Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, is not impressed by ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence technology that is making headlines daily.
German antitrust enforcers known for leveling charges against high-profile tech companies have a new target for accusations of dominant market position abuse: PayPal.
Data anonymization is an important tool for organizations to protect the personal data of individuals, while averting the onerous requirements of the EU and U.K.
Phishing is a big deal, with a State of Phishing report from security firm SlashNext claiming that there were more than 255 million phishing attacks in 2022, a 61% increase from the year before.
The goal of the CGA is to highlight and reduce damages done to all utilities when working underground.
More than 91% of malware utilizes DNS communication at some point during its attack lifecycle, making DNS an invaluable choke point in the fight against cyber threats.
When it comes to operating systems and now CPU instruction sets, there is proprietary, there is licensable and modifiable with a standard base of functionality with room for some originality, and there is true open source.
Since 2017, China has held at least seven of these competitions—called Robot Hacking Games—many with multiple qualifying rounds.
Extortion, and especially “sextortion†emails, are becoming more frequent, and they can be extremely alarming when received. Such emails work by using threats to extort money, evoking intense fear.
2022 was an impactful year in the fight against ransomware. Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 million the year before.
ECTA also denounced the Commission for not subjecting its proposals to public consultation, and for attempting to overrule the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC). It called on the Commission to rework the proposals to account for the positive impact made by altnets on investment and citizens’ interests. It also demanded that the Commission prepare an impact assessment and conduct a public consultation.
These panic-inducing scenarios are familiar to most modern IT and security leaders and share something in common. Each hypothetical breakdown is the result of employees — and the digital public as a whole — being lulled into a false sense of security regarding their online behaviors.
Analyst Gartner predicts that worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile will drop 4.4% this year, which would mean the second consecutive year of decline. But there is perhaps some light at the end of the tunnel.
Hundreds of CISOs, CSOs, and security leaders, whether from small or large companies, don’t know either. No matter the organization’s size, the certifications, tools, people, and processes: secrets are not visible in 99% of cases.
It’s been a bad few months for password managers — albeit mostly just for LastPass. But after the revelations that LastPass had suffered a major breach, attention is now turning to open-source manager KeePass.
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