Showing posts with label #AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #AI. Show all posts

Thursday, February 15, 2024

How Companies are Using AI to Spy on Slack

Several employers are now using an AI-powered app to analyze and monitor messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other platforms.

What spy is this?
It’s called Aware, an Ohio-based startup that launched in 2017, per CNBC, and its clients include Nestle, Walmart, Delta Air Lines, and Starbucks.

It uses AI, trained on previous employee interactions, to analyze messages and determine:
  • How various groups of employees feel about the company or decisions it makes.
  • If bullying or discrimination is happening.
  • If employees are sharing confidential info.
  • If employees are sending inappropriate texts, photos, or videos.
  • How often teams communicate with one another.
In theory, this makes it easier for employers to stay on top of employee sentiment and potential risks in an increasingly online world. more

Sunday, February 11, 2024

AI Wi-Fi CCTV - Spooky

Scientists Are Getting Eerily Good at Using WiFi to 'See' People Through Walls in Detail
The signals from WiFi can be used to map a human body, according to a new paper.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a method for detecting the three dimensional shape and movements of human bodies in a room, using only WiFi routers.
To do this, they used DensePose, a system for mapping all of the pixels on the surface of a human body in a photo. DensePose was developed by London-based researchers and Facebook’s AI researchers. From there, according to their recently-uploaded preprint paper published on arXiv, they developed a deep neural network that maps WiFi signals’ phase and amplitude sent and received by routers to coordinates on human bodies...

The Carnegie Mellon researchers wrote that they believe WiFi signals “can serve as a ubiquitous substitute” for normal RGB cameras, when it comes to “sensing” people in a room. Using WiFi, they wrote, overcomes obstacles like poor lighting and occlusion that regular camera lenses face. more  Interesting, but no need for the average person to worry.

Thursday, February 1, 2024

US spies want to use AI

The U.S. government is considering incorporating more artificial intelligence into its spying operations
— but first it has to figure out which AI models can resist tampering and protect the country’s secrets...

“The intelligence community wants to avail itself of the large-language models out there, but there are a lot of unknowns,” Tim McKinnon, who runs IARPA’s Bias Effects and Notable Generative AI Limitations (BENGAL) project, told Bloomberg. “The end goal is being able to work with a model with trust.”...

The BENGAL team tests different ways to attack AI models and uncover vulnerabilities that could hamper their effective use by U.S. spies. Officials have also invited private companies to perform these tests for the government. more

Sunday, January 14, 2024

AI is Helping US Spies Catch Chinese Hacking Ops

Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are helping the National Security Agency and other U.S. government agencies detect malicious Chinese cyber activity
, a top U.S. intelligence official said in remarks on Tuesday that indicate how U.S. security agencies are using the technology to improve computer defenses. 

Speaking Tuesday at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University, Rob Joyce, the director of the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate, said that AI is helping his agency detect Chinese operations targeting U.S. critical infrastructure that might evade traditional defensive measures. more

Friday, January 5, 2024

Disney’s AI CCTV

Disney wants to know what you’re up to in the “Happiest Place on Earth.”

The company wants to patent a system for “predicting need for guest assistance,” which would track guests’ behavior at Disney properties using machine learning analysis of video data. Disney’s filing lays out an AI-based system which determines whether or not a guest’s behavior is normal, and uses that to predict if they need something. 

Disney’s system would work in tandem with CCTV systems collecting a constant stream of video data. That data is fed to a deep learning model to determine if a guest’s actions differ from a predetermined set of “normal guest behaviors.”

If a guest’s behavior is deemed abnormal, the system will alert the operator that they may need some kind of assistance.



Saturday, December 16, 2023

Channel 1 - Ultimate Fake News, or Edison Carter Gets Max'ed

The world's first news network entirely generated by artificial intelligence
is set to launch next year.
Channel 1 released a promotional video [VERY realistic] explaining how the service will provide personalized news coverage to users from international affairs, finance and entertainment. The outlet said how their team of AI generated reported can offer a global perspective 24/7.

