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ChatGPT: A Brave New World for Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Unlike most other AI research projects, ChatGPT has captivated the interest of ordinary people who do not have PhDs in data science. ChatGPT Security Threats. Phishing accounts for nearly 90% of malware attacks, according to HP Wolf Security research. In a week, the app gained more than one million users.

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Best Incident Response Tools and Services for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Despite all the cybersecurity defenses in enterprises, the human element matters the most, as phishing attacks remain the top avenue of incursion, accounting for more than 85% of all breaches, according to the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Key Differentiators. Handles upwards of 3,000 or more cases per year.

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Cyber Insurers Pull Back Amid Increase in Cyber Attacks, Costs

eSecurity Planet

A report by Verizon Business found the COVID-19 pandemic and the related shift to remote work accelerated the rate of attacks over the past year, with the number of phishing attacks increasing 11 percent and the number of ransomware incidents growing 6 percent. “As How secure is their architecture? COVID-19 Accelerates Attacks.

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As 2-factor authentication falls short, ‘adaptive multi-factor authentication’ goes mainstream

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why data science is the key to securing networks. However, today there are simple ways to collect passwords directly from the computers, or even collect them remotely using phishing or by using tools like Mimikatz. Kovetz: Some multi-factor authentication methods are not really secure. Kovetz: Exactly.

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10 everyday machine learning use cases

IBM Big Data Hub

Marketers use ML for lead generation, data analytics, online searches and search engine optimization (SEO). ML algorithms and data science are how recommendation engines at sites like Amazon, Netflix and StitchFix make recommendations based on a user’s taste, browsing and shopping cart history.

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Reddit discloses security breach that exposed source code and internal docs

Security Affairs

Social news aggregation platform Reddit suffered a security breach, attackers gained unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some business systems. A highly-targeted phishing attack hit the employees of the company. The Security team responded quickly to the incident by locking out the intruders.

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How Are Computers Compromised (2020 Edition)

Adam Shostack

” How the intrusion happens is about questions like: Is it phishing emails that steal creds? The US Government has some interesting advantages: a large collection of attractive targets, a mandate that all CFO agencies have a security process, published investments in security, a large and skilled incident response force.

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