The Biden administration is continuing to pressure the tech industry to make products that are secure from the outset, issuing a call on Monday for greater use of memory-safe programming languages. The effort by the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) is aimed at cutting down on a class of bugs that has caused problems since the 1980s: coding errors that allow attackers to abuse how soft
Source: After decades of memory-related software bugs, White House calls on industry to act
NIST releases Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, the first major update since the creation of the CSF a decade ago. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Source: NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Officially Released
But generative AI’s ability to strengthen security and fortify defenses can keep bad actors in check.
404 Media recently exposed Patternz, a global phone spy tool that tracks movements and interests through advertising data. Other internal documents now show the technology was marketed as a way to detect riots.
A Consumer Reports investigation found that Facebook collected data on each user from an average of 2,230 companies.
Source: Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – Consumer Reports
