David Strom

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Smarter shopping carts are coming but usability and privacy concerns loom

AI By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

A new version of the smarter shopping cart will be coming to a nearby market this fall. Thanks to various partnerships and technological innovations of Instacart Inc., the latest embodiment of what the company calls Caper Carts will be able to track …

ChatGPT detectors still have trouble separating human and AI-generated texts

AI By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The growth of ChatGPT and other chatbots over the past year has also stimulated the growth of software that can be used to detect whether a text is most likely to originate from these automated tools. That market continues to evolve, but …

It won’t be long before we are all chatbot prompt engineers

AI By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Back in January, Andrej Karpathy, who now works for OpenAI LP and used to be the director of artificial intelligence for Tesla Inc., tweeted: “The hottest new programming language is English.” Karpathy was only semiserious, yet he has identified a new career …

The banking trojan malware Qakbot is surging again. Here’s what it means for defenders

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The banking trojan Qakbot has once again risen in popularity, because you just can’t keep well-designed and effective malware down. A new report from Zscaler Inc.’s threat labs provides new details about the trojan virus that has been around since 2007 stealing banking credentials …

That Chinese attack on Microsoft’s Azure cloud? It’s worse than it first looked

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The revelations last week that Chinese hackers had breached a number of U.S. government email accounts indicate the problem is a lot worse than was initially thought, according to new research today by Wiz Inc. Indeed, this hack could turn out to …

CISA makes more open-source cloud protection tools available

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently augmented its cloud security toolbox of free open-source software, and there are now five programs that can be used to identify threats, evaluate an organization’s cloud security posture, detect unusual network patterns and complement …

The state of collaboration: It’s the people, not the tech, who make it all work

CLOUD By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Business collaboration is finally fulfilling its promise — but less because of new technology than people finding better ways to use it. The technology has gotten a boost, thanks to post-COVID distributed work teams that have embraced video conferencing and instant messaging. …

Attackers target the Domain Name System, the internet’s phone book. Here’s how to fight back

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The foundational Domain Name System, essentially the phone book for the internet, used to be something nobody using the net much noticed, but lately it has become more of a target, and the cost of attacks against it are huge and growing. …

Understanding these nine ransomware stages can help harden cyber defenses

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Ransomware payouts are on track to make 2023 another banner year for criminals, netting more than $440 million since January, according to a recent analysis by Chainalysis. But there are ways for organizations to blunt the impact. First, some background: One of …

Managing supercloud authentication remains tricky – with no easy solution in sight

CLOUD By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

In the early days of the cloud, authenticating people and apps was a lot simpler. Apps could be authenticated using a fairly static catalog of software-as-a-service and on-premises solutions, using single sign-on or SSO tools from the likes of Ping Identity Holding …

David Strom

Latest from David Strom

Smarter shopping carts are coming but usability and privacy concerns loom

ChatGPT detectors still have trouble separating human and AI-generated texts

It won’t be long before we are all chatbot prompt engineers

The banking trojan malware Qakbot is surging again. Here’s what it means for defenders

That Chinese attack on Microsoft’s Azure cloud? It’s worse than it first looked

The state of collaboration: It’s the people, not the tech, who make it all work

Understanding these nine ransomware stages can help harden cyber defenses

Managing supercloud authentication remains tricky – with no easy solution in sight

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