Note: The opinions are my one and not the author of the linked article. As I always say, politicians love to say that they are “protecting the children”, but the reality is that doing that is really hard and would actually be super unpopular with voters. Read on to find out why. The Children’s Online […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What if stolen data could be made useless to hackers but useful to authorized users? Researchers say the have developed a tools that can make stolen high-value proprietary data used in AI systems useless. This, assuming it works, could be the tool of choice of security officers. The technique was created by researchers from China […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At least they are admitting it. DoD is already doing part of this; the UK is going all in. In an unusually candid admission, the UK government acknowledged that its years-long approach to its own cybersecurity was flawed and warned it will be impossible to meet a previous target of securing all government organizations by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cybersecurity firm Cyberark says that “non-human” identities outnumber human identities by more than 80 to 1. This includes machine identities and AI identities. Riddle me this: If you have a compromise (or think you do) and you see the “user” is Joe but Joe is logged into 20 virtual machines and has 50 AI driven […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a tale of three firewall vendors: Cisco, Checkpoint and Fortinet and their security challenges. First, even though we likely think of a firewall as a piece of hardware, in reality, it is just a specialized computer – think of it as the original Internet of Things device – that runs a lot of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Five of eight Ivy League schools have been hacked in the last six months. Add the most effective technique is definitely not high tech – it is plain old social engineering on the phone. Harvard discovered that its Alumni Affairs and Development systems were compromised last month. The hack exposed the personal information of the […]
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