Cisco Extends Patch for IPv6 DoS Vulnerability

Cisco has extended its patch for a high-severity IPv6 denial-of-service DoS vulnerability that was first addressed in 2016. The bug CVE-2016-1409 is a vulnerability in the IPv6 packet processing functions of multiple Cisco products, which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a...

Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud

This seems to be an identity theft first: Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 $243,000 in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in...

Facebook, Microsoft Challenge Industry to Detect, Prevent ‘Deepfakes’

Facebook, Microsoft and a number of universities have joined forces to sponsor a contest promoting research and development to combat deepfakes, or videos altered through artificial intelligence AI to mislead viewers. The two tech giants—along with the Partnership on AI and academics from Cornell...

CEO 'Deep Fake' Swindles Company Out of $243K

In the first known case of successful financial scamming via audio deep fakes, cybercrooks were able to create a near-perfect impersonation of a chief executive’s voice – and then used the audio to fool his company into transferring $243,000 to their bank account. A deep fake is a plausible video...

OpenAI Said Its Code Was Risky. Two Grads Re-Created It Anyway

The artificial intelligence lab cofounded by Elon Musk said its software could too easily be adapted to crank out fake news...

How much personalization is too much?

This story originally ran in The Parallax on January 25, 2019, and was written by Dan Tynan. In 2012, when Target used data analytics to identify customers who were expecting a baby, then mailed them coupons for maternity clothing and nursery furniture, it inadvertently revealed a teenage girl’s...

How brain-machine interface (BMI) technology could create an Internet of Thoughts

She plugged the extension for car transportation in the brain-machine interface connectors at the right side of her head, and off she went. The traffic was relatively slow, so there was no need to stop working. She answered a few more emails, then unplugged her work extension. Weekend mode could...

Wizards endpoint security suffers from exe hijacking vulnerability

Wizards Endpoint Security is an antivirus program based on artificial intelligence technology. Wise Terminal Security has an exe hijacking vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine...

ThreatList: Human Error is Behind One Quarter of Data Breaches

One quarter of all data breaches last year were caused by human error. The average cost of all breach in the same time period was $3.92 million, a 1.5 percent increase from the year before. Click to enlarge. That’s according to the 14th annual Cost of a Data Breach report from the Ponemon Institu...

Labs report: Malicious AI is coming—is the security world ready?

Imagine a world in which artificial intelligence has gone rogue—the robots have revolted against their masters and have now enslaved all of humanity. There's no more natural beauty in the world and everything is awful. Get that out of your system? Good. The reality of malicious AI, at least in th...

Data, Surveillance, and the AI Arms Race

According to foreign policy experts and the defense establishment, the United States is caught in an artificial intelligence arms race with China -- one with serious implications for national security. The conventional version of this story suggests that the United States is at a disadvantage...

Computers and Video Surveillance

It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage...

RapidScan - The Multi-Tool Web Vulnerability Scanner

Evolution: It is quite a fuss for a pentester to perform binge-tool-scanning running security scanning tools one after the other sans automation. Unless you are a pro at automating stuff, it is a herculean task to perform binge-scan for each and every engagement. The ultimate goal of this program...

AI Isn't Good Enough When Lives Are on the Line, Experts Warn

LONDON, UK – With the infosec community eyeing artificial intelligence as the next big frontier for cyber defense, experts here at Infosecurity Europe on Tuesday warned that several challenges in how AI processes and interprets data need to first be fleshed out before widespread adoption. AI, in...

How to become a better writer with Wordeep using artificial intelligence

By Owais Sultan Wordeep uses Artificial Intelligence to improve what you write. Writing may seem to be an easy task to overcome, but it is definitely not for the faint-hearted. No one can even master writing overnight, and it may take someone years to master it. You also have to consider the fact...

AI, the Mandatory Element of 5G Mobile Security

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Artificial intelligence will be a requirement for securing carrier 5G networks – which is shaping up to be a technology juggernaut that presents unique challenges unlike any ever seen in the world of telecom until now. That was the assessment at the GSMA Mobile 360 Securi...

Hacking Instagram to Get Free Meals in Exchange for Positive Reviews

This is a fascinating hack: In today's digital age, a large Instagram audience is considered a valuable currency. I had also heard through the grapevine that I could monetize a large following -- or in my desired case -- use it to have my meals paid for. So I did just that. I created an Instagram...

Get 4 Essential CyberSecurity Software For Less Than $10 Per Month

Major data breaches and cyber attacks are occurring at an alarming rate, and if you are still not using a VPN and password manager app, you are seriously out of excuses. Not just VPN software and a password manager, cybersecurity experts also recommend using antivirus and backup solutions to...

Announcing Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac and new Threat and Vulnerability Management capabilities

On February 28, 2019, we announced Microsoft Threat Experts, a new managed hunting service within the Microsoft 365 Security portfolio that enables customers to extend their expertise and insights with the help of Microsoft security professionals. This release showcased our philosophy that securi...

RSA Conference 2019: How to Be Better, on Trust, AI and IoT

SAN FRANCISCO – The slogan of this year’s RSA Conference is “Better” – and accordingly, Tuesday morning’s keynotes zeroed in on reversing some of the disturbing sociological trends that have been festering of late. That includes “information warfare,” meant to undermine citizens’ trust in media a...