The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
KnowBe4: Leveraging Mitnick Many hackers practice their “art,” because they want to beat the system, make easy money, and challenge themselves. White hat hackers are praised for their Batman vigilante tactics, but the black hat hackers like Kevin Mitnick cannot even be classified as a Robin Hood. Fast Company article, “I Hired An Infamous Hacker-And …
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Deepfakes and Other AI Threats As AI technology matures it has greater and greater potential to facilitate bad actors. Now, researchers at the University College London have concluded that falsified audio and video content poses the greatest danger. The university announces its results on its news page in, “‘Deepfakes’ Ranked as Most Serious AI Crime …
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Google Version 2: The Calculating Predator is the public version of a series of reports prepared for clients in 2005 and 2007. The topics covered in the monograph, published by a now defunct publishing company, included an a review of Google’s database technology Bigtable which remains today the core data management system after more than …
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The Old and Not-So-Bold Dieblold? Robbing ATMs with specialized hardware is not new. What is new is using the manufacturer’s own software to facilitate the attacks. Ars Technica reports, “Crooks Have Acquired Proprietary Diebold Software to ‘Jackpot’ ATMs.” Say, doesn’t Diebold also make voting machines? Perhaps there are some things that should not be automated. …
Amazon: A Burr under a Presidential Saddle? This may just be an example of how a national scheme plays out on the local level. The Portland Press Herald reports, “Amazon Gets Priority While Mail Gets Delayed, Say Letter Carriers.” Mark Seitz, a Portland postal service veteran and president of the Maine State Association of Letter …
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The Child Protection System Catches Pedophiles Child pornography plagues the Internet’s underbelly, the Dark Web, per-to-per sharing networks, and even simple Google search. Law enforcement officials want to protect children and stop the spread of child pornography, so a new software called Child Protection System was created. NBC News shares details in the article, “Inside …
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Fordham University Professor Makes Startling Assertion about FAANG In an online publication called Chron.com, a startling assertion was made. “The Legal Fight Against Big Tech Is Like the Fight Against Organized Crime” states: Read full post.
