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Japan has a large number of Forbes Global 2000 corporations--more than the UK, Germany, and France combined. Despite this economic strength, Japan faces an alarming and growing threat from phishing attacks, which is much worse than previously assumed. According to findings by Mailsuite , Japan is frequently targeted by phishers, particularly impersonating its major brands. Telecom firm au by KDDI, for instance, has been exploited in 18,964 phishing scams since January 2020. Another frequently impersonated brand is the Japanese payment service JCB, which has been used in 14,907 phishing scams. Japanese specialists confirm that these findings align with other research by Cloudflare and Vade. KDDI's cell phone service name, "au," is often abused due to its similarity to the Australian ccTLD, fooling many into thinking phishing emails are legitimate. Moreover, other major brands like train company JR East and retail franchise Aeon have also seen over 10,000 verified phi...

Pakistan has become the latest target of a threat actor called the Smishing Triad, marking the first expansion of its footprint beyond the E.U., Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and the U.S. "The group's latest tactic involves sending malicious messages on behalf of Pakistan Post to customers of mobile carriers via iMessage and SMS," Resecurity said in a report published earlier this week. "The goal is from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2024/06/grandoreiro-banking-trojan-hits-brazil.html

A suspected Pakistan-based threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian government entities in 2024. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0137, noting the adversary's exclusive use of a malware called DISGOMOJI that's written in Golang and is designed to infect Linux systems. "It is a modified version of the public project from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2024/06/pakistani-hackers-use-disgomoji-malware.html

Meta on Friday said it's delaying its efforts to train the company's large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The company expressed disappointment at having to put its AI plans on pause, stating it had taken into account feedback from regulators and from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2024/06/meta-halts-ai-training-on-eu-user-data.html

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m appearing on a panel on Society and Democracy at ACM Collective Intelligence in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference runs from June 26 through 29, 2024, and my panel is at 9:00 AM on Friday, June 28. I’m speaking on “Reimagining Democracy in the Age of AI” at the Bozeman Library in Bozeman, Montana, USA, July 18, 2024. The event will also be available via Zoom. I’m speaking at the TEDxBillings Democracy Event in Billings, Montana, USA, on July 19, 2024. The list is maintained on this page . from Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/upcoming-speaking-engagements-37.html

Google's plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) said the feature can still be used to track users. "While the so-called 'Privacy Sandbox' is advertised as an improvement over extremely invasive third-party tracking, the tracking is now simply done from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2024/06/googles-privacy-sandbox-accused-of-user.html

Data is growing faster than ever. Remember when petabytes (that's 1,000,000 gigabytes!) were only for tech giants? Well, that's so last decade! Today, businesses of all sizes are swimming in petabytes. But this isn't just about storage anymore. This data is ALIVE—it's constantly accessed, analyzed, shared, and even used to train the next wave of AI. This creates a huge challenge: how do you from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2024/06/learn-to-secure-petabyte-scale-data-in.html