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Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:55
The Art of Turning Strategic Goals into Reality for Cybersecurity and Why it is Important
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of the most frustrating things is to sit in on a C-Suite meeting and hear the lofty strategic goals presented for the company and for cybersecurity only to have them torn to pieces when you explain what those goals…
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Friday, 09 June 2023 10:23
In a Marketplace of Ideas, Censorship is Always Bad Even if Done for the Right Reasons.
Written by Sean Kalinich
One thing that has always bothered me is the concept that censoring or hiding certain types of speech, thought, information etc., is somehow going to change minds and make society better. Simply put, this approach is myopic and bankrupt in…
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Friday, 02 June 2023 13:07
AI Drone Decided Humans Were an Obstacle to be Removed in Simulated Test
Written by Sean Kalinich
The arguments for and against AI as a threat all seem to be centered on the point of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). This is the point where the reasons skills of AI are on par with the average human brain.…
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Wednesday, 24 May 2023 14:09
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the Godfathers of AI, Says AI is an Imminent Existential Threat
Written by Sean Kalinich
Geoffrey Hinton, a former engineering fellow at Google and a vice president focusing on AI has made comments after his retirement from Google earlier this month (May 2023). Although his retirement was about more than his change of mind on…
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Sunday, 21 May 2023 05:45
Work from Home Under Attack as Companies Seek to Offset the Cost of Workspaces
Written by Sean Kalinich
A couple of accountants came up the laneway the other day… No this is not a “Letterkenny” episode, but the cold intro style was spot to me for this one. It seems that in the pre-covid world many companies were…
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:34
ChatGPT-4 Seems to Show Sparks of Near Human Reasoning
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a quote from the movie “The Matrix” that has always stuck with me. It was a scene where Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) is explaining to Neo (Keanu Reeves) the state of the real world and the history that allowed…
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Wednesday, 10 May 2023 10:47
Meta is Dabbling in AI Too with ImageBind Hoping to Mimic Human Perception
Written by Sean Kalinich
If I were to build a list of companies that I would not want to build an AI project Meta, the parent company of Facebook is probably sitting at the top of the list. Yet here we are with a…
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Friday, 05 May 2023 07:26
Understanding How, and When, to Spend on Cybersecurity is a Lost Art
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of the things that has always confused me is how often a business will look at and spend on revenue generating and very little on revenue maintenance. Every budget year you see money thrown at expansion, new tools or…
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The other day while wading through the sludge that is the internet, I stumbled across a poll on Twitter asking the binary question “Who do you trust more with AI; Bill Gates or Elon Musk?” This led to a fun…
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Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:03
The Dangers of AI; I Think I Have Seen this Movie Before
Written by Sean Kalinich
If you are a fan of science fiction movies, then you have probably seen multiple movies where an AI (Artificial Intelligence) has gone mad and decided that humankind needed to be eradicated. Everything from the Terminator series, through to the…
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Tuesday, 02 March 2021 12:12
Vendors - once again - rule the security world, especially in Health Care Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that is the time once again to talk about the relationship between software vendors and the security posture of different business verticals. Why are we beating this particular dead horse? Well with the Covid-19 Pandemic, the rush to…
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Friday, 06 March 2020 18:09
As Work from Home Increases with COVID-19 Cases are We Looking at a Playground for Threat Actors? Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
In December 2019 a new virus was detected in Wuhan China, this virus (COVID-19 or the Coronavirus) has spread rapidly through out China and the rest of the world. With its apparent ease of transmission and difficulty in detecting (early…
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Friday, 06 March 2020 18:01
With More and More Hardware Flaws Found, How Will the Security Industry Respond? Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
The IT Security industry has spent billions of dollars on software to keep you “safe” from malware and attackers. Whether that money was spent in marketing or actual product improvement is up for debate. Still the fact remains that each…
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Tuesday, 19 March 2019 17:15
New Tech, Stale Tech, and the Diminishing Security Skill Set Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although not a new subject here at DecryptedTech we thought it was time for us to dive into three of serious issues in the security world (out of many). The three we are covering today are emerging technologies, stale technologies…
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Monday, 04 February 2019 12:07
When updates go wrong, horribly wrong Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
When you think about operating system updates you probably do not think about the security team. Sure, there are security patches and such, but those are on the operations team and not really pushed out by the security team. Well,…
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017 05:19
Leaked emails are the new "IT" when it comes to swaying the debate
Written by Sean Kalinich
Questionable security practices aside, it seems that just about every "big" scandal lately has had leaked emails as some sort of component. In the latest such scandal we find that leaked Kaspersky emails are at the core of the US…
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