Tech Expert Trevor Long says we may “struggle to detect” online scams in the future with the introduction of AI chatbots.
“Frankly, there may be a bigger challenge ahead for us in that sense,” Mr Long told Sky News Australia.
“That’s why we have internet security technology and things like that.”
Cybersecurity experts struggled Tuesday to answer lawmakers’ basic questions about the danger of a flaw in the open-source logging platform Apache Log4J that could plague computer network defenders for years to come.
The vulnerability was discovered in December, and the software’s widespread use led the FBI to tell victims in the immediate aftermath that it may not respond to them because of how large the pool of potential victims had grown.
After nearly two more months since its revelation, cybersecurity professionals said they were unable to answer senators’ questions about how the vulnerability may have been weaponized for years without detection and about the full picture of who was at-risk.
Potential victims reside in a range of industries including electric power, water, transportation, food, and manufacturing, according to the cybersecurity firm Dragos.
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The new, U.S./EU Trade & Technology Council’s (TTC) first meeting in Pittsburgh in late September highlighted the differences between Europe and the United States on how governments should approach the internet. Broadly, the U.S. and Europe have offered different perspectives over the rules of the road for the internet for decades, and — combined with the Chinese-Russian highly nationalist model — offer three alternate pathways for the future of the internet. Most other countries, the internet and computer industries, and billions of users around the world are watching to see who’s on top.
Although trade, R&D and climate policies are also important parts of the TTC’s mandate, there are numerous other venues for US-EU talks on these three topics, suggesting that the real purpose of the TTC is how to manage the internet. While internet policies are only one piece of a much larger, increasingly tense, European-American relationship, the struggle over control of the internet has its own history, and — because of the internet’s impact on society, trade, security, and national politics — internet policy may have now become the single most important feature of the transatlantic relationship.
To understand the different perspectives, one must begin a few decades ago.
The third perspective on internet governance — the highly nationalistic one pursued by China, Russia and around a dozen other countries — for brevity’s sake, will not be addressed here. But it provides an important, third approach to internet governance.
By the mid-1990s, many European leaders recognized that the era of free-standing, unconnected computers was ending and that, in the future, networked computers would be a globally-dominant industry, as the aerospace, entertainment and the mainframe computer industries had been: Whoever housed and controlled the coming networked computing industry would hold the high ground in guiding and perhaps controlling the world’s economy, security and culture.
Many Europeans were determined to not let Americans dominate yet another controlling industry, but, at the time, it was not clear whether private networks, like France’s Minitel, or open networks, like…
With Microsoft acknowledging for the first time this past week that suspected Russian hackers behind a massive government security breach also gained access to its source code, pressure is mounting on US officials and cybersecurity experts to explain how the attackers infiltrated various US computer networks, what they did once inside and the steps that are being taken to mitigate the damage.
As US officials struggle with the fallout, questions are swirling about whether the agency tasked with protecting the nation from cyberattacks is up to the job.
On Wednesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, (CISA) signaled it’s still working to patch the known vulnerabilities, advising agencies to update their software from SolarWinds, a private contractor attackers exploited to gain access into potentially thousands of public and private sector organizations.
Congressional Democrats and the Biden transition team are demanding more information about the massive hacking campaign, calling on the Trump administration to address concerns about its handling of the fallout and perceived lack of transparency in the weeks since the data breach was first discovered.
The Biden team in particular has stated that it’s been stonewalled by Trump officials in its effort to learn more about key national security issues, including the hack.
Trump administration officials say those accusations are exaggerated but have also acknowledged they are wary of any transition activity that could provide the Biden team a head start in dismantling the President’s priorities.
To date, the White House has offered few public details about what is believed to be the most significant cyber operation targeting the US in years. The lack of…