Check Point: Hackers Dropping Physical USB Drives at Watering Holes
Check Point’s Global CISO discusses the firm’s 2023 threat intelligence, including new AI malice and threat actors spreading malware by dropping flash drives.
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Dreamforce 2023: Salesforce Expands Einstein AI and Data Cloud Platform
The Einstein 1 platform links Salesforce CRM data and generative AI. Plus, Trust Layer allows organizations to have control over their own data.
Vector Embeddings – Antidote to Psychotic LLMs and a Cure for Alert Fatigue?
Vector embeddings – data stored in a vector database – can be used to minimize hallucinations from a GPT-style large language model AI system (such as ChatGPT) and perform automated triaging on anomaly alerts.
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Phishing Scammers are Using Artificial Intelligence To Create Perfect Emails
Phishing attacks have always been detected through broken English, but now generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are eliminating all those red flags. OpenAI ChatGPT, for instance, can fix spelling mistakes, odd grammar, and other error…
Strategies for harmonizing DevSecOps and AI
The same digital automation tools that have revolutionized workflows for developers are creating an uphill battle regarding security. From data breaches and cyberattacks to compliance concerns, the stakes have never been higher for enterprises to estab…
China Sows Disinformation About Hawaii Fires Using New Techniques
Beijing’s influence campaign using artificial intelligence is a rapid change in tactics, researchers from Microsoft and other organizations say.
Treat AI as your ‘crazy drunk friend,’ not like ‘peanut butter’: CIA tech chief
Intelligence analysts need to be especially cautious about artificial intelligence “hallucinations” or other false outputs, said the CIA’s Chief Technology Officer — but AI can also generate genuinely useful insights out of left field.
On Robots Killing People
The robot revolution began long ago, and so did the killing. One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined that it was not going fast enough. And so twenty-five-year-old Robert Williams was asked to climb into a storage rack to help move things along. The one-ton robot continued to work silently, smashing into Williams’s head and instantly killing him. This was reportedly the first incident in which a robot killed a human; many more would follow.
At Kawasaki Heavy Industries in 1981, Kenji Urada died in similar …
CISOs and board members work more closely than ever before
73% of board members believe they face the risk of a major cyber attack in the next 12 months, a notable increase from 65% in 2022, according to Proofpoint. Likewise, 53% feel unprepared to cope with a targeted attack, up from 47% the previous year. Th…
Cisco: Booming identity market driven by leadership awareness
A new study by Cisco Investments with venture capital firms finds that most CISOs find complexity of tools, number of solutions and users, and even jargon a barrier to zero trust.