Month: May 2024
Digital Security As AI gets closer to the ability to cause physical harm and impact the real world, “it’s complicated” is no longer a satisfying response 22 May 2024 • , 3 min. read We have seen AI morphing from answering simple chat questions for school homework to attempting to detect weapons in the New…
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The attack didn’t target grid operations but could have Experts say the apparent financial motivation leads them to believe the attackers were not targeting grid operations. “Those bad guys were looking for compute devices that they could use to do computer internet-related types of extortion,” Thomas Tansy, CEO of DER Security, tells CSO. “From that…
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Memcyco Inc., provider of digital trust technology designed to protect companies and their customers from digital impersonation fraud, released its inaugural 2024 State of Website Impersonation Scams report. Notably, Memcyco’s research indicates that the majority of companies do not have adequate solutions to counter digital impersonation fraud, and that most only learn about attacks from…
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File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is an IT security control that monitors and detects file changes in computer systems. It helps organizations audit important files and system configurations by routinely scanning and verifying their integrity. Most information security standards mandate the use of FIM for businesses to ensure the integrity of their data. IT security compliance…
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May 23, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Data Privacy Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. “Technology has advanced over the years, giving rise to more powerful and versatile scripting languages such as JavaScript and…
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Robert “Bob” Dutkowsky, who successfully served as CEO at multiple tech companies before taking over IT distributor Tech Data where he was responsible for that company’s rise to the top, was remembered not only as a successful IT businessman but as someone who was just as likely to talk about the importance of building a…
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iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there’s a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Anna Brading of Malwarebytes. Plus!…
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‘For those partners who are building meaningful AI capabilities, we’re giving you access to Dell-validated designs,’ Dell Technologies’ Denise Millard told partners this week. ‘We’re doing the engineering to make sure those deployments are repeatable and scalable, and you don’t have to figure it out on your own. We’re giving you access to Dell Solutions…
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In July that year, NIST selected four encryption algorithms to become part of the agency’s post-quantum cryptographic standard. At the time, Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo welcomed the announcement, hailing it is “an important milestone in securing our sensitive data against the possibility of future cyberattacks from quantum computers,” and saying, “Thanks to NIST’s…
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Nvidia, Avanade and Snowflake were among the standout vendors at Microsoft Build 2024 in Seattle. Microsoft attracted some of the best and brightest AI, cloud computing and security companies, showcasing their latest and greatest offerings at the tech giant‘s annual Build conference this week. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant used the conference – which runs…
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