Majority owner Dell is exploring a possible sale of Atlanta-based cybersecurity services vendor Secureworks, tapping investment bankers at Morgan Stanley and Piper Sandler to gauge takeover interest from potential acquirers, which include private equity firms, Reuters reported Thursday.
California state lawmakers on Wednesday handed off a bill establishing first-in-the-nation safety standards for advanced artificial intelligence models to their Senate counterparts after weathering opposition from the tech industry and high-profile Democratic politicians.
This week, the SEC sent OpenSea a Wells notice, WazirX sought protection from creditors, Ryan Salame reconsidered his guilty plea, objections to the FTX bankruptcy reorganization plan were filed, U.S. police recovered pig-butchering scam funds, and Colombia accused Worldcoin of privacy violations.
ISMG's Virtual AI Summit brought together cybersecurity leaders to explore the intersection of AI and security. Discussions ranged from using AI for defense to privacy considerations and regulatory frameworks and provided organizations with valuable insights for navigating the AI landscape.
Cisco announced its intent to acquire Robust Intelligence to fortify the security of AI applications. With this acquisition, Cisco aims to address AI-related risks, incorporating advanced protection to guard against threats such as jailbreaking, data poisoning and unintentional model outcomes.
Microsoft says it fixed a security flaw in artificial intelligence chatbot Copilot that enabled attackers to steal multifactor authentication code using a prompt injection attack. Security researcher Johann Rehberger said he discovered a way to invisibly force Copilot to send data.
U.S. law enforcement is cracking down on users who use artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material, stating there is no difference between material made by a computer and material from real life. "Put simply, CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM," said a U.S. attorney.
Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity on both offensive and defensive fronts. Attackers use AI to iterate and modify exploits rapidly, making malicious code harder to detect, said Tim Gallo, head - global solutions architects, Google.
AI-assisted coding tools can speed up code production but often replicate existing vulnerabilities when built on poor-quality code bases. Snyk's Randall Degges discusses why developers must prioritize code base quality to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of using AI tools.
Check Point plans to purchase an external risk management vendor led by an Israeli intelligence veteran to boost its SOC and managed threat intelligence capabilities. The proposed acquisition of Cyberint will make it easier for companies to defend against both internal and external cyberthreats.
Cribl has completed a $319 million Series E funding round led by Google Ventures. The financing pushes the company’s valuation to $3.5 billion, with backing from prominent investors as Cribl's data engine technology continues to be rapid adoped by enterprises globally.
Data integrity, collection, analytics - they all are essential for compliance reporting, and yet each remains a challenge for enterprises across business sectors. Siva Vrs of Wipro discussed the pain points with compliance in the cloud era and Wipro's partnership with AWS to alleviate them.
Chat app Slack patched a vulnerability in its artificial intelligence tool set that hackers could have exploited to manipulate an underlying large language model to phish employees and steal sensitive data. Slack said it was a low-severity bug.
As artificial intelligence technology continues to evolve, security professionals have become involved in areas that traditionally weren't their concern such as preventing biases in decision-making, said Nathan Hamiel, senior director of research at Kudelski Security.
Generative AI tools boost developer productivity, but they also generate code with similar vulnerability rates as human developers. Chris Wysopal, co-founder and CTO of Veracode, explains why enterprises must treat AI-generated code with caution and automate security testing.
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