How ChatGPT conversations became ‘a treasure trove’ of evidence in criminal investigations

Days before two University of South Florida graduate students went missing last month, a roommate of one of the students allegedly asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT an unusual question. “What happens if a human has a put (sic) in a Read More …

Proactive Email Security: The Power of AI

Cybercriminals are using AI to launch faster, more targeted attacks—impersonating executives, bypassing filters with QR phishing or AI-driven deception techniques, and exploiting human error to cause financial and reputational damage. Traditional defenses can’t keep up. This report explores how AI-powered Read More …

Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook

While you might think you’re hitting the jackpot, whether you’ve consented to it or not, online gambling sites are playing with your data. Users’ data, including details of webpages they visited and buttons they clicked, are being shared with Meta, Read More …

Modern TVs have “unprecedented capabilities for surveillance and manipulation”

Your television is debuting the latest, most captivating program: You. In a report titled “How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era,” the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) spotlighted a massive data-driven surveillance apparatus that ensnares the public Read More …

“Simply staggering” surveillance conducted by social media and streaming services, FTC finds

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services, finding that the companies engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their Read More …

Improving Detection and Response: Making the Case for Deceptions

Let’s face it, most enterprises find it incredibly difficult to detect and remove attackers once they’ve taken over user credentials, exploited hosts or both. In the meantime, attackers are working on their next moves. That means data gets stolen and Read More …

The Building Resilience to Cognitive Warfare Technical Exchange Meeting

In September 2023, MITRE hosted a Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) titled Building Resilience to Cognitive Warfare with participants from MITRE, the Department of Defense, and the Australian Defense Force, whic h focused on securing the cognitive domain, including identifying national-level Read More …

UK: Met Police is planning to root out corruption with use of ‘sophisticated’ new technology that monitors officers’ phones and computers

The Met Police will root out rogue officers with ‘sophisticated’ new technology that can monitor officers’ emails and work phones for ‘alarming’ words in a bid to stamp out its culture of sexism and racism. The software will also track Read More …

UK MoD data strategy calls for social media surveillance on behalf of ‘local authorities’

The Ministry of Defence has published a data strategy that calls on the British armed forces to make better use of its “enduring strategic asset” – by spying on social media and dobbing in dissenters to local councils. In a Read More …