
"Literally, they're formulaic."
Perspective.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4963246-ai-sentience-welfare-study/
Plans
must be made for the welfare of sentient AI, animal consciousness
researchers argue
Computer
scientists need to grapple with the possibility that they will
accidentally create
sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan for
those systems’ welfare, a new study argues.
The
report published on Thursday comes from an unusual quarter:
specialists in the frontier field of animal consciousness, several of
whom were signatories of the New
York Declaration on Animal Consciousness.
… But
while the probability of creating self-aware artificial life over the
next decade might be “objectively low,” it’s high enough that
developers need to at least give it thought, Sebo said.
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