Category «Cybersecurity»

CrowdStrike, Antitrust, and the Digital Monoculture

EFF: “Last month’s unprecedented global IT failure should be a wakeup call. Decades of antitrust inaction have made many industries dangerously reliant on the same tools, making such crises inevitable. We must demand regulators break up the digital monocultures that are creating a less competitive, less safe, and less free digital world. The Federal Trade …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Legal Research, Marketing, Microsoft, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 2, 2024

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 2, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

AI in Finance and Banking, July 31, 2024

Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, July 31, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Housing, Legal Research

How To Check Whether You’re Chatting With a Real Person or AI

Make Use Of – Quick Links The Conversation Style Is Overly Formal Refusal to Answer Phone Calls or Video Chats They’re Unable to Answer Complex or Probing Questions Attempts to Gain Access to Your Personal Data They Try to Redirect You to External Links Lack of Humor in Responses Key Takeaways You can tell you’re …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

NIST releases a tool for testing AI model risk

TechCrunch: “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. government, companies and the broader public, has re-released a testbed designed to measure how malicious attacks — particularly attacks that “poison” AI model training data — might degrade the performance of an AI …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 27, 2024

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 27, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy

How data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security

Netzpolitic.org: “The AdTech industry is torpedoing the privacy of millions of people in Germany and is a threat to national security. But the underlying problem is global: databrokers sell location data without sufficient control. This is the summary of a joint research by netzpolitik.org and BR. Our investigation with BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk) shows for the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Massive IT outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in the global information ecosystem

Via LLRX – Professor Richard Forno highlights the fragility of our enterprise IT systems against the backdrop of the global information technology outage on July 19, 2024 that paralyzed organizations ranging from airlines to hospitals and the delivery of uniforms for the Olympic Games, representing a growing concern for cybersecurity professionals, businesses and governments.

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Health Care, Internet, Transportation

UN Cybercrime Draft Convention Dangerously Expands State Surveillance Powers

EFF –This is the third post in a series highlighting flaws in the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention. Check out Part I, our detailed analysis on the criminalization of security research activities, and Part II, an analysis of the human rights safeguards. “As we near the final negotiating session for the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, countries …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Digital Rights, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Ransomware Attack Takes Down Computer System for America’s Largest Trial Court

AP: “A ransomware attack has shut down the computer system of the largest trial court in the country, officials with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County said. The cybersecurity attack began early Friday and is not believed to be related to the faulty CrowdStrike software update that has disrupted airlines, hospitals and governments around …

Subjects: Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 20, 2024

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 20, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

TechCrunch: “We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Health Care, Privacy