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Ferrari deepfake scammer

I’ve posted about this kind of thing before, but it’s really interesting as it’s happening more and more. You can’t buy a solution to prevent this. It’s about people and process: Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking the scammer a question only CEO Benedetto

ICO report on Electoral Commission breach

Sometimes I like to share these kinds of things as they’re good to learn lessons. The ICO has released their report on the breach of the Electoral Commission. Cyber-attack on UK’s electoral registers revealedThe Electoral Commission warns the public to be vigilant for unauthorised use of their personal

Can it forget?

Interesting. This might be why a lot of tools aren’t currently being released in the EU? Pesky ‘Right to be forgotten/erasure’ eh? Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance | TechCrunchA new study finds that making generative AI models ‘forget’ information hurts their performance on other tasks,

Show me the other money

This is a long but good read. Zitron really researched this. How Does OpenAI Survive?Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and

Model collapse again

Ah ‘Model Collapse’ is rearing its head again. So the problem still stands. I haven’t seen anything recently on ‘Temporal Degradation’ - but they keep releasing new versions. ‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail | TechCrunchIf the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps

It can't summarise

This is the kind of thing I like to see. Somebody with multi-domain knowledge putting the work in and checking claims. In this case ‘Can ChatGPT summarise a document?’ And then looking at it from an unbiased point of view: When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.

EDR's can save you

EDR’s have probably been questioned a bit over the past couple of days. “Do we really need them?” kind of questions. This is a good example of how they can save your skin: “We sent them their Mac workstation, and the moment it was received, it immediately started to

Repeated mistakes

When you have an incident and do a Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ are usually easy to determine. Usually. But the most important question that rebuilds trust and shows that you and your teams are in control, is ‘Why?’. You need to understand and communicate the ‘Why?

It's the kids

Security vendor presentations - hooded figures hunched over a laptop. Talk of nefarious technically superior worldwide gangs, nation states and the potential scourge of unstoppable AI. Meanwhile a 17yr old from Walsall in the West Midlands for the lolz with a convincing phone manner. UK cops arrest teen suspect in

State of Ransomware - Sophos

Sophos report on the state of ransomware in critical infrastructure in 2024 here The State of Ransomware in Critical Infrastructure 2024275 IT/cybersecurity leaders from the energy, oil/gas and utilities sector share their ransomware experiences, providing new insights into the business impact of ransomware.Sophos NewsPuja Mahendru Only 31%