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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

The premise of social engineering attacks is much the same; perpetrators attempt to manipulate and deceive users into divulging confidential or sensitive information or performing actions that can compromise an organization's security.

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When AIs Start Hacking

Schneier on Security

As I lay out in a report I just published , artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope. These are artificial and constrained, with all of the rules specified to the AI. Not for long.

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ShadowRay Vulnerability: 6 Lessons for AI & Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

ShadowRay is an exposure of the Ray artificial intelligence (AI) framework infrastructure. The dispute between Ray’s developers and security researchers highlights hidden assumptions and teaches lessons for AI security, internet-exposed assets, and vulnerability scanning through an understanding of ShadowRay.

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How Steganography Allows Attackers to Evade Detection

eSecurity Planet

In cybersecurity, steganography mainly consists of hiding malicious payloads or secret information inside seemingly harmless files such as images, PDFs, audios, videos, and many other document types. An image is a pretty good asset to hide malicious code and information. What’s the Point of Digital Steganography?

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What Is a Next-Generation Firewall?

eSecurity Planet

All firewalls filter based on rules for network and transport layer information and many newer firewalls can also filter on the data link layer to block malicious IP addresses and URLs. Application Sending and receiving application information 6. Application Information on usable data formats, encryption 5. Presentation 4.

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Palo Alto Prisma SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Palo Alto’s powerful brand and the strong reputation of its security solutions makes Prisma SASE a serious contender in the market. For SASE service providers, the appeal is further enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced automation features and multi-tenant capabilities. out of 7 possible criteria Asset Control: 3.4

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Vulnerability Recap 4/1/24: Cisco, Fortinet & Windows Server Updates

eSecurity Planet

Vendors and researchers disclosed a wide range of vulnerabilities this week from common Cisco IOS, Fortinet, and Windows Server issues to more focused flaws affecting developers (PyPI), artificial intelligence (Ray, NVIDIA), and industrial controls (Rockwell Automation). The fix: Update the latest ChatRTX software update from NVIDIA.