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Yahoo Hit With A $35 Million Fine For Not Alerting Investors About Hacking – United States
The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that Altaba, the holding company that owns the remnants of Yahoo, agreed to pay a $35 million fine to settle charges that it misled investors over hacking events in 2014. The SEC release said that Yahoo’s information security team knew about Russian hackers stealing usernames, email addresses, and other key user data but that the company never “adequately considered” whether it needed to disclose the breach to investors, according to the release. It was eventually disclosed when Verizon was in the process of buying Yahoo in 2016. This SEC judgment is related to a 2014 hack in which over 500 million user account credentials were stolen. Yahoo also said last fall that all 3 billion of its user accounts had data stolen in a separate August 2013 hack, which would make it one of the largest hacks of all time. “We do not second-guess good faith exercises of judgment about cyber-incident disclosure,” Steven Peikin, a codirector of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, said in a statement. “But we have also cautioned that a company’s response to such an event could be so lacking that an enforcement action would be warranted. This is clearly such a case.”
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CIA Says Foreign AI Is Tracking Its Spies – Worldwide
Spies are just like the rest of us: Robots are gunning for their jobs too. According to a CNN report, today’s CIA agents are more likely to be tracked electronically than tailed by real people. Worse, this surveillance is constant, since machines can work around the clock. And the threat of cyber spies is far from science fiction. A follow-up report by The Next Web asserts that the CIA has been exploring AI for decades. Apparently the agency flagged the potential usefulness of automated, electronic spy craft carried out by computers in the early 1980s. Add to that new algorithms for sifting through the countless digital breadcrumbs humans tend to drop everywhere. That makes innocent gadgets like fitness trackers, GPS navigators, public CCTV cameras and smartphones potential spy tools. The CIA is addressing this challenge. Dawn Meyerriecks, deputy director of the CIA’s science and technology division, told CNN the CIA has close to 140 current AI projects. She described one that combines public images from Google Street View with known locations of municipal CCTV cameras, helping human operatives to elude detection in cities around the world.
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New Phase Of Airport Construction Includes Security Upgrades – New York, United States
The next phase of the Greater Rochester International Airport Renovation Project is underway. This includes installation of several 13,000 pound steel arches, part of the new ROC Terminal Entrance Canopy. Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul was on hand for the “beam raising” ceremony, as the state has provided a $40 million dollar grant for the overall $79 million dollar airport upgrade.
“When you travel and you come to a place that’s welcoming, and feels like it’s in the right century, the 21st century instead of the previous one, and it has a state-of-the-art welcoming, this canopy, people are just going to say ‘this place has got it together,’” she said. Hochul says the canopy makes a statement that Rochester is the “epicenter of the future.” Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says the new canopy will not only protect passengers, it will have state-of-the-art enhanced security measures. She says the airport represents the front door to the community for visitors.
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