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Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Yahoo
Privacy expert reacts after summer camps were unknowingly livestreamed in Waterloo region
Kids and staff at summer camps in Waterloo region were livestreamed last week without permission. The cameras set up in local arenas are used to broadcast minor hockey league games, as well as other sporting events. But they were accidentally left on. The operator of the cameras, LiveBarn, said it was the result of human error. Krystle Shore is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo's department of sociology and legal studies. The privacy expert shared her thoughts with CBC K-W's Aastha Shetty.
Forbes
16 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
This $120 Million Startup's AI Will Teach You How To Suck Less At Security
Fable's cofounders Nicole Jiang and Dr. Sanny Liao both worked on AI-focused security at Abnormal before setting up their own company in early 2024. Eric Millette Humans are often the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. Just last week, cleaning product giant Clorox claimed a cyberattack that may have caused as much as $380 million in damages was the result of a contracted service desk staffer resetting a password for a hacker pretending to work for the company. IT departments are aware of the risk of human error, of course, and try to address it with education. Usually, this means a few emails and some simple training. But the advice in these types of training are generalized and only rarely tailored to the specific needs of staff. That's one reason why people never even bother to read those emails. This is the problem that female-founded cybersecurity startup Fable wants to tackle with a personalized approach. The company is coming out of stealth on Tuesday, with $31 million funding; an April 2024 seed round led by Greylock Partners at $6.5 million and a $24.5 million Series A led by Redpoint Ventures in May this year. Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, has also invested. A source familiar with the deal said the business is valued at $120 million. Founded in 2024 by Nicole Jiang, 31, and Dr. Sanny Liao, 42, who spent years at $5.1 billion cybersecurity company Abnormal, Fable claims its AI helps determine which employees need help improving their security practices and offers custom tips and guidance to them. All of its content, from videos to scripts, are generated by AI. 'We're solving this holistic human problem.' Nicole Jiang, CEO and cofounder at Fable For instance, an employee who isn't using mult-factor authentication might get a quick briefing on their PC about what tools they can use to protect their accounts. Or a user who might be targeted by a deepfake scammer will get a video of both the real Jiang and an AI-created version to show them how effective such attacks can be, followed by some guidance on how to be cautious. At the backend, IT can monitor whether the employee then takes corrective actions, like downloading a password manager with multiple layers of authentication. Fable's tools can be used on a variety of platforms, too, including Slack, Microsoft Teams or email. 'We're an AI-first human risk platform, and we're solving the problem of reducing human errors,' Jiang tells Forbes . 'It's a personalized experience that gives people time back when they already know what to do, but really hyper focus when people don't, when they are, you know, not as secure as they should.' Jiang, who also spent a year each at Microsoft and $20 billion-valued data science and surveillance company Palantir, and cofounder Liao have history in AI-powered security. At Abnormal, they were early employees and helped the business sell an AI that figured out what emails are legitimate and which aren't. Abnormal also has an AI agent that guides users through using email securely. Jiang doesn't think there will be competition between Fable and her old employer. 'For us, it's less about solving the email problem, we're solving this holistic human problem.' Fable's main competition is in the cybersecurity education space, where one of the incumbents is KnowBe4, which was acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $4.6 billion in 2022. Greylock investor Saam Motamedi, who also invested in Abnormal, says that KnowBe4's training materials are static and don't adapt to employee needs the same way Fable's do. 'I think we can build something much, much bigger,' he says, saying he sees Fable on a path to over $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in the coming years. 'That can lead to a standalone public company.' Though it's only making itself known to the wider world now, Fable's spent the past year building its products for customers across financial services, healthcare, logistics and tech. It counts mortgage provider Pennynac and software company Genesys among its first clients. Arvin Bansal, chief information security officer at C&S Wholesale Grocers, said that he started using Fable amid a spate of ransomware attacks in his industry and needed to educate a diverse staff about the risks. Impressed by the Fable AI's ability to spin up relatable, short, sharp content, he rolled it out and within a week said the feedback was hugely positive. 'That's where I saw the power of AI, how quickly the content was created and how quickly it could be distributed,' he told Forbes . He said he'd seen 'increased awareness, fewer risky clicks, and a noticeable rise in users reporting phishing attempts.' Jiang says it's worked with political entities too, including the Democratic National Committee in the run up to the election last year. 'We helped proactively do a lot of the personalized security briefings for all their campaign staffers,' she said. The party may have lost, she notes, but at least it didn't suffer any significant breaches. 'Which is still a win for us,' she added. MORE ON FORBES Forbes AI TikTok Videos Promising Free Spotify And Windows Subscriptions Trick Users Into Installing Malware Instead By Thomas Brewster Forbes US And Israel Should Prepare For Destructive Iranian Cyberattacks, Ex-Intel Officer Says By Thomas Brewster Forbes Trump Pardoned Him. Now He's Selling His Cyber Business For $200 Million. By Thomas Brewster Forbes This $101 Million Startup's AI Exposes Fraudsters Disguised As Employees By Thomas Brewster
CBC
18 hours ago
- CBC
Privacy expert reacts after summer camps were unknowingly livestreamed in Waterloo region
Kids and staff at summer camps in Waterloo region were livestreamed last week without permission. The cameras set up in local arenas are used to broadcast minor hockey league games, as well as other sporting events. But they were accidentally left on. The operator of the cameras, LiveBarn, said it was the result of human error. Krystle Shore