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Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

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Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

Professionals across industries are exploring generative AI for various tasks — including creating information security training materials — but will it truly be effective? Brian Callahan, senior lecturer and graduate program director in information technology and web sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Shoshana Sugerman, an undergraduate student in this same program, presented the results of their experiment on this topic at ISC2 Security Congress in Las Vegas in October. Experiment involved creating cyber training…

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Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

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Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

Generative AI became tech’s fiercest buzzword seemingly overnight with the release of ChatGPT. Two years later, Microsoft is using OpenAI foundation models and fielding questions from customers about how AI changes the security landscape. Siva Sundaramoorthy, senior cloud solutions security architect at Microsoft, often answers these questions. The security expert provided an overview of generative AI — including its benefits and security risks — to a crowd of cybersecurity professionals at ISC2 in Las Vegas…

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OpenAI Secrets Stolen in 2023 After Internal Forum Was Hacked

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OpenAI Secrets Stolen in 2023 After Internal Forum Was Hacked

The online forum OpenAI employees use for confidential internal communications was breached last year, anonymous sources have told The New York Times. Hackers lifted details about the design of the company’s AI technologies from forum posts, but they did not infiltrate the systems where OpenAI actually houses and builds its AI. OpenAI executives announced the incident to the whole company during an all-hands meeting in April 2023, and also informed the board of directors. It…

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Google Cloud/Cloud Security Alliance Report: IT and Security Pros Are ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About AI

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Google Cloud/Cloud Security Alliance Report: IT and Security Pros Are ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About AI

The C-suite is more familiar with AI technologies than their IT and security staff, according to a report from the Cloud Security Alliance commissioned by Google Cloud. The report, published on April 3, addressed whether IT and security professionals fear AI will replace their jobs, the benefits and challenges of the increase in generative AI and more. Of the IT and security professionals surveyed, 63% believe AI will improve security within their organization. Another 24%…

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Microsoft’s Security Copilot Enters General Availability

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Microsoft’s Security Copilot Enters General Availability

Microsoft Security Copilot, also referred to as Copilot for Security, will be in general availability starting April 1, the company announced today. Microsoft revealed that pricing for Security Copilot will start at $4/hr, calculated based on usage. At a press briefing on March 7 at the Microsoft Experience Center in New York (Figure A), we saw how Microsoft positions Security Copilot as a way for security personnel to get real-time assistance with their work and…

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ISC2 Research: Most Cybersecurity Professionals Expect AI to Impact Their Jobs

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ISC2 Research: Most Cybersecurity Professionals Expect AI to Impact Their Jobs

Most cybersecurity professionals (88%) believe AI will significantly impact their jobs, according to a new survey by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium; with only 35% of the respondents having already witnessed AI’s effects on their jobs (Figure A). The impact is not necessarily a positive or negative impact, but rather an indicator that cybersecurity pros expect their jobs to change. In addition, concerns have arisen about deepfakes, misinformation and social engineering attacks. The…

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ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware's Prevalence

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ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware's Prevalence

Risk mitigation tips are provided for each of these cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity company ESET released its H2 2023 threat report, and we’re highlighting three particularly interesting topics in it: the abuse of the ChatGPT name by cybercriminals, the rise of the Lumma Stealer malware and the Android SpinOk SDK spyware. Jump to: ChatGPT name is being abused by cybercriminals In the second half of 2023, ESET has blocked 650,000 attempts to access malicious domains whose…

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20 Most Popular TechRepublic Articles in 2023

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20 Most Popular TechRepublic Articles in 2023

Here’s a list of the 20 most popular articles published by TechRepublic in 2023. Read articles about ChatGPT, Google Bard, Windows 11 and more. This year, developments in generative AI dominated the tech world, and TechRepublic readers expressed a corresponding interest, specifically in content about AI art generators, ChatGPT and Google Bard. Our readers were interested in tutorials about Windows 11, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and iPhone, as well as articles about tech certifications and…

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White House Executive Order on AI Provides Guidelines for AI Privacy and Safety

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White House Executive Order on AI Provides Guidelines for AI Privacy and Safety

The Biden administration directed government organizations, including NIST, to encourage responsible and innovative use of generative AI. Image: Maksym Yemelyanov/Adobe Stock Today, U.S. President Joe Biden released an executive order on the use and regulation of artificial intelligence. The executive order features wide-ranging guidance on maintaining safety, civil rights and privacy within government agencies while promoting AI innovation and competition throughout the U.S. Although the executive order doesn’t specify generative artificial intelligence, it was likely…

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Generative AI Can Write Phishing Emails, But Humans Are Better At It, IBM X-Force Finds

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Generative AI Can Write Phishing Emails, But Humans Are Better At It, IBM X-Force Finds

Hacker Stephanie “Snow” Carruthers and her team found phishing emails written by security researchers saw a 3% better click rate than phishing emails written by ChatGPT. An IBM X-Force research project led by Chief People Hacker Stephanie “Snow” Carruthers showed that phishing emails written by humans have a 3% better click rate than phishing emails written by ChatGPT. The research project was performed at one global healthcare company based in Canada. Two other organizations were…

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