Cybersecurity
Should more companies hire Chief Product Security Officers?
“Many organisations have teams working in silos, so security doesn’t have the chance to review and advise the product team before it is too late."
enterprise
USA and China fighting 'enterprise tech trade war' in Middle East and Africa, analysts warn
The region "is emerging as a battleground for international tech supremacy" in areas including cloud, networks for enterprise 5G, and artificial intelligence
DDoS
‘Evil’ botnet unleashes ‘record-breaking’ DDoS attack
“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."
Salesforce
‘On-device agentic AI is here!’ Salesforce makes big claims about its ‘Tiny Giant’ LLM
Marc Benioff, CEO, shares his excitement about an LLM he claims is the world’s top-performing “micro-model” for function-calling
BT
"Our infrastructure is not designed for it": BT security leader reveals the challenges of deploying zero trust
How do you protect legacy technology from the threats of tomorrow? Security chief at world's oldest telecoms firm shares rare insights into its move towards a post-trust world
facial recognition
The UK's Home Office is building a "national facial matching service"
The Home Office wants to expand mobile biometric services "into the modality of face” by “exploiting the ubiquitous imaging capability now omnipresent in smartphones.”
meta
Meta suffers major blow to critical ad model as EU threatens huge fines
Company formerly known as Facebook slammed over "pay or consent" model which "fails to comply" with EU rules designed to stimulate competition in digital markets.
Kaspersky
Kaspersky CTO among 12 executives hit with US sanctions one day after antivirus sales ban
"Today’s action against the leadership of Kaspersky Lab underscores our commitment to ensure the integrity of our cyber domain and to protect our citizens against threats."
Microsoft
British MPs are preparing to test Microsoft's Copilot AI - despite security fears and US Congress ban
Controversial artificial intelligence assistant will be trialled at the end of 2024, prompting warnings that it could cause "increased risk"
cybersecurity
"Fighting AI with AI": Zscaler leaders on new threats and how to defeat them
Threat actors are already using large language models to enhance their attack capabilities - but it's not just the bad guys that can deploy Generative AI to their advantage.
Databricks
"GenAI has fallen short": Can Databricks' compound models perform better?
LLMs “tend to fail” when faced with the “messy data, ambiguous language, and nuanced complexities of actual data analysis."
Microsoft
Microsoft's President grilled over multiple security failures, defends controversial "Recall" handling
Says State Department cyber team deserve a medal for spotting intrusion based on Microsoft security issue before Microsoft's own team did.