April 30, 2021
Security: Hacking Group that Targeted D.C. Police Briefly Posts Internal Police Files
Washington Post
Hackers who apparently infiltrated the D.C. police department’s computer network briefly posted personnel files of at least five current and former officers, a gambit one security expert says was to prove the group’s threats are real.

The documents posted Wednesday ran into the hundreds of pages and included names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, financial and housing records, job histories and polygraph assessments, according to Brett Callow, an analyst for the New Zealand-based cybersecurity company Emsisoft, which has been tracking the hack. Read More
Healthcare IT: CONNECT for Health Act Reintroduced, Would Expand Telehealth Access
Healthcare IT News
A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021.  

The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Read More
Homeland Security: Intelligence Community Finds Range of Security Threats Caused by COVID-19
Homeland Security Today
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the considerable fallout that a public health emergency can have on wide-ranging areas from nation-state conflict to migration to conspiracy theories that can potentially escalate to extremist violence, intelligence agencies said.

At last week’s House Intelligence Committee hearing to hear from intel leaders on the 2021 Annual Threat Assessment, CIA Director Bill Burns said of the virus’ origin that “it is clear that the Chinese government was not fully forthcoming in their transparency, especially very early on in the pandemic, when transparency and being forthcoming might have made a much bigger difference to the rest of the world.” Read More
Transportation: Keeping Automated Electric Vehicles Safe
Homeland Security News Wire
Having your social media account hacked is a pain. Having your credit card account hacked can be devastating. Having your new electric vehicle hacked could be disastrous.

As the move toward automated electric cars accelerates, protecting the cybersecurity of these vehicles has become urgent. That’s why University of Georgia researchers are identifying weaknesses that could threaten the safety and efficiency of such vehicles.  Read More
Human Resources: Keeping Less Distance: How to Retain Personnel in a Distributed Workforce
HR Dive
As the economy emerges from the pandemic, many companies and their staff are looking at continuing the remote work style they refined during the lockdown. In some cases, this is motivated by the cost-savings and often increased productivity the companies discovered in the process. Employees have appreciated the extra time and flexibility the arrangement gives them, and few have missed their commutes.

But the implications for employee retention have rarely been considered, much less carefully thought-through. So let's do that here. Read More
Business & Technology: New AI Regulations Are Coming. Is Your Organization Ready?
Harvard Business Review
Over the last few weeks, regulators and lawmakers around the world have made one thing clear: New laws will soon shape how companies use artificial intelligence (AI). In late March, the five largest federal financial regulators in the United States released a request for information on how banks use AI, signaling that new guidance is coming for the finance sector. Just a few weeks after that, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an uncharacteristically bold set of guidelines on “truth, fairness, and equity” in AI — defining unfairness, and therefore the illegal use of AI, broadly as any act that “causes more harm than good.” Read More