The United States’ federal court system “faced an incredibly significant and sophisticated cyber security breach, one which has since had lingering impacts on the department and other agencies.” Jerrold Lewis Nadler U.S. representative for New York’s 10th congressional district US court system suffered ‘incredibly significant attack’ • The Register
Commercialised cyberweapons
For when you have time, here are two articles from Microsoft looking at cyberweapons: Continuing the fight against private sector cyberweapons – Microsoft On the Issues Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits – Microsoft Security Blog The view from the US Government Pegasus spyware: Just ‘tip of …
Advice from the National Cyber Security Centre and the UK Government – actions to take when the cybersecurity risk is high (Russia Ukraine Conflict) – UPDATED 2 May 2023
This post was originally made on 2 March 2022. It will be updated as the Russian Ukraine Conflict develops and will highlight the cyber security issues facing organisations and individuals at this time. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising all UK organisations to review and improve their cyber …
Well it was sure to happen… Blake Lemoine the man who claimed Google’s AI is sentient is fired – he was the classic “insider threat”.
Not because he thinks the AI is sentient – although that may have ticked a few people off – but because he published confidential Google information. Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings – BBC News Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data …
Read about your privacy…
Before we start: At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens. Now onto the post… …
