Hackers: We won’t let artificial intelligence get the better of us

Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t stand a chance of being able to replicate the human creativity needed to become an ethical hacker, but it will disrupt how hackers conduct penetration testing and work... Read more »

Microsoft users on high alert over dangerous RCE zero-day

Microsoft has disclosed a potentially serious remote code execution (RCE) zero-day under active exploitation – by a group with alleged links to the Russian intelligence services – among more than 100 other... Read more »

Malicious URL volumes soar as cyber criminals pull on Threads

Cyber fraudsters and scammers are already attempting to exploit last week’s launch of Meta’s latest social media venture, a “Twitter-killer” called Threads, to conduct phishing attacks and distribute malwares, according to analysis... Read more »

Apple pushes Rapid Response patch to fix WebKit zero-day

Apple has deployed a patch under its new Rapid Security Response (RSR) update programme for the second time, addressing a potentially dangerous zero-day in iOS for iPhone, iPadOS for iPad, macOS Ventura... Read more »

Norwegian data privacy experts sound alarm over generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) recently burst onto the scene, producing text, images, sound, and video content that closely resemble human-made content. After being trained on publicly available data, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Bard and... Read more »

How to Use Custom Building Blocks & Variables in Google Docs

Illustration: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic Custom building blocks and variables give many Google Workspace customers new ways to quickly reuse content and ensure content consistency, respectively. As of June 2023, custom building blocks and... Read more »

3 Free Ways to Get an AI Summary of a Long Web Article

Illustration: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic Asking Bard, Perplexity or Pi for an article summary is a great way to get started with these AI systems. A great way to familiarize yourself with generative AI... Read more »

EDM Council Survey: Management of Cloud Data Deployment is Lacking

The Council’s first benchmark found that 84% of companies have not implemented ethical access, use and outcome policies and procedures per their cloud agendas. Image: EDM Council As more and more organizations... Read more »

Microsoft and AWS caution Ofcom against referring UK cloud market over to CMA

Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are calling on communications regulator Ofcom to hold off on getting the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to probe the UK cloud infrastructure services market for... Read more »

network intrusion protection system (NIPS)

What is a network intrusion protection system (NIPS)? A network intrusion protection system (NIPS) is an umbrella term for a combination of hardware and software systems that protect computer networks from unauthorized... Read more »