Telechronics (Ademar Days of opinion): threats, elections and technology giants in evidence.
It is known that cyber threats have increased, both numbers in complexity, but, while acknowledging its importance, executives devote very little attention to the issue.
According to a global study by Marsh and Microsoft, most boards of directors and / or executive leadership responsible for managing cyber risk their organizations have focused less than a day, last year, this theme.
“For many organizations, the strategic management of cyber risk remains a challenge. For example, while 65% of respondent organizations appointed an executive leader or a board member as the maximum responsibility in cyber risk management, only 17% of executive leaders and board members say they have spent, during the past year, more than a few days focused on this subject. More than half, 51% spent several hours or less”, the study says.
It is certain that about one-third of the organizations even rank cyber risk as the number one concern, more 22% than 2017.
Facebook announced that prentede name, by the end of the year, the first members of a new supervisory board to better eliminate violent content and hate speech in the digital social networks it operates.
The oversight panel will aim to decide on the criteria for deletion of content on social networks Facebook or Instagram by constitute hate speech.
According to the leader of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, the supervisory board will coordinate the new initiatives, searching “balance the content control with respect for the principles of freedom of expression”.
With elections to the port arise some relevant considerations on the role of social networks.
Ana Pinto Martin, do ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and the Observatory for the Media (OberCom), Facebook is the social network that reaches a greater number of people, and, that is why, the privileged channel for political parties do get your message, once it reaches almost the entire electorate, including older.
However, this year is witnessing is "a much larger increase in communication via WhatsApp", He referred to the investigator.
Ana Pinto Martin attaches great importance to groups that are emerging in WhatsApp, that "it is not a very visible thing", but "reaches people in a different way" and "more personalized".
Already on Instagram, which is followed by younger voters, politicians make closer and "not as political" publications, forward, stressing that Twitter is "narrower" and is not accessible to the general public, It is followed especially by journalists and politicians.
It is recalled that the parliamentary elections are held to 06 October.
Google may soon add a new feature to its search engine that will allow you search only with a photograph.
The information was provided by 9to5Google, that points to a feature name "Smart Screenshots" in the latest beta version of the Google app. This version comes with a toolbar with Lens option, responsible option for Google image recognition.
When selecting Lens after capturing a picture you can start search, with Google to present results based on the object of particular photo. It is possible that the functionality will be launched in the future in the form of update.
And in film, highlighting the premiere of the film "Ad Astra", a thriller directed by James Gray that has Brad Pitt as the protagonist, accompanied in the cast by Liv Tyler, Tommy Lee Jones, among others.
This is the story of astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) who travels to the ends of the solar system in order to find her missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. this expedition, Roy will discover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the universe.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-r7o9JJxFE
