Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending June 7, 2024
This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday June 7th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for TechNewsday.com. With me this week is guest commentator David Shipley of Beauceron Security. We’ll be talking about the data breaches at cloud storage and analytics provider Snowflake, an Auditor-General general report critical of […]
Cyber Security Today, June 7, 2024 – More news about Snowflake attacks, and a warning to better protect Docker containers
More news about Snowflake attacks, and a warning to better protect Docker containers. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday June 7th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for TechNewsday.com. There’s more news about the outbreak of attacks on organizations that use the Snowflake data storage and analytics service. Snowflake says the problem […]
Meta’s use of public posts and images to train AI meets with backlash over privacy concerns
Meta’s recent move to use public posts and images from Facebook and Instagram for training its AI tools has sparked criticism from digital rights groups. As the company rolls out privacy policy changes on June 26, users over 18 will have their publicly shared content used to “develop and improve” AI products, excluding private messages. […]
A PR Disaster: Microsoft Loses Trust Over Windows Recall
Microsoft is facing a backlash over Windows Recall, the new AI feature designed to remember everything users do on their PCs. This feature, part of the Copilot+ PC initiative, aims to index user activities for easy search. However, it has sparked significant privacy and security concerns. On paper, Windows Recall is innovative. CEO Satya Nadella […]
Asana’s new “AI teammates” take on the “busy work” of project management
Asana, the maker of project management software, is rolling out an initial version of its “AI teammates” — an artificial intelligence-based feature designed to assist users by handling some of their tasks. Business software companies are rushing to harness the current boom in generative AI technology and its promise of increasing workplace productivity. Users can […]
