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- Over 90% of phishing campaigns lead victims to malwareon 17 October 2024 at 12:00
Phishing remains the primary method used by attackers to gain initial access to networks, according to a recent report.
- Research observes threat activity targeting 2024 Presidential Electionby algerj@bnpmedia.com (Jordyn Alger) on 17 October 2024 at 12:00
New research shows the current threats associated with the 2024 Presidential Election.
- Over half of tech leaders cite phishing as a top security concernon 16 October 2024 at 12:00
A report found that 33.9% of tech professionals report a shortage of AI security skills, particularly around emerging vulnerabilities like prompt injection.
- New iPhone feature could expose employees’ personal informationby algerj@bnpmedia.com (Jordyn Alger) on 16 October 2024 at 12:00
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that Apple’s new “Mirroring” feature could expose an employee’s personal applications.
- 53% of survey respondents admit to paying over $500,000 ransomon 15 October 2024 at 12:00
A report found that 53% of organizations met ransom demands of more than $500,000 USD to recover access to encrypted systems and files.
- 38% of organizations are at risk of critical exposuresby algerj@bnpmedia.com (Jordyn Alger) on 15 October 2024 at 12:00
38% of organizations are at risk of critical exposures due to a combination of security shortfalls.
- 39% of consumers admit to using generative AI on a weekly basison 14 October 2024 at 12:00
Twenty-seven percent of employed survey respondents use privacy tools and settings to protect workplace information when using generative AI.
- Fidelity Investments data breach impacts more than 77,000 customersby algerj@bnpmedia.com (Jordyn Alger) on 14 October 2024 at 12:00
Fidelity Investments announced it experienced a data breach.
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- Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recordingby Benj Edwards on 17 October 2024 at 22:41
Researcher feeds screen recordings into Gemini to extract accurate information with ease.
- Two accused of DDoSing some of the world’s biggest tech companiesby Dan Goodin on 16 October 2024 at 22:40
Hospitals, government agencies, and a large roster of tech companies all targeted.
- Amazon joins Google in investing in small modular nuclear powerby John Timmer on 16 October 2024 at 16:47
What’s with the sudden interest in nuclear power among tech titans?
- Deepfake lovers swindle victims out of $46M in Hong Kong AI scamby Benj Edwards on 16 October 2024 at 15:40
Scammers used AI deepfake tools to create fake online personas, tricking victims in video calls.
- North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMsby Dan Goodin on 15 October 2024 at 21:16
Once, FASTCash ran only on Unix. Then came Windows. Now it can target Linux, too.
- SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times fasterby Jon Brodkin on 15 October 2024 at 18:42
SpaceX: “Small-but-meaningful updates” can boost speed from about 100Mbps to 1Gbps.
- Google and Kairos sign nuclear reactor deal with aim to power AIby Benj Edwards on 15 October 2024 at 16:14
New Google agreement could boost development of small modular reactors—if they work.
- Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed contentby Benj Edwards on 14 October 2024 at 21:48
New text-to-video tool focuses on video pros, made with content owner permission.
- The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back onlineby Jon Brodkin on 14 October 2024 at 19:25
Wayback Machine back in read-only mode after DDoS, may need further maintenance.
- Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.by Dan Goodin on 14 October 2024 at 19:06
A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.