We used say seeing is believing. With AI that is definitely not the case. Hong Kong police reported that a finance worker for a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to crooks. He was tricked into participating in a Zoom call, supposedly with the company’s CFO, along with others. It turns out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wrong Number Scam Text Messages This scam is becoming very popular. You get a text from a number that is not in your phone book trying to engage you. “How is your sore back?” “How are you?” “Sorry, I’m running late” Anything to engage you. Once you are engaged they figure you are invested in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is that person staring at you on Zoom really your boss? Or, is it a deep fake trying to get you to “gift” some hacker your company’s money? Last year that is exactly what happened to one Hong Kong company — to the tune of $25 million. iProov, a company that sells facial recognition identity […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter’s AI tool, Grok, has very limited “guard rails”. For example, one Grok AI image shows Trump piloting a plane that looks like it is about to crash into the Twin Towers with one of the towers already in flames. Even though Grok says that it won’t let you create images that infringe on copyrights […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reports say that a multinational company is out $25 million after an employee was tricked into wiring the money to fraudsters. This would, unfortunately, not be that unusual if it were not for how the hackers did it. Initially, the worker became suspicious after receiving a message supposedly from the CFO, thinking it was a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The difference of course, is that when Taylor’s attorneys call, even Elon Musk takes the call. While no one should be victimized by deep fake porn, Swift has resources to call on that virtually no one else does, so this is only important if it calls attention to the problem. The people most at risk […]
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