Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
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 (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 …
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 …
Here is a thought provoking essay from the public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier: AI and Microdirectives – Schneier on Security Something to read with the morning coffee this weekend. It is actually “further listening – The BBC Reith Lectures, by Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Center …
The sale of credentials is a very active illicit market place. Now the cyber criminals are hoping that employees have shared organisational secrets with ChatGPT as compromised ChatGPT credentials are found for sale on the Dark Web. Trove of ChatGPT creds found on dark web • The Register Do you …
The use of ChatGPT as a tool of the threat actor has been discussed – here is an example of how researchers are manipulating ChatGPT chatbot to demonstrate their potential misuse in real world applications: The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing | WIRED UK
