CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity Training Programs Don't Prevent Employees from Falling for Phishing Scams

By Ioana Patringenaru

Cybersecurity training programs as implemented today by most large companies do little to reduce the risk that employees will fall for phishing scams. Study involving 19,500 UC San Diego Health employees evaluated the effectiveness of two different types of cybersecurity training.

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RANSOMWARELarge Language Models Can Execute Complete Ransomware Attacks Autonomously

Study demonstrates AI systems can carry out full attack campaigns, a warning to cybersecurity defenders.

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AIHow Poisoned Data Can Trick AI − and How to Stop It

The quality of the information that the AI offers depends on the quality of the data it learns from If someone tries to interfere with those systems by tampering with their training data –either the initial data used to build the system or data the system collects as it’s operating to improve –trouble could ensue.

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CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity Suite That Helps Protect Nation Now Available to Public

A cybersecurity platform developed at Sandia National Laboratories to detect and analyze advanced malware threats is now publicly available, giving cyberdefenders across the public and private sectors access to tools previously used to help safeguard U.S. national security.

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CYBERSECURITYA Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

By Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke

Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems —with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Digital escorts often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, leaving highly sensitive data vulnerable to hacking. Microsoft has been warned that the arrangement is inherently risky, but the company launched and expanded it anyway.

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CYBERFEARS, TRUST & DEMOCRACYCyber Attacks Shake Voters’ Trust in Elections, Regardless of Party

By Ryan Shandler, Anthony J. DeMattee, and Bruce Schneier

American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. In recent years, authoritarian regimes have refined a chillingly effective strategy to chip away at Americans’ faith in democracy by relentlessly sowing doubt about the tools U.S. states use to conduct elections. It’s a sustained campaign to fracture civic faith and make Americans believe that democracy is rigged, especially when their side loses.

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