Multiple Information Sharing and Analysis Centers decried a proposed incident reporting measure for vendors selling to the U.S. federal government as being costly and ineffective. The proposal will affect three of every four contracts in which the government is a contracting party.
Hackers will use AI to carry out disinformation campaigns on a daily basis by mid-2024, potentially affecting political outcomes across over 50 countries. The results of the elections this year in powerful economies have real-world impact on human rights and international relations.
Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, said during an event at the 2024 World Economic Forum that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to "dramatically accelerate and amplify the erosion of information integrity."
Switzerland's federal government reports that multiple federal agencies' public-facing sites were temporarily disrupted by distributed denial-of-service attacks perpetrated by a self-proclaimed Russian hacktivist group "as a means of gaining media attention for their cause."
OpenAI said it is taking steps to prevent use of its models in online influence operations throughout the 2024 election season, amid growing concerns about election security and increasing fears that political deepfakes and AI-generated election misinformation could significantly disrupt democracy.
Artificial intelligence-enabled voter misinformation campaigns and voter database hacking are some of the largest threats to election security in a year when more than half of the world's populace will take to the ballot box in elections ranging from free to flawed.
The departments of Commerce, State and Justice are among the 20 agencies identified in a Government Accountability Office report as having failed to meet key cyberthreat incident response deadlines outlined in the 2021 cybersecurity executive order.
Major government agencies in the United States intend to apply artificial intelligence, but the majority of planned use cases are still at the planning stage, a congressional watchdog said. Missing from those efforts is governmentwide guidance on the acquisition and use of AI technologies.
In this special edition at Black Hat Europe 2023 in London, three ISMG editors cover the highlights of the conference, including a resounding call for better collaboration between government agencies and the private sector, regulatory trends, and the cautionary tale of ex-Uber CISO Joe Sullivan.
A National Institute of Standards and Technology official said agencies are facing a variety of challenges in implementing enterprisewide zero trust architectures, from a lack of insight into their network components to difficult decisions around legacy systems and costly procurement initiatives.
A vendor focused on fast-tracking government access to commercial software closed its Series B funding round to support more classified and regulated environments. The $40 million will allow Second Front Systems to support additional bespoke networks in the U.S. Defense and National Security space.
In the latest weekly update, the former federal CISO, Grant Schneider, joins three editors at ISMG to discuss important cybersecurity issues, including advice for the next White House cyber director and liability concerns facing CISOs following SolarWinds and its CISO being accused of fraud.
European electoral and cybersecurity authorities on Tuesday held a joint exercise assessing plans to hold an incident-free election, weeks after trading bloc cybersecurity agency ENISA said the election is at risk from deepfake images and videos.
Governments across Asia are raising concerns over growing misuse of artificial intelligence as adoption of AI technology surges. With organizations racing to exploit the latest AI capabilities, government leaders also want them to address AI-enabled cybercrime, AI bias and hallucinations.
The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to approve the use of civil investigative demands for investigations related to the use of artificial intelligence, after a White House executive order on AI tasked the commission with policing competition and protecting consumers.
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