DHS says it will eschew biased artificial intelligence decision-making and facial recognition systems as part of an ongoing federal effort to promote "trustworthy AI." "Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool we must harness effectively," said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at ISMG discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues, including how to keep assets secure in the quantum era, when common usernames pose a cybersecurity threat, and how to strike the right balance between regulation and innovation in AI.
Generative AI holds great potential for many amazing applications in healthcare, but it's critical to establish a strong framework before deploying it, said Barbee Mooneyhan, vice president of security, IT and privacy of Woebot Health, a provider of AI-driven online mental health services.
AI allows U.S. agencies to address hard problems like quickly writing secure code but comes with risks around nation-states generating attacks more efficiently. "The cybersecurity element is a great example of the bright and the dark side of AI technology," said White House Director Arati Prabhakar.
This week, Vitalik Buterin was the victim of a SIM swapping attack, North Korea likely orchestrated the $55 million CoinEx hack, OneCoin co-founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood was sentenced to 20 years in prison and former FTX executive Ryan Salame will reportedly plead guilty to criminal charges.
The Defense Department's updated cyber strategy calls for disrupting malicious actors and boosting the cyber capabilities of U.S. allies to take on Chinese threats to critical infrastructure. Defense officials also plan to conduct defensive operations to protect the department's information network.
Authorities are warning of threats posed by Akira, a ransomware group that surfaced in March and has been linked to dozens of attacks on small and midsized entities. The group is targeting many industries, including healthcare, and seems to favor entities that lack MFA on VPNs.
U.S. federal agencies are advising organizations to hone their real-time verification capabilities and passive detection techniques to alleviate the impact of deepfakes. The technology's easy accessibility means less capable malicious actors can make use of deepfakes' mounting verisimilitude.
The European Union will open up supercomputers to artificial intelligence startups in a bid to boost innovation inside the trading bloc, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday. She said Europe has a "narrowing window of opportunity" to guide responsible innovation.
In Part 1 of this three-part blog post, Nikko Asset Management's Marcus Rameke provides an introduction and defines the requirements for making the transformative journey to the cloud. Parts 2 and 3 will discuss more detailed aspects of making the shift to the cloud.
As tech companies have jumped to incorporate AI in products, artificial intelligence with no human supervision runs the risk of catastrophe, warned two tech executives before a panel of U.S. senators who intend to introduce regulatory legislation later this year.
Adobe, IBM, Nvidia, and five additional tech giants on Tuesday signed onto a White House-driven initiative for developing secure and trustworthy generative artificial intelligence models. The commitments, at least for now, are the closet approximation of targeted AI regulation in the United States.
How does an organization achieve peace of mind with security while overcoming the challenges of complex hybrid and multi-cloud networks? Here are the top reasons why your organization should consider implementing a cloud-native firewall service to protect your AWS environments and applications.
In this episode of CyberEd.io's podcast series "Cybersecurity Insights," Censys CEO Brad Brooks discusses the stresses a CISO experiences in trying to prevent cyberattacks and in dealing with those that do occur. Topics include breach disclosure and cybersecurity marketing to CISOs.
Honeypot data collected by CISO Jesse La Grew highlights how attackers continue to target default usernames - including for SSH - together with weak passwords to gain brute force remote access to their targets. Here are essential username, password and remote service practices for combating such attacks.
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