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Sextortion is a form of online blackmail where malicious actors threaten their targets with publicly leaking explicit images and videos they stole or acquired, typically demanding money payments for withholding the material. "As of April 2023, the FBI has observed an uptick in sextortion victims reporting the use of fake images or videos created from content posted on their social media sites or web postings, provided to the malicious actor upon request, or captured during video chats," reads the alert published on the FBI's IC3 portal.
Ai, discusses a dark side to generative AI that isn't talked about enough. Organizations must remember that anything that goes into the learning process can never be taken back.
As a leading voice in AI security, Katie shed some light on how encouraging women to join the cybersecurity revolution today is helping secure the products of tomorrow. One thing is clear, the growing popularity of AI requires the product security world to make even more adjustments to their security strategies, including looking for new ways to recruit rising young men and women who can address the challenges of tomorrow.
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. I actually don't think that AI poses a risk to human extinction.
"Human psychology is important to consider from a security team perspective, because we all have cognitive biases," explains Darley. How can AI help us to overcome these cognitive biases? Machine learning can analyse network traffic and identify anomalies or suspicious behaviour that could indicate a cyber attack.
Threat actors are abusing generative AI to carry out child sex abuse material, disinformation, fraud and extremism, according to ActiveFence. Key ways to abuse generative AI:. CSAM. Researchers tracked a 172% increase in the volume of shared CSAM produced by generative AI in the first quarter of this year.
Throughout the first day of the conference, CEO Michael Dell and fellow executives drilled down into what AI could do for enterprises beyond ChatGPT. "Enterprises are going to be able to train far simpler AI models on specific, confidential data less expensively and securely, driving breakthroughs in productivity and efficiency," Michael Dell said. Dell's solution, Project Helix, is a full stack, on-premises offering in which companies train and guide their own proprietary AI. For example, a company might deploy a large language model to read all of the knowledge articles on its website and answer a user's questions based on a summary of those articles, said Forrester analyst Rowan Curran.
GitLab announced on Monday the new GitLab 16 platform, an upgraded and comprehensive AI-driven DevSecOps solution. GitLab 16 includes more than 55 improvements and new features.
Cloudflare announced on May 15, 2023 a new suite of zero-trust security tools for companies to leverage the benefits of AI technologies while mitigating risks.The Cloudflare One platform's new tools and features are Cloudflare Gateway, service tokens, Cloudflare Tunnel, Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention and Cloudflare's cloud access security broker.
Shadow AI. Employees are using the new family of generative AI tools like ChatGPT whether they're allowed to or not. To turn AI into a cybersecurity ally, organizations need to update - or perhaps create - action plans to handle the adoption of new, cutting-edge AI tools.