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GUEST ESSAY: Scammers leverage social media, clever con games to carry out digital exploitation

The Last Watchdog

This online epidemic involves the blackmail of a victim by the perpetrator via material gained against them, typically in the form of nude photos and videos. Exploitation drivers From the case of Hegestratos committing insurance fraud by sinking a ship in 300 B.C., The advancement of fraud has materialized parallel to that of currency.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Byron is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Last Watchdog on Privacy & Security. His news analysis columns, podcasts, and videos are crafted to foster a useful understanding of complex privacy and cybersecurity developments for company decision-makers and individual citizens — for the greater good.

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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

Almost everyone wants to know what the future has in store – particularly when it comes to cyber security. With that in mind, Geraint Williams, IT Governance’s chief information security officer, discusses his cyber security predictions in the upcoming year. Our predictions. Ransomware will continue to increase.

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Generative AI use cases for the enterprise

IBM Big Data Hub

Tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT are gaining attention for their capabilities in generating realistic images, video and sophisticated, human-like text, extending the limits of AI’s creative potential. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) or variational autoencoders (VAEs) are used for images, videos, 3D models and music.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for April 2023

IT Governance

The revenue comes through advertising, with YouTube inserting commercials in their videos. The message contains the subject line “Changes in YouTube rules and policies | Check the description”, and includes a video that has been shared with the user. Can you spot a scam?

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

Running on neural networks , computer vision enables systems to extract meaningful information from digital images, videos and other visual inputs. And if AI can guide a Roomba, it can also direct self-driving cars on the highway and robots moving merchandise in a distribution center or on patrol for security and safety protocols.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2021 – 51.2 million records breached

IT Governance

In October, we discovered 94 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 51,248,331 breached records. However, there are plenty of other incidents to dig into, including a raft of ransomware attacks against the education sector.