Newsletter 17 – November 08, 2018

Some interesting stuff that I found online:

 

SECURITY:

Promising, Canadian spy agency releases its top anti-malware analysis tool for free – https://boingboing.net/2017/10/20/national-security-done-right.html

Great report from an EU body an Russian cyber strategy and modus operandi – https://www.iss.europa.eu/content/hacks-leaks-and-disruptions-%E2%80%93-russian-cyber-strategies

Cyber-crime, to become even more lucrative in the very near future – https://cybersecurityventures.com/top-5-cybersecurity-facts-figures-predictions-and-statistics-for-2019-to-2021

Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report 2018, one of the most comprehensive industry report – https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/dbir/

A nice post about the permanent “disagreements” between IT  guys and security guys – https://blogs.gartner.com/anton-chuvakin/2018/11/01/lets-go-fight-it-for-logs-agents-taps/

UK’s NCSC introduces Cyber Assessment Framework v2.0 – https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/introducing-cyber-assessment-framework-v20

UK’s NCSC on publicly available hacking tools – https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/content/files/protected_files/article_files/Joint%20report%20on%20publicly%20available%20hacking%20tools%20%28NCSC%29.pdf

 

SOCIAL:

Some insights into Silicon Valley’s “engineering-and-data-obsessed monoculture that invites little input from people outside the bubble”  – https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/silicon-valleys-keystone-problem-a-monoculture-of-thought.html

 

TECHNOLOGY:

Thrilling, brain hacking as a possible next step – https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/the-brain-5-scientific-advances-that-are-no-longer-science-fiction

USA’s first quantum key distribution (QKD) network: “keys […] are sent in the form of […] qubits. […] any attempt to snoop on a qubit immediately destroys its delicate quantum state, wiping out the information it carries and leaving a telltale sign of an intrusion.” – https://cybersecurityventures.com/top-5-cybersecurity-facts-figures-predictions-and-statistics-for-2019-to-2021/

An interesting view upon the future of Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics – https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-and-cybernetics/

 

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