The reporters in the video appear to be human but are actually made from the scan of a real person. With digitally generated voices and zero human emotion, the reporters can tell the news in any language. Users users will be able to access the network through the services Crackle or Tubi. more
For news anchors it gives a whole ne meaning to, "You can be replaced."

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Gemini (AI) Launched - Spying Will Never be the Same

It has been in the wild one day.
Imagine where it will be in a year.

 "Analyze this satellite photo. What do you see? How is it important? What are the vulnerabilities? How can I get information from that building? Analyze their networks. What are the vulnerabilities? Design an attack plan." ...all in less than a minute.


:( Update... Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked. more

Updater's Update... In a social media post made after this article was published, Google DeepMind’s VP of Research Oriol Vinyals showed a bit more of how “Gemini was used to create” the video. “The video illustrates what the multimodal user experiences built with Gemini could look like. We made it to inspire developers.” ... Perhaps I will eat crow when, next week, the AI Studio with Gemini Pro is made available to experiment with.
I'll stick with, "Imagine where it will be in a year."

Sunday, November 12, 2023

NSA Unveils "Artificial Intelligence Security Center"

The National Security Agency is establishing a new “Artificial Intelligence Security Center” to help spur on the secure development and adoption of AI capabilities, and defend AI advancements from foreign adversaries.

NSA Director and Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone broke the news during an event at the National Press Club on Thursday.

“The AI Security Center will become NSA’s focal point for leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices guidelines, principles, evaluation methodology, and risk frameworks for AI security, with an end goal of promoting the secure development, integration, and adoption of AI capabilities within our national security systems and our defense industrial base,” Nakasone said...

The news about the center comes as the NSA also plans to establish a new “innovation pipeline” focused on China. more

Friday, October 13, 2023

Stores Silently Deploying Facial Recognition to Spy on Shoppers

Major retailers in the US are already using facial recognition cameras to spy on shoppers
, a campaigning group has warned...

Cameras are being used not just to catch persistent shoplifters, but also to monitor shoppers and analyze their emotions, so that stores can deliver personalized adverts on screens inside the store, George warned...

‘But it’s also being used for marketing purposes, they are gathering information on shoppers and seeing what they are buying and not buying - and using AI tools to analyse the emotions of shoppers and see what sort of ads to direct at them.’ more

Thursday, July 20, 2023

AI Espionage: Why Human Spies Remain Essential

Dodged another bullet.     
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various industries, but according to the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, it won’t replace the necessity of human spies. 

Richard Moore, director of the UK’s foreign intelligence agency, addressed the evolving threats from Russia and Iran in a speech in Prague. Despite the advancements in machine learning, Moore argues that the “human factor” will continue to play a crucial role in intelligence gathering...

In the realm of espionage, the importance of human spies cannot be overstated. The ability to gather intelligence requires human intuition, critical thinking, and adaptability. 

While AI can process vast amounts of data and identify patterns, it lacks the creativity and adaptability that human spies possess. Human spies can navigate complex social dynamics, exploit vulnerabilities, and make nuanced judgments that machines simply cannot replicate. more

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Deepfake Social Engineering Scams

Deepfake social engineering scams have become an increasingly scary trend among cybercriminals to socially engineer victims into submission. 

The threat actors are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) voice cloning tools to disperse misinformation for cybercriminal scams. 

It doesn’t take much for an audio recording of a voice – only about 10 to 20 seconds – to make a decent reproduction. The audio clip extracts unique details of the victim’s voice. A threat actor can simply call a victim and pretend to be a salesperson, for example, to capture enough of the audio to make it work. more

Here are some actual deepfake audio recordings – some humorous, some cool, but all that in some form can be used maliciously:
• CNN reporter calls his parents using a deepfake voice. (CNN)
• No, Tom Cruise isn’t on TikTok. It’s a deepfake. (CNN)
• Twenty of the best deepfake examples that terrified and amused the internet. (Creative Bloq)