Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending September 1, 2023
This episode features discussion on International Women in Cyber Day, a Canadian cybercrime report, the takedown of the Quakbot bot and the attacks on Barracuda Networks’ ESG emai
Zoom’s privacy blunders push businesses to look for alternatives
Zoom has been in hot water lately over its privacy policies after it was caught using users’ data for advertising purposes without their consent. As a result, many businesses are now looking for more privacy-focused alternatives to Zoom. One of such options include Jitsi Meet, a open-source video conferencing platform that is free to use […]
Twitter to collect biometric data, job history for verification, job recommendations
Twitter is making changes to its privacy policy that will allow it to collect users’ biometric data and job history. The company says that the data will be used for “safety, security, and identification purposes” as well as to “recommend potential jobs to you.” The changes come as Elon Musk, the billionaire who recently acquired […]
Anonymous Sudan takes Twitter offline to pressurize Elon Musk
A hacking group called Anonymous Sudan took Twitter offline in more than a dozen countries in an attempt to pressure Elon Musk into launching his Starlink satellite internet service in their country. The group claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter, which lasted for more than two hours and affected thousands of users. In a […]
X to launch video, audio calls
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is planning to launch video and audio calling features. The features will be available on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and personal computers, and users will not need a phone number to use them. Musk announced the plans in a post on X. He said that the features […]
News organizations block AI crawler bots amid copyright concerns
20% of the world’s top 1000 websites are now blocking AI crawler bots, which are used to collect web data for AI services, according to Originality.AI. The move comes after OpenAI introduced its GPTBot crawler in early August. The GPTBot was designed to collect data from the web to improve future AI models. However, many […]
Meta introduce new privacy setting to limit AI data use
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting that allows users to ask the company not to use their data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The new setting, called “Generative AI Data Subject Rights,” can be found in the “Privacy Center” section of Facebook’s website. To use the […]
Meta unveils FACET tool to combat computer vision biases
Meta has launched FACET (Fairness in Computer Vision Evaluation Tool), a tool to identify and rectify racial and gender biases inherent in computer vision systems. The tool is based on Meta’s extensive dataset of over 30,000 images featuring 50,000 individuals, meticulously tagged by experts across diverse categories. This allows researchers to evaluate computer vision models’ […]
2.6 million user accounts leaked in Duolingo data breach
An exposed application programming interface (API) at Duolingo allowed threat actors to scrape the personal information of 2.6 million users, including email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames. The data was then leaked on an underground hacking forum. Duolingo said that its systems were not compromised in the breach, but that the data was scraped from […]
Google announces Gemini AI project
Google has announced a new AI project called Gemini, which it claims will eclipse OpenAI’s GPT-4. The project is being led by Jeff Dean, the head of Google Brain, and Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind. Gemini is said to be a multimodal AI model, meaning that it can understand and respond to information from […]
