Shelina

APJ Comms. Musings on life & work. Views are my own. Passion for integrated marketing, travel & gin cocktails. Budding environmentalist. 🇸🇬 🇺🇸 🌿

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Salesforce plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years as it seeks to fuel the adoption of its AI agent development platform, Agentforce. https://t.co/o9oTbfgBry

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Writing with large language models - are we moving towards “regression to the mean”? https://t.co/xEXdV9pAST

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“Despite being presented as legitimate events created on the Eventbrite platform, attackers use these messages to impersonate known brands. Each email urges the recipient to take action: reset your PIN code; verify your delivery address; etc." https://t.co/Ccgd7B8esn

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The Sentencing Advisory Panel has also published guidelines that recommend “significant imprisonment sentences” as the norm for scams-related offences involving the handing over of bank accounts or the disclosure of Singpass credentials. https://t.co/7YTv2iabPZ

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The police advised the public to protect themselves by blocking international calls and SMSes, using only official banking apps from recognised app stores and setting security features such as two-factor authentication for banking apps, social media. https://t.co/RqXKr3R5ij

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Hong Kong regulators struggle to contain financial fraud. Scams nearly doubled in 2023 to HK$9.18b, number of cases jumped to ~40k, topping world per-capita losses from fraud. Investment scams accounted for HK$5.9b of those losses. https://t.co/KQUZFuPUXM

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More countries in Asia set up anti-scam centres https://t.co/6z70tZnavl

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Malvertising is surging and sneakier than ever https://t.co/i1LHyjQw9E

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Indonesia to ‘Soft Launch’ Anti-Scam Centre this month, 15 banks in Indonesia will join the initiative https://t.co/aTLOZ4F9Ib

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The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) warned of mobile malware that can scan SMSes to retrieve one-time passwords (OTP). How? Telegram bots promise an app that users would normally have to pay for, in exchange for their phone numbers. https://t.co/nGpY68S66j

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Rather than focusing solely on identifying suspicious emails, cybersecurity awareness training should educate employees on when and how to prevent phishing attempts - accompanied by simulations. https://t.co/kSuR9lfayh

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Prompt injection attacks involve creating requests that bypass previous prompt restrictions on LLMs. Adversarial attacks on machine learning algorithms involve hidden information in images or audio that can confuse AI systems and force incorrect decisions. https://t.co/1opNEyRTEs

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Never answer or interact with unknown callers/senders, and whenever you receive a request for personal data from a “trusted” entity, call them first and ask whether the request you received was genuine. https://t.co/cg35F68rTe

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Fake social media accounts impersonating SIA have published advertisements offering discounts to get its customers’ personal data. https://t.co/Vpu07wRmld

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"Phishing remains one of the most prevalent forms of cybercrime due to the minimal effort required and large potential windfall and high success rate." https://t.co/YWLdSFjXND

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Rapid response by criminals: Phishing e-mails and phone calls to customers while posing as CrowdStrike support staff offering remediation insights, or sell scripts that appear to automate recovery from the content update issue. https://t.co/WrHcpJmCO8

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Ok Claude 3.5 Sonnet is insane.

People can't stop building and founders are making money with it.

10 wild examples.

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“AI tools help refine the ‘pitch’ to make it more believable as well as compensate for cultural and grammar differences in language usage.”https://t.co/HKde5oB083

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Multifactor authentication without texts could protect you from SIM swapping? https://t.co/bBgEG8yKk2