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Social Engineering 2.0: The Rise of Deepfake Phishing

SecureWorld News

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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Twitter accounts sharing video from Ukraine are being suspended when they’re needed most

The Verge

But as the conflict intensifies, many researchers sharing this primary material taken from social media — commonly known as open-source intelligence or OSINT — have found their Twitter accounts unexpectedly suspended. It is unclear how exactly the suspended accounts were thought to have breached the policy.

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Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight

Vox

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. While platforms tend to tout new policies designed to curb misinformation, they don’t always find and remove all the content that violates their rules.

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YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

Vox

YouTube is shedding new light on how it moderates its sprawling video platform, which has billions of views each day. YouTube also said on Tuesday that it’s able to take down 94 percent of content that breaks its rules with automated flagging systems, and that the large majority of those videos are caught before they get 10 views.

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GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond

GeekWire

Among other roles, he served on the National AI Research Resource Task Force , which advised the White House on policy issues, and he’s working on a project to combat AI-related misinformation in the upcoming elections. ” The need for strong open-source models: “The consolidation of power in AI is a huge risk.

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Why Taylor Swift Fans Should Work in Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

On June 14, 2019, Taylor Swift posted a seemingly random string of text to her social media accounts: gxgjxkhdkdkydkhdkhfjvjfj!!! She had just released a new music video, so to the untrained eye, it would seem that she was evoking an excited keyboard-smash. But Swifties knew better.

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Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea

Vox

Child safety experts worry that social media poses additional threats to young children, too. The public health experts and child advocacy groups who signed the letter also argue that social media built for kids could violate younger peoples’ privacy and create an increased risk of depression, among a wide variety of other potential harms.