The FBI touted just last week that they had taken down LockBit and replaced the servers with ones that offered free decryption keys and sunshine for all. It didn’t last long. The Russia-based hackers have reconstituted themselves and have new servers. It is true that the FBI and Europol and others did take down their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce to Retire After 34 Years Now that is a career in public service. Joyce was the Cyber Director at NSA since 2021 and was at the NSA during the days that it was affectionately called “No Such Agency” for its secretiveness. It comes at a time when cyber threats are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry, this is going to be a bit convoluted, so try to stay with me. First we had encryption. Things were good. Encryption was based on mathematically hard problems and computers could not do the math, even in, potentially, a hundred thousand years. Then came Quantum computing. Or at least it is coming. Or maybe […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Veracode makes software that tests your software for vulnerabilities. Software developers use Veracode’s product to see if their software is vulnerable. Here is some information based on scanning over one million applications: Veracode says that AI-Generated code brings security bugs at scale and will likely add to security or technical debt. AI tools might also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI. I hear that it is a thing these days. In order for that to work, companies need to have data to train their software on. Continuously new data. What better way to do that than to use the data that you already have collected from your customers. Some companies are quietly changing their privacy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC Bans Robocalls Using AI-Generated Voices This comes after someone generated thousands of robocalls pretending to be Joe Biden telling people not to vote. Unless they get express permission from the recipient of the call, which would, of course, defeat the purpose of the call. The FCC wrote the rule in a way that allows […]
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