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The Race Is On To Build Defenses Against Hacking AI
Tech News: A growing cyber threat that will continue to evolve is hacking artificial intelligence. It’s estimated that the global market value for AI will surpass$267 billion by 2027 and $15.7 trillion by 2030. Hackers making minor adjustments that are impossible to detect can throw off AI systems and may lead to catastrophic outcomes. While AI-powered tools can strengthen the ability to identify threats, cybercriminals can also leverage this technology to conduct attacks and break into networks by using credentials and algorithms. AI is already becoming a preferred tool for hackers by creating deepfake content and disinformation to lure people into phishing attacks and security breaches. As the use of AI in cyberattacks advances, governments, companies and security experts must respond and develop effective defenses against them.

Internal Revenue Service to expand use of Login.gov
FedScoop: Here’s an update to a story we reported last month. The IRS has decided to reject using facial recognition technology and has committed to the use of login.gov as a user authentication tool. They are partnering with the General Services Administration to roll out login.gov as a secure and privacy-protecting solution to taxpayers and the American public. Currently login.gov is used by small, tax-exempt organizations for annual reporting and foreign intermediaries that have withholding agreements with the IRS. But while login.gov has been marketed as an easy way to securely log into federal government websites, a watchdog report identified multiple failings by the company.

ChatGPT leaks user credit card details
CyberNews: OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, announced last Monday that a bug found in their open-source library caused a small number of users to see the titles of other users’ conversation history. To make matters worse, right before the website was taken down to patch the vulnerability, 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus users (a $20 a month pilot subscription program) may have had their payment information leaked to other users. As the company researched the issues, they concluded that the same bug may have caused the visibility of payment-related information of the subscribers during a nine hour window. With ChatGPT quickly growing with 100 million users and counting, it looks like this won’t be the last time user information is leaked.

2 Stats You Should Know

Over 90% of all cloud security failures will be due to the customer’s failure to adopt proper security measures. (source)

63% of C-level executives do not have an incident response plan. (source)

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