The trick . . . was to keep that fire alive, but to know at the same time it might consume you also. Then the truck was to make the fear invisible in the smokes of hatred. Having accomplished that, you would own men's souls and your power would be absolute, so long as you never allowed men to see that their hate was but fear, and so long as you, afraid, knowing it, hence more shrewd and cautious than the rest, did not become a corpse at the hands of the hating fearful.
There, in a nutshell, was the recipe for dictatorship. Over the proletariat. Over the godly believers. Over the heathen. Over all men, even those who imagined they were free and yet could be made to hate.
Frighten; then furnish the whipping boys. Then seize.”
― The Answer: A Fable for Our Times
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Council committee sought opinion of Chinese consulate on newspaper's sponsorship
Water experts say the Coalition government paid too high a price for water rights owned by a tax haven-linked Australian company, deepening a row that has ensnared former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce and Energy Minister Angus Taylor.
As the Greens and Centre Alliance parties called for a royal commission into water trading in the Murray-Darling Basin, the left-leaning think tank The Australia Institute issued a detailed rebuttal of the government's claims that it paid a fair market rate for water to deliver a significant environmental benefit.
Another water expert and former bureaucrat, Quentin Grafton of the Australian National University, said the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources' purchase at a record-high price in southern Queensland "was not value for money".
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(Geopolitical risks: If organizations do not consider location and
geopolitical risk, those that store data in a third party or a nation state
that is very sensitive will run the risk of threat actors or nation state
resources being used against them.)
Business Law Today – The Rise of Risk Management in Financial Institutions and a Potential Unintended Consequence – The Diminution of the Legal Function By: Thomas C. Baxter, Jr. After the global financial crisis, a highly respected group of financial supervisors from the industrialized world convened to consider what might have caused the worst financial crisis experienced since the Great Depression. This group – aptly named the “Senior Supervisors Group” – concluded that a material contributing cause was what they characterized as a “colossal failure of risk management.”
Companies stuck in continuously reactive cybersecurity response cycle, Optiv security report finds
C
n According
to a new research report from Optiv Security, “Enterprise Attitudes to
Cybersecurity: Tackling the Modern Threat Landscape”, two out of three U.K.-based
IT and security decision makers say their security program is continuously
reactive due to constantly changing legislation, threats, and other external
factors.
n The
research also finds that wider business buy-in is a challenge. Nearly three in
five IT leaders feel that obtaining buy-in for their security programs is
tough, primarily because of a lack of understanding from the Board.
n Additionally
many organizations struggle to successfully measure and report cybersecurity
return on investment against corporate business goals. According to the research only
one third of organizations actually report back to their business on the
success of their program with either a live dashboard or regular reports
showing key metrics.
n The
research concludes that industry needs an approach that puts business strategy
and risk at the heart of cyber decision-making instead of an antiquated
outside-in model, which is predicated on buying security technologies based on
the latest trends and vulnerabilities in a problem and response manner. Source: Financial
post, Companies Stuck in Continuously Reactive Cybersecurity Response Cycle,
Optiv Security Report Finds Financial post, Companies Stuck in Continuously Reactive Cybersecurity Response Cycle and Optiv, Enterprise Attitudes to
cybersecurity Optiv Security Report Finds
Tax
season presents feeding frenzy for cyber crooks
Businesses
will likely see a huge proliferation of phishing scams as attackers prey on the
time-sensitive nature of tax requirement items and attempt to convince
employees to send information or payments to the incorrect recipients.
One of the
biggest risks Canadian businesses face during tax season is social engineering.
CEO fraud
is a specific type of social engineering where the attacker imitates an
internal corporate executive and requests copies of sensitive information (i.e.
SIN, T4 documents, paystubs) from employees. The attacker then uses that
information maliciously for identity theft, filing fraudulent tax returns, and
to sell on the dark web.
In addition to social engineering,
commercial entities should also be on the look-out for tailored ransomware
attacks. During the tax season, criminals may customize their ransomware
attacks with email attachments that reference pay stubs, T4s, or other
sensitive information. Source: Insurance Business, Tax season presents
feeding frenzy for cyber crooks Business, Tax season presents feeding frenzy for cyber crooks