Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines

Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines

Think you’ve received an important document from HR? Be careful. KnowBe4’s quarterly phishing test report found that threat actors in Q2 often found success with emails spoofing HR departments. After an ill-fated click occurred, links in the body of emails and PDF documents were common vectors for attacks. TechRepublic spoke with KnowBe4 Security Awareness Advocate Erich Kron about the results of the phishing tests and how to keep businesses safe from ever-evolving, generative AI-powered phishing…

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Australian Enterprises Coming 4th in 2024 Global Survey of Generative AI Usage

Australian Enterprises Coming 4th in 2024 Global Survey of Generative AI Usage

Australian organisations have ranked fourth in an assessment of how widely enterprises in 16 countries are using and implementing generative AI. The survey, conducted by data analytics firm SAS, found that 63% of Australian businesses are now using generative AI. The findings, based on responses from 1,600 global AI and data analytics decision makers, found that Australian generative AI usage is ahead of the global average and that Australia is leading the pack when it…

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Black Hat Roundup 2024: What to Expect From This Week’s Security Events

Black Hat Roundup 2024: What to Expect From This Week’s Security Events

Black Hat and DEF CON are two of the major security conferences in the U.S., drawing large crowds of cyber and AI decision-makers to Las Vegas. Black Hat USA 2024 runs from August 3-8, with most of the briefings occurring on August 7 and 8; DEF CON 32 runs from August 8-11. We’re rounding up the enterprise business tech news from Black Hat and DEF CON that is most relevant for IT and tech decision-makers….

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Apple Joins Voluntary U.S. Government Commitment to AI Safety

Apple Joins Voluntary U.S. Government Commitment to AI Safety

Apple is the latest addition to the list of public U.S. companies that made voluntary commitments to AI regulations, the White House announced on July 26. The commitments, first announced in September 2023, include vows to publicly disclose AI capabilities, to watermark AI content and more. These commitments set a public standard for the country’s largest AI makers in an effort to reduce deception and other novel, unsafe practices that could stem from realistic-looking AI…

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AWS Summit: Bedrock AI Service Gains Contextual Grounding

AWS Summit: Bedrock AI Service Gains Contextual Grounding

Amazon was one of the tech giants that agreed to a set of White House recommendations regarding the use of generative AI last year. The privacy considerations addressed in those recommendations continue to roll out, with the latest included in the announcements at the AWS Summit in New York on July 9. In particular, contextual grounding for Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock provides customizable content filters for organizations deploying their own generative AI. AWS Responsible AI…

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As Companies Flood Into Security AI, Do Large Players Have A Data Advantage?

As Companies Flood Into Security AI, Do Large Players Have A Data Advantage?

Executives from major cybersecurity vendors such as Palo Alto Networks and Proofpoint see the arrival of GenAI as a different story from prior technology shifts — with the need for having massive customer data being paramount. The history of technology shifts in recent decades has tended to center around scrappy upstarts, which burst onto the scene with a big new idea and disrupt more-established players. Generative AI may play out differently, however. While the initiation…

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Some Generative AI Company Employees Pen Letter Wanting ‘Right to Warn’ About Risks

Some Generative AI Company Employees Pen Letter Wanting ‘Right to Warn’ About Risks

Some current and former employees of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic published a letter on June 4 asking for whistleblower protections, more open dialogue about risks and “a culture of open criticism” in the major generative AI companies. The Right to Warn letter illuminates some of the inner workings of the few high-profile companies that sit in the generative AI spotlight. OpenAI holds a distinct status as a nonprofit trying to “navigate massive risks” of…

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Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Gains ‘Personal Assistant’ Capabilities

Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Gains ‘Personal Assistant’ Capabilities

Following the announcements of Copilot+ enabled AI PCs at the Microsoft Build developer event on May 20, Microsoft released new developer tools, enhancements to Microsoft Azure AI and new enterprise options for Copilot. GitHub Copilot received a lengthy list of new capabilities enabled by first- and third-party services. Meanwhile, reactions to the AI memory feature Recall include some backlash against its observation of all of the user’s activity. Recall, announced at Microsoft Build on May…

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A Human-Centric Security Approach, Supported by AI

A Human-Centric Security Approach, Supported by AI

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Events , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Protect People and Infrastructure Simultaneously: Proofpoint CEO Sumit Dhawan Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 16, 2024     Sumit Dhawan, CEO, Proofpoint To address the cliche of people being the weakest link, cybersecurity company Proofpoint said it’s putting humans at the center of its security. See Also: From CNAPP to CDR: The Cybersecurity Road Ahead Data and…

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Here’s What 20 Top Cybersecurity CEOs And CTOs Were Saying At RSAC 2024

Here’s What 20 Top Cybersecurity CEOs And CTOs Were Saying At RSAC 2024

CRN spoke with the CEOs and CTOs of a number of cybersecurity companies, including Proofpoint, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik and CrowdStrike, during RSA Conference 2024. Here’s what they had to say. While the many implications of GenAI for security continued to be discussed and debated at last week’s RSA Conference, an array of other issues were front and center—including for many CEOs and CTOs at leading cybersecurity vendors. During interviews the week before RSAC 2024…

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