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NSA Launches New Cybersecurity Directorate

Security Affairs

The directorate will have NSA turn its efforts towards securing military and defense industry security. In 2011, as the financial sector was still recovering from the financial crisis of 2008, the Agency began providing Wall Street banks with cybersecurity information in the hopes that it would prevent “financial sabotage.”

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #18 [Eye on AI] Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells?

KnowBe4

Since 2008, we've seen QBot in the past using a wide variety of tactics, including HTML smuggling, and it continues to be a formidable foe, with its latest iteration using several tactics together. The integrity of the 15-minute footage is uncertain because of the current technical advances in deepfake audio and video technology.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

A deepfake can be a digital image, video, or audio file. While doctored videos or photos are sometimes labeled deepfakes, true deepfaked files are typically created using algorithms that create composites of existing footage, effectively “learning” to identify faces and voices and combining them to create new content.

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MY TAKE: Rising geopolitical tensions suggest a dire need for tighter cybersecurity in 2024

The Last Watchdog

C yber a ttack s on Georgia (2008 , 2019 ) Georgian government websites get defaced; thousands of government and private websites get blocked, including two major TV stations. Ukrainian p ower g rid take downs (2015 , 2016) The capitol city of Kyiv suffers widespread, extended outages. •