Independent – Page 35 – PossibleThreat Articles

Credit to Author: avenkat@idg.com| Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 02:23:00 -0700

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) would soon be releasing a public request for information (RFI) to learn more about the automated tools employers use to surveil, monitor, evaluate, and manage workers, OSTP announced on Monday.

“Employers are increasingly investing in technologies that monitor and track workers, and making workplace decisions based on that information,” the blog released on Monday said, adding that while these technologies can benefit both workers and employers in some cases, they can also create serious risks to workers.

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Generative AI is about to destroy your company. Will you stop it?

May 1, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Security, Software Development

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 10:21:00 -0700

As the debate rages about how much IT admins and CISOs should use generative AI — especially for coding — SailPoint CISO Rex Booth sees far more danger than benefit, especially given the industry’s less-than-stellar history of making the right security decisions.

Google has already decided to publicly leverage generative AI in its searches, a move that is freaking out a wide range of AI specialists, including a senior manager of AI at Google itself.

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ChatGPT returns to Italy after OpenAI tweaks privacy disclosures, controls

May 1, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, regulation

OpenAI has relaunched ChatGPT in Italy after making changes requested by the country's data privacy regulator.

ComputerWorld Independent

As Europeans strike first to rein in AI, the US follows

May 1, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, chatbots, Emerging Technology, Privacy

A proposed set of rules by the European Union would, among other things. require makers of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT,to publicize any copyrighted material used by the technology platforms to create content of any kind.

A new draft of European Parliament’s legislation, a copy of which was attained by The Wall Street Journal, would allow the original creators of content used by generative AI applications to share in any profits that result.

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Many Public Salesforce Sites are Leaking Private Data

April 27, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, charan akiri, dc health, dc health link, huntington bank, Latest Warnings, matthew jennings, mike rupert, salesforce community websites, scott carbee, tcf bank, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch, Vermont

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 02:09:56 +0000

A shocking number of organizations — including banks and healthcare providers — are leaking private and sensitive information from their public Salesforce Community websites, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The data exposures all stem from a misconfiguration in Salesforce Community that allows an unauthenticated user to access records that should only be available after logging in.

ComputerWorld Independent

ChatGPT learns to forget: OpenAI implements data privacy controls

April 26, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy

OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed firm behind the groundbreaking ChatGPT generative AI system, announced this week that it would allow users to turn off the chat history feature for its flagship chatbot, in what’s being seen as a partial answer to critics concerned about the security of data provided to ChatGPT.

The “history disabled” feature means that conversations marked as such won’t be used to train OpenAI’s underlying models, and won’t be displayed in the history sidebar. They will still be stored on the company’s servers, but will only be reviewed on an as-needed basis for abuse, and will be deleted after 30 days.

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Kandji explains its new Endpoint Detection and Response tools

April 24, 2023 0 Comments MacOS, Security

The Apple-focused enterprise solutions provider ecosystem is growing apace to match the rapidly expanding need of enterprise IT. Jamf recently introduced a new anti-spyware solution for high-value targets. Today, competitor Kandji officially introduced its Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)) solution, which aims to fight malware on the Mac.

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IT staffers would help colleagues avoid monitoring software

April 24, 2023 0 Comments it management, Privacy, Technology Industry

The use of invasive monitoring software that tracks employee productivity is unlikely to be popular with workers — and it turns out IT staffers aren’t keen on deploying the technology either.

In fact, many IT workers are apparently willing to defy company policy and help colleagues find workarounds to avoid being spied on by the boss. That’s according to a survey of 500 IT managers and 500 non-manager IT workers in the US conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of digital employee experience software vendor 1E. The survey results were made public last week.

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Jamf debuts sophisticated security protection for executive iPhones

April 24, 2023 0 Comments Apple, iPhone, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Newton’s Third Law of motion argues that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that the Apple ecosystem is fighting back in a big way against the mercenary spyware companies that have made headlines recently.

Improving situational awareness

Few people in tech sit comfortably with NSO Group and others in their attacks against journalists, human rights advocates, and high-value targets on behalf of repressive governments. They know that these technologies tend to proliferate, which is why most firms are now engaged in finding new ways to fight back.

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Do the productivity gains from generative AI outweigh the security risks?

April 24, 2023 0 Comments Security, Software Development

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:08:00 -0700

There’s no doubt generative AI models such as ChatGPT, BingChat, or GoogleBard can deliver massive efficiency benefits — but they bring with them major cybersecurity and privacy concerns along with accuracy worries.

It’s already known that these programs — especially ChatGPT itself — make up facts and repeatedly lie. Far more troubling, no one seems to understand why and how these lies, coyly dubbed “hallucinations,” are happening.

In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained: “There is an aspect of this which we call — all of us in the field — call it as a ‘black box.’ You don’t fully understand. And you can’t quite tell why it said this.”

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