‘We Have Enough AI’: Realism in a Time of Relentless Hype
Let’s ask a simple question that seems to be getting lost in all of the credulous fervor around AI: How’s this working out for everyone?
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Dennis Fisher
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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
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The Real Story on AI Security Live From LabsCon!
Dennis joins from the last LabsCon conference, which featured amazing keynotes from Prof. James Mickens on AI reality and myths, Katie Moussouris on why humans are more vital than ever in security, and Dino Dai Zovi on using hardware to break attack chains,
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Microsoft Teams Phishing, a Botnet Takedown 23 Years in the Making, and The Cuckoo’s Egg’s Lessons
It’s our one year anniversary! This week we talk about the highlights of the last year, a new high-level phishing campaign that uses Microsoft Teams as an initial access vector, and the takedown of the ancient Sality P2P botnet. Then we offer some book and TV recommendations for the long weekend. Links One year of […]