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Security researcher Jon “Gainsec” Gaines and YouTuber Benn Jordan discuss their examination of Flock Safety’s AI-powered license plate readers and how cost-driven design choices, outdated software, and weak security controls expose them to abuse. The post AI Surveillance: Unmasking Flock Safety’s Insecurities appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

Lawrence Gentilello, the co-founder and CEO of Optery talks about the growing scandal around breaches at data brokers that have exposed the sensitive data on hundreds of millions of Americans to cyber criminals and how firms like Optery are helping people fight back. The post Episode 258: Broken Brokers – Optery’s Fight To Claw Back Your Personal Data appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

Paul speaks with Gary McGraw of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML), about the risks facing large language model machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how organizations looking to leverage artificial intelligence and LLMs can insulate themselves from those risks. The post Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data Feudalism? Gary McGraw On LLM Insecurity appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

Host Paul Roberts speaks with Marc Blackmer of ShardSecure about that company’s new approach to protecting data at rest, which relies on fragmenting and scattering data to make it impossible to steal. The post Spotlight: ShardSecure on Protecting Data At Rest Without Encryption appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

Is scraping the same as hacking or just an example of “zealous” use of a social media platform? And if it isn’t considered hacking…should it be? As more and more online platforms open their doors to API-based access, do we need more rules and oversight of how APIs are used to prevent wanton abuse? The post Episode 211: Scrapin’ ain’t Hackin’. Or is it? appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.