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Old 07-07-2021, 05:10   #16
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Social media restricted in Cuba amid widening anti-government protests
Cuba has restricted access to social media and messaging platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp, , Instagram and Telegram in Cuba, global internet monitoring firm NetBlocks said, in the wake of the biggest anti-government protests in decades.
In the capital, there have been regular and atypical mobile internet outages since Sunday, according to Reuters witnesses.
More ➥ https://netblocks.org/reports/social...tests-QAdrmwyl
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“The increase in ransomware attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a new internet” ~ by Michael Parent & David R. Beatty
“Make no mistake: We are also in the midst of a digital pandemic of ransomware attacks. The recent ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA Holdings Inc. — the world’s largest meat processors — underscore the growing brazen nature of organized, deliberate attacks on increasingly significant targets, and our chronic inability to defend against them.
What we need is a new internet. The old one is broken ...”

More ➥ https://theconversation.com/the-incr...nternet-162490
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Meet Rumble, Canada’s new ‘free speech’ platform — and its impact on the fight against online misinformation
Rumble doesn’t just accept harmful content, it amplifies it. Journalists reviewing the platform’s recommendation system found that if a person were to search the term “vaccine” on Rumble, they would be three times more likely to be recommended videos containing COVID-19 misinformation than accurate information.
More ➥ https://theconversation.com/meet-rum...rmation-163343

Rumble Sends Viewers Tumbling Toward Misinformation
Research shows the emergent video platform can recommend conspiracy theories and other harmful content more often than not.
More ➥ https://www.wired.com/story/rumble-s...isinformation/

Private messages contribute to the spread of COVID-19 conspiracies
“... conspiracy theories are spreading on private messaging apps, like WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger and WeChat, to spread harm...”
More ➥ https://theconversation.com/private-...iracies-162725
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“The increase in ransomware attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a new internet” ~ by Michael Parent & David R. Beatty
“Make no mistake: We are also in the midst of a digital pandemic of ransomware attacks. The recent ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA Holdings Inc. — the world’s largest meat processors — underscore the growing brazen nature of organized, deliberate attacks on increasingly significant targets, and our chronic inability to defend against them.
What we need is a new internet. The old one is broken ...”

More ➥ https://theconversation.com/the-incr...nternet-162490


Typical misinformed piece.

Ransomware has gained access to largely private networks mainly by slip ups in personal security around passwords. No system is secure against an idiot who doesn’t look after their passwords etc.
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Israeli spyware used to target journalists, activists: Report

The reports say ‘authoritarian governments’ abused ‘Pegasus’ software, sold by private Israeli firm [NSO Group], to hack cellphones worldwide.

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So Gord, is this just a thread where you are going to dump every scary sounding cybersecurity article you find? Does this have anything to do with cruisers specifically? Are you trying to make a particular point? Was your identity recently stolen? If you're just interested in reading these articles and want to keep track of some of the ones you enjoyed, you don't actually have to post them on the forum to save them. You can just keep the links in a word document or something for yourself.
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“U.S. Government Releases Indictment and Several Advisories Detailing Chinese Cyber Threat Activity” ~ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/curren...ries-detailing


“Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure against Threats from the People’s Republic of China” ~ by Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director, CISA
https://www.cisa.gov/blog/2021/07/19...republic-china
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So Gord, is this just a thread where you are going to dump every scary sounding cybersecurity article you find? Does this have anything to do with cruisers specifically? Are you trying to make a particular point? ...
On the Importance of Cyber Warfare & Cyber Security

The future of modern warfare is likely to heavily focus on cyber capabilities, because one can win an information war, without fighting. Cyber warfare is thousands of times more efficient, than armed aggression.

In early 2013, Nato chiefs signed off on the first ‘Tallinn Manual[s]’: a study on how international law applies to cyber attacks and cyber warfare.
The Tallinn Manual ➥ https://ccdcoe.org/research/tallinn-manual/

“Cyber-World War III: Origins”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26777962

“Russia, China, and Iran’s Cyber Attacks could initiate World War 3"
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.c...e-world-war-3/

“The Third World War May Already Be Happening … Online”
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-se...pening-online/

“World War Three is being waged in cyberspace”
https://theconversation.com/world-wa...berspace-84974



* "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein

Einstein was well aware of how nuclear weapons could affect the world, but what could he know of cyber weaponry?


Although he did repeatedly warn the world about the dangers of nuclear weapons, this quote* doesn’t appear to be an exact record of the physicist’s words, and even the earliest records appear to be anecdotal. Although these reports appear to be more anecdotal than factual, an account of Einstein saying something similar is reportedly documented in the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1949, 'Liberal Judaism' published an interview, entitled “Einstein at 70”, between Einstein and his contemporary Alfred Werner, which purportedly contains a similar exchange.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=G_i...=rocks&f=false

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Yet my question still remains: Why does this belong on cruiser's forum? I'm not even really disagreeing with you (although I think you're being a bit alarmist). It's more that I just don't get the point of this thread with no context. It's just a big list of links that have nothing to do with cruising??
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“Massive outage disrupts internet services in Canada and around the world”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/aka...tage-1.6112954
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How hackers can 'poison' open-source code

Cornell Tech researchers [1] have discovered a new type of online attack, that can manipulate natural-language modeling systems and evade any known defense - with possible consequences ranging from modifying movie reviews, to manipulating investment banks' machine-learning models, to ignore negative news coverage, that would affect a specific company's stock.

In a new paper [1], researchers found the implications of these types of hacks, which they call "code poisoning", to be wide-reaching for everything from algorithmic trading, to fake news and propaganda.

Without any access to the original code or model, these backdoor attacks can upload malicious code to open-source sites.

As opposed to adversarial attacks, which require knowledge of the code and model to make modifications, backdoor attacks allow the hacker to have a large impact, without actually having to directly modify the code and models.

How can the "poisoners" be stopped? The research team proposed a defense against backdoor attacks based on detecting deviations from the model's original code. But even then, the defense can still be evaded.

[1] "Blind Backdoors in Deep Learning Models” ~ by Eugene Bagdasaryan et al
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Yet my question still remains: Why does this belong on cruiser's forum? I'm not even really disagreeing with you (although I think you're being a bit alarmist). It's more that I just don't get the point of this thread with no context. It's just a big list of links that have nothing to do with cruising??
Thank you!!!! What does this have to do with cruising?

It looks more like a post affirming fake news is real.
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Thank you!!!! What does this have to do with cruising?...
For instance, it might apply to "OpenCPN', the Chart Plotter and Navigational software program: https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f134/

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