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CIOs And The Problem Of Social Engineering

The Accidental Successful CIO

Social engineering is how the bad guys get employees to say too much Image Credit: Alexandre Formagio. These days they use a more sophisticated attack: social engineering. What Is Social Engineering? So just exactly what is this thing that we call “social engineering” ? However, hackers have since moved on.

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Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

The Verge

Today, Facebook announced a new initiative that it hopes will give it an edge in this consequential work: training its AI on Facebook users’ public videos. Facebook is vague about its future plans for AI models trained on users’ videos. This is information, incidentally, that has often been indexed by AI systems trained on user data.).

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How to Empower Frontline Employees with Mobile Training

Kitaboo

And their job roles could be that of a customer service executive, bank executive, in-store salesperson, receptionist, to name a few. The main attribute that these employees need to have is good social and interpersonal skills. Such an important task force requires a compelling and well-designed training program.

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3 Top Things to Know About Social Engineering

SecureWorld News

On a recent SecureWorld Sessions podcast episode, Social Engineering: Hacking Humans , host Bruce Sussman spoke with Christopher Hadnagy, an entrepreneur and author of five books about social engineering and hacking the human. 1 How do you define social engineering?

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How Serious Is The Lack Of Machine Learning Talent?

The Accidental Successful CIO

However, at banks, insurers and other financial companies their use of artificial intelligence is being especially hampered by a scarcity of data and talent. The banking and financial services sector have been showing a steady increase in demand across the board for AI-enhanced robotic process automation tools.

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. How do enterprises combat these threats at a broader scale and prevent persistent phishing attempts?

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Understanding the Essential Pillars of Phishing Mitigation

SecureWorld News

These attackers have criminal intent, as they'll lure in victims by claiming to be a friend, family member, bank, or other well-known companies and websites. These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. Social engineering has its tells, though.