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Zyxel unveils new cloud-managed switches for small businesses and professional home users

Zyxel Networks launched the XMG1915 series – a family of smart managed switches designed to provide small businesses and professional home users (prosumers) with the throughput and versatility needed to support today’s high bandwidth applications and services. With the growth in hybrid and home working, high-definition video content, and the use of cloud services, small businesses (SBs) and prosumers need much higher throughput capabilities on the network. In addition, increased Power over Ethernet (PoE) budgets … More → The post Zyxel unveils new cloud-managed switches for small businesses and professional home users appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Securing AI systems against evasion, poisoning, and abuse

Adversaries can intentionally mislead or “poison” AI systems, causing them to malfunction, and developers have yet to find an infallible defense against this. In their latest publication, NIST researchers and their partners highlight these AI and machine learning vulnerabilities. Taxonomy of attacks on Generative AI systems Understanding potential attacks on AI systems The publication, “Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations (NIST.AI.100-2),” is a key component of NIST’s broader initiative to … More → The post Securing AI systems against evasion, poisoning, and abuse appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Accelerate essential cyber hygiene for your small business

Think you’re too small to experience a cyber attack? That’s not the case. In fact, cyber threat actors (CTAs) are increasingly setting their sights on small businesses. If successful, their attack attempts can be devastating. Fortunately, the Center for Internet Security released the “CIS Implementation Guide for Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises.” It’s designed to help your small business rapidly adopt Implementation Group 1 (IG1), a subset of the CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls). Let’s … More → The post Accelerate essential cyber hygiene for your small business appeared first on Help Net Security.
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/8802, (Tue, Jan 9th)

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Use of AI comes with new security threats. Agencies will need innovative strategies to protect their AI models

By next year, 75% of government agencies will have launched at least three enterprise-wide initiatives for AI-assisted automation, according to Deloitte. And 60% of agency investments in AI and data analytics will be designed to have a direct impact on real-time operational decisions and outcomes, Deloitte says.
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McAfee Project Mockingbird defends users against AI-generated scams and disinformation

McAfee announced its AI-powered Deepfake Audio Detection technology, known as Project Mockingbird. This new, proprietary technology was developed to help defend consumers against the surging threat of cybercriminals utilizing fabricated, AI-generated audio to carry out scams that rob people of money and personal information, enable cyberbullying, and manipulate the public image of prominent figures. Increasingly sophisticated and accessible Generative AI tools have made it easier for cybercriminals to create highly convincing scams, such as using … More → The post McAfee Project Mockingbird defends users against AI-generated scams and disinformation appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Congressional leaders announce an agreement on spending levels, a key step to averting shutdown

Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on overall spending levels for the current fiscal year that could help avoid a partial government shutdown later this month.
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Suspicious Prometei Botnet Activity, (Sun, Jan 7th)

On the 31 Dec 2023, after trying multiple username/password combination, actor using IP 194.30.53.68 successfully loging to the honeypot and uploaded eight files where 2 of them are protected with a 7zip password (updates1.7z & updates2.7z). Some of  these files have been identified to be related to the Prometei trojan by Virustotal. The file sqhost.exe [6] was last found by Talos [7] used with the Prometei botnet as a trojan coin miner. 
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