Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

One of the biggest threats on the horizon: artificial personas are coming, and they're poised to take over political debate. The risk arises from two separate threads coming together: artificial intelligence-driven text generation and social media chatbots. It's writing news stories, particularly in sports and finance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 27, 2023

The reason for the market research company to downgrade the value of the internet juggernaut at the Wall Street stock exchange is the risks involved with the over-indulgence in Artificial Intelligence that might also affect the stocks of Microsoft and Nvidia, as both are following the same operational suit.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

The attack was largely reminiscent of a 2022 YouTube account hack that repurposed a 2018 interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook to fool viewers into following a separate cryptocurrency scam. Patch known vulnerabilities in internet-facing software and disable or harden the login credentials for remote work tools like RDP ports and VPNs.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The first malware to be classified as fileless was the Code Red Worm , which ran rampant in 2001, attacking computers running Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS). We noted the trend ourselves, with an overview of fileless attacks in 2018. Fileless malware attacks have been around for 20 years at least.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A preliminary investigation identified data related to billing statements and fee notices to customers from 2018, including names, address, loan numbers, balance information and billing information such as charges assessed, owed or paid.

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McAfee

AUGUST 26, 2020

As the internet evolved with access to more compute devices and online payment capabilities so did the attackers playing field. The most recent evolution— a business model called Ransomware-as-a-Service(RaaS)— worked for CTB locker and was taken to another level by GandCrab , becoming the most prolific ransomware of 2018 and Q1 2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play an increasingly important role on both sides, as threat actors use malicious AI and enterprises employ the technology to proactively find and preemptively eliminate threats. Without automation, continuously protecting them all will be impossible.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2019

A discussion of how – and why – adversaries are using artificial intelligence to juice up malicious activities. That brings us to today, where AV vendors and malware distributors are engaged in a 3D chess match — infused by artificial intelligence, or AI. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

BankInfoSecurity reported that it had communicated with one person involved in the T-Mobile attack, who said the attackers got into the T-Mobile systems when the giant carrier left a gateway GPRS support node (GSSN) – which is a router between the company’s network and the internet – misconfigured, which exposed it to the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

The best IAM solutions incorporate the concept of zero trust, giving users only the access they really need, and use artificial intelligence to identify anomalous behavior that could indicate a breach or stolen credentials. Lets users in while using artificial intelligence (AI) to help keep threats out. Key IAM Features.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The bizarre promotional video promises “Face analysis based on best of breed Artificial Intelligence algorithms for Business Intelligence and Digital Signage applications.” Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras. It shouldn’t.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov) gov) has released their 2021 Internet Crime Report. The theory was that their advanced Artificial Intelligence was doing Bitcoin trading to make amazing profits. 3,961,508. -51%. Re-Shipping. 3,095,265. -80%. Denial of Service/TDoS. Crimes Against Children.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 23, 2018

On March 14, 2018, IBM Security announced the results of a new global study on organizational cybersecurity readiness and resiliency entitled “The 2018 Cyber Resilient Organization.” 23% of respondents say they do not currently have a CISO or security leader. .”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2020

Many privacy professionals consider the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in May 2018, as the cornerstone of privacy regulation. Objectives of the Personal Data Protection Bill. GDPR is harmonizing data protection and privacy requirements across the EU.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

An example of this is found in the case of Myrna Arias, detailed in a 2018 study on “Evidence-Based Recommendations for Employee Performance Monitoring.” In contrast, few reports have quantified the emotional and physical effects on employees or offered suggestions to help relieve or reduce the stress-related symptoms.”.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The investigation began in December 2018 and the DPC’s draft decision two years later recommended a fine of €30-50 million. Instead, it recommends multi-factor authentication for accessing internet-exposed systems. MORE Artificial intelligence came up with better emails for phishing tests than humans.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 8, 2021

The severity of the security situation can be assessed from a fact reported by Cybint, a leading international cybersecurity educator, stating that as much as 62% of businesses faced phishing and social engineering attacks in the year 2018. . However, there are some factors that will hinder the growth of the market.

