Security News

Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies
2020-05-11 09:50

Clearview AI - the web-scraping, faceprint-amassing biometrics company that's being sued over collecting biometrics without informed consent - says it's no longer going to sell access to its program to a) private entities or b) any entity whatsoever that's located in Illinois. Clearview AI founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That has claimed that the results are 99.6% accurate.

Ai Corporation upgrades EazyFuel to be fully PCI compliant
2020-05-06 01:00

The ai Corporation, an FCA approved expert in payments, fraud and risk management, announced that it has upgraded EazyFuel, its closed loop fuel card platform, to be fully PCI compliant, in anticipation of the expansion of PCI Data Security Standard to cover fuel cards. Ai, whose aiGateway - omni-channel payment gateway - was granted Level 1 Service Provider accreditation recently, has rolled out PCI compliance across its suite of payments, fraud and risk management solutions for the fuel industry, in advance of any change to PCI DSS compliance or regulation.

Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL and NVIDIA DGX systems power AI-ready infrastructure
2020-05-06 00:15

Digital Realty developed a pre-configured Data Hub footprint based on typical customer deployment scenarios on NVIDIA DGX and DGX PODTM configurations. Delivered as part of NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program, the Data Hub solution accommodates a typical enterprise deployment of AI infrastructure to address the placement, connectivity and hosting of critical data infrastructure in proximity to users, networks, clouds and things.

Iguazio partners with NetApp to simplify data science and bring AI to the masses
2020-05-05 23:30

Iguazio, the data science platform for real-time machine learning applications, announced a strategic partnership with NetApp that provides enterprises with a simple, end-to-end solution for developing, deploying and managing AI applications at scale and in real-time on top of the ONTAP AI framework. Iguazio's integration with NetApp ONTAP AI leverages enterprise grade data management, data versioning and NetApp Cloud Volumes for a seamless hybrid cloud experience.

dotData AI-FastStart: Adding AI/ML models to BI stacks and predictive analytics apps
2020-05-01 01:45

Available exclusively to North American customers who are not existing dotData clients, the dotData FastTrack program is designed to empower business intelligence teams to quickly and efficiently add AI/ML models to their BI stacks and predictive analytics applications. At the core of the new program is dotData's full-cycle data science automation platform, dotData Enterprise, which accelerates ROI and lowers the total cost of model development by automating the entire data science process that is at the heart of AI/ML. "We are seeing a huge demand for AI and ML capabilities in the market, but finding that many companies either do not have the internal resources to launch a data science program, or don't know how to get one started," said Ryohei Fujimaki, founder and CEO of dotData.

AI helps experts find thousands of child sexual abuse imagery keywords
2020-04-24 09:47

A team of 13 analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have used machine learning to help them figure out what secret code words are used by online communities of perverts to covertly talk about child sexual abuse images. The IWF is a UK-based charity that every year removes tens of thousands of depraved images.

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Otter.ai Live Video Meeting Notes enables participants to highlight, share, search, and review their notes
2020-04-24 01:15

Ai introduced the availability of Live Video Meeting Notes, which enables participants to open a secure, live interactive transcript directly from a video conference, or after a meeting. Ai Live Video Meeting Notes enables users to access some of the same real-time features available in Otter Voice Meeting Notes, launched directly from a video conferencing platform.

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Let’s be realistic about our expectations of AI
2020-04-23 05:20

Media misrepresentations of AI may seem harmless when we think about animated robots on The Jetsons, but the consequences of portrayals both in entertainment and other media reporting can be significant when it comes to AI research and development. Many nontechnical observers today think of AI as a sci-fi technology with human-level performance, but AI is still only as smart as the data that scientists feed to it.

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What is the impact of AI and ML tools on cybersecurity?
2020-04-22 03:30

89% of IT professionals believe their company could be doing more to defend against cyberattacks, with 64% admitting they are not sure what AI/ML means - despite increased adoption at a global scale, Webroot reveals. With the UK currently in lockdown to tackle the spread of coronavirus, thousands more people are staying at home to work.

Deepfakes and AI: Fighting Cybersecurity Fire with Fire
2020-04-21 13:24

Cybercriminals are using AI and ML to exploit vulnerabilities such as user behavior or security gaps to gain access to valuable business systems and data. Tech companies are trying to stay ahead of the game by creating AI technologies that fight against AI attacks, including deepfakes.