Why? Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence! For those of you who are not familiar with MI-6, even via a somewhat romanticized version in James Bond movies, MI-6 is Britain’s spy agency. Working along MI-5 and GCHQ, their goal is to protect Britain from the bad guys. MI-6, similar to our CIA, prefers to stay in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China’s policymaking body, the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (I did not make up this name) approved a plan yesterday for developing home grown science and technology with an eye toward self-sufficiency. According to a press release by the state run news agency, Xi said that while China has made substantial progress in trying to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China’s residents are not used to online privacy – from one of the world’s most repressive and invasive regimes, but there is now an online privacy law called PIPL (Personal Information Protection Law). It went into effect on November 1 and it will change how companies do business in China – but it won’t change […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LA Police Collected Social Media Account Info From People They Talked To I’m sure they were just curious. The LA police watchdog says that officers were instructed to collect civilians’ social media details when they interviewed them. An Email from the Chief dating back to 2015. He said it could be beneficial to investigations and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One possible answer is that they wanted to steal your email, impersonate you and use your email accounts to send spam and malware. This is certainly possible, but there is another, more sinister possibility. What if – China was looking for mountains of data to train its AI systems? The attacks gave them tens of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
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