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This is an interesting attack I had not previously considered. The variants are interesting, and I think we’re just starting to understand their implications.

Fivetran announced the results of a survey which shows that while 87 percent of organizations consider artificial intelligence vital to their business survival, 86 percent say they would struggle to fully trust AI to make all business decisions without human intervention. 90 percent of respondents report their organizations continue to rely on manual data processes.

Russia's internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is developing a neural network that will use artificial intelligence to scan websites for prohibited information. Examples of information targeted by Oculus include homosexuality "Propaganda," instructions on manufacturing weapons or drugs, and misinformation that discredits official state and army sources.

Knowledge of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence has become crucial to a successful business. Businesses everywhere need true expertise to protect their data to avoid their competitors getting ahead. In this Help Net Security video, Taylor Hersom, CEO at Eden Data, discusses why we need AI and how it helps minimize human error, as well as cybersecurity threats such as ransomware.

According to Gartner's Case-Based Research, the three most pervasive challenges that AI addresses are lack of detection capability, inadequate security posture, and poor operational efficiency. In many ways, cybersecurity is becoming a big data problem, given the volume and sophistication of cybercampaigns.

Resecurity's AI-powered solutions provide proactive alerts and visibility of digital risks targeting the enterprise ecosystem. By joining the Microsoft Azure marketplace, Resecurity's software solutions will be easily accessible to the millions of Azure customers needing comprehensive cybersecurity management and monitoring.

In this video for Help Net Security, Karthik Krishnan, CEO at Concentric AI, talks about how they provide agentless connectivity to a wide variety of data repositories so you can govern access to your data wherever it resides. They also integrate with popular data classification frameworks, like Microsoft Information Protection, so you can enjoy better coverage and more accurate classification results throughout your security stack.

Face-matching service Clearview AI has only been around for five years, but it has courted plenty of controversy in that time, both inside and outside the courtroom. Not long after the social media scraping brouhaha, Clearview AI suffered a widely-publicised data breach.

Two stunning deepfakes that have been broadly covered include a deepfake of Tom Cruise, birthed into the world by Chris Ume and Miles Fisher, and deepfake young Luke Skywalker, created by Shamook and Graham Hamilton, in a recent episode of "The Book of Boba Fett.". Without a similar bone structure and the subject's trademark movements and turns of phrase, even today's most advanced AI would be hard-pressed to make the deepfake perform credibly.

Remember the good old days, when the only devices a company had to worry about were the PCs on its own network? Today, security teams must yearn for those times as they struggle to protect endpoint devices everywhere. Darktrace is mirroring the approach it takes to security at the core of the network with an endpoint agent that uses machine learning to protect PCs. "The way we operate our businesses has changed so drastically over the last few years," says Justin Fier, the company's Director of Cyber Intelligence & Analytics.