AI benefits/risks

In Part 2 of this series on emerging threats, Critical Start’s Callie Guenther explores a six-point strategy for responding to threats posed by AI.

Meta has deferred training its large language models using publicly available Facebook and Instagram content without the explicit consent of its adult users across the European Union after an Irish Data Protection Commission request, reports The Hacker News.

The “photographic memory” feature was rolled back five days before its planned release.

Trust in Microsoft, Apple, and the Holy AI, Amen, Moonstone Sleet, Cheating, Joshua Marpet, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

This week, we've got data security being both funded AND acquired. We discuss Lacework's fall from unicorn status and why rumors that it went to Fortinet for considerably more than Wiz was willing to pay make sense. Microsoft Recall and Apple Intelligence are the perfect bookends for a conversation about the importance of handling consumer privacy...

Perception Point official says the “highest bar is full automation of the attack process.”

SiliconAngle reports that the increasing demand for security transformation amid escalating threat posed by artificial intelligence has prompted Darktrace to introduce its new Darktrace Managed Detection & Response solution, which features both AI-based threat mitigation and hands-on human expertise available 24/7.

FedScoop reports that artificial intelligence was noted by federal cybersecurity leaders to have significantly lowered the barrier of entry to launching cyberattacks among unsophisticated threat actors.