[This is a Guest Diary by Matthew Presnal, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Cryptojacking and botnets can pose a greater threat than a simple drain of resources. These organizations have been known to engage in “DDoS for Hire” or even selling off footholds, acting as Initial Access Brokers (IABs). To…
Outside of the United States, Canada and Europe, the global public echoes student and teachers’ positive attitudes about AI for education: In emerging markets, people believe AI is more likely to improve student outcomes by supporting personalized learning (63%) than worsen student outcomes by eroding critical thinking (37%). In South Korea, Japan and Singapore —…
Facebook The doctors shown in this video shared on Facebook do not work at the hospital, and it’s believed they have been AI generated. We have blurred their faces in case their likeness has been stolen from other healthcare professionals online A hospital trust in south London has issued an alert after fraudulent videos were…
George Torrand Angela Rafferty,East Midlands BBC Lucy Buckle praised the staff and commended their professionalism during immense pressure A woman who was told to go to A&E during a critical incident at Nottingham’s hospitals said she saw people “in beds in every corridor” she came across. Lucy Buckle, 38, said the scenes inside the Queen’s…
Nick Triggle,Health correspondentand Chloe Hayward Getty Images One in 10 patients who attended major A&E units in England last year spent more than 12 hours there, a BBC analysis shows. During 2025, 1.75 million patients waited that long to be treated and discharged or found a bed on a ward – only marginally better than…
Chris YoungLocal Democracy Reporting Service Getty Images The customer had a nut allergy and was served a dessert with a chocolate hazelnut topping instead of Belgian chocolate A business is under investigation by trading standards officers after a woman was hospitalised when the firm used a chocolate hazelnut dessert topping instead of chocolate. West Yorkshire…
Thinking Machines cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz are leaving the fledgling AI lab and rejoining OpenAI, the ChatGPT-maker announced on Thursday. OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, shared the news in a memo to staff Thursday afternoon. The news was first reported on X by technology reporter Kylie Robison, who wrote that Zoph was…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, January 15th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9768, (Thu, Jan 15th) Source link
With the advancement in tools and services that make generative AI models accessible, businesses can now access the same foundation models (FMs) as their competitors. True differentiation comes from building AI that is highly customized for your business—something your competitors can’t effortlessly replicate. Although today’s FMs are genuinely intelligent with vast knowledge and reasoning capabilities,…
AutoScout24 is Europe’s leading automotive marketplace platform that connects buyers and sellers of new and used cars, motorcycles, and commercial vehicles across several European countries. Their long-term vision is to build a Bot Factory, a centralized framework for creating and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can perform tasks and make decisions within workflows, to…
