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AI and US Election Rules
If an AI breaks the rules for you, does that count as breaking the rules? This is the essential question being taken up by the Federal Election Commission this month, and public ...
News alert: NetWitness launches 12.3 update to deliver visibility across the entire enterprise
Bedford, Mass., Oct. 17, 2023 — NetWitness, a globally trusted provider of cybersecurity software and services, has today announced the 12.3 release of its award-winning NetWitness Intelligent Threat Detection and Response Platform. The ...
Former Uber CISO Appealing His Conviction
Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach, of withholding information about the 2016 incident ...
Exploring The Malicious Usage of QR Codes
Discover the history, types, and threats of QR codes, including quishing and QRLJacking. Learn why QR phishing is effective and how it exploits user trust, convenience, and bypasses security filters. Understanding ...
Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System
Online voting is insecure, period. This doesn’t stop organizations and governments from using it. (And for low-stakes elections, it’s probably fine.) Switzerland—not low stakes—uses online voting for national elections. Andrew Appel explains ...
SHARED INTEL Q&A: Everything the Cisco-Splunk merger tells us about the rise of SIEMs
Cisco’s recent move to acquire SIEM stalwart Splunk for a cool $28 billion aligns with the rising urgency among companies in all sectors to better protect data — even as cyber threats ...
Looney Tunables? CVE-2023-4911? You might be using a vulnerable Linux distribution.
... Read more » The post Looney Tunables? CVE-2023-4911? You might be using a vulnerable Linux distribution. appeared first on Deepfactor ...
Coin Flips Are Biased
Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study we collected 350,757 coin flips to test ...
Hacking the High School Grading System
Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail—they ...
News alert: Nerds On Site develops ‘SME Edge’ solution for small- and mid-sized enterprises
Toronto, Ontario – October 12, 2023 – Nerds On Site Inc. (CSE: NERD), a cybersecurity and mobile IT solutions company servicing the small and medium enterprise (SME) marketplace in Canada and the U.S., ...
