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AI-enabled data collection and the regulatory landscape 2024-05-03 at 15:17 By AI can analyze and utilize customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) in ways that could infringe on an individual’s privacy. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Report: The cost and complexity of data compliance impedes innovation 2024-05-03 at 15:17 By Organizations are utilizing data to promote innovation; however, less than 2% can access sensitive data within a week’s time.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISOs aren’t scapegoats: Fostering a security-first culture 2024-05-03 at 15:17 By Cybersecurity is now a business enabler, impacting the bottom line with emerging regulations and making it more of a priority for organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Leveraging holistic GRC for compliance and audit preparation 2024-05-03 at 15:17 By Governance, risk, and compliance is often treated as a separate entity from security. But experts know that the two are hopelessly intertwined. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cloud Big Three take lion’s share as market expands 21% 2024-05-03 at 14:46 By Dan Robinson Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022 The global cloud market showed strong growth for the first quarter of this year, with the big three providers continuing to consolidate their stranglehold over this vital area of IT services.…

New Guide Explains How to Eliminate the Risk of Shadow SaaS and Protect Corporate Data 2024-05-03 at 14:01 By SaaS applications are dominating the corporate landscape. Their increased use enables organizations to push the boundaries of technology and business. At the same time, these applications also pose a new security risk that security leaders need to address, since

Some scientists can’t stop using AI to write research papers 2024-05-03 at 13:31 By Matthew Connatser If you read about ‘meticulous commendable intricacy’ there’s a chance a boffin had help Linguistic and statistical analyses of scientific articles suggest that generative AI may have been used to write an increasingly large amount of scientific literature.… This

Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents 2024-05-03 at 12:46 By Simon Sharwood Rovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork Atlassian is the latest vendor to have a crack at addressing the perennial problem of enterprises scattering data across multiple applications and then finding it’s impossible to

NSA, FBI Alert on N. Korean Hackers Spoofing Emails from Trusted Sources 2024-05-03 at 12:46 By The U.S. government on Thursday published a new cybersecurity advisory warning of North Korean threat actors’ attempts to send emails in a manner that makes them appear like they are from legitimate and trusted parties. The joint bulletin was published by the National Security

UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is ‘de facto endorsement’ 2024-05-03 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Lords committee slams government response to complaints from creators A committee of UK legislators has slammed the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a “de facto endorsement” of the way tech companies build large language models.…

Google Announces Passkeys Adopted by Over 400 Million Accounts 2024-05-03 at 10:16 By Google on Thursday announced that passkeys are being used by over 400 million Google accounts, authenticating users more than 1 billion times over the past two years. “Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin

Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon 2024-05-03 at 09:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Relax! It’s for low-gravity exercise Astronauts living on the Moon will need to maintain a strict exercise regimen to avoid physical deterioration due to the low gravity, and one proposed solution will have them bouncing off the

Europol op shutters 12 scam call centers and cuffs 21 suspected fraudsters 2024-05-03 at 08:46 By Jessica Lyons Cops prevented crims from bilking victims out of more than €10m – but couldn’t stop crime against art A Europol-led operation dubbed “Pandora” has shut down a dozen phone scam centers, and arrested 21 suspects. The cops

Four Critical Vulnerabilities Expose HPE Aruba Devices to RCE Attacks 2024-05-03 at 08:16 By HPE Aruba Networking (formerly Aruba Networks) has released security updates to address critical flaws impacting ArubaOS that could result in remote code execution (RCE) on affected systems. Of the 10 security defects, four are rated critical in severity – CVE-2024-26304 (CVSS score: 9.8) –

Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International 2024-05-03 at 07:46 By Laura Dobberstein A ‘murky’ web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users Indonesia has acquired spyware and surveillance technologies through a “murky network” that extends into Israel, Greece, Singapore and Malaysia for equipment sourcing, according to Amnesty International.…

Apple sales slip, but investors offered bite of $110 billion stock buyback 2024-05-03 at 06:16 By Simon Sharwood Mac sales rose, iPads predicted to soar, and AI is riding to the rescue Apple has announced the biggest stock buyback in US history: a $110 billion plan to slurp shareholders’ scrip.… This article is an excerpt

Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say Chinese researchers 2024-05-03 at 05:46 By Laura Dobberstein Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems Exclusive  Five Chinese researchers examined the configurations of nearly 14,000 government websites across the country and found worrying lapses that could lead to malicious

Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes 2024-05-03 at 04:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo I guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had Starlink’s self-imposed end of April deadline to crack down on roaming users who abuse the service has come and gone without

Microsoft, Google do a victory lap around passkeys 2024-05-03 at 02:16 By Jessica Lyons Windows giant extends passwordless tech to everyone else Microsoft today said it will now let us common folk — not just commercial subscribers — sign into their Microsoft accounts and apps using passkeys with their face, fingerprint, or device PIN.… This article

Prof sues Meta to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook 2024-05-03 at 02:01 By Thomas Claburn You’ve got to fight for your right to personalize A professor has asked the US courts to confirm he has the right to release a browser extension to help people disengage with Facebook by automatically changing certain