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ComputerWorld Independent 

How to thwart cyber criminals seeking to target smaller businesses

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Credit to Author: Cisco| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:16:00 -0800

Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the belief that they have not invested in the security technology required to thwart attacks. In fact, 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at SMBs. Cybercriminals are rational, profit-driven and highly organised: they know that attacking easy targets can result in a bigger aggregate pay-day. 

 

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ComputerWorld Independent 

Building the foundations of a sustainable innovation strategy

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Credit to Author: Cisco| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:10:00 -0800

Modern customer demands and evolving technology capability mean smaller businesses are seeking digital transformation as eagerly as their enterprise counterparts.  

 

In the UK, for example, a recent survey by the Federation of Small Business (FSB) suggests that in the past three years, 69% of companies have either brought an entirely new product to market (25%), improved existing products (38%) or improved or introduced new internal or customer-facing processes (25%).  

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ComputerWorld Independent 

The AI data-poisoning cat-and-mouse game — this time, IT will win

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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.

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Security Wired 

How 3 Million ‘Hacked’ Toothbrushes Became a Cyber Urban Legend

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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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