More people are relying on Gen AI tools such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini and others, and in almost half of the reported cases, people use this rather than traditional internet searches. This makes it more concerning that, according to an in-depth report by Which? Magazine, all of the most commonly used tools scored less than […]
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NCSC launch Cyber Action toolkit
The National Cyber Security Centre has launched a new free Cyber Action toolkit to help protect small organisations by giving you clear, bite-sized actions. It will help guide you through what you need to do and is ideal as a checklist or benchmark. You can see the toolkit at https://cybertoolkit.service.ncsc.gov.uk/.
Edge & Chrome introduce LLM “Scareware” blocking
Thanks to Steve Gibsons ‘Security Now!’ show notes available at https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1050-notes.pdf for reporting, on page 3, that Chrome and Microsoft Edge have introduced what they call a help popup designed to spot and block full screen popups and phony warnings. Steve mentions that it is very memory intensive and can be turned off, but if […]
ICO’s Internal AI Use Policy
If you are looking for inspiration for your own AI Use Policy, or want to benchmark it, you might like to look at eh one that ICO has published. You can find it at https://ico.org.uk/media2/4ojobuwe/internal-ai-use-policy.pdf. We also have some example templates and can offer some ideas if you book a free 25-minute insight call.