Yikes. Loz Blain at NewAtlas just reported that Stanford has copied the ChatGPT AI for less than $600. The article started out with: “Stanford’s Alpaca AI performs similarly to the astonishing ChatGPT on many tasks – but it’s built
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Bill 96 in Québec Brings Up Important Point About Training in Native Language Everywhere

A new law in Québec, Canada, that goes into effect this June will require all policies and training materials assigned to employees within the province be provided in French.
Report Shows Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Increase and Phishing Used as Initial Attack Vector in the Last Year

Secureworks has published a report looking at cybercrime over the course of 2022, finding that business email compromise (BEC) attacks nearly doubled last year. Additionally, attacks in which phishing was used as the initial access vector (IAV) increased by nearly three times last year.
A 240% Rise in Dynamic Phishing

Attackers are increasingly using techniques to prevent their phishing pages from being detected by security firms, a new report from BlueVoyant has found. The report found that in 2022 there was a 240% increase in phishing pages that attempted
Warning Customers About Social Engineering.

It’s a familiar story: scam artists impersonate a trusted brand, a trusted business or a trusted authority in emails and on bogus sites designed to exploit that very trust to commit fraud. Generally, this isn’t the fault of the
92% of Organizations Have Fallen Victim to Phishing as Nearly Every Org is Concerned with Email Security

New data shows that not only has just about every organization experienced a successful phishing attack, but that they are also paying the price in a number of impactful ways.
Phishing Attacks Top List of Initial Access Vectors with Backdoor Deployment as Top Objective

New data looking back at the cyber attacks observed in 2022 shows that phishing continues to dominate as initial access brokers seem to be growing their business using backdoors.
Understanding DMARC Better

I talk and present often about DMARC (and SPF and DKIM), including here. A lot of people who think they understand how DMARC works, do not really understand it as well as they think they do. This post
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