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Let’s start talking about AI

March 6th 2023 By Matthew Phillips Let’s start talking about AI The whole world is suddenly talking about Artificial Intelligence. From Alexa in your kitchen, to Siri on your phone, AI is already all around us, but new names like ChatGPT, Dall-E, Jasper and more feel like they’ve blown up the internet. These new concepts take things WAY further, helping us to write articles, search the web with natural conversation, generate images, create code, and introduce new ways to make

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Cyber attacks are getting bigger and smarter. Are you vulnerable?

February 27th 2023 By Matthew Phillips Cyber attacks are getting bigger and smarter. Are you vulnerable? Have you ever tried to buy tickets for a huge event and found that the seller’s website has collapsed under the weight of thousands of people all trying to do the same thing at the same time? The ticket site falls over – usually temporarily – because the server is overloaded with traffic it doesn’t have the capacity for. Criminal Distributed Denial of Service attacks

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AI is making phishing scams more dangerous

February 20th 2023 By Matthew Phillips AI is making phishing scams more dangerous AI chatbots have taken the world by storm in recent months. We’ve been having fun asking ChatGPT questions, trying to find out how much of our jobs it can do, and even getting it to tell us jokes. But while lots of people have been having fun, cyber criminals have been powering ahead and finding ways to use AI for more sinister purposes. They’ve worked out that

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Is your security focusing on the right things?

February 13th 2023 By Matthew Phillips Is your security focusing on the right things? To protect your home from an intruder you make sure your doors and windows are all locked and secured. You might go further: build a fence around the perimeter, perhaps even get an angry-looking dog to stand guard. But there’s no point going to all that effort if someone’s already broken in and set up camp in the basement. Yet that’s the security policy of thousands

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Young employees have different attitudes to cyber crime

February 6th 2023 By Matthew Phillips Young employees have different attitudes to cyber crime If you employ anyone aged between 16 and 19, you need to pay special attention to the cyber security training you’re giving your team. A new study has revealed that a host of worrying online behaviour has become almost normalised among many young people. And much of this activity is illegal. We’re not talking serious cyber crime such as ransomware attacks or stealing data. But one

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