Security News

Google Warns of Rising Cloaking Scams, AI-Driven Fraud, and Crypto Schemes
2024-11-14 14:00

Google has revealed that bad actors are leveraging techniques like landing page cloaking to conduct scams by impersonating legitimate sites. "Cloaking is specifically designed to prevent...

Google launches on-device AI to alert Android users of scam calls in real-time
2024-11-14 13:01

Google has announced new security features for Android that provide real-time protection against scams and harmful apps. These features, powered by advanced on-device AI, enhance user safety...

Google Cloud Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: AI, geopolitics, and cybercrime take centre stage
2024-11-14 06:00

Google Cloud unveiled its Cybersecurity Forecast for 2025, offering a detailed analysis of the emerging threat landscape and key security trends that organizations worldwide should prepare for....

New Google Pixel AI feature analyzes phone conversations for scams
2024-11-13 18:05

Google is adding a new AI-powered scam protection feature that monitors phone call conversations on Google Pixel devices to detect patterns that warn when the caller may be a scammer. [...]

Google says “Enhanced protection” feature in Chrome now uses AI
2024-11-09 21:42

Google has quietly updated the description of one of the Chrome's security features "Enchaned protection" to confirm that it will be powered by AI in a future release. [...]

Hands on with AI features in Windows 11 Paint and Notepad
2024-11-09 20:09

As part of its efforts to add AI everywhere, Microsoft is now bringing AI features to the popular Paint and Notepad apps on Windows 11. [...]

HackerOne: Nearly Half of Security Professionals Believe AI Is Risky
2024-11-08 21:15

The Hacker-Powered Security Report showed mixed feelings toward AI in the security community, with many seeing leaked training data as a threat.

AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
2024-11-08 12:03

The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible. It allows for secret training data and mechanisms. It allows for development to...

Why AI-enhanced threats and legal uncertainty are top of mind for risk executives
2024-11-08 04:30

AI-enhanced malicious attacks are the top emerging risk for enterprises in the third quarter of 2024, according to Gartner. Key emerging risks for enterprises It’s the third consecutive quarter...

How AI will shape the next generation of cyber threats
2024-11-07 05:30

In this Help Net Security interview, Buzz Hillestad, CISO at Prismatic, discusses how AI’s advancement reshapes cybercriminal skillsets and lowers entry barriers for potential attackers. Hillestad...