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Top 5 Risks of Artificial Intelligence

IT Security Guru

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology functions in a manner that helps ease human life. Through AI-enabled systems, different industries have been able to minimize human error and automate repetitive processes and tasks while smoothly handling big data. Discussed below are the top five risks of artificial intelligence.

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News alert: AI-powered web scrapers from Oxylabs are breaking new ground in fraud detection

The Last Watchdog

“Unauthorised transactions made with the help of lost or stolen credit cards, counterfeit cards, ID document forgery and identity theft, fake identification, email phishing, and imposter scams are among the most common types of payment fraud today.”

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Data Philosophy and Technology Combine for Better Endpoint Security

Security Boulevard

When Ackoff wrote his article, computing technology was at the cusp of data and information. With the advent of advanced tools like big data analytics and artificial intelligence, one might make a bold statement that today, computing technology straddles the gap between information and knowledge. Ackoff, R.

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AI in Cybersecurity: White And Dark Sides

Spinone

Some people believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the ability to amplify our natural human intelligence, as long as it remains in good hands. Artificial intelligence is progressing at a rapid pace and we often associate it with science fiction movies where we see robots performing human-like tasks.

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Anomali Harris Poll Research Shows 87 Percent of Enterprise Security Decision Makers Have Had Successful Cyberattacks Perpetrated Against Their Businesses Over the Past Three Years, Ransomware Payments Topped $1 Million

CyberSecurity Insiders

Since the pandemic started, 83 percent have experienced more attempted cyberattacks, 87 percent report an increase in phishing emails, with many leveraging COVID-19 related themes. Overall losses, due to cyberattacks, phishing email campaigns, and data breaches jumped significantly between 2019 and 2020. About Anomali.

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Gulf countries came under hackers’ spotlight in 2018, with more than 130 000 payment cards compromised

Security Affairs

Group-IB Threat Intelligence experts detected a total of 138 978 compromised cards issued by the Gulf countries’ banks. This data comes not only from the analysis of underground forums and phishing websites, but also from the analysis of cybercriminals’ infrastructure (including but not limited to C&Cs) and malware disassembling.