Armand here again, your plucky, ready-to-fight RPost product evangelist, reporting for Tech Essentials. Not sure if you caught last Sunday’s 60 Minutes, but they ran a piece that echoes what we’ve been saying in this column for many months now: cybercriminals are getting a lot more sophisticated from a technology and business standpoint.
Armand here again reporting for Tech Essentials. This week, I’m writing to you from…my mom’s basement. This is so that I can try and get in the mindset of a cybercriminal trying to leverage AI to perpetrate a sophisticated email scam.
If you’ve spent this past workweek furiously trying to figure where I’d wind up for this installment of Tech Essentials (and hopefully win your office betting pool), you can now put your pencils down because I’ve arrived in Pisa, Italy.
This week, I’m visiting you from a nondescript vacant lot on the outskirts of Pasadena, California. “Armand,” you ask. “You’re a long way from Davos! You’re usually in such posh locations when you report to us for Tech Essentials.”
Armand, here again. As RPost’s product evangelist, I’m thrilled to be here in Hong Kong to kick off the Year of the Dragon in 2024.
If you’ve used the internet for anything, you’ve probably been faced with CAPTCHA, otherwise known as the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
The pandemic lockdown that forced us all to work-from-home was a true shock to the system for most people who hadn’t worked a full day via videoconferencing.
A few months ago, we at Tech Essentials unveiled a new AI security technology by RMail that analyzes vast amounts of ever-changing data sets to hunt for cybercriminals in real time; cybercriminals who are actively eavesdropping on email which is a precursor to luring people into paying fake invoices or worse (read more).
AI talk is everywhere, seemingly all blending together. AI, or artificial intelligence is aimed at mimicking the human brain.
Got a billion-dollar IT budget? Got the best Microsoft cybersecurity tools money can buy? Got teams and teams of IT staff who proactively monitor lights blinking on servers and charts on screens looking for cybercriminal activity within your network?
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