Our picks this weekDeepfakes are coming: is Big Tech ready? DHS spins the border numbers -- again; five things to know about 3D printed guns, and more
• Hacker honeypot shows even amateurs are going after ICS systems
• California’s “new normal” for wildfires is unacceptable
• School-security companies are thriving in the era of mass shootings
• From 64 to 1,400: Puerto Rico concedes Hurricane Maria death toll
• DHS spins the border numbers… again
• Laura Ingraham’s anti-immigrant rant was so racist it was endorsed by ex-KKK leader David Duke
• Synthetic biology: The promise and peril of a new dual-use technology
• North Korea reuses code in major hacks, researchers find
• Energy security is the real way to put America first
• Deepfakes are coming. Is Big Tech ready?
• California’s wildfires are hardly “natural” — humans made them worse at every step
• If Facebook makes a safe harbor for journalists and researchers, would it help?
• Is AI ready to prevent school shootings?
• A double-flash from the past and Israel’s nuclear arsenal
• As the IoT grows, so do the risks
• Solar geoengineering may be our last resort for climate change. What if it doesn’t work?
• California lawmakers resume deliberations over wildfire safety, utilities’ response
• Gov. Edwards repeats call for officers in every school, but still sizing up the need, expense
• The Hiroshima anniversary: 5 things you should know about nuclear weapons today
• America is not ready for exploding drones
• Worries mount over drone safety after Venezuela attack
• Apple banned Alex Jones’s Infowars. Then the dominoes started to fall. (
• A top Syrian scientist is killed, and fingers point at Israel
• The al Qaeda - Iran connection
• Court rules Mexican mother can sue over cross-border Border Patrol shooting
• California’s record-breaking fire isn’t the week’s worst climate news
• How Trump radicalized ICE
• Hacker honeypot shows even amateurs are going after ICS systems
• Gov’t report warns Trump’s wall may bust the budget, face delays, won’t work as planned
• Britain’s teachers of terror: How extremists infiltrated classrooms
• UN experts: North Korea hasn’t stopped nuke and missile programs
• The TSA has a new program that could spy on you. It’s a massive waste of money.
• How America’s TSA is watching travelers
• The Syrian war is over, and America lost
• Lawmakers in U.K. and U.S. propose sweeping changes to tech policies to combat misinformation
• Five things to know about 3D printed guns
• As wildfires rage, Trump administration plans to slash fire science funding
• Redding confronts a deadly pattern: A history of wildfires and development in high-fire-risk areas
Hacker honeypot shows even amateurs are going after ICS systems (Sean Lyngaas, Cyberscoop)
While stories of nation-state backed hackers threatening the U.S. power sector garner regular headlines, a new experiment highlights the risk of unintended consequences when less-skilled adversaries target the sector. Researchers from Cybereason, a Boston-based company, set up a honeypot in mid-July that mimicked a utility substation’s network environment, drawing the attention of a determined attacker that repeatedly disabled the honeypot’s security system. The hackers’ attempts to be conspicuous, coupled with some sloppy work, told researchers that they were not part of any advanced persistent threat (APT) group that is linked with a nation-state.
California’s “new normal” for wildfires is unacceptable (George Skelton, Los Angeles Times)
If it means thousands of homes constantly being incinerated and people dying in flames, California is headed into ruins.
From 64 to 1,400: Puerto Rico concedes Hurricane Maria death toll (Kate Feldman, Tribune News Service)
Almost 11 months after Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico, officials have conceded that more than 1,400 people were likely killed by the storm, a dramatic rise from the official death toll of 64.
School-security companies are thriving in the era of mass shootings (Mark Keirleber, Defense One)
A multibillion-dollar industry is pushing an array of expensive technologies with the message that any campus could be next.
