Eavesdropping

If an information leak is not seen, is there a reportable breach?

You probably spent the bulk of your workweek wondering ‘where Armand will turn up Friday.’ If not, I understand 🤣 At any rate, I’ll end the suspense right here. I’m coming to you from the Black Forest in southeastern Germany—home of numerous fir trees and the distinctive (and delicious) chocolate and cherry cake that is one of my favorites. 

GenAI is obsoleting an unlikely sector of American entrepreneurs.

Armand here, RPost’s product evangelist, writing from beautiful Charlotte. I’ve been discussing security and AI at the International Legal Technology Association conference along with some of my human RPost teammates, Gerlyn, Arianna, and Laura.

A battle between white and black (AI) hats.

Armand here again, your plucky, ready-to-fight RPost product evangelist, reporting for Tech Essentials. Not sure if you caught last Sunday’s 60 Minutes, but they ran a piece that echoes what we’ve been saying in this column for many months now: cybercriminals are getting a lot more sophisticated from a technology and business standpoint.

Champagne & Caviar or Eavesdropping AI & Registered Receipt Proof?

Armand here, RPost’s product evangelist. I spent the week in New Orleans at one of the largest insurance technology conferences and thought I would share an insight that really cuts across all industries. Warning: it’s sort of complex, but important for those concerned with financial and business risk.

Cybercriminals can now subscribe to black-hat AI as easily as Netflix. 

Armand here again reporting for Tech Essentials. This week, I’m writing to you from…my mom’s basement. This is so that I can try and get in the mindset of a cybercriminal trying to leverage AI to perpetrate a sophisticated email scam.

Are you a routine kind of Guy or Gal?

[If you are a routine kind of person, stop reading here. If you consider yourself to be less bland, I challenge you to read to the end.]

After reading the recent FBI report on the state of email related cybercrime in 2022, one statistic popped out at me, when correlating different parts of the report related to Business Email Compromise and Ransomware. 

“If I have to read one more article or see one more talking head on TV rant about the coming AI apocalypse, about how the Terminator/Matrix movies are coming to reality, about how my job will disappear as soon as next week, I’ll move to a cabin in the woods!” This quotation has been uttered en masse all year long, in some form or another, and most recently by Taylor Swift (kidding).

We’ll Make Etymology of Acronym-Originated Tech Speak Interesting… and Useful. Yes, it’s still the year of the tiger – a year of supposed unbound prosperity. But with the stock market plunging, and cybercrime flourishing, I thought it might be nice to forget about tigers and put on another hat, one of an etymologist.

The Face of Big Brother Changes, as do Wire Taps Back in the day, with Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA recording all our digital communications, it became apparent that George Orwell’s 1984 image of Big Brother was made manifest: Big Government.