Category «Cybersecurity»

AI in Finance and Banking – December 16, 2024

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Five highlights from this post: Generative artificial intelligence and cyber security in central banking; Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market; Wall Street’s AI-powered rally risks ‘correction’, Vanguard warns; Regulating AI in the financial sector: recent developments and main challenges; Large language models: a primer for economists; and AI and the Labor Market: Will Firms Hire, Fire, or Retrain?

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Cybersecurity, Economy, Education, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 14, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: How Much Do I Need to Change My Face to Avoid Facial Recognition?; FCC Prepares to Block Companies That Don’t Block Robocalls; Your Bluesky posts could be training AI models right now; AI chatbot provider exposes 346,000 customer files, including ID documents, resumes, and medical records; and Google uses your personal info to tailor search results. Here’s how to stop it

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 7, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: FTC Cracks Down on Tech Support Scams, Targeting Schemes That Prey on Cord Cutters; CFPB Proposes Rule to Stop Data Brokers from Selling Sensitive Personal Data to Scammers, Stalkers, and Spies; FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel; Six password takeaways from the updated NIST cybersecurity framework; and How to prep your iPhone for unexpected medical emergencies.

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Subjects: Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 30, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Surveillance Self-Defense Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications; Australia Makes History With Social Media Ban for Under 16s; Crypto companies are losing ground to deepfake attacks; and Coast Guard adds new cyber requirements for ship-to-shore cranes.

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Subjects: Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cyberlaw, Cybersecurity, Economy, Privacy, Social Media

AI harm is often behind the scenes and builds over time – a legal scholar explains how the law can adapt to respond

The often-overlooked consequences of AI applications call for regulatory frameworks that can keep pace with this rapidly evolving technology. Prof. Sylvia Lu studies the intersection of law and technology, and has outlined a legal framework to do just that.

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Subjects: AI, Courts & Technology, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy, United States Law

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 23, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Thieves are using Google Maps to target homes; Microsoft’s anti competitive behavior weakens its customers’ cybersecurity; How and where to report cybercrime: What you need to know; Legislation introduced to address foreign supply chain threats; Use These 4 Apps and Tools to Detect Phishing Emails

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Federal Legislative Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 16, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Warning: Hackers could take over your email account by stealing cookies, even if you have MFA; US regulator could impose bank-like state supervision regime on Google; ome of Substack’s Biggest Newsletters Rely on AI Writing Tools; FBI, CISA, and NSA reveal most exploited vulnerabilities of 2023; and Federal CIO focused on cyber, smooth transition in months ahead.

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Subjects: AI, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 9, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Turning On “Do Not Track” Is Practically Useless; Using Google Authenticator? Read this; She Tried to Opt Out of Election Texts, Got a ‘Text-Pocalypse’; and Google Asked to Remove 10 Billion “Pirate” Search Results.

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 2, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: DHS cyber review board to investigate Chinese hack of US telecom as victim net widens; Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads; Feds warn of AI voice spoofing in healthcare; and The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Education, Financial System, Healthcare, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 26, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Three US industry groups sue FTC to block ‘Click to Cancel’ rule; National Security Agency Mobile Device Best Practices; EU slaps LinkedIn with $334 million fine for targeted advertising; and CFPB Orders Apple and Goldman Sachs to Pay Over $89 Million for Apple Card Failures.

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Legal Research, Social Media
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