Topic of the Week
Welcome to our "Topic of the Week" section, where we spotlight key issues in security, privacy, audit, risk, and compliance. Each week, we look into a relevant topic, offering insights and strategies to help navigating the ever-evolving landscape of regulations and best practices.
Digital Payment Methods - Are They Secure?
Our digital landscape is continuously growing and within it, our phones are becoming even more of a one-stop shop. We use our phones for communication, either through text messaging or phone calls; for taking photos; for sending and receiving emails; for setting alarms; for listening to music or audio books; for reading books; for asking google questions; to access social media; and most relevant for today's topic - we use our phones in place of physical debit or credit cards.
Warning: It’s Tough Out There
With summer approaching and students and teachers enjoying a bit more free time, many may start looking for part-time work. That’s a great idea! But be careful; while there are jobs out there, a growing number of listings are fake.
AI "Hallucinations"
ChatGPT has become a largely used AI platform over the last few years, with an estimated 400 million weekly users. ChatGPT works by taking user input, turning each word into a “token” (words or parts of words), and generates a response that seems to be accurate to the context of the user's input.
Permission to break everything
Cybercriminals have taken a classic security feature, CAPTCHAs, and turned it into a clever trap. The ClickFix attack tricks users into proving that they are “not a robot” by following keyboard commands that secretly download malware onto their devices. This particular scam usually starts with a website popup that looks something like this:
Home may be your safe space, but is it a secure space?
Technology continues to advance, and humans continue to find ways to make technology do more work for them. Automation can be used to enhance efficiency, save time, and decrease effort. Implementing automation in your home is growing in popularity since it may increase comfort in our homes, decrease effort in keeping up with them, and become more efficient so we have more time to do things we enjoy. In my home, I have an automated vacuum (that also can mop) and an automatic litter box.
Privacy, you say? Don't know her
In an age where everything is connected and every action online is tracked, privacy has become a rare commodity. But lately, it seems like even that brief notion of privacy is slipping through the cracks, especially when companies, big and small, are making decisions that lean heavily toward profit at the cost of your privacy.