SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2020

It has undermined normal policy-making processes and, in the absence of the requisite preparedness, has forced decision makers to craft hasty and ad hoc emergency responses. Pass an Internet of Things Security Law. Support Nonprofits That Assist Law Enforcement's Cybercrime and Victim Support Efforts.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Ismail was chief product officer at Marchex, and is also a veteran of Microsoft, where he was director of product management for Internet Explorer. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C. nonprofit Greater Washington Partnership, and president and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Amazon Toll Road, a report from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), found that Amazon charged third-party sellers a total of $121 billion in fees this year alone. Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in his final annual letter to investors in April that by that point, Amazon Prime had grown to 200 million subscribers.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“I’ve always believed that the rest of world would come around at some point because these problems have to be solved,” said David Kenney , executive director of VertueLab , a Portland-based nonprofit founded 14 years ago. “We saw that with the internet. David Kenney, president and executive director of VertueLab. “One

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Online misinformation has existed since the dawn of the internet, and crudely photoshopped images fooled people long before generative AI became mainstream. One report by Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, predicted that as much as 90 percent of content on the internet could be created or edited by AI by 2026.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And while there are ways to get them taken down, it’s time-consuming to chase down every fake to get it removed, and demoralizing to see ripoffs continue to proliferate across the internet. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies. Photo: Matt Buchholz. Image: Matt Buchholz.

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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. This policy could mean that, as sellers adjust their prices to account for Amazon’s fees, prices end up being higher elsewhere, too.

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Vox

JUNE 17, 2022

There doesn’t seem to be a corner of the internet Meta isn’t tracking. You can’t see them, but Meta’s trackers are embedded in millions of websites all over the internet, collecting data about where you go and what you do and sending it back to Meta. Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But that inevitably means there are scammers ready to use the internet to take advantage of these vaccine seekers to steal their money and personal information. These schemes are showing up in different corners of the internet, including on eBay, in Google ads, and on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Battle’s departure was not due to any disagreement with the company or on any matter related to its operations, policies, or practices, Expedia said in a SEC filing. Redmond, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models. That will start with using the Copilot features Microsoft is introducing in many products, including in Cloud for Nonprofit. “It CIOs want to take advantage of this but on their terms—and their own data.

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Vox

JANUARY 10, 2023

Satellite internet is going mainstream. Space internet has the reputation for slow service. With its questionable signal strength and hardly Netflix-friendly bandwidth, the internet that’s beamed down from low-Earth orbit is the kind of thing you only turn to as a last resort or if you’re stuck on a long-haul flight.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For example, many AI systems could have access to the internet, which is a rich source of training data and which they’d need if they’re to make money for their creators (for example, on the stock market, where more than half of trading is done by fast-reacting AI algorithms). Shutting off any one computer wouldn’t help.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past few months, Axon has been reviewing its products and internal policies with an eye toward racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. Axon also updated its virtual-reality peer intervention training product and made it easier for civilians and police to submit social media and internet evidence. Axon Photo).

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

A disturbing study from the nonprofit organization Thorn found that the majority of American children were using apps years before they are supposed to be — and fully a quarter of them said they have had sexually explicit interactions with adults. And people don’t necessarily want to give their IDs to internet services.”.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

It was in healthcare policy and manage, I had dreams of going to med school at some point before I decided that I was going to just join the world of IT right there. Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Consider Tennisha Martin. I went on and did a master's there as well.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

It was in healthcare policy and manage, I had dreams of going to med school at some point before I decided that I was going to just join the world of IT right there. Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Consider Tennisha Martin. I went on and did a master's there as well.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

