AI Is an Expert Liar

AI systems trained to excel at tasks can learn to lie and deceive in order to gain an advantage, posing serious risks to society such as fraud, election tampering, and even the potential loss of human control over AI.

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NIST Issues New Guidelines on Protecting Unclassified Data in Government Systems

The NIST issued new guidelines to help federal agencies and their private sector contractors better protect sensitive unclassified information, known as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), from cyber threats, particularly supply chain risks.

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Several Vulnerabilities Addressed in Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has addressed several security vulnerabilities, including issues in less, Glibc, Curl, GnuTLS, libvirt, and Pillow, which could potentially lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

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3 Tips for Becoming the Champion of Your Organization’s AI Committee

CISOs are now considered part of the organizational executive leadership and have both the responsibility and the opportunity to drive not just security but business success.

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(Cyber) Risk = Probability of Occurrence x Damage

Here’s How to Enhance Your Cyber Resilience with CVSS
In late 2023, the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) v4.0 was unveiled, succeeding the eight-year-old CVSS v3.0, with the aim to enhance vulnerability assessment for both industry and the public. This latest version introduces additional metrics like safety and automation to address criticism of lacking granularity

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Turla Group Deploys LunarWeb and LunarMail Backdoors in Diplomatic Missions

An unnamed European Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and its three diplomatic missions in the Middle East were targeted by two previously undocumented backdoors tracked as LunarWeb and LunarMail.
ESET, which identified the activity, attributed it with medium confidence to the Russia-aligned cyberespionage group Turla (aka Iron Hunter, Pensive Ursa, Secret Blizzard, Snake, Uroburos, and Venomous

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Santander Data Breach Impacts Customers, Employees

The Spanish bank Santander said customers in Chile, Spain and Uruguay are affected by a data breach at a third-party provider.

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Scammers are Getting Creative Using Malvertising, Deepfakes, and YouTube

The Avast Q1 2024 Threat Report highlighted a massive surge in social engineering scams, with a staggering 90% of all mobile and 87% of desktop threats falling into this category.

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Apple Fixes Safari WebKit Zero-Day Flaw Exploited at Pwn2Own

Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-27834) in Safari that was exploited at the Pwn2Own hacking competition. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to bypass Pointer Authentication Codes (PACs) and potentially execute remote code.

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400,000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet 

The Ebury Linux botnet has ensnared over 400,000 Linux systems in 15 years, with roughly 100,000 still infected.

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