Security: IBM, Windows Freezes, 2FA and More

• IBM Launches Open-source Toolkit to Safeguard AI Systems

  On 17th, April 2018, IBM Security announced the launch of an open-source toolkit at the RSA conference in San-Francisco. The Open-Source library entails framework-agnostics software that contains defenses, attacks as well as bench markings to safeguard artificial intelligence systems. This open-source library is also known as Adversarial Robustness Toolbox is designed to assist in protecting Artificial Intelligence system (AI) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) into the “Open-Source Community”.

• Cincinnati Police review: 911 operator said she couldn't hear dying teen's final call from Seven Hills [iophk: "Microsoft Windows kills"]

  The review also found Smith said she tried to document the call when it came in, but she told supervisors her computer screen froze, preventing her from entering any information immediately. That information could have been helpful to police searching for Kyle.

• What happened? A timeline of events preceding the discovery of dead teen Kyle Plush

• Just How Random Are Two Factor Authentication Codes?

  So technically speaking, Google could omit certain hard-to-remember sequences. But it's probably not a great idea. "You can’t take out too many things because you want the full space of possible values for entropy," Smetters says. In essence, your algorithm would produce fewer codes; generally speaking, the fewer codes your algorithm produces, the easier it is to crack. Plus, she says, many patterns are probably memorable to people for different reasons.

• GCHQ warns public ‘absolute protection not possible’ as it briefs power and transport firms on cyber attacks [iophk: "Windows TCO"]

• The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming

  In 2005 security-software provider PC Pitstop LLC promised a $1,000 prize to the first user to spot the offer deep in its terms and conditions; it took four months before the reward was claimed.

What is Open Source Programming? How to Get Involved?

Open Source Programming simply means writing codes that other people can freely use as well as modify. It is essential for authors to license their code, it enables them to have a copyright for those codes. Therefore, for a code to be declared safe and free for all to use, whether it’s available in the Github or in a public-repo; the author is required to license their own code. This is to avoid cases of individuals being sued by the author for using, modifying or even embedding the code without being granted a license to do that.

Mugshot 0.4.0 Released

Mugshot, the simple user configuration utility, has hit a new stable milestone! Release 0.4.0 wraps up the 0.3 development cycle with full camera support for the past several years of GTK+ releases (and a number of other fixes). Also: MenuLibre 2.2.0 Released

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