The influence of optimism bias and loss aversion in cyber risk management decisions

by KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. The left panel displays indifference curves describing the optimality of staying on the reference point, whereas the right panel shows the indifference curve of the…

Researchers expose vulnerability of speech emotion recognition models to adversarial attacks

Ransomware attack disables computers at blood center serving 250 hospitals in southeast US

A health care worker walks by the Big Red Bus from OneBlood outside at Cano Health in Hialeah, Fla., July 29, 2020. Oneblood, which serves much of the southeast United…

Undersea internet cables connecting Australia to the world threatened by boats, spies, natural disasters

International submarine cables connecting Australia. Credit: ACMA The Australian government this week announced it would spend A$18 million over four years on a new center aimed at keeping safe the…

Phantom data could show copyright holders if their work is in AI training data

Credit: Google DeepMind from Pexels Inspired by the map makers of the 20th Century, Imperial researchers have demonstrated a new way to identify copyright holders’ work in LLMs. The technique…

Technology’s grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines

Tiffany McAllister and Andres Bernal try to rebook their flight to Iowa while at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Friday, July 19, 2024, as a major internet outage disrupts…

Malicious actors trying to exploit global tech outage for their own gain

An IT field services technician works on software on an information display near United Airlines gates at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, in Chicago, Friday, July 19, 2024. Transport providers, businesses…

Risk-averse organizations chose CrowdStrike for cybersecurity. Now its software is causing chaos

A Crowdstrike office is shown in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Friday, July 19, 2024. An overnight outage was blamed on a software update that cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike sent to Microsoft computers…

Since 2018, data protection laws have reduced security breaches but affected firms’ value

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The introduction of new data protection rules significantly reduced breaches by firms but negatively impacted their market value, according to new research by the University of…

Trusted TV doctors ‘deepfaked’ to promote health scams on social media

Credit: AI-generated image Some of the UK’s most recognizable TV doctors are increasingly being “deepfaked” in videos to sell scam products across social media, finds The BMJ today. Trusted names…