The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Encryption Artificial Intelligence IoT Data collection 176

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology offer unprecedented opportunities for organizations to reduce the burden on struggling SOC analysts so they can focus on more strategic tasks, their mental health, and their overall well-being. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The invisible hands of artificial intelligence are reaching deeper into our lives than ever before. Get ready to uncover how technology companies are harvesting your data to fuel the next generation of artificial intelligence. Request to see the data they have collected and ask them to delete it where possible.

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Artificial Intelligence Data collection Data privacy Technology 97

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2023

Zoom updated its terms of service and informed users that it will train its artificial intelligence models using some of its data. The update will be effective as of July 27, and accepting the ToS users will give Zoom the right to utilize some aspects of customer data for training its AI models.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Data collection Marketing 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 8, 2022

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has developed an Artificial Intelligence(AI) based chat bot that is now being tested by its users on a vigorous scale. Meta’s AI research team developed the bot named BlenderBot 3 and is testing with the help of residents from United States.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. But lobbying strategies are not always so blunt, and the interests involved are not always so obvious.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Privacy Rights – Pervasive monitoring and data collection erode privacy rights and dignity. Focus only on proportional responses. Surveillance creep risks violating autonomy.

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Data collection Risk Surveillance Manufacturing 215

Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

On Monday, the computing giant unveiled a new line of PCs that integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to promise faster speeds, enhanced productivity, and a powerful data collection and search tool that screenshots a device’s activity—including password entry—every few seconds.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Use of Artificial Intelligence technology is also adding advantage to their capabilities as it is allowing them to harvest data from billions of devices operating across the west. The post China setting up data traps says UK appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Artificial Intelligence Data collection IoT Cyber Attacks 89

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform major sectors like healthcare, transportation, finance, and government over the coming years. But the advanced machine learning (ML) models powering this AI revolution also introduce new vectors of attack for malicious actors.

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Artificial Intelligence Data collection Architecture Healthcare 92

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced , but there’s still a lot of confusion. It seems not to be true. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

Either way, a singular piece of technology – artificial intelligence (AI) — is destined to profoundly influence which way we go from here. However, as the data collected by Internet of Things systems gets deeper and richer , the algorithms running AI should get smarter and more accurate. Only time will tell.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2023

In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet—her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs—was shared on Facebook, and it was shared by someone whose job it was to look at that photo and, by labeling the objects in it, help train an artificial intelligence system for a vacuum.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2023

The European Union approved the EU AI Act, setting up the first steps toward formal regulation of artificial intelligence in the West. The EU AI Act is pioneering in its scope, attempting to address a vast array of applications of artificial intelligence. It also seeks to ban real-time facial recognition.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development : Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

Third-party security, ransomware , artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the past.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft's Copilot AI is an advanced artificial intelligence assistant designed to enhance user productivity, troubleshoot technical issues, and provide personalized recommendations. A breach could lead to the exposure of large amounts of personal data, posing significant risks to user privacy. Copilot AI: what is it?

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Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Technology Risk 74

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2024

From an information security department's perspective, the more data collected on employee actions, the more effectively potential incidents can be investigated. On the flip side, employees often lack access to the data collected by UAM solutions. This is particularly relevant for remote workers.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 27, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology, imbuing machines with human-like intelligence to perform tasks across various domains. The standard provides guidelines for governing and managing AI technologies, ensuring accountability, transparency, and data privacy throughout the AI lifecycle.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2024

Emerging trends such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Network Observability, Self-Sovereign Identity, etc. This may include but is not limited to sensor data, voice recognition, driver behavior, conversations, locations traversed, and PII.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 17, 2024

AI Hallucinations: These are instances where artificial intelligence systems generate outputs that are not grounded in reality or are inconsistent with the intended task. By infiltrating systems or exploiting vulnerabilities, adversaries can steal these models, leading to intellectual property theft and competitive disadvantage.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 5, 2024

Thales excels in these rapidly advancing technologies that require privacy and data security and are eager to continue working with Google Cloud on them. With AI implementations, cybersecurity attacks can occur at different states of the AI pipeline including data collection, model creation and training, and at inference.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2024

AI Hallucinations: These are instances where artificial intelligence systems generate outputs that are not grounded in reality or are inconsistent with the intended task. By infiltrating systems or exploiting vulnerabilities, adversaries can steal these models, leading to intellectual property theft and competitive disadvantage.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 18, 2024

However, a key issue is that it's important to assess the quality of your SBOM data collection." "It's not always easy to know ingredients unless there is a mandate and a standard like nutrition labels in the food industry. Das added, "All tools are not the same even if they generate an SBOM in standard format.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 31, 2024

Enhances visibility: Continuous data collection and analysis provide deeper insights into endpoint security, allowing for more effective detection and response. Performs rollback ransomware: After a ransomware attack, restore systems to their pre-infection state to reduce damage and recovery time.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 23, 2023

As the conversation around privacy progresses beyond a focus on security infrastructure and best practices for preventing data breaches, regulations are working to catch up. Enable data permissions that usefully anticipate the user's intentions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2024

Thales excels in these rapidly advancing technologies that require privacy and data security and are eager to continue working with Google Cloud on them. With AI implementations, cybersecurity attacks can occur at different states of the AI pipeline including data collection, model creation and training, and at inference.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This integration of human effort and AI capability is transforming citizen science into a form of collective intelligence, where creativity and precision converge. As a decentralized autonomous artist, Botto uses artificial intelligence (AI) to autonomously generate thousands of digital artworks weekly without human prompts.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Privacy Policy Transparency : Organizations must publish clear and comprehensive privacy policies detailing their data collection, processing, and sharing practices. Data Security Measures : Implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal data from unauthorized access or breaches.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

To comply with the MNDPA, businesses must adhere to a set of privacy and security requirements, including: Consumer Rights : Granting residents the ability to access, correct, delete, and opt-out of the sale of their personal data. Data Security : Implementing reasonable technical and administrative measures to safeguard personal information.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Between now and early 2024, the European Union is introducing a range of new data directives around data and online services. These regulations aim to protect consumers and citizens, enable safe data sharing, and even prepare for more widespread adoption of artificial intelligence.

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Spinone

JUNE 8, 2018

From identity theft to credit card numbers being taken away, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence play an instrumental role in establishing new standards for cyber security. While the potential of Big Data is vast, it might lag behind as a standalone tool to deal with hackers due to the enormous volume of data to analyze.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Darktrace‘s Cyber artificial intelligence (AI) platform detects and fights cyber threats in real-time. It combines the talents of IT specialists from the University of Cambridge with intelligence experts from MI5. Cybereason also made eSecurity Planet ‘s list of top EDR solutions. Darktrace – Threat detection.

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Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Threat Detection Marketing 90

BH Consulting

JUNE 17, 2024

BH Consulting’s senior data protection consultant Tracy Elliott shared her observations in a blog, and the 148-page report is free to download. In other DPC news, the Irish Independent reports that Facebook’s parent company Meta is temporarily pausing data collection for AI, after the DPC requested it to do so.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

With faster response times, a more centralized platform, and artificial intelligence-powered workflows, many companies select XDR tools to optimize or go beyond what their SIEM and UEBA tools can do. Unlike EDR, NDR focuses less on actual devices and more on network traffic behavior analysis via packet data.

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McAfee

MAY 17, 2021

Go Where The Data Is – At the Source. While it is painfully apparent that data entering data lakes and massive data collections are regularly changing, data types are changing almost as frequently.

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