Tag: Cybersecurity

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence

An Examination Whether the Latest AI Products are Anything More Than Powerful New Tools If you work in security or even tech, odds are you can’t stop hearing about recent advancements in artificial intelligence and how they will be humankind’s undoing. With the introduction of products like ChatGPT, OpenAI, or ChatSonic, it’s undeniable that the… Read more »

A New Content Agnostic Solution for Fake News Detection

Exploring Fake News Detection as a Service Automated or machine-learning solutions for fake news detection are both necessary and challenging in the fight against misinformation. This post explores the first automatic, content-agnostic approach to fake news detection, FNDaaS, which considers both new and unstudied website features. The Challenges of Fake News Detection Using Current Methods… Read more »

Tales from the Road: The Anatomy of Password Attacks

It’s time to rethink your password policy to prevent modern password attacks.  If you think your company’s policy of requiring passwords to have a minimum length of eight characters, in addition to other complexity requirements, is sufficient to effectively prevent modern password attacks, think again.   Our client, a global corporation with business units in more… Read more »

Tales From the Road: Got Critical Infrastructure?

Avoid these three pitfalls that are inherent to most SCADA systems that manage critical infrastructure. A multinational corporation enlisted the services of DirectDefense to perform a security assessment of the organization’s newly-developed battery energy storage control (BESS) that would enable the company’s vendors and integrators to manage the voltage and power output for massive batteries.… Read more »