The difference is, more young people are airing these indignations and jaded attitudes on the internet, often to viral acclaim. They expect employers to recognize that and promote policies and benefits that encourage work-life balance. For decades, if not centuries, this was not the case. I’m lucky to have realized that early on.”.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A senior Ukrainian minister had appealed to Elon Musk via Twitter early on, to route Starlink satellites that provide high-speed internet over the country to keep the country connected even if infrastructure on the ground was destroyed. They hit the internet of things. Elon Musk is genuinely a hero here,” Schmidt said.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Ethereum network, on which many DAOs run, describes them as “a safe way to collaborate with internet strangers.” The project is still quite small, by the standards of the wider internet: ENS says about 300,000 people have registered names to date.). This is how the internet should have worked all along.”.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

She compared recent advancements in generative AI to the creation of the internet itself. “I In the ’80s, we had the advent of the personal computer; in the ’90s, the internet; and in the 2000s, the mobile phone and the suite of apps built on it. “We I think this is absolutely on the same order of magnitude. That’s a personal belief.”

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

And beyond the hacker community in the policy side of things, his Think Tank work, lose a tremendous asset, wealth and knowledge and things like that. She talked about programming to save weight for space missions, and bringing the internet to the International Space Station. She's now the deputy administrator at NASA.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

They’re also legally required to report CSAM to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a nonprofit that works alongside law enforcement. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many other companies scan users’ files against hash libraries, often using a Microsoft-built tool called PhotoDNA. CSAM is illegal and abhorrent.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

On January 6th, WhatsApp users around the world began seeing a pop-up message notifying them of upcoming changes to the service’s privacy policy. The resulting furor sparked a backlash that led Facebook-owned WhatsApp to delay the policy from taking effect until May. It’s not only that Signal doesn’t have these policies in place.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Vamosi: While I was producing the episode, The United States Justice Department announced an important policy shift. McAninch We want to, we're advocating for global policy reform. And again, we condone ethically lega, we don't condone unethical, illegal, unethical, illegal, but we do want to see, you know, policy perform globally.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

But also war over the internet. There's other ones such as the car hacking village and stuff but ICS village we were probably one of the longest running and nonprofit organizations out there but when it comes to villages we started it we excuse me, let me start. And so, with the internet, all of that now becomes accessible.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

YouTube sparked widespread speculation about its moderation policies this week after it admitted to accidentally deleting comments that contained phrases critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). When did YouTube end up the de facto enforcer of Chinese censorship rules on the world’s internet? Transparency over censorship.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

The internet trust tool NewsGuard reports that Natural News “severely violates basic standards of credibility and transparency.” But it’s typical for Facebook to ban these sources for specific policy violations, not the spreading of misinformation. From a policy perspective, Facebook is fighting spam.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

One notorious scheme like this piggybacked on vulnerabilities in popular CMS platforms, such as WordPress and Drupal, to hack websites used by big-name nonprofits, U.S. Card skimmers found a clever way around website security policies to hide their misdemeanor in plain sight. government entities, and colleges.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud. So let’s discuss it.

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Vox

APRIL 2, 2021

It also provided $100 billion to America’s digital infrastructure, with a lofty goal of giving all Americans access to the affordable, reliable high-speed internet they need to participate in today’s economy. High-speed internet is essential in the 21st century, but nearly 30 million Americans lack access. I’m all in.”. I'm all in.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

It called out four main areas: Aiding justice reform: Microsoft has a five-year, $50 million program to work on justice reform and projects include researching and sharing data on justice issues and promoting better public policy. million in grants, and created a database of 36,000 Black-led nonprofits that could be future partners.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

They are part of a limited group of people who have a behind-the-scenes understanding of the complicated algorithms and internal company policies that underpin so many of the apps and services most of us use every day. Google fired Rivers in 2019 , saying that she made “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

There are many areas where I find the distinction to actually help because when you take something like Waymo, and the timeframe it needs to operate in, [it’s] dealing with a very different set of issues than building a typical internet product. So we tap their expertise to help shape our policies. That’s the underlying commonality.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The AI cybersecurity researcher Jeffrey Ladish told me that his nonprofit, Palisade Research, has tested how difficult this workaround is as part of efforts to better understand risks from AI systems. Openly releasing research has been a cornerstone of progress and collaboration in the programming community since the dawn of the internet.

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