Enterprise software vendors of all stripes are beginning to add generative AI features to their applications. Here’s how Stream Financial, NFP, and Thomson Reuters are (cautiously) taking advantage of the technology.
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In addition to controlling the use of ChatGPT and other standalone tools, companies now have to grapple with generative AI being built into the productivity apps their employees use every day
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Three years after Target missed alerts warning them about a massive data breach, the amount of threat information coming in from security systems is still overwhelming for many companies, according to new reports, due to a lack of expertise and inte…
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Despite all the news coverage about successful cyberattacks, developers are still writing code full of security vulnerabilities.Of course, nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes, and as software projects get more and more complex, it can be easy to…
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The fast-growing Cerber ransomware earned nearly $200,000 in July despite a payment rate of just 0.3 percent as a result of its affiliate distribution model, according to a new report by Check Point and IntSights Cyber Intelligence.That puts it on t…
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In a study released this morning, nine out of 10 corporate board members said that regulators should hold businesses liable for breaches if they haven’t taken reasonable steps to secure customer data.This was a surprise to Veracode, the company that…
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Biometric data such as fingerprint scans is being collected too widely and too casually, according to security company Protegrity USA.”Today, many of the major banks are using biometrics to log into your accounts on your mobile devices,” said Proteg…
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Companies that create tools for “rooting” Android phones may be within the law, but they may be inadvertently paving the way for malware developers.According to a paper presented this week by University of California professor Zhiyun Qian, the devel…
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Non-technical health care employees are too complacent about the possibility of a data breach, and few are aware that it has happened to their organizations, according to a survey released today of employees at large and mid-sized health care organi…
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In the war between malvertisers and legitimate advertising networks, the bad guys seems to be winning. Attackers use real-time bidding platforms to place malicious ads on otherwise reputable sites, infect target users and disappear — often before a…
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Application attacks against clouds jumped 45 percent last year, according to a new report from Houston-based cloud security firm Alert Logic, Inc.The report was based on an analysis of one billion security events in the IT environments of more than …
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The majority of large companies have experienced a breach over the past twelve months, but almost a quarter, 23 percent, of firms do not know how the hackers got in, according to a new survey.
“That was pretty eye-opening,” said Tim Helming, direct…
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The average U.S. company of 1,000 employees or more spends $15 million a year battling cybercrime, up 20 percent compared to last year, according to a report released today.Attacks involving malicious code, malware, viruses, worms, trojans and botne…
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NETWORK WORLD–Companies should not attempt to jump into gamification all at once. Here are four specific applications that are excellent places to start your gamification program.
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It’s free, easier to use than ever, IT staffers know it and love it, and it has fewer viruses and Trojans than Windows. It’s already ubiquitous on the server side. Plus, there are now alternatives to the most popular software packages out there — again, for free — and new software releases often have Web-based
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