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Unpacking CISA’s AI guidelines
2024-06-07 04:00

Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally. CISA's late April AI and infrastructure guidelines address 16 sectors along with their cybersecurity needs and operations concerning the growth of AI as a tool to build both federal and vendor cybersecurity infrastructure in the federal marketplace.

Some Generative AI Company Employees Pen Letter Wanting ‘Right to Warn’ About Risks
2024-06-06 14:13

Some current and former employees of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic published a letter on June 4 asking for whistleblower protections, more open dialogue about risks and "a culture of open criticism" in the major generative AI companies. The Right to Warn letter illuminates some of the inner workings of the few high-profile companies that sit in the generative AI spotlight.

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How AI-powered attacks are accelerating the shift to zero trust strategies
2024-06-05 04:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Jenn Markey, Advisor to The Entrust Cybersecurity Institute, discusses the increasing adoption of enterprise-wide zero trust strategies in response to evolving cyber threats. Two-thirds of organizations featured in the 2024 State of Zero Trust & Encryption study cited cyber-risk concerns as the main drivers for implementing a zero-trust strategy.

Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA
2024-06-04 16:06

Cisco will invest $1 billion in AI and package a new networking solution with NVIDIA's AI infrastructure, the organization announced at its annual consumer event on June 4. Cisco partners with NVIDIA on Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters.

AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams
2024-06-03 11:04

Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human experts.

Organizations are moving from experimenting with AI to adopting it
2024-06-03 03:00

Despite AI's potential, only 14% of organizations are ready to implement and utilize these technologies. While AI offers significant advantages, the focus must shift to essential, foundational actions to realize its full potential, emphasizing both technical and soft skills development across all organizational levels.

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AI platform Hugging Face says hackers stole auth tokens from Spaces
2024-06-02 20:56

AI platform Hugging Face says that its Spaces platform was breached, allowing hackers to access authentication secrets for its members. Hugging Face Spaces is a repository of AI apps created and submitted by the community's users, allowing other members to demo them.

AI Company Hugging Face Detects Unauthorized Access to Its Spaces Platform
2024-06-01 07:34

Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. "We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces’...

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How AI Will Change Democracy
2024-05-31 11:04

We don't know how far AI will go in replicating or replacing human cognitive functions. Again, I am less interested in how AI will substitute for humans.

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OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered
2024-05-31 08:11

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations (IO) originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence...