insiders
AI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading
A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong. The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives a email from ...
NASA’s Insider Threat Program
The Office of Inspector General has audited NASA’s insider threat program: While NASA has a fully operational insider threat program for its classified systems, the vast majority of the Agency’s information technology ...
More Attacks against Computer Automatic Update Systems
Last month, Kaspersky discovered that Asus's live update system was infected with malware, an operation it called Operation Shadowhammer. Now we learn that six other companies were targeted in the same operation ...
Intimate Partner Threat
Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional access -- ...
Insidious Insiders: Bank of America
When I talk or write about inappropriate confidential information disclosure, I often point out that data loss prevention (DLP) systems most commonly help reduce the everyday mistakes by well-intentioned employees just trying ...
