In August the support team at Octagon Technology edited the company’s newsletter – whilst Diana and I were away. They chose a theme of artificial intelligence (AI) – here are the articles they wrote: Careful with that A.I. Eugene ! / How NOT to A.I. / Stop feeding the machine. …
The Phishing Email and AI (pt. 3)
I have used the first two parts of this mini-series on Phishing attacks to look at the more general subject of social engineering because phishing is an application of social engineering aimed at you and your organisation. Start to understand the “how” of social engineering and you start to build …
See what Bruce Schneier has to say about Microsoft spying on you!
Most days I read what Bruce Schneier has to say, I have also seen him speak and bought (and quoted from) his books. This piece is short and to the point: Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools – Schneier on Security Your takeaway Sometimes you just have …
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Denial of Service attacks
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack. OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com) This attack probably …
Chatbot attacks
A few short months ago AI chatbots and ChatGPT were all the tech and mainstream news seemed to be talking about! But of course, the threat actors were reading and listening to all that news and have been developing attacks that will exploit the victims new love of AI. UK …
