April 14, 2023
Security: Phishing attack targets accountants as Tax Day approaches
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft is warning of a phishing campaign targeting accounting firms and tax preparers with remote access malware allowing initial access to corporate networks.

With the USA reaching the end of its annual tax season, accountants are scrambling to gather clients' tax documents to complete and file their tax returns. Due to this, it makes it an ideal time for threat actors to target tax preparers, hoping that they mistakenly open malicious files that they would generally be more careful with when less busy. Read More
Healthcare IT: SAS & Duke Health announce AI partnership
Healthcare IT News
Duke Health, a world-renowned academic medical center, and SAS, a global analytics leader, have formalized a letter of intent to collaborate and support initiatives focused on improving health equity and optimizing health outcomes.

In combining the SAS's analytics, including those in SAS Health, and the company's ability to scale artificial intelligence with Duke Health's experience testing and validating predictive models in collaboration with health data scientists, researchers and clinicians, the partners hope to tackle health equity. Read More
Homeland Security: How Russia’s war on Ukraine has converged cybersecurity across homeland and national security
Homeland Security Today
Leading-edge technologies, a globalized economy, and instability across the economic and political landscape have washed away once previously easy-to-define national borders. Cyberthreats and challenges now target the doorsteps of our state, local, tribal, and municipal communities. This shift emboldens increased attacks on our schools, hospitals, small businesses, local governments, and critical infrastructure.

In truth, the subtle convergence of homeland security with our broader national security foreshadows a required seismic shift in how we view cybersecurity – one that emphasizes a greater sensitivity to the volatility of ubiquitous cyber in a digitally interconnected world while returning to the simplicity of foundational cybersecurity practices that are minimized, forgotten, or often ignored. Read More
Transportation: Here’s how road rage really affects your driving — and self-driving cars
Study Finds
COVENTRY, United Kingdom — Most drivers have experienced or at least seen an example of road rage in one form or another. Now, researchers from the University of Warwick have identified the characteristics of aggressive driving, as well as how road rage impacts both human drivers on the road today and the gradual transition to self-driving, automated cars.

This project is the first ever to systematically identify aggressive driving behaviors, with study authors actually measuring the changes that occur in a driver when they shift to a more aggressive state. Aggressive drivers, of course, typically drive faster and more recklessly than calm drivers, which puts others on the road at risk. Road rage also poses a serious challenge to researchers working on self-driving car technology. Read More
Human Resources: Study: Beyond pay, financial stability increasingly used to draw talent
HR Dive
Talent acquisition can be a moving target, especially in today’s economic climate. And yet, for the second year in a row, HR Dive readers have named hiring as a top priority. It should come as no surprise that money continues to be top of mind for talent, but it’s not just money on workers’ minds: It’s a total rewards package.

Human resources professionals say they are responding accordingly: In HR Dive’s 2023 Identity of HR survey, almost half of respondents (43%) said retirement contributions or benefits are a facet of their talent acquisition approach. Retirement benefits saw the highest year-over-year uptick, too; only 35% cited this tactic as a tenet of recruiting strategy in 2022. Read More
Business & Technology: 6 best practices to develop a corporate use policy for generative AI
CIO
While there’s an open letter calling for all AI labs to immediately pause training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for six months, the reality is the genie is already out of the bottle. Here are ways to get a better grasp of what these systems are capable of, and utilize them to construct an effective corporate use policy for your organization.

Generative AI is the headline-grabbing form of AI that uses un- and semi-supervised algorithms to create new content from existing materials, such as text, audio, video, images, and code. Use cases for this branch of AI are exploding, and it’s being used by organizations to better serve customers, take more advantage of existing enterprise data, and improve operational efficiencies, among many other uses. But just like other emerging technologies, it doesn’t come without significant risks and challenges. Read More