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Spinone

MAY 27, 2020

Just last year, in 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR compliance regulation was introduced. Users can be coming from multiple sanctioned locations or even the public Internet when accessing business-critical data. Again, this requires effective tools to monitor and manage sharing across the SaaS landscape.

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NopSec

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The Great News It has been recently reported that NIST, the agency hosting the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), plans to replace its manual scoring of software vulnerabilities with a new automated process that leverages IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence system.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Case Studies of Data Breaches in the Retail and E-commerce Industry In 2018, Under Armour announced a data breach of 150 million MyFitnessPal user accounts. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Today’s world is flooded with Internet of Things (IoT) devices that collect vast amounts of data.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing. As early as 2018, the powerful foundation models powering cutting-edge applications like chatbots have been called “frontier AI.”

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

percent in 2018, and roughly 7 percent higher than in 2014. New technologies that are used to fight cyberattacks such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are also used by the “bad guys” to wage cyberattacks against organizations today. percent in 2019. This was up from 27.9 million vs. $4.56

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Also known as “ Assad Faiq” and “ The Godfather ,” Iza is the 30-something founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology. In December 2018, a then 21-year-0ld Troy Woody Jr. and refers to T.W.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture. Check Out Some Tools Short of wearing a biohazard suit and staying entirely off the internet or never touching a computer again, there are some excellent ways to remain safe from phishing.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The IntelSecrets nickname corresponds to an individual who has claimed responsibility for modifying the source code for the Mirai “Internet of Things” botnet to create a variant known as “ Satori ,” and supplying it to others who used it for criminal gain and were later caught and prosecuted.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

We do have we do have some people on the internet who have expressed concern about, you know, cyber criminal, I think is what we were originally going with. However, many years later was 2018. And in 2018, I bought five hover 100 of them on sticker mule, and took them to DEF CON. Is this to you know, is this for the better good?

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2022

Data protection has been evolving consistently since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. Artificial Intelligence Act (expected 2024). Emerging technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) offer benefits in many areas today for us all. Data Act (expected mid 2024).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Startup Est Headquarters Staff Funding Funding Type Abnormal Security 2018 San Francisco, CA 261 $74.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 Series A Perimeter 81 2018 Tel Aviv, Israel 159 $65.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 12, 2024

Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Large language models, the AI foundations behind tools like ChatGPT, are built on top of huge corpuses of data culled from the Internet. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2024

In an emerging trend, some sextortion scammers are now using artificial intelligence to manipulate photos from victims’ social media accounts into sexually graphic content. To illustrate how quickly the digital landscape has changed, a 2018 national survey found just 5 percent of US teens reported being victims of sextortion.

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Webroot

JANUARY 20, 2021

In this Employee Spotlight, we talk to Account Development Executive, Jordan Gray, who works with C-level executives to integrate threat intelligence solutions within their environments. In 2018, I was looking for a career change away from insurance. How have malicious threats evolved since the early days of the internet to now?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

variant of ransomware called “ WannaCry ” spread swiftly in 2017 and 2018, reaching over 100 countries and infecting over 200,000 computers. Digital connectivity driven by the adoption of industrial internet of things and operational technology (OT) has further expanded the attack surface. 2022 will be more of the same.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 4, 2023

No one should be forcibly subjected to political advertising, LLM-generated or not, on the basis of their Internet searches regarding private matters such as medical issues. This stands in stark contrast to the US, which has for years failed to enact federal data-privacy regulations.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A deepfake is a combination of Artificial Intelligence “deep learning” and that watchword of the 2010s: “fake.”. Any digital media asset created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence qualifies. An artificially generated “person.” households had an estimated 11 internet-connected devices per household.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Each and every major advance of Internet-centric commerce – from e-tailing and email, to social media and mobile computing, and now on to the Internet of Things – has translated into an exponential expansion of the attack surface available to cybercriminals. 2018 was no exception. Shock-immune public. The wider context?

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