Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2023

This means, at a minimum, the technology needs to be transparent. The problem isn’t the technology—that’s advancing faster than even the experts had guessed —it’s who owns it. Today’s AIs are primarily created and run by large technology companies, for their benefit and profit.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a part of this effort, each organization made the following commitments: MxD , in collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, created the Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Operational Technology (CyMOT) program to increase the security of U.S. Funding for this program is in part from a Federal grant. manufacturing.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection. The internet initially promised to change this process. It quickly became apparent that the deluge of media made many of the functions that traditional publishers supplied even more necessary.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 15, 2021

In the case of many routers, all of your other devices may lose Internet connectivity when you perform such an update. For full transparency and disclosure, I noted that while I do employ various sophisticated security technologies on my own LANs, I do not use MAC address filtering on any of them.).

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2022

” This is what I wrote in my upcoming book (to be published in February): One example of an extension of this technology is the “persona bot,” an AI posing as an individual on social media and other online groups. They would participate in small forums around the Internet: hobbyist groups, book groups, whatever.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2021

Interestingly, the United States Postal Services(USPS) department is conducting a surveillance program for the past few weeks with the help of Facial Recognition integrated with Artificial Intelligence. . Zignal Labs is supplying the related Nfusion software to iCOP. .

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. The technologies aren’t perfect; some of them are pretty primitive. Spying is another matter. But so do humans.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft. We’ve arrived at a critical juncture: to enable the full potential of the Internet of Everything, attack surface expansion must be slowed and ultimately reversed. Erin: So, let’s get started. What drew you to this field?

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 12, 2021

Over the ensuing years, experts have repeatedly pointed out that not only were many of the technology systems being deployed to improve the efficiency of fuel distribution infrastructure management introducing dangerous vulnerabilities, but that a cyber-attack against the operator of a fuel pipeline was eventually going to both occur and succeed.

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Hackology

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Google Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) and has expertise in computer vision, geospatial science, human health, and integrated technologies. It’s a testament to Google’s commitment to AI advancement and its ambition to remain at the forefront of AI technology.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

Facebook has announced it will ban deepfake videos, which are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks. ” she wrote in a blog post. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Between social media, mobile apps, internet-connected devices and the rise of artificial intelligence vast amounts of personal data is being gathered constantly, putting individuals’ privacy at risk,” said Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director at NCA.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2020

Related: Defending networks with no perimeter Machine learning already is deeply embedded in the online shopping, banking, entertainment and social media systems we’ve come to rely on. By contrast, artificial intelligence (AI), though more often cited than ML, is distinct from ML.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

5G is among the technologies that researchers predict will have a big impact on the security landscape in the next decade. The Project assumes that consumers will access information with technologies designed for more and more immediacy, and less and less effort. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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McAfee

OCTOBER 14, 2020

However, the ability to alter reality has taken a leap forward with “deepfake” technology which allows for the creation of images and videos of real people saying and doing things they never said or did. We realize that news media do have considerable power in shaping people’s beliefs and opinions. Detrimental lies are not new.

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Hackology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the world, digital life is becoming easy. In a similar context, one of the biggest social media platforms, Meta, took a big step towards universal translation. The step of the company aims to provide users with the ability to effortlessly bridge language barriers.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Technology is usually a catalyst for these attacks; for example, attackers might use social media bots to establish a convincing internet presence that supports the story they’re trying to tell. There are many technologies that can help protect you and your business from social engineering attacks.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

ISACA today has announced the launch of its Certified in Emerging Technologies (CET) program, which allows participants to earn individual certificates in any of the four above areas of expertise and then collect all four for a full-fledged program certificate. “It If it’s remote access, how does it connect to the internet?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

You may not have noticed, but there has been a flurry of breakthroughs in biometric technology, led by some leapfrog advances in facial recognition systems over the past couple of years. The ultimate concern with this technology is that we’ll end up in a surveillance society where your I.D. Ubiquitous surveillance. Advanced use cases.

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SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Today’s columnist, Eric Haller of Experian, says now that society has grown more reliant on services like online grocery shopping and telehealth as a result of the pandemic, companies need to invest in strong digital identity technologies. Companies need to employ innovative technologies as fraudsters become more tech-savvy.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged as critical tools for dealing with the ever-growing volume and complexity of cybersecurity threats. The technology also predicts potential attacks and automatically responds to threats by identifying specific trends and cycles. ML can automate the whole process.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For example, hackers attacked Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, with malicious code hidden in a media file and managed to gather confidential information. This downloader connects to the internet to get anything the hacker wants to compromise on the machine (e.g., This technology removes malware automatically.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A hacker will send an email from what seems to be a reputable social media site, but the email will have a malicious link or a fake button. The FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report found that businesses and consumers lost a combined $1.8 billion to BEC and email compromise attacks. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. I wrote about four systems for enabling trust: our innate morals, concern about our reputations, the laws we live under, and security technologies that constrain our behavior. Laws and security technologies are systems of trust that force us to act trustworthy.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

And, while today’s commercially-created quantum machines are nowhere near powerful enough to approach quantum supremacy, absolutely nobody knows the true extent of the quantum capabilities of all of the technologically-advanced governments around the world. Clearly, there is a need to act in advance – and acting takes time.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the whirlwind of technological advancements and societal transformations, the term “AI” has undoubtedly etched itself into the forefront of global discourse. As the fast-growing technology evolves, it has become a matter of policy making and regulation.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword that has gained significant traction over the past decade. However, history has shown that technological advances create new jobs and industries. Another concern is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals or companies that control AI technology.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part of the policy discussions about the Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and pretty much everything else related to IT. Public-interest technology isn't one thing; it's many things.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Malicious blockchain or smart contract: Cryptocurrencies rely on blockchain technology to ensure that coin or token transactions cannot be manipulated or retroactively altered. They may use mass-mailing software to send millions of spam emails and may pay for advertising space on every corner of the Internet.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

We have on average 67 applications on our mobile phones, seven social media accounts and more than 120 online accounts. More than 96% of all internet users have never read a single privacy policy text. What technologies should the tool use? The technologies for making this tool a reality are already out there.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Often a combination of disruptive technologies, lagging risk behavior trends, shifts in threat actor capabilities or focus, greater expectations for cybersecurity, and new regulatory structures emerge to wreak havoc. There is a method to the madness of trying to forecast such a complex and muddled industry. In 2024: 1.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2024, that’s changed, as the uses for fake IDs have become enmeshed with the internet. Last month, the technology reporting outfit 404 Media investigated an online service called OnlyFake that claimed to use artificial intelligence to pump out images of fake IDs. You don’t need that anymore.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The adoption of 5G technology will also aid the energy industry, allowing even remote power stations to remain connected with little lag and the best available bandwidth. Intelligent agriculture. Intelligent agriculture may play a crucial role in food crop production. Protecting 5G from cyber threats.

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