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The ways organizations should go about establishing a strong internal cybersecurity culture was discussed by a panel during the Tech Predictions Mini Summit. The speakers firstly acknowledged that cyber-criminals are increasingly exploiting the lack of security awareness amongst staff to target organizations. Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at Knowbe4, outlined social engineering attacks and credential stuffing attacks as among the main vectors he sees employed, methods which trick users into clicking on a malicious link…

Machine learning is helpful to many organizations in the tech industry, but it can have a downside. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about adversarial attacks. Machine learning is being used for a lot of great things, from guiding autonomous cars to creating pictures of cats that don’t actually exist. Of course, as with any technology, if it exists someone will want to hack it. Some of those hackers will be malicious. Adversarial attacks…

Information protection makes sure that only people with permissions see data in Power BI, while retaining the ability to share top-level trends, balancing productivity and security. Microsoft’s Power BI is used to build complex analytical projects spanning multiple data sources. New tooling helps administrators and professionals manage and govern these projects. Image: Microsoft Whatever business intelligence tool you’re using, it connects to Excel. “If you want to build a new BI product, the first feature…

Adversarial attacks: 5 things to know Length: 2:57 | Feb 17, 2021 Machine learning is helpful to many organizations in the tech industry, but it can have a downside. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about adversarial attacks. Source link

This is just a quick update to let you know that we’ve released another preview of Docker Desktop for Apple M1 chips, which you can download from our Docker Apple M1 Tech Preview page. The most exciting change in this version is that Kubernetes now works. First, a big thank you to everyone who tried out the previous preview and gave us feedback. We’re really excited to see how much enthusiasm there is for this,…

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) In The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Kurt Russell stars as an underachieving college student whose intellectual capabilities skyrocket after an electrical accident with a computer when its “brain” fuses with his own. (Note: you’re going to notice this type of theme with multiple movies on this list — someone gets zapped during a storm or electrical overload and, bam, something major happens as a result… yada, yada, yada.) The…

A graph representing the NIST Phish Scale scoring methodology. (NIST) Officials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week teased future improvements to the agency’s recently introduced “Phish Scale” measurement system, which helps companies determine whether phishing emails are hard or easy for their employees to detect.  Future plans for the scoring methodology include the incorporation of operational data pulled from multiple organizations, plus the addition of a user guide for training implementers…

The McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) team is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help developers provide safer products for businesses and consumers. We recently investigated and published several findings on a personal robot called “temi”, which can be read about in detail here. A byproduct of our robotic research was a deeper dive into a video calling software development kit (SDK) created by Agora.io. Agora’s SDKs are used for voice…

Hang Up on Hackers: Protect Yourself from Mobile App Video Conferencing Vulnerabilities Whether they’re attending regular work meetings or catching up with extended family across the globe, many people leverage video conferencing to better connect with others – a process that will likely continue as our world only becomes more digital. But as the rapid adoption of video conferencing tools and apps occurs, potential threats to online safety emerge. Agora is one of these tools for connection. The…