Tag: social engineering
News Poll: AI, cyberattacks at the forefront of threats in 2025
December 10, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — AI and cyberattacks have dominated headlines for the past few years, and the trend looks to continue into 2025, according to the results of the latest SSN News Poll.
The vote for the most significant security threat in 2025 was split between cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and AI-driven phishing and social engineering, with both garnering 41.18% of votes. The remaining votes went to insider threats and employee negligence, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
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Fingerprint's Dan Pinto - ‘Device intelligence is an underutilized security tool'
February 5, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the popularity of electronic currencies and digital wallets, fintech is becoming an important tool for consumers, and few people recognize that better than Fingerprint CEO Dan Pinto.
Fingerprint is a platform dedicated to empowering developers to detect and prevent online fraud. Security Systems News (SSN) had the opportunity to speak recently with its CEO and co-founder Dan Pinto about some of the latest concerns and...
News Roundup
April 12, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
That’s right everyone, I don’t have a specific topic to cover this week, so I’m going to do a little bit of a news roundup on things I’ve been keeping my eye on.
Why did I choose to spell it that way in the title? Because it kills bugs dead. That’s right, first up on the radar is OpenAI announcing the launch of its bug bounty program. This week the artificial intelligence (AI) research lab announced that it would be offering rewards to independent researchers ranging...