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Message to IT: Update all your Apple devices right away

September 8, 2023 0 Comments Apple, iOS, MacOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Apple has pushed out an essential security update to defend against yet another attack by an out-of-control mercenary surveillance group.

Like a bad smell, NSO Group has clawed its way back into the spotlight with yet another unprincipled attack against free speech and citizens’ rights, as revealed by Citizen Lab. The security researchers found this latest example of a sinister, yet egregious zero-click attack while checking the device of an “Individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices.”

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Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile

September 7, 2023 0 Comments gear / how to and advice, Security, Security / Security Advice

Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Here’s how to request that your personal information not be used to train Meta’s AI model. “Request” is the operative word here.

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The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key

September 7, 2023 0 Comments Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:01:40 +0000

After leaving many questions unanswered, Microsoft explains in a new postmortem the series of slipups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key.

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How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

September 6, 2023 0 Comments Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.

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Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix

September 6, 2023 0 Comments Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of.

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The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

September 6, 2023 0 Comments Security, Security / National Security

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:49:11 +0000

Posts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his “troll farm,” researchers claim.

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GenAI in productivity apps: What could possibly go wrong?

September 5, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, enterprise applications, generative ai, productivity software, Security

We’re in the “iPhone moment” for generative AI, with every company rushing to figure out its strategy for dealing with this disruptive technology.

According to a KPMG survey conducted this June, 97% of US executives at large companies expect their organizations to be impacted highly by generative AI in the next 12 to 18 months, and 93% believe it will provide value to their business. Some 35% of companies have already started to deploy AI tools and solutions, while 83% say that they will increase their generative AI investments by at least 50% in the next six to twelve months.

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