Month: February 2024
If only you had to worry about malware, with Jason Haddix: Lock and Code S05E04
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Jason Haddix about how businesses can protect against modern cyberthreats.
Read moreAI-generated voices in robocalls are illegal, rules FCC
The FCC has ruled that the use of AI generated voices in robocalls is illegal, by considering them as artificial under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Read moreSatellite Images Point to Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Gaza’s Health Care Facilities
Credit to Author: Vittoria Elliott| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:34:34 +0000
New research finds that Israel’s attacks on Gaza damaged hospitals and other medical facilities at the same rate as other buildings, potentially in violation of international law.
Read moreThe Hidden Injustice of Cyberattacks
Credit to Author: Nicole Tisdale| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Cyberattacks and criminal scams can impact anyone. But communities of color and other marginalized groups are often disproportionately impacted and lack the support to better protect themselves.
Read more2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington
Credit to Author: Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000
“This eruption of violence had been brewing for years, through successive economic collapses, pandemics, and the utter dysfunction that had become American life.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
Read moreThe AI data-poisoning cat-and-mouse game — this time, IT will win
Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0800
The IT community of late has been freaking out about AI data poisoning. For some, it’s a sneaky mechanism that could act as a backdoor into enterprise systems by surreptitiously infecting the data large language models (LLMs) train on and then getting pulled into enterprise systems. For others, it’s a way to combat LLMs that try to do an end run around trademark and copyright protections.
A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade
Credit to Author: Madison Goldberg| Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.
Read moreHow 3 Million ‘Hacked’ Toothbrushes Became a Cyber Urban Legend
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: China’s Volt Typhoon hackers lurked in US systems for years, the Biden administration’s crackdown on spyware vendors ramps up, and a new pro-Beijing disinformation campaign gets exposed.
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