Thu.Jul 04, 2024

article thumbnail

Brazil data protection authority bans Meta from training AI models with data originating in the country

Security Affairs

Brazil’s data protection authority temporarily banned Meta from using data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. Brazil’s data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has imposed a temporary ban on Meta from processing users’ personal data for training its artificial intelligence (AI) models. “The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) issued today a Preventive Measure determining the immediate suspension, in Brazil,

article thumbnail

How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’

WIRED Threat Level

Generative AI is seeping into the core of your phone, but what does that mean for privacy? Here’s how Apple’s unique AI architecture compares to the “hybrid” approach adopted by Samsung and Google.

Privacy 208
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Splunk fixed tens of flaws in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform

Security Affairs

Technology company Splunk released security updates to address 16 vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform. Technology company Splunk addressed 16 vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform, including four high-severity flaws. The vulnerability CVE-2024-36985 is a Remote Code Execution (RCE) through an external lookup due to “copybuckets.py“ script in the “splunk_archiver“ application in Splunk Enterprise. “In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.10, 9.1.5, and

Cloud 328
article thumbnail

Records of Processing Activities (ROPAs): Simplifying GDPR Compliance

IT Governance

Expert insight from a data privacy trainer and DPO “Organisations tend to overcomplicate GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation] compliance.” That’s what data privacy trainer and DPO (data protection officer) Andy Snow said when I asked him, in honour of the Regulation’s sixth anniversary , what organisations are still struggling with when it comes to GDPR compliance.

GDPR 101
article thumbnail

State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

article thumbnail

Hackers obtained user data from Twilio-owned 2FA authentication app Authy

Security Affairs

Twilio states that threat actors have identified the phone numbers of users of its two-factor authentication app, Authy, TechCrunch reported. Last week, the notorious hacker ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from Twilio. This week the messaging firm told TechCrunch that “threat actors” identified data of Authy users, a two-factor authentication app owned by Twilio, including their phone numbers.

More Trending

article thumbnail

OVHcloud mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack in April 2024

Security Affairs

OVHcloud successfully mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack in April, which reached 840 million packets per second (Mpps). The cloud services provider OVHcloud announced it has mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this year. The attack reached a record packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). “Our infrastructures had to mitigate several 500+ Mpps attacks at the beginning of 2024, including one peaking at 620 Mpps.

article thumbnail

Your PCI-DSS v4.0 Roadmap: Charting a Course of Education, Analysis & System Enhancements

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Your PCI-DSS v4.0 Roadmap: Charting a Course of Education, Analysis & System Enhancements josh.pearson@t… Thu, 07/04/2024 - 07:00 The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) v4.0 is about protecting cardholder data and maintaining the secure reputation of the industry as a whole. Cyber threats are continuing to grow and evolve in frequency, vector and complexity requiring stronger protection, particularly for payments data.

article thumbnail

Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

Healthcare firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach caused by a partner’s compromised account that exposed protected health information. Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach after a partner’s compromised account was used to access its systems. The intruders have stolen protected health information from the company systems.

article thumbnail

Apple Intelligence Will Label AI-Generated Images in Metadata via CNET

IG Guru

Check out the article here

article thumbnail

How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

article thumbnail

Meeting Bart Reardon: the innovator behind swiftDialog and its integration with Jamf

Jamf

Nadia Te recaps her visit with Bart Reardon, the creator of swiftDialog. When integrated with Jamf, swiftDialog improves the user experience during the device management workflows. Learn more about why swiftDialog was created and how it helps users.

IT 40