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Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 4% in late trading despite the electric car and solar panel maker beating analyst expectations in its latest quarterly results. For its fiscal second quarter that ended June 30, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of …
Behavior training improves cyber resilience in critical infrastructure
A new report from cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. released today surprisingly finds that critical infrastructure employees are becoming more engaged in organizational security. The “Human Cyber-Risk Report: Critical Infrastructure” was compiled based on examining more than 15 million phishing simulations and actual email attacks …
Industry titans join forces in the newly formed Ultra Ethernet Consortium
Leading cloud service, semiconductor and system providers joined forces today to launch the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, a new consortium for industrywide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance networking. The consortium seeks to cater to the evolving demands of …
How Google’s AI Red Team is shaping the future of cybersecurity
A new report from Google LLC’s AI Red Team today explores a critical capability that the search giant deploys to support its Secure AI Framework: red teaming. Google released its Secure AI Framework in June to help companies protect artificial intelligence models from …
Endor Labs report warns AI and LLMs struggle to classify malware risk
A new report from dependency lifecycle management startup Endor Labs Inc. has warned that artificial intelligence and large language models are unable to classify malware risk in most cases accurately. The “State of Dependency Management 2023” report, compiled by Endor’s Station 9 research team, …
Microsoft highlights the role of AI in tackling cybersecurity challenges
In the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly crucial tool. How this plays out was discussed today in an interesting new blog post from Alym Rayani, vice president of security marketing at Microsoft, highlighting AI’s role in addressing …
Rapid7 launches ‘Executive Risk View’ for streamlined risk scoring
Cybersecurity technology provider Rapid7 Inc. today launched “Executive Risk View,” a new solution that normalizes risk scoring in cloud and on-premises environments. Risk scoring is a method that quantifies the potential threat a vulnerability or a set of vulnerabilities poses to an organization’s …
Cloudflare report reveals disturbing rise in DDoS attacks against critical sectors
A new report from content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today details the disturbing rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the second quarter against critical sectors. The report describes targeted attacks by Russian-linked hacking groups, such as REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan, against Western …
New data masking solution from Fortanix aims to tackle data breaches
Multicloud security firm Fortanix Inc. today announced significant gains across sectors and expanded its ecosystem with the introduction of its Data Masking and Tokenization Solution. Described as the industry’s first confidential computing-powered software-as-a-security solution, the Fortanix Data Masking and Tokenization Solution is designed to tackle increasing …
Teleport introduces AI-powered chat interface to streamline DevOps troubleshooting
Cloud infrastructure access management startup Teleport today launched a new artificial intelligence-powered chat interface designed for DevOps teams to troubleshoot infrastructure problems more quickly and easily by chatting with their cloud environments. Called Teleport Assist, the service allows DevOps teams to chat with their cloud environments, …