You have probably heard of AI hallucinations – when the AI makes things up. Sometimes the risk is low, but other times, not so much. Slowly the courts are weighing in on the subject. In Moffatt v. Air Canada, the plaintiff asked for information about the airline’s bereavement policy. The chatbot told him he could […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI is great. Of course, anything that is great has to be immediately abused by hackers. Here are few popular AI based scams. VOICE CLONING If a hacker has 3 seconds of your voice, that is enough to clone it. Typically, they use calls of a loved one supposedly in distress, like in the hospital, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems simple, right? You pay for a cloud application to do something – or maybe it is free and you assume the vendor is responsible for the security of your data. Turns out, it is not quite that simple. In fact, far from it. Identity attacks – where the attacker somehow compromises an account, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]North Koreans Attacking Crypto With Social Engineering Because … that is where the money is. The FBI says they are using highly tailored, difficult to detect social engineering campaigns. In spite of the so-called technical expertise of these targeted companies these attacks are effective. Credit: The Record August Ransomware Attack Causes Stoli Vodka to File […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the entire US Senate was briefed this week about the Chinese attack called Salt Typhoon on US and other telecom and Internet carriers, the feds are trying to figure out what to do. This is going to be the job of the next administration because I doubt Congress can create a solution in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The United States has historically had a “challenging” supply chain. It has, for at least decades, depended on supplies from counties that are either not stable or not friendly or neither. While we have worked to try to REDUCE that dependency, we are very far from eliminating it. Yesterday the President ratcheted up the curbs […]
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