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BBC News - NatWest online services hit by cyber attack - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-25262790

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  • ails safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6");
  • Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); hyper-depth-st
  • 's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); Your Savings
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  • and cash machines. Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&amp;A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&amp;A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&amp;A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); <h4 cla
  • It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.
  • On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website
  • Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,
dr tech

A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...gpt-2-vs-gpt-2.html

ITGS machine learning text system integrity authenticity ai language

shared by dr tech on 10 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 Mar 19
     
    "Automatically produced texts use language models derived from statistical analysis of vast corpuses of human-generated text to produce machine-generated texts that can be very hard for a human to distinguish from text produced by another human. These models could help malicious actors in many ways, including generating convincing spam, reviews, and comments -- so it's really important to develop tools that can help us distinguish between human-generated and machine-generated texts."
dr tech

Could 'fake text' be the next global political threat? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...t-2-concerns-false-information

ITGS fake text integrity authenticity fake text deepfake

shared by dr tech on 05 Jul 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Jul 19
     
    "he foresees fake text being used "for the production of [literal] 'fake news', or to potentially impersonate people who had produced a lot of text online, or simply to generate troll-grade propaganda for social n"
dr tech

This startup uses AI to automatically create videos out of articles - 0 views

mashable.com/...ial-intelligence-video-content

ITGS ai video peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 06 Apr 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Apr 16
     
    "GliaCloud's product, GliaStudio, uses artificial intelligence to automatically create video summaries of text articles. What it does is analyze and summarize a text story and generate a video out of the data - complete with voiceover as well as photos and video clips from its content partners and public sources."
dr tech

New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...writes-convincing-news-fiction

AI ITGS deepfake text authenticity integrity

shared by dr tech on 15 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 15 Feb 19
     
    "The creators of a revolutionary AI system that can write news stories and works of fiction - dubbed "deepfakes for text" - have taken the unusual step of not releasing their research publicly, for fear of potential misuse."
dr tech

Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...eir-books-being-sold-on-amazon

ITGS DS books amazon ai chatgpt fake authenticity

shared by dr tech on 01 Oct 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Oct 23
     
    ""I thought: 'This is strange - who's writing a biography of me?'" Cellan-Jones told the Observer. "I don't kid myself. It's difficult enough for me to sell books about myself, [let alone] for other people to sell books about me." But glancing at a few passages revealed that Cellan-Jones had fallen victim to someone attempting to piggyback on his memoir by releasing a title with text apparently generated by artificial intelligence - one of an influx of AI titles since the emergence of ChatGPT enabled people to generate pages of text rather than bothering to write it."
dr tech

ChatGPT maker OpenAI releases 'not fully reliable' tool to detect AI generated content | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...nerated-content-detection-tool

ITGS DS chatGPT chatbot content education integrity

shared by dr tech on 01 Feb 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Feb 23
     
    "Open AI researchers said that while it was "impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text", good classifiers could pick up signs that text was written by AI. The tool could be useful in cases where AI was used for "academic dishonesty" and when AI chatbots were positioned as humans, they said."
dr tech

AI could decipher gaps in ancient Greek texts, say researchers | Language | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...nt-greek-texts-say-researchers

ITGS DS ai machine learning language

shared by dr tech on 11 Aug 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 Aug 22
     
    "Artificial intelligence could bring to life lost texts, from imperial decrees to the poems of Sappho, researchers have revealed, after developing a system that can fill in the gaps in ancient Greek inscriptions and pinpoint when and where they are from."
dr tech

Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...transform-how-we-live-and-work

ITGS DS equity fair use intellectual property ai model LLM

shared by dr tech on 15 Jun 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 15 Jun 23
     
    "Getty points to images produced by Stable Diffusion which contain its copyright watermark, suggesting that Stable Diffusion has ingested and is reproducing copyrighted material without permission (Stability AI has not yet commented publicly on the lawsuit). The same level of evidence is harder to come by when examining ChatGPT's text output, but there is no doubt that it has been trained on copyrighted material. OpenAI will be hoping that its text generation is covered by "fair use", a provision in copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material for "transformative" purposes. That idea will probably one day be tested in court."
dr tech

Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone - 0 views

www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/...amp

ITGS DS generative energy phone image ai sustainability

shared by dr tech on 07 Dec 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 07 Dec 23
     
    "In fact, generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, according to a new study by researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University. However, they found that using an AI model to generate text is significantly less energy-intensive. Creating text 1,000 times only uses as much energy as 16% of a full smartphone charge. "
dr tech

Is it Constitutional For Your Boss to Read Your Texts? - 0 views

mashable.com/...r-your-boss-to-read-your-texts

ITGS sexting texts constitutional security

shared by dr tech on 03 Jan 10 - Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Jan 10
     
    Yikes - getting scarier by the year...
dr tech

'More scary than coronavirus': South Korea's health alerts expose private lives | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...th-alerts-expose-private-lives

