With the pace of technological development in artificial intelligence (AI) increasing at a staggering rate, concerns about the responsible AI development have grown in recent years. Several international bodies, including the EU and the OECD, have issued frameworks seeking to define what makes AI ethical or ‘trustworthy’.Tech giant Microsoft has…

The jury is still out on the impact that AI will have on our world. Will the benefits outweigh the risks? Our recent conversation with Andrew Gardner and Keith Rayle (respective heads of AI from Symantec and Fortinet) concluded with an interesting discussion about what we might see in the future. — Creating New Worlds According to Andrew Gardner, AI is rapidly surpassing humans at creating and altering digital content, ranging from text to photos to videos to machine data and more. “Imagine whole new ways of interacting with devices and your environment, for example, saying just a few words and ending up with a…

In the months before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, there was much concern in the media that Twitter bots and botnets were influencing voters. …

Symantec found two Chrome extensions that secretly mine for Monero. — On May 8, we discovered two extensions for Google’s Chrome web browser that secretly perform coin mining after they are installed. Both extensions were found on the official Google Chrome Web Store. One of the extensions, called 2048, is a version of a popular math-based strategy game. The extension was…

Attackers are increasingly able to shut down or corrupt the actions of IoT devices that control equipment or interact in some other way with the physical world. — It’s been more than two years since, in the fall of 2016, the threat of cyber attacks that leveraged Internet of Things (IoT) devices moved from theoretical to actual. …

Guest blog by John Hipp, Security Sales Specialist at Insight — The online world seems to become more complex by the day. As more and more applications are moved to the cloud, the growing number and severity of data breaches makes it clear that attitudes about cybersecurity must change. It’s no longer possible to assume that “someone else” is going to…

It’s urgent to determine the extent of the intrusion and fix it fast. Here’s one case where time really is money. — Getting hit by malicious hackers and suffering a data breach is bad. Reacting so slowly that the fallout increases exponentially is even worse. At first blush, this might seem to fall under the heading of conventional wisdom. …

A conversation with Bobby Singh, CLX Forum’s Cyber Pro of the month. — Bobby Singh is an experienced Chief Information Security Officer and Technology Executive with extensive experience in leading the transformation and management of information security, data management, technology programs and organizations across diverse industry verticals. As a CISO and Global Head of Infrastructure, Bobby is responsible for delivering secure and highly…

Guest blog by Rudolf Olah, Software Development Expert at NeverFriday.com — I work in the software development industry, and I have seen some serious breakdowns in security. I’ve seen software engineers and office staff respond to phishing emails, using their corporate email accounts. I’ve seen people narrowly avoid getting tricked into sending funds to companies that don’t exist. And on the…