Even if you have never had your smartphone stolen, you probably know someone who has. In London, 80,000 phones were stolen last year alone. And as victims of phone theft know, while the loss of a pricey gadget can sting, the dreary administrative slog in replacing a device that runs your entire life can, in some ways, be worse. So why can't we stop phone thieves – and is there a better way to protect your personal data? The answer is partly down to the numerous ways that criminals profit from stolen phones, but it is also about technology firms prioritising usability over security and international governments failing to arrive at a global solution.

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Google has updated "Enhanced Protection" in Chrome with AI technology to provide real-time protection against malicious websites, downloads, and browser extensions. After three months of testing in Chrome Canary (the nightly version of Chrome with experimental features), the AI-driven Enhanced Protection feature is now being rolled out to the stable version of the Chrome browser on all platforms, reports BleepingComputer. This improved protection is part of Safe Browsing, a security feature that has been in Chrome for several years now. Previously, Google used a method called "proactive protection" to alert users to potentially malicious websites. Now, the terminology has been updated to reflect the real-time protection offered by AI integration.

Literature reviews are a critical component of formulating and justifying new research, but are a manual and often time-consuming process. This research introduces a novel, generalizable approach to literature analysis called CEKER which uses a three-step process to streamline the collection of literature, the extraction of key insights, and the summarized analysis of key trends and gaps. Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), this methodology represents a significant shift from traditional manual literature reviews, offering a scalable, flexible, and repeatable approach that can be applied across diverse research domains. A case study on unikernel security illustrates CEKER's ability to generate novel insights validated against previous manual methods. CEKER's analysis highlighted reduced attack surface as the most prominent theme. Key security gaps included the absence of Address Space Layout Randomization, missing debugging tools, and limited entropy generation, all of which represent important challenges to unikernel security. The study also revealed a reliance on hypervisors as a potential attack vector and emphasized the need for dynamic security adjustments to address real-time threats.

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"Alert fatigue" is one of the biggest challenges faced by the Security Operations Center (SOC) today, with analysts spending more than half of their time reviewing false alerts. Endpoint detection products raise alerts by pattern matching on event telemetry against behavioral rules that describe potentially malicious behavior, but can suffer from high false positives that distract from actual attacks. While alert triage techniques based on data provenance may show promise, these techniques can take over a minute to inspect a single alert, while EDR customers may face tens of millions of alerts per day; the current reality is that these approaches aren't nearly scalable enough for production environments. We present Carbon Filter, a statistical learning based system that dramatically reduces the number of alerts analysts need to manually review. Our approach is based on the observation that false alert triggers can be efficiently identified and separated from suspicious behaviors by examining the process initiation context (e.g., the command line) that launched the responsible process. Through the use of fast-search algorithms for training and inference, our approach scales to millions of alerts per day. Through batching queries to the model, we observe a theoretical maximum throughput of 20 million alerts per hour. Based on the analysis of tens of million alerts from customer deployments, our solution resulted in a 6-fold improvement in the Signal-to-Noise ratio without compromising on alert triage performance.

Internet security is a complex topic even for experts in the field, and for average people the terminology can be downright confusing. While you may not need to know every technical term out there, having a working vocabulary of basic terms can help you stay informed enough to protect yourself against major threats. If you know what a phishing email is, for example, you can be on the lookout and avoid this common danger. This lexicon of the most important security terms will help you make sense of security alerts and help equip you to take appropriate steps to protect your home network and computers. Computer systems and networks employ a variety of techniques to protect you and your data from unauthorized access.

The newest version of Windows is finally here, but there's a confusing new requirement if you want to upgrade from Windows 10: Your computer will need to have a security feature enabled called TPM. You've probably never heard of it until now, but your machine may have it already--it just might be off by default. If you're having trouble upgrading an otherwise compatible device, one little switch could be to blame. Microsoft's Windows 11 system requirements mention a new requirement that wasn't present in past versions of the operating system: a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). More specifically, it requires TPM 2.0, which was first released in 2014.

Edge computing, as known to many, has surpassed the expectation levels in terms of performance delivered and objectives achieved. Over the last couple of years, it has been a common scenario to observe companies making huge tech investments as a part of their digital transformation journey. On the same lines, cloud companies see new opportunities by fusing Edge computing and AI, or Edge AI. This form of AI has left everyone spellbound with the impact it has left behind. Virtual assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri that have dominated the world of late are a result of Edge AI Here is everything you need to know about Edge AI and beyond. To know about Edge AI, it is important to know about AI and Edge computing individually for the sole reason that the amalgamation of the two would result in Edge AI.

If you're all in on Ring and love to try the latest gear (we don't blame you) the Pro 2 may appeal, functioning as a premium version of other Ring doorbells I've tested. Audio and video are two of the most important video doorbell features, and the Pro 2 excels at both. The audio is impressively loud and easy to understand, and the video resolution is sharp and on par with the best smart doorbells we've tested. But in a sea of smart doorbells, the Pro 2's extra features just don't add enough value to justify its high price. Ring's new Video Doorbell Pro 2 comes with everything you need to get setup.