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Why Financial Services Firms are Championing Natural Language Processing

CIO Business Intelligence

Those numbers represent the projected growth of chatbot interactions among banking customers between 2019 to 2023 and the cost savings from 862 hours less of work by support personnel, according to research by Juniper Research. One example is the ability to identify words or phrases used by malware bots. IT Leadership

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals. We are continuing to observe an unyielding surge in the volume of cyberthreats, including advanced malware, botnets, ransomware, cryptojacking, and more," said Callie Guenther, Senior Manager of Cyber Threat Research at Critical Start, in a press release.

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Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips

The Verge

Its purpose is to protect encryption keys, user credentials, and other sensitive data behind a hardware barrier so that malware and attackers can’t access or tamper with that data.”. So it’s all about security. TPMs work by offering hardware-level protection instead of software only. Microsoft is promoting TPM 2.0

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Game Change: Three Reasons Why #SonyHack Will Change Security

CTOvision

See the interview here: Tactics Not Malware Are the Story. Most corporate hacks we see are focused on either customer data (credit cards, medical records, social security numbers, passwords, bank account information, email addresses) or company proprietary documents.

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Surge in Malicious IoT Botnet Activity Raises Cybersecurity Concerns

SecureWorld News

One of the primary concerns highlighted in the report is the prevalence of bot malware that scans for vulnerable devices. Additionally, the Nokia report sheds light on the doubling of trojans targeting personal banking information on mobile devices.

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Technology Short Take 132

Scott Lowe

I recently stumbled across this utility to help protect your macOS-based system against persistent malware. Intel has released a security advisory for BlueZ , which is related to Bluetooth support in the Linux kernel. Here’s an interesting read: the story of some security researchers who hacked on Apple for three months.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

These are not groups of individual hackers sitting around the table late at night as it was in teh early days of malware writing. Hypponen: Alright, original sea change for monetizing malware was 2003. That's when we started seeing the cooperation between spammers and malware writers. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006.