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Scammers exploit tax season anxiety with AI tools
2024-03-26 04:30

25% of Americans has lost money to online tax scams, according to McAfee. "As tax season ramps up, so too does cybercriminal activity. What's new this year is the scale and sophistication of scams we're now seeing thanks to artificial intelligence. From AI-generated robocalls with regional accents to very realistic and convincing fake emails, websites, and scam texts, cybercriminals are utilizing all the AI tools available to them, and so too should consumers to stay safe," said Steve Grobman, CTO at McAfee.

Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams
2024-03-25 11:32

Google's new AI-powered 'Search Generative Experience' algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams. Earlier this month, Google began rolling out a new feature called Google Search Generative Experience in its search results, which provides AI-generated quick summaries for search queries, including recommendations for other sites to visit related to the query.

Licensing AI Engineers
2024-03-25 11:04

Stephen March 25, 2024 8:02 AM. Physician and attorney self governance are both organized at the state level. There are advantages to operation at this scale - chiefly that smaller communities will tend to know their members better.

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How immersive AI transforms skill development
2024-03-25 05:00

Organizations are becoming more laser-focused on extracting the value of AI, moving from the experimentation phase toward adoption. While the potential for AI is limitless, AI expertise sadly is not.

Shadow AI is the latest cybersecurity threat you need to prepare for
2024-03-22 06:00

Similarly to shadow IT, shadow AI refers to all the AI-enabled products and platforms being used within your organization that those departments don't know about. Establishing a risk matrix for AI use within your organization and defining how it will be used will allow you to have productive conversations around AI usage for the entire business.

Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI
2024-03-21 11:03

When tech billionaires and corporations steer AI, we get AI that tends to reflect the interests of tech billionaires and corporations, instead of the public. To benefit society as a whole we need an AI public option-not to replace corporate AI but to serve as a counterbalance-as well as stronger democratic institutions to govern all of AI. Like public roads and the federal postal system, a public AI option could guarantee universal access to this transformative technology and set an implicit standard that private services must surpass to compete.

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GitHub Launches AI-Powered Autofix Tool to Assist Devs in Patching Security Flaws
2024-03-21 10:30

GitHub on Wednesday announced that it's making available a feature called code scanning autofix in public beta for all Advanced Security customers to provide targeted recommendations in an effort...

GitHub’s new AI-powered tool auto-fixes vulnerabilities in your code
2024-03-20 18:52

GitHub introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up vulnerability fixes while coding. Known as Code Scanning Autofix and powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL, it helps deal with over 90% of alert types in JavaScript, Typescript, Java, and Python.

Generative AI Security - Secure Your Business in a World Powered by LLMs
2024-03-20 11:27

Did you know that 79% of organizations are already leveraging Generative AI technologies? Much like the internet defined the 90s and the cloud revolutionized the 2010s, we are now in the era of...

Red teaming in the AI era
2024-03-20 05:30

To effectively safeguard these new environments, cybersecurity teams need to understand the shifting nuances of red teaming in the context of AI. Understanding what's changed with AI is an essential starting point to guide red teaming efforts in the years ahead. Why AI flips the red teaming script. Because the abilities of these models increase over time, cyber teams are no longer red teaming a static model.

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