ITGS privacy and anonymity COVID-19 korea app text sms smartphone location

shared by dr tech on 02 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Apr 20
     
    "As the number of coronavirus cases in South Korea exceeded 6,000 this week, there was a rise, too, in complaints about information overload in the form of emergency virus text alerts that have included embarrassing revelations about infected people's private lives."
dr tech

In a digital ecosystem that relentlessly creates, extracts and stores, the notion of a disappearing text is very appealing | Samantha Floreani | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...pearing-text-is-very-appealing

ITGS DS text chat fleets dissapearing messages whatsapp self-destruct control privacy and anonymity

shared by dr tech on 09 Mar 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Mar 24
     
    "Disappearing messages is a feature offered by apps like Signal and WhatsApp, giving users the option to have conversations that self-destruct. They're not the only platforms that have tapped into the allure of digital ephemerality. The very premise of Snapchat is that content is only viewable for a short window; Instagram stories similarly vanish after 24 hours. Those who are chronically online may remember the last day of X's own foray into expiring content called "fleets", when countless users threw whatever remaining posting-caution they had to the wind to share revealing, horny or outright unhinged posts for one final hurrah before the feature itself vanished. I can't tell you what people posted or link you to evidence of this because, well, it's gone."
dr tech

Iran accused of using online censorship and hacking to sway presidential poll | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-censorship-influence-election

iran ITGS censorship hacking politics and government

shared by dr tech on 01 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Jun 13
     
    "Keyword-based filtering allows blocking of sites and texts containing candidates' names and slogans, say security experts"
dr tech

Online scams 'target Apple customers for richer pickings' - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-36033314

online scams ITGS apple security privacy os

shared by dr tech on 13 Apr 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 13 Apr 16
     
    "Cybercriminals are targeting people using Apple products as they are more likely to have disposable income, a security expert has warned. Blogger Graham Cluley said that while malware was more common on Windows, Apple customers could not "afford to be lackadaisical" about security. On Monday, he reported a text message scam that tried to trick people into handing over account information. Apple's support site warns customers not to enter details on spoof sites."
dr tech

17 ransomware cases flagged to Singapore authorities this year: CSA - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...3394600.html

ITGS malware ransomware security privacy policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 28 Dec 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Dec 16
     
    "That is when the alarm bells went off for Mr Ang. "I saw that there was a text file inside the encrypted folder that showed that it was ransomware, asking for payment to decrypt the files." The company decided not to pay the ransom of US$1,000 (S$1,447). Instead, it spent a week rebuilding about 3,000 infected files with data of the accounts and stocks from hard copy files."
dr tech

Talking to a Computer May Soon Be Enough to Diagnose Illness - 0 views

singularityhub.com/...-be-enough-to-diagnose-illness

ITGS reliability peopleandmachines healthcare ai

shared by dr tech on 13 Feb 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 13 Feb 17
     
    "Participants used an app on their phones to record 30-second intervals of themselves reading a piece of text, describing a positive experience, then describing a negative experience. Doctors also took recordings from a control group of 25 patients who were either healthy or getting non-heart-related tests. The doctors found 13 different voice characteristics associated with coronary artery disease. Most notably, the biggest differences between heart patients and non-heart patients' voices occurred when they talked about a negative experience."
amenosolja

How to Use USB Security Keys with your Google Account - 0 views

www.labnol.org/...28868

usb security intellectualproperty reliability control privacy ITGS

shared by amenosolja on 22 Sep 15 - Cached
  • amenosolja on 22 Sep 15
     
    "The verification codes required for logging into a 2-step enabled account can be generated either using a mobile app - like Authy or Google Authenticator - or you can have them sent to your mobile phone via a text message or a voice call. The latter option however will not work if the mobile phone associated with your account is outside the coverage area"
amenosolja

Twitter takes on Facebook, Snapchat with improved photo tools | Gigaom - 0 views

gigaom.com/...chat-with-improved-photo-tools

ITGS businessandemployment security equalityofaccess peopleandmachines system globalisation intellectualproperty

shared by amenosolja on 08 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • amenosolja on 08 Sep 15
     
    "The new tools appear to allow Twitter users to share images with text overlays, stickers, and other modifications. Twitter's existing tools merely allow people to crop images or run them through filters that greatly change their appearance, whether it's by upping the contrast or making them look like old Polaroid shots."
dr tech

Unethical uses for public Twitter data - Adrian Short - 0 views

adrianshort.org/unethical-twitter

ITGS public data privacy anonymity data mining twitter

shared by dr tech on 17 Nov 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Nov 14
     
    "But the bigger problem with things like public tweets is that no-one knows what information can be derived from them, either now or in the future. I write as a data analyst who's done a fair bit of work with this kind of material. What follows are a few techniques that aren't at all obvious to the average Twitter user. They go far beyond reading the surface text (or metadata) of an individual tweet. And these are just some of the techniques currently used to mine this data, ethically or unethically, legally or illegally."
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