Cyber Security

The interviewer asked, "Is that image real"? There's no way to tell. "What about this video?" It's hard to say. "You can't tell if that's real or fake either." No. Not without analyzing it. "Well, what about the prose? Did a human write this sentence?" It's possible, but it would not surprise me to learn that it was machine generated. "What about the voice in the video?" It's sonically perfect. I'd say 60/40 it's a machine, but I'd need to hear a few more sentences to be sure. "So, what you're saying is that I can't trust my eyes or my ears?" Yes. That's what I'm saying. "Is this the end of truth?" Continue Reading →

Cool or creepy? These are the opposite ends of the Shelly Palmer scale for evaluating AI-powered surveillance systems built into robots, IoT, and other tech. With my cool or creepy scale in mind, behold Amazon's Astro. Continue Reading →

China's central bank has announced that all transactions of cryptocurrencies are illegal. "Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities," the People's Bank of China said, warning they "seriously endanger the safety of people's assets." Continue Reading →

Imagine a world without passwords. OK. Enough dreaming. Continue Reading →

Microsoft Teams and Zoom no longer come with prebuilt productivity scores, but that has not stopped the rise of spies at work. As more and more business is being done from remote locations, the old adage "what gets measured, gets managed" is alive and well. Continue Reading →

There's an amazing video interview on YouTube of Bill Gates from 2015 where he predicts the pandemic. How did he know? The answer is simple: everyone who was paying attention to world health was aware of the threat. Continue Reading →

Open banking, a fancy name for giving banking customers direct (API-based) control over how their data is released to third-parties, is trending globally. In theory, open banking enables the creation of new financial products and services, as well as easy integrations with third-party developers. It's not new. So why are we hearing about it now? Continue Reading →

As reported by CNBC, more than $600 million was stolen in what is likely to be one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts ever. Hackers exploited a vulnerability in Poly Network, a platform that looks to connect different blockchains so that they can work together. In a strange turn of events Wednesday, the hackers began returning some of the funds they stole. Continue Reading →

Today is a great day to have a chat with your team and go over your business resiliency and business continuity plan. If you get hit with a ransomware attack this afternoon, what happens? Who gets notified and in what order? Who initiates the restore protocols? How many hours, days, weeks of backups are available? Which servers go back online first and in what order? Continue Reading →

This morning, the AP is reporting that the Biden administration is blaming China for the massive hack of Microsoft's Exchange server software earlier this year. Continue Reading →