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It’s AT&T now, your provider could be next

Meanwhile …
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns

📰 Headline Highlights 📰

• Google Agrees to Delete Users’ ‘Incognito’ Browsing Data in Lawsuit Settlement

• Prudential Insurance says data of 36,000 exposed during February cyberattack

• Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service

• Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection

• Microsoft faulted for ‘cascade’ of failures in Chinese hack

• Establishment of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy

• Google has revealed the launch date of Android’s Find My Device network

• Meta overhauls rules on deepfakes, other altered media

• Omni Hotels says widespread outages caused by cyberattack

Meanwhile, the US and UK are teaming up to test the safety of AI models as more advanced AI models are expected to be released soon. As consumers of these technology, it behooves us to be more informed about them.

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🤷‍♀️ What now?

With AT&T now in the books, here’s something we ought to look into

The PYMNTS headline couldn’t word it better: AT&T Breach Demands Vigilance as Fraudsters Leverage ID Data, Says Intellicheck’s Lewis.

This might seem tedious onerous and interminable but when you think about it, it’s probably better to take your time now to protect your accounts than having to deal with fixing them later.

Then, stay vigilant.

Say goodbye to “Tech Tips” and “Reminder of the Week” and say hello to “What Now.” We thought having to add one new segment to the newsletter, we can somewhat consolidate a couple old ones into it.

What Now takes you into the next steps of the biggest news in cybersecurity this week so that you are not alone. This is the mission of Hexagon Center.

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Glossary/Legend:

• DRP - Disaster Response Plan. A plan on what to do in times when there is a disaster and you have lost your devices.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - is a set of technologies that allow computers to perform advanced functions. AI combines math, computer science, and cognitive science to mimic human behavior.

• Spoof - When someone or something pretends to be something else in an attempt to gain our confidence, get access to our systems, steal data, steal money, or spread malware.

• Deepfake - A synthetic media that has been manipulated to replace one person's likeness with another. Deepfakes are created by a special type of machine learning called "deep" learning. They can be videos, photos, or audio recordings that appear real but have been manipulated with AI.

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