July 2023 – Page 15 – PossibleThreat Articles

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

ComputerWorld Independent

OpenAI launches new alignment division to tackle risks of superintelligent AI

July 7, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Security

OpenAI is opening a new alignment research division, focused on developing training techniques to stop superintelligent AI — artificial intelligence that could outthink humans and become misaligned with humans ethics — from causing serious harm.

“Currently, we don’t have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue,” Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever wrote in a blog post for OpenAI, the company behind the most well-known generative AI large language model, ChatGPT. They added that although superintelligence might seem far off, some experts believe it could arrive this decade.

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Tailing Big Head Ransomware’s Variants, Tactics, and Impact

July 7, 2023 0 Comments trend micro research : articles, news, reports, trend micro research : cloud, trend micro research : cyber crime, trend micro research : cyber threats, trend micro research : endpoints, trend micro research : malware, trend micro research : network, trend micro research : ransomware

Credit to Author: Ieriz Nicolle Gonzalez| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We analyze the technical details of a new ransomware family named Big Head. In this entry, we discuss the Big Head ransomware’s similarities and distinct markers that add more technical details to initial reports on the ransomware.

ComputerWorld Independent

Lawyers and Incident Response can be a dangerous combo

July 7, 2023 0 Comments IT Leadership, IT Strategy, Security

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 03:30:00 -0700

Lawyers and C-suite leaders have the same basic mission: protect the enterprise from bad actors who want to do harm. But they often often approach the job in such polar opposite ways that they wind up fighting each other instead of working together.

A new academic report on the topic from researchers at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Innsbruck, Tufts University and the University of Minnesota tried to document how stark those differences have become.

“Cyber insurance sends work to a small number of [incident response] firms, drives down the fees paid and appoints lawyers to direct technical investigators,” the report noted. “Lawyers, when directing incident response often introduce legalistic contractual and communication steps that slow down incident response, advise IR practitioners not to write down remediation steps or to produce formal reports and restrict access to any documents produced.”

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