Information
Getting Started with Microsoft’s Presidio: A Step-by-Step Guide to Detecting and Anonymizing Personally Identifiable Information PII in Text
In this tutorial, we will explore how to use Microsoft’s Presidio, an open-source framework designed for detecting, analyzing, and anonymizing personally identifiable information (PII) in free-form text. Built on top of the efficient spaCy NLP library, Presidio is both lightweight and modular, making it easy to integrate into real-time applications and pipelines. We will cover…
LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments
A large language model (LLM) deployed to make treatment recommendations can be tripped up by nonclinical information in patient messages, like typos, extra white space, missing gender markers, or the use of uncertain, dramatic, and informal language, according to a study by MIT researchers. They found that making stylistic or grammatical changes to messages increases…
Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
Research Published 1 December 2022 Authors Julien Perolat, Bart De Vylder, Daniel Hennes, Eugene Tarassov, Florian Strub and Karl Tuyls DeepNash learns to play Stratego from scratch by combining game theory and model-free deep RL Game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than…
How Do Hackers Steal Credit Card Information? | TechTarget
Cybersecurity has never been more critical given the exponential growth of e-commerce and online transactions. Hackers may attempt to invade our privacy in several ways, but one area they find particularly enticing is credit card information. Stolen credit cards can negatively affect not just your finances but your personal identity and privacy, too. Protecting them…
My information was stolen. Now what?
Back in May 2023, I wrote the blogpost You may not care where you download software from, but malware does as a call to arms, warning about the risks of running software downloaded from so-called “trusted sources” of pirated software. Of course, those files were anything but trustworthy and contained malware, such as ransomware or…
What is Information Security Management System (ISMS)? | Definition from TechTarget
An information security management system (ISMS) is a set of policies and procedures for systematically managing an organization’s sensitive data. The goal of an ISMS is to minimize risk and ensure business continuity by proactively limiting the impact of a security breach. An ISMS typically addresses employee behavior and processes as well as data and…