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Changing California’s privacy law: A snapshot at the support and opposition

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:59:59 +0000

Before the California Senate returns from its summer recess, we look at the authors, supporters, opponents, and donors involved in an extended fight to change California’s privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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New machine learning model sifts through the good to unearth the bad in evasive malware

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:30:55 +0000

Most machine learning models are trained on a mix of malicious and clean features. Attackers routinely try to throw these models off balance by stuffing clean features into malware. Monotonic models are resistant against adversarial attacks because they are trained differently: they only look for malicious features. The magic is this: Attackers can’t evade a monotonic model by adding clean features. To evade a monotonic model, an attacker would have to remove malicious features.

The post New machine learning model sifts through the good to unearth the bad in evasive malware appeared first on Microsoft Security.

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5 smart questions that'll smother most Android security scares

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700

I haven’t looked at today’s tech news too closely just yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion some evil-sounding virtual gremlin or other is probably on the brink of invading my smartphone, stealing my secrets, and setting me up for a lifetime of dread and despair.

He might even be covertly eating all the salty snacks from my kitchen this very second. ALL THE SALTY SNACKS, DAMN IT!

I don’t have to scan the headlines too closely to know there’s a decent chance of all of this happening — because all of this happens practically every other week here in the Android world. A solid few to several times a month, it seems, some hilariously named and made-to-seem-scary new piece of malware (ViperRat! Desert Scorpion! Ooga-Booga-Meanie-Monster!) is making its way onto our phones and into our lives. Or so we’re told, rather convincingly and repeatedly. (All right, so I may have made Ooga-Booga-Meanie-Monster up just now, but c’mon: It’s probably only a matter of time til we see something using that name.)

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Neo-Nazi SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:39:33 +0000

Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database listing the personal information of people who threaten their views. This group specializes in encouraging others to harass those targeted by their ire, and has claimed responsibility for dozens of bomb threats and “swatting” incidents, where police are tricked into visiting potentially deadly force on the target’s address.

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How Electrical Contractors and Design Consultants Can Point Customers to Long-term Savings with Power Protection Systems

Credit to Author: Aldebaran Lopez| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:45:00 +0000

Electrical contractors and design consultants can play an important role helping their customers decide on the best power protection systems given their specific power and budget needs in terms of total… Read more »

The post How Electrical Contractors and Design Consultants Can Point Customers to Long-term Savings with Power Protection Systems appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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Even more practical tips for enhanced ergonomics and design for operator interfaces

Credit to Author: Gregory Bouchery| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:00:48 +0000

This article is the last one in a series dedicated to ergonomics of operator interfaces. If you are curious about the reasons why ergonomics is important for your machines or… Read more »

The post Even more practical tips for enhanced ergonomics and design for operator interfaces appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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