Category: AI in news
The threat landscape moves fast. As new attack methods and social engineering techniques appear, organizations need to maintain security awareness programs that are relevant, agile and focused. Research from Proofpoint for the 2024 State of the Phish report found that most businesses used real-world threat intelligence to shape their security awareness programs in 2023. That…
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When you hear the term “spoofed” email, does business email compromise (BEC) come to mind? It does for many people—especially security leaders. BEC is a form of email fraud, and it has been a top concern for chief information security officers for years. BEC scams are a costly problem. The latest Internet Crime Report from the FBI’s…
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Highway 9 Networks, Radical and Cape are among the companies aiming to change the networking game. A cloud-native platform purpose-built for enterprise mobile users and devices driven by artificial intelligence. Solar-powered, autonomous aircraft taking telecommunications to the stratosphere. And a private mobile carrier with nationwide 5G and 4G coverage that promises to block hackers and…
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Black Hat USA 2024 kicks off Aug. 3 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas with training sessions, followed by a series of summits on Aug. 6, including the CISO Summit, with sessions on quantifying the cost of cyber risk, navigating regulatory complexity, and rebuilding after a cyber crisis, among others. But the big show rolls…
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Security researchers at SafeBreach, led by Alon Leviev, discovered that Windows Updates could be similarly hacked to force a downgrade of the software on Windows PC. The researchers were able to show that attacks carried out using this approach could be crafted to bypass verification steps performed during updates, including integrity verification and Trusted Installer…
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As AI usage becomes more prevalent in organizations globally, security teams must get full visibility into these applications. Building a comprehensive inventory of AI applications in your environment is a first step. Read on to learn what we found about AI application-usage in the real world when we analyzed anonymized telemetry data from scans using…
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Are you worried about your credit report? Are you eager for your credit report to be “cleaned-up” so lenders and landlords will have a better opinion of your financial responsibility and creditworthiness? Tempted by internet ads that promise an easy fix to the pecuniary pickle that you find yourself in? If you think that describes…
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Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Financial Fraud INTERPOL said it devised a “global stop-payment mechanism” that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The development comes after an unnamed commodity firm based in Singapore fell victim to a BEC scam in mid-July 2024. It refers to…
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In episode ten of “The AI Fix” podcast, Graham attempts to say “quinoa”, Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying tailer for a creepy new AI friend. Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey…
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“Cequence’s UAP platform offers advanced API discovery and mapping capabilities to ensure comprehensive security coverage,” Talwalkar added. “By automatically identifying all API gateways and infrastructure, including those on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, the platform eliminates blind spots often associated with traditional security tools.” API discovery, according to Marks, is a significant challenge in…
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