Zoom revises service terms so it could train AI on user data
The initial revision, dated July 27th, required users to agree to their data potentially being utilized by the company for the purposes of “training and tuning” artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms and models if they wish to...
Russian Hackers Employ Telekopye Toolkit in Broad Phishing Attacks
According to the latest research from ESET, Russian hackers have come up with a new toolkit dubbed Telekopye allowing even novice scammers to conduct phishing attacks without any technical expertise. Telekopye toolkit allows scammers to create phishing websites, send fraudulent...
US CISA Urges Security by Design for AI
The U.S federal government is advocating for artificial intelligence developers to embrace security as a core requirement, warning that machine learning code is particularly difficult and expensive to fix after deployment. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in a Friday blog...
A.I. is helping hackers make better phishing emails
T and security leaders are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity — and rightfully so. Cyber criminals and other bad actors can do things faster and easier with AI, which makes it more difficult for CISOs and...
Deja Vu: Optus Suffers data breach from major cyber attack
Less than a year after it suffered one of the biggest cyber attacks in Australian history, Optus has announced that some of its data has been leaked. The telco, which suffered from the first of the big three cyber attacks...
Vendor Pays $75,000 HIPAA Fine in Data Exfiltration Breach
A Kentucky-based firm that provides coding and billing services to healthcare entities has agreed to pay federal regulators a $75,000 fine and implement a corrective action plan in the wake of an exfiltration incident that compromised patient information contained in...
TeleSign secretly profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
Today, noyb filed a complaint against TeleSign, a US company which profiled millions of phone users. TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells its services to various clients like TikTok, Microsoft or Salesforce. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS,...