Akira's innovative attack, WhatsApp's scam alert, White House TCO strategy

Akira affiliate's innovative "crash mode" attack almost worked WhatsApp rolls out scam alert feature White House looks to private sector for help against offensive hacking Show notes: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-akiras-innovative-attack-whatsapps-scam-alert-white-house-tco-strategy/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker AI risk does not only come from attackers. Employees are adopting AI tools faster than many organizations can evaluate them. Today's tip: an AI policy should be backed by enforceable controls over what tools can access and do. See how ThreatLocker can help you govern AI use at threatlocker.com/ciso.

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