For the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to recognize faces, rate creditworthiness and predict the weather. At the same time, increasingly sophisticated hacks using stealthier methods have escalated. The combination of AI and cybersecurity was inevitable as both fields sought better tools and new uses for their technology. However, there is a massive problem that threatens to undermine these efforts and could allow adversaries to bypass digital defenses undetected.
The danger is data poisoning: manipulating the information used to train machines offers a virtually untraceable method to circumvent AI-powered defenses. Many companies might not be ready to deal
Two world wars had raged within three decades, costing more than 100 million lives, when history’s most destructive weapon was deployed in August 1945. The horrific prospect of nuclear-fueled, mutually assured destruction has kept superpowers in check since then, and a cyber equivalent could be just what is needed as global hostilities turn digital.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by a barrage of cyberattacks on the nation’s power and communications infrastructure, reminding everyone that the Kremlin views its digital arsenal as being no less important than its aging stock of tanks and missiles.
However, none of these incursions dealt
There are many ways a Chinese company might sidestep US sanctions and provide technology products to Russia. It could hide US imports behind third-party suppliers, implement layers of shell companies to obfuscate source and destination, or create elaborate schemes to hide data from forensic accountants.
They would be foolish for trying, and the Chinese government would likely step in to stop them.
The US and its allies were swift to act after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Washington led a coalition of more than 30 countries that halted the supply of US goods and services, or those that use US technology or
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been met with crippling sanctions, brought an untold human and economic cost, and turned it into an international pariah.
However, one of the most damaging long-term consequences might be the resulting hollowing out of the nation’s vast pool of tech talent.
As many as 70,000 information technology (IT) workers have fled the country and another 100,000 are expected to depart over the next month, the Russian Association for Electronic Communications told the nation’s Duma this month.
That is equivalent to about 13 percent of the sector’s workforce, one that makes an outsize contribution to the Russian economy.
Fearful
A year after Apple Inc supplier Wistron Corp faced an uprising in India, its larger rival Foxconn Technology Group, known in Taiwan as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is encountering a similar rebuke. This time, their key client is getting drawn into what ought to serve as a wake-up call for Taiwanese manufacturers in the South Asian nation.
Concerns about food safety and accommodation standards spurred Apple to take the unusual step of placing a factory near the southern Indian city of Chennai on probation. More than 17,000 people work at the facility, and in the middle of last month hundreds