Kevin Mitnick’s journey to notoriety started when he was a kid playing pranks by changing telephone numbers. However, he didn’t catch the attention of the world until he tested his skills in deeper, more dangerous waters — just to see if he could. But why did The New York Times call Kevin “,” and how did the Free Kevin movement revolutionize the cybersecurity industry? Here, we’ll discuss how Kevin’s case impacted the industry via the movement crucial to Kevin’s transition to White Hat hacking. What Spurred the Free Kevin Movement? In 1995, Kevin Mitnick’s case brought to light many nuances to the cyber security industry. Kevin’s imprisonment was highly controversial because he was denied bail, coerced into a guilty plea, and fought an uphill, drawn-out legal battle. Although he committed cybercrimes, Kevin had no intent to exploit or profit from the information he gathered or cause serious harm. Many people rallied together in Kevin’s defense because they felt that the crimes of this prankster did not match his jail time or how his case was handled. Kevin’s supporters wrote articles, posted fliers, made bumper stickers, and even rallied outside of the prison to march in a parade with yellow, “Free Kevin” banners. This protest for the Free Kevin movement sent the prison into lockdown, and that was only the beginning. His cyber advocates went to great lengths also defaced websites around the world with “Free Kevin” banners. As information about Kevin’s case was exposed, much to the displeasure of the government, the support for Kevin grew. The Free Kevin movement extended to parades outside of federal courthouses in fifteen...
How do you use technology/policy to improve citizens’ lives? Tell us about your role or organisation. CyberSecurity Malaysia plays a sentimental role in shaping the cybersecurity landscape of the country, having been the reference centre of cyber security for more than two decades. Our technical expertise and security programmes in various sectors is crucial to ensure that technologies deployed in organisations provide a secure cyber and computing environment. This is particularly important as the country is gearing up to become a regional leader on digital economy where the cybersecurity ecosystem is a safe place for the citizens. As the head of theCyber Security Proactive Services Division, as the name implies, my role is to assure trust and confidence in the cyber security ecosystem through security efforts to prevent cyber security breaches and minimise impacts should they occur. Instead of the popular term ‘technology as an enabler’, we wish to shift this perception to ‘cyber security as an enabler for a secure and trusted cyber ecosystem’. We know very well that technologies are designed for efficiency and convenience purposes; but security is frequently an afterthought. This situation is ongoing which prompts us to find solutions to deal with these security threats and assure its security readiness. With Industry 4.0, smart cities, IoT, and 5G upcoming in today’s era, there is no doubt that individuals and entities are heavily dependent on technologies. The government and private sectors use technologies to create value in their services whilst offering convenience and satisfaction to customers. Our role is to ensure the citizens are safe and confident in using digital and online services, while these...
I Stumbled into Data Science by Accident If a dummy like me can learn to code and analyze data, anyone can! It seems that people get into data science from all sorts of different backgrounds. It seems clear that there is no “best” way to get into the field. I thought it might be interesting to share my own story. I spent 15 years working as CEO of a manufacturing company in an LDC (Least Developed Country). Some demographic statistics (Source: http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/PNG) We’d been working to modernize our processes, with some successes and some failures, but we always learned something from the experience. My working life had been one improvement project after another for more than a decade, and honestly I loved it. Perhaps a topic for a future article. The latest was an ambitious project to change the way we plan and report production. For many years, our production planning process was unorthodox. Without consultation or communication with other stakeholders, the production manager would arbitrarily decide their production plan. This plan lived on an excel spreadsheet, which only the production manager had access to. The first time production data of any kind entered the company’s Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) was 24 hours after a days worth of production had been completed. Hand-written paper production record sheets were delivered to two production clerks who’s sole mission was to create new work orders in the ERP to match the production sheets, and immediately close the work orders. The quantity of finished goods would increase, and raw materials would decrease. We called this “back-flushing”. Everyone knew that it was not...
Britain’s public services will be strengthened to further protect them from the risk of being shut down by hostile cyber threats, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Steve Barclay will say today. The minister will outline the cyber threat that government and wider public sector systems face in a speech today, as he launches the first ever Government Cyber Security Strategy. In the speech in central London, Mr Barclay will say that Britain is now the third most targeted country in the world in cyberspace from hostile states. The new strategy will be backed by £37.8 million invested to help local authorities boost their cyber resilience – protecting the essential services and data on which citizens rely on including housing benefit, voter registration, electoral management, school grants and the provision of social care. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Steve Barclay said: Our public services are precious and without them individuals can’t access the support that they rely on. If we want people to continue to access their pensions online, social care support from local government or health services, we need to step up our cyber defences. The cyber threat is clear and growing. But government is acting – investing over £2billion in cyber, retiring legacy IT systems and stepping up our skills and coordination. The new strategy outlines how central government and the public sector will continue to ensure that public services can function in the face of growing cyber threats. It will step up the country’s cyber resilience by better sharing data, expertise and capabilities to allow government to ‘Defend As One’, meaning that government cyber defence...
EY recently published their Global Information Security survey and I spoke to Carol Murphy EY Ireland, Consulting Partner and Head of Technology Risk about it. A Partner at EY Consulting, Carol is a Partner at EY Consulting and leads the Technology Risk practice, including cyber and data protection, IT governance and IT performance, as well as programme assurance and digital assurance services. She is also the EY Lead for the Connecting Women in Technology Network. Carol has worked over the years with numerous clients on significant business and IT transformation programmes, providing oversight and assurance to key stakeholders Tell me more about the Global Information Security survey. Sure, well, this is a survey that we’ve done for over 20 years across global organisations. It was asking for the views of our clients mainly in the CFO, CTO CIO role, and their perspectives related to their technology risk landscape. So, this year, I think we have some interesting findings, including a recognition of the huge challenge of the digital transformation that has happened over the last number of months, you know, in response to the global pandemic, some of the vulnerabilities and concerns that have emerged as a result of that. So, we’ve clearly got some good insights out of that now, in terms of, I suppose you know, both, you know, the volume and severity of incidents that are happening. And I suppose the challenges that our Irish CIO’s and global CIO’s are experiencing, in dealing with those challenges, both from a technical and a funding perspective. But also, in relation to I suppose really engaging with the business...
This article is about decoding some of the popular jargon used in data science. It is important to understand these concepts better. They are commonly asked in data science job interviews. Let’s get into the topics. Dependent and Independent Variables A dependent variable (target variable) is driven by the independent variables in the study. For example, the revenue for a retail store depends on the number of customers walking into the store. Here the store revenue is the dependent variable. The number of customers walking into the store is the independent variable. The dependent variable is called so because its value depends on the independent variable. Also, independent variables are called so because they are independent of other variables that could impact the dependent variable. Like, the amount of rainfall (independent variable) is independent of the number of customers walking into the store. Both these independent variables help in making a better prediction. While working on a predictive data science problem. There would be generally one dependent variable and multiple independent variables. Below is a very good resource to better understand dependent and independent variables. An outlier is a value that is not within the normal range for a variable. For example, the average life expectancy is around 70 years. An individual who is of age 119 is considered an outlier because his age is well outside the normal range. While working on a data science problem, it is a general practice to check for outliers in the dataset. Outliers in data could impact the choice of the algorithm in case of a predictive problem. Here is a detailed...
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