Jeff Burt

More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but the pain from the worldwide outage will continue to be felt.

Microsoft executives are urging Congress to pass legislation that would keep cybercriminals from using AI-generated deepfakes from defrauding U.S. citizens in a push that comes as instances of fake video and audio of high-profile people like Vice President Kamala Harris continue to pile up.

Pindrop, the tech company that tracked down the sources of such high-profile AI-generated voice-cloning incidents targeting President Biden and Elon Musk, has traced the technology used in a more recent case involving Vice President Kamala Harris.

Operational technologies (OT), which traditionally have been kept isolated, are now increasingly merging with their organizations' IT environments, fueling heightened cybersecurity concerns that may be alleviated to some degree by the growing use of AI, according to Cisco Systems.

DARPA, the Defense Department’s (DOD) R&D agency, will lean on emerging AI capabilities in a new program to deal with the costly and time-consuming challenge of rewriting C and C++ code to Rust in a move designed to meet the push for federal agencies and private organizations to adopt memory-safe programming languages.

A critical security flaw in the popular Jenkins open-source automation server is on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) list of known vulnerabilities after being exploited in ransomware and other attacks.

Published On: August 29, 2024 The initial enthusiasm that greeted generative AI less than two years after it went mainstream is waning a

Developers are increasingly positive about generative AI’s effects on their jobs and their companies in general, a change in a community that in the past seemed to have feared it, according to a report released this week by cloud API developer Kong.

Published On: September 11, 2024 For Oracle executives, much of the focus of this year's Oracle CloudWorld event was – unsurprisingly – cloud

Both company executives and their employees are enthusiastic about the role generative AI will play in the workplace, but there is some disagreement over who will benefit the most and some hesitancy on workers' parts to use the fast-emerging technology in their jobs.