Controversial gunshot-detection company ShotSpotter has deployed more than 25,000 microphones across 170 cities worldwide. This week, WIRED and South Side Weekly revealed the company may continue to provide gunshot data to police in cities even after contracts have ended. Internal emails seen by the publications suggest ShotSpotter sensors may have stayed online despite law enforcement […]
Italian National Research Council Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating new discoveries across industries, from video production to medicine — and now, it’s expanding what we know about antiquity. On Tuesday, researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy announced that they have successfully used AI to decipher a papyrus scroll found in Herculaneum, a town near […]
23% of Americans said they recently came across a political deepfake they later discovered to be fake, according to McAfee. The actual number of people exposed to political and other deepfakes is expected to be much higher given many Americans are not able to decipher what is real versus fake, thanks to the sophistication of […]
Dive Brief: Almost two-thirds of organizations across the globe have either fully or partially implemented zero-trust strategies, according to a report released Monday by Gartner based on a survey of 303 security leaders. Of organizations that have fully or partially implemented zero trust, 4 in 5 have strategic metrics to measure their success. Of those, […]
Threat actors are continuing to successfully breach across the entire attack surface and the stakes are only getting higher: 93% of enterprises who admitted a breach reported unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss as a result, according to Pentera. Pentera surveyed 450 CISOs, CIOs, and IT security leaders at enterprise companies with more than […]
Spinners from across the genre divides join forces DJs from across the dance music world are pledging their time to an event raising funds for medical assistance for civilians trapped in war torn Palestine. Colin Dale (pictured), Jumping Jack Frost, Smokin Jo, Mr C and Carl Loben are among the acts playing Cause We Care, […]
Only 3% of organizations across the globe have the ‘mature’ level of readiness needed to be resilient against modern cybersecurity risks, according to Cisco. The 2024 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index highlights that readiness is down significantly from one year ago, when 15% of companies were ranked mature. Low cybersecurity risks readiness levels Companies today continue […]
The European Union (EU) has agreed new rules to strengthen cyber incident response and recovery across member states, which has been dubbed the ‘cyber solidarity act.’ The provisional regulation aims to make the EU more resilient and reactive to cyber threats via new cooperation mechanisms. This includes the establishment of an EU-wide cybersecurity alert system, […]
A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts. The Asian technology and internet company YX International manufactures cellular networking equipment and provides SMS text message routing […]