White House Executive Order on AI Provides Guidelines for AI Privacy and Safety
The Biden administration directed government organizations, including NIST, to encourage responsible and innovative use of generative AI.
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Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky on Government Phones
The Chief Information Officer of Canada determined that WeChat and Kaspersky applications present an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.
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Apple Improves iMessage Security With Contact Key Verification
New capability detects attacks on iMessage servers and allows users to verify a conversation partner’s identity.
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White House issues Executive Order for safe, secure, and trustworthy AI
President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). New standards for AI safety and security As AI’s capabilities grow, so do its implicat…
Messaging Service Wiretap Discovered through Expired TLS Cert
Fascinating story of a covert wiretap that was discovered because of an expired TLS certificate:
The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the administrator of jabber.ru, the largest Russian XMPP service, received a notification that one of the servers’ certificates had expired.
However, jabber.ru found no expired certificates on the server, as explained in a blog post by ValdikSS, a pseudonymous anti-censorship researcher based in Russia who collaborated on the investigation.
The expired certificate was instead discovered on a single port being used by the service to establish an encrypted Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection with users. Before it had expired, it would have allowed someone to decrypt the traffic being exchanged over the service…
Amazon Rolls Out Independent Cloud for Europe to Address Stricter Privacy Standards
Amazon is rolling out an independent cloud for Europe as it looks to address strict regulations that companies and those in the public sector face in the European Union.
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Avast: The Best Shield for Your Digital Fortress
Avast helps secure the data present in your computer, browser, mobile, and other devices and tune up device performance by clearing suspicious, unnecessary files. Today, almost everyone is using the internet daily at home, office, cafe, mall, and so o…
New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill
MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for their journalistic work on the Snowden files, retired from The Guardian in 2018. He told Computer Weekly that:
- As far as he knows, a copy of the documents is still locked in the New York Times office. Although the files are in the New York Times office, The Guardian retains responsibility for them.
- As to why the New York Times has not published them in a decade, MacAskill maintains “this is a complicated issue.” “There is, at the very least, a case to be made for keeping them for future generations of historians,” he said…
Database Mess Up: 7TB of Healthcare Data Leak Affects 12 Million Patients
By Deeba Ahmed
Yet another day, more unprotected data left in the Cloud without password or security measures.
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Surfshark vs. ExpressVPN: Choose the Best VPN for Your Needs
Let’s pitch the two of the best VPNs, Surfshark and ExpressVPN, against each other on various parameters (speed, security, encryption, etc.) to see who is the best.
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