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Vishing, Wangiri, and Other VoIP Fraud Tactics On the Rise
VoIP fraud is a serious and growing threat to businesses, with attackers increasingly targeting cloud phone systems to exploit vulnerabilities for financial gain. This type of fraud involves unauthorized access to a VoIP network, often for making costly international calls or redirecting traffic to premium-rate numbers. But there are many types of VoIP fraud, and not all of them rely…
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Carbon emissions could rise 10-fold over the next decade due to AI – big tech’s solution is to use more AI
Carbon emissions are skyrocketing due to rising generative AI demands, but a new report from Accenture found business leaders believe the technology will ultimately do more good than harm. By modeling the expected incremental use of AI hardware in data centers, Accenture predicted AI-related emissions will rise more than 10-fold by 2030. This is an output change of 68 to…
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The Rise in Nation-State Cyber Threats
Today’s threat landscape includes nation-state actors as well as attackers looking to test their skills or turn a profit. AT ISC2 Security Conference in Las Vegas, CISA advisor and former New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth took the stage to discuss what has changed over the last 10 years of cyber warfare. Her presentation was the capstone of the…
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Is the rise of genAI about to create an energy crisis? – Computerworld
In the report, the agency noted that electricity providers, data center customers, and other large customers had all expressed concerns about the ability to keep up with demand, and “almost uniformly, they recommended accelerating generation and storage additions, delaying retirements, making additional investments in existing resources.” Those updates include the “uprating and relicensing of existing nuclear and hydroelectric facilities,” and…
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API and bot attacks are costing businesses billions – and they’re on the rise
Insecure Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and bot attacks are costing organizations billions, with large companies particularly at risk. In a new analysis of more than 161,000 unique cybersecurity incidents, the security firm Imperva found that API-related security incidents rose by 40% across 2022 and by a further 9% in 2023. Bot-related security incidents rose by 88% across the same period.…
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So you lost your job at Klarna to AI – at least your former coworkers get a pay rise
While claims of a wave of AI-related job losses haven’t quite materialized over the last two years, it’s still too early to claim critics have jumped the gun. Some organizations are showing why workers should begin worrying. With the advent of generative AI in late 2022, hysteria set in among critics of the technology. Goldman Sachs famously claimed that more…
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