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Game over — hackers are using a spoofed version of Minesweeper to snare victims
Russian hackers are targeting financial institutions in Europe and the United States with a nostalgia-laden gaming lure. Two security agencies in Ukraine – CSIRT-NBU, and CERT-UA, hae warned of a new phishing campaign conducted by a threat actor they track as “UAC-0188”. This group is also known as “FRwL”, which…
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Taking Gen AI mainstream with next-level automation
Although the term Generative AI (Gen AI) has been around since the 1960s, it’s only over the past year that the application has truly taken hold in the mainstream consciousness. From business use to our personal lives, there are countless benefits that Gen AI can bring. Indeed, IDC predicts that…
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Privacy-preserving artificial intelligence: training on encrypted data
In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data, predictive models have become an essential tool across various industries including healthcare, finance and genomics. These models rely heavily on the processing of sensitive information making data privacy a critical concern. The key challenge lies in maximizing data utility without…
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Data breach at medical giant Cencora exposes info from multiple drug companies
Almost a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including several major players, have lost sensitive customer data due to a supply chain cyberattack that trickled down from pharma giant Cencora. In late February 2024, drug wholesale company Cencora (previously known as AmerisourceBergen) filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
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ChatGPT really isn’t great at answering programming questions yet
Despite becoming an overnight hit when it launched ChatGPT is still struggling to excel in some areas – particularly assisting coding, new research has claimed. Positioned as an ideal solution to programming issues, some developers have been making use of an array of generative AI tools such as GitHub’s Copilot…
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AI is already better at analyzing financial reports than humans
New research has claimed large language models, specifically GPT-4 (which powers certain versions of ChatGPT and various Microsoft Copilot-branded generative AI products) is able to analyze financial statements with greater accuracy than humans. The findings from researchers at the University of Chicago suggest significant implications for the future of financial…
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