01 Mar 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 03/01/2022

Beware: new IRS rules will lead to a wave of phishing frauds Thanks to new legislation that went into place at the beginning of this year, I predict that a lot of unsuspecting small business owners are about to fall victim to a fresh scam. The scam will relate to legislation around new tax reporting rules that will affect millions of freelancers and small businesses. As I explained in an earlier column, beginning for the 2022…
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21 Jun 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 06/21/2021

AI Creates False Documents That Fake Out Hackers Hackers constantly improve at penetrating cyberdefenses to steal valuable documents. So some researchers propose using an artificial-intelligence algorithm to hopelessly confuse them, once they break in, by hiding the real deal amid a mountain of convincing fakes. The algorithm, called Word Embedding–based Fake Online Repository Generation Engine (WE-FORGE), generates decoys of patents under development. But someday it could “create a lot of fake versions of every document that a…
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23 Feb 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 02/23/2021

Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security A week after popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse said it was taking steps to ensure user data couldn’t be stolen by malicious hackers or spies, at least one attacker has proven the platform’s live audio can be siphoned. An unidentified user was able to stream Clubhouse audio feeds this weekend from “multiple rooms” into their own third-party website, said Reema Bahnasy, a spokeswoman for Clubhouse. While the…
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