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Getting a handle on the \u2018cyber\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a big week in internet regulation<\/a>, with unsavoury activities being plugged left and right. GoDaddy, a major domain registration service, evicted the Daily Stormer<\/a> from its platform, after an article was posted on the website slandering one of the women killed<\/a> in Charlottesville, Virginia. The website was linked with white supremacists who organised the rally that turned violent. The site moved to Google, which quickly announced<\/a> that it would also cancel the Daily Stormer\u2019s shiny new domain name registration.<\/p>\n

In between the exodus from GoDaddy to Google, Anonymous also apparently took control of the website (leaving its trademark #tangodown<\/a> post behind<\/a>), although the fact that all the hateful content remained untouched left eyebrows raised. @YourAnonNews<\/a>, what amounts to a representative for the collective, issued a series<\/a> of denials<\/a> against the claim, and<\/a> took a couple of jabs<\/a> at the Daily Stormer for trying to plant a false flag. Discord, a free chat and VoIP service, has also shut down<\/a> a number of accounts associated with white supremacists.<\/p>\n

In Australia, the federal government is formally advancing its agenda to make telecommunications and internet service providers the \u2018gatekeepers\u2019 of the internet<\/a>. The government has accepted<\/a> the recommendations of a joint parliamentary committee<\/a> for new telecommunications legislation<\/a>, which will impose an obligation on telcos and internet service providers to actively protect themselves and customers on their networks from unauthorised access and interference.<\/p>\n

Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security Alastair MacGibbon is looking at ways to get a handle on the proliferation of cyber-hyphenated terms. Last Friday, he convened a roundtable discussion on an early draft<\/a> of a government \u2018Cyber security lexicon\u2019, which aims to build a common cyber vocabulary among all the different groups that are involved in cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

Which came first, data or AI?<\/em><\/p>\n

Backchannel<\/em> has gone into how Baidu\u2019s rich trove<\/a> of behavioural data from China\u2019s incomparably large customer base might push the company to the top of the global race to develop AI. Theorising about future trends aside, it\u2019s notable that Baidu\u2019s past success in this field has attracted leading figures from Stanford<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a>, and China is betting big<\/a> when it comes to AI research.<\/p>\n

AI research in general has continued to hit major milestones. A bot from Elon Musk\u2013backed company OpenAI has added Dota 2 to the list of solved problems in AI research (chess<\/a>, Go<\/a> and poker<\/a> have already been cracked, and StarCraft seems to be next on the list<\/a>). The bot crushed one of the world\u2019s best players<\/a> at the annual tournament in a best-of-three matches contest\u2014winning the first in less than 10 minutes (in a game where an average round takes 40\u201360 minutes<\/a>). Elon Musk has praised the accomplishment<\/a> as a landmark in AI research, though that comes in stark contrast to his other tweets this week on the risks of AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Malware, malware everywhere<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Biohackers<\/a>\u2019 from the University of Washington have encoded DNA with malware<\/a> that can exploit software in the DNA sequencing process. The news has picked up a lot of buzz this week, particularly about how it might\u2019ve put some sci-fi authors out of work<\/a>, but the researchers have also been criticised for using deliberately introduced vulnerabilities<\/a> that<\/a> make the reality less sexy<\/a> than the headline might imply.<\/p>\n

Good old-fashioned hacking<\/em><\/p>\n

HBO hacker \u2018Mr Smith\u2019 has dumped<\/a> three<\/a> sets<\/a> of HBO files online<\/a>, including Game of Thrones<\/em> scripts and a log of emails from one of HBO\u2019s VPs, and demanded a ransom of US$6 million, by one estimate<\/a>. Among the data dumped were<\/a> the personal details of several Game of Thrones<\/em> stars, and other sensitive contact information. HBO has reportedly decided<\/a> to pay some of the ransom\u2014offering US$250,000 and spinning it as a \u2018bug bounty\u2019 rather than a ransom payment.<\/p>\n

Marcus Hutchins, or @MalwareTechBlog<\/a>, has pleaded not guilty<\/a> to the various counts of computer crime and fraud he\u2019s been accused of by US prosecutors. His next hearing will be held on 17 October 2017, and in the meantime<\/a> he\u2019s been barred from leaving the US, though he has been granted the right to use the internet.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity by the numbers<\/em><\/p>\n

Dashlane, a password management software vendor, has conducted a review<\/a> of the password practices of the web\u2019s 40 most popular websites\u2014and found Amazon, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Venmo and Dropbox to fail the most<\/a> basic \u2018password power\u2019 criteria. Curiously, the criteria on which the researchers assessed password power were the same criteria that were recently renounced<\/a> by their initial creator<\/a> (after decades of criticism) as incorrect and unhelpful.<\/p>\n

And lastly, BDO and AusCERT have started taking responses<\/a> on board for their second annual Cyber Security Survey. The survey closes on 15 September, and interested individuals can take part here<\/a> or here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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