Machine Learning

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

OpenAI said it disrupted five covert influence operations including from China and Russia that attempted to use its artificial intelligence services to manipulate public opinion amid elections. The threat actors used AI models to generate short comments and longer articles in multiple languages, made up names and bios for social media accounts, conducted open-source research,…

Application Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Visa’s newest security piece applies AI to customer transactions, analyzing them for their probability of fraud. Payment network Visa will offer a new AI-powered system designed to combat token fraud, analyzing transactions for patterns that could indicate fraudulent activity and help protect financial institutions against losses. The new product, dubbed Visa Provisioning Intelligence, is now…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The European Union will soon set up a dedicated office to oversee the implementation of the AI Act, especially by big-tech companies such as OpenAI, said a key European lawmaker. The European Parliament in June approved regulations intended to mitigate AI’s potential for negative effects on society. The AI Act entered final negotiations this month…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Machine learning (ML) is a commonly used term across nearly every sector of IT today. And while ML has frequently been used to make sense of big data—to improve business performance and processes and help make predictions—it has also proven priceless in other applications, including cybersecurity. This article will share reasons why ML has risen…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

An unknown attacker slipped a malicious binary into the PyTorch machine learning project by registering a malicious project with the Python Package Index (PyPI), infecting users’ machines if they downloaded a nightly build between Dec. 25 and Dec. 30. The PyTorch Foundation stated in an advisory on Dec. 31 that the effort was a dependency…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The Series A funding round was led by Sonae IM and received participation from previous investor Caisse des Dépôts. To date, the company has raised $17.2 million. Founded in 2018, the Lyon, France-based Hackuity is focused on helping cybersecurity teams identify, prioritize, and resolve vulnerabilities before threat actors start exploiting them. The company’s approach to…

Network Security

Issued by: CIO Security

Software-defined WAN, better known today as SD-WAN, is not the same technology that it was when it first got started. In the beginning, SD-WAN was essentially a way to enable organizations to use inexpensive broadband connectivity to connect back to the data center. It was a lower-cost alternative to other fixed-connectivity WAN options, most notably multiprotocol…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Data poisoning against security software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is likely the next big cybersecurity risk. According to the RSA 2021 keynote presentation by Johannes Ullrich, dean of research of SANS Technology Institute, it’s a threat we should all keep an eye on. “One of the most basic threats when…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The London, United Kingdom-based company leverages machine learning to prevent attacks that rely on email and social engineering. It describes its solution as “human layer security.” The company builds behavioral models for all employees and uses them to automatically detect security threats. Furthermore, by notifying employees of these issues, it aims to help improve individual…