Cybersecurity

AI-generated voices in robocalls now illegal – Help Net Security

The FCC has revealed the unanimous adoption of a Declaratory Ruling that recognizes calls made with AI-generated voices are “artificial” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The ruling, which takes effect immediately, makes voice cloning technology used in common robocall scams targeting consumers illegal. This would give State Attorneys General across the country new […]

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5 Ways to Reduce SaaS Security Risks

As technology adoption has shifted to be employee-led, just in time, and from any location or device, IT and security teams have found themselves contending with an ever-sprawling SaaS attack surface, much of which is often unknown or unmanaged. This greatly increases the risk of identity-based threats, and according to a recent report from CrowdStrike, […]

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Tech Giants Launch Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition

A new tech consortium launched today with a mission to drive adoption of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The PQC Coalition features Microsoft, IBM Quantum, MITRE, PQShield, SandboxAQ and the University of Waterloo among its founding members. The goal will be to improve uptake of PQC in commercial and open source technologies. Quantum computing represents an existential threat […]

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Critical business app outages cost $500,000 per hour of downtime – Help Net Security

Observability’s adoption is on the rise and full-stack observability leads to better service-level metrics, such as fewer, shorter outages and lower outage costs, according to New Relic. Respondents receive a median $2 return per $1 of investment in observability, with 41% receiving more than $1 million total annual value. According to the research, organizations are […]

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Privacy concerns cast a shadow on AI’s potential for software development – Help Net Security

Organizations are optimistic about AI, but AI adoption requires attention to privacy and security, productivity, and training, according to GitLab. “The transformational opportunity with AI goes way beyond creating code,” said David DeSanto, CPO, GitLab. “According to the GitLab Global DevSecOps Report, only 25% of developers’ time is spent on code generation, but the data […]