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How Cybercriminals Are Leveraging AI to Build Better Attacks

NexusTek

For example, cybercriminals can use deepfake audio to impersonate executives and authorize fraudulent financial transactions (a tactic known as Business Email Compromise 2.0). Exploiting IoT Devices : As Internet of Things (IoT) devices proliferate, AI is being used to identify vulnerabilities in these devices.

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA): Systems without MFA are more vulnerable to unauthorized logins. report incidents to the FBIs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Note that authorities often advise against paying ransoms, as it encourages further attacks and doesnt guarantee data recovery. In the U.S.,

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ZTNA vs. VPN

Pure Storage

A zero trust network architecture (ZTNA) and a virtual private network (VPN) are two different solutions for user authentication and authorization. For example, suppose that a user is authenticated on the network using their credentials. application username and password) to authenticate into the software and access data.

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What Artificial Intelligence Means for Physical Security

Security Industry Association

LLMs also use an unsupervised AI training method to feed off a large pool of random data from the Internet. This includes sticking to strict authorization and authentication measures to ensure the wrong people do not get access to sensitive data and information across AI-driven applications.

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SIA New Member Profile: Veris

Security Industry Association

My co-founders and I had just wrapped up our second successful exit with Teramatrix, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that got acquired by a Silicon Valley firm, Airlinq. Information connects all systems of record, allowing Eylo agents to access real-time security clearances, watchlist data and authorization levels instantly.

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What We Can Learn from the Log4j Vulnerability

Pure Storage

It may sound obscure to the non-developer, but Log4j is actually one of the most widely used pieces of open source code on the internet. Since Log4j runs as a privileged system process, the malicious code that it can execute can also run as a privileged system process without requiring authentication. What Is Log4j?

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Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 1, Compute and Security

AWS Disaster Recovery

Creating a security foundation starts with proper authentication, authorization, and accounting to implement the principle of least privilege. These resources can communicate using private IP addresses and do not require an internet gateway, VPN, or separate network appliances. Ensuring security, identity, and compliance.