This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Monitor More, Worry Less. Outpace Threats With Machine Learning.

In the past two years, enterprises have created more data than has been created in the entire history of humankind. At scale, securing this amount of data requires a re-think of how we grant and revoke access to sensitive files and, more importantly, how we identify and track the inevitable acces...

Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction: Understanding the “Magic” Behind Machine Learning

These days we hear about machine learning and artificial intelligence AI in all aspects of life. We see machines that learn and imitate the human brain in order to automate human processes. There are autonomous cars that learn the road conditions to drive, personal assistants we can converse with...

Security for a Rapidly Changing World: Why XGen™ is Our Formula for Success

Right now, we’re living through a period of almost unprecedented technological change. It can be easy sometimes to get caught up in the excitement of this change and miss the bigger picture; the wider themes that tie our past to our future. That’s why at Trend Micro we’re proud to have been able ...

Dan Geer: Cybersecurity, Humanity's Future "Conjoined"

Given the intertwinement of technology with communication, politics, economies and overall human progress, it seems to go hand-in-hand that cybersecurity must be elevated in parallel. Dan Geer, considered atop the food chain of security thinkers, said during last week’s Source Boston conference...

5 Red Flags That Tell You Vendors Are Lying About AI

This is the original version of this article: The term Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword that people use in sales pitches all the time. You will hear about it in the latest ad copy for new gadgets and programs. It also happens to be the most important tool in the cyber security field...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

Cryptographers Dismiss AI, Quantum Computing Threats

SAN FRANCISCO—Cryptographers said at the RSA Conference Tuesday they’re skeptical that advances in quantum computing and artificial intelligence will profoundly transform computer security. “I’m skeptical there will be much of an impact,” Ron Rivest, a MIT professor and inventor of several...

Cloud-AI: Artificially Intelligent System Found 10 Security Bugs in LinkedIn

2017 is the year of Artificial Intelligence A.I., Big Data, Virtual Reality VR and Cyber Security with major companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, IBM and Salesforce and technology pioneers like SpaceX founder Elon Musk investing in these hot technologies. Since everyone seems to be talking abo...

Microsoft Shares Telemetry Data Collected from Windows 10 Users with 3rd-Party

Cyber security is a major challenge in today's world, as cyber attacks have become more automated and difficult to detect, where traditional cyber security practices and systems are no longer sufficient to protect businesses, governments, and other organizations. In past few years, Artificial...

Gang Up on the Problem, Not Each Other

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributor is Katherine Carpenter. The imaginary world in which an artificial intelligence can kill a person by adjusting the insulin from his pump to a deadl...

Microsoft Unveils Cloud-Based Fuzz-Testing Service

Microsoft announced a cloud-based fuzz testing service called Project Springfield that identifies software bugs in applications that could turn into vulnerabilities. The service, announced at this week’s Microsoft 2016 Ignite technology conference in Atlanta, combines artificial intelligence and...

DARPA Challenges Hackers to Create Automated Hacking System — WIN $2 Million

Why we can’t detect all security loopholes and patch them before hackers exploit them? Because... we know that humans are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs, which is why vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, POODLE and GHOST remained undetected for decades and rendered almost half of the...

MIT builds Artificial Intelligence system that can detect 85% of Cyber Attacks

In Brief What if we could Predict when a cyber attack is going to occur before it actually happens and prevent it? Isn't it revolutionary idea for Internet Security? Security researchers at MIT have developed a new Artificial Intelligence-based cyber security platform, called 'AI2,' which has the...

Facebook uses Artificial Intelligence to Describe Photos to Blind Users

Today the Internet has become dominated by images, and it’s the major feature that got Facebook to a Billion daily users. We can not imagine Facebook without photos, but for Millions of blind and visually impaired people, Facebook without photos has been the reality since its launch. But not now!...

Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence Tay Became a 'Racist Nazi' in less than 24 Hours

Tay, Microsoft’s new Artificial Intelligence AI chatbot on Twitter had to be pulled down a day after it launched, following incredibly racist comments and tweets praising Hitler and bashing feminists. Microsoft had launched the Millennial-inspired artificial intelligence chatbot on Wednesday,...

Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Build Iron Man's JARVIS like Artificially Intelligent Assistant

What's the coolest part of the Iron Man movies? The hyper-intelligent Artificial Intelligence that helps Tony Stark by doing data analysis, charging his armor, presenting information at crucial times and doing other business operations. That's right — we are talking about J.A.R.V.I.S., Iron Man's...

These Laser Beams Will Offer Free Internet to the World from the Sky

During a wide-ranging online question-and-answer session on his Facebook page Tuesday, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted some wild things for Future. It includes: Telepathy Technology, the ability for humans to talk to each other with their minds. Laser Beams, used to transmit data fr...

Facebook Can Recognize You Even if You Don't Show Your Face

Well, this is incredible and scary both at the same time. Forget about "facial" recognition; Facebook's newest technology is way good at identifying you in photos even without the need to see your face. The New Scientist is reporting about the Facebook's new "experimental" facial recognition...