Category: AI in news
Jun 14, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity / Regulatory Compliance As cyber threats loom large and data breaches continue to pose increasingly significant risks. Organizations and industries that handle sensitive information and valuable assets make prime targets for cybercriminals seeking financial gain or strategic advantage. Which is why many highly regulated sectors, from finance to utilities, are…
Read MoreDemo of AES GCM Misuse Problems This is really neat demo of the security problems arising from reusing nonces with a symmetric cipher in GCM mode. Tags: AES, algorithms, cryptanalysis, encryption Posted on June 14, 2024 at 7:05 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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Jun 14, 2024NewsroomDevice Security / Authentication An analysis of a hybrid biometric access system from Chinese manufacturer ZKTeco has uncovered two dozen security flaws that could be used by attackers to defeat authentication, steal biometric data, and even deploy malicious backdoors. “By adding random user data to the database or using a fake QR code,…
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Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as the country’s emergence as an influential power has drawn the attention of cyber espionage groups. “North Korean government-backed actors have targeted the Brazilian government and Brazil’s aerospace, technology, and financial services sectors,” Google’s Mandiant and…
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Deepfakes as credit risks It’s not just cybersecurity experts who are warning of the corporate risk from deepfakes. In May, credit ratings firm Moody’s issued a warning about deepfakes, saying they create new credit risks. The Moody’s report details a handful of attempted deepfake scams, including faked video calls, that have targeted the financial sector…
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Doesn’t Tor enable criminals to do bad things? Tor’s mission is to advance human rights with free and open-source technology, empowering users to defend against mass surveillance and internet censorship. We hate that there are some people who use Tor for nefarious purposes, and we condemn the misuse and exploitation of our technology for criminal…
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Jun 14, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection Microsoft on Thursday revealed that it’s delaying the rollout of the controversial artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs. To that end, the company said it intends to shift from general availability preview available first in the Windows Insider Program (WIP) in the coming weeks. “We are…
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‘With this new effort, we will help startups launch and scale world-class businesses, providing the building blocks they need to unleash new AI applications that will impact all facets of how the world learns, connects, and does business,’ says AWS’ Matt Wood. Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, is investing $230 million into…
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6. No big deal? The OMB made a big deal of one incident involving a bad actor gaining access to the login credentials of just one employee for just 15 hours — maybe because that person worked for the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which has full access to all records and materials available…
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that scammers are impersonating its employees in an attempt to commit fraud. In an alert posted on the CISA website, the organisation warned that so-called impersonation scams are on the rise. An impersonation scam is any type of fraud where a criminal pretends to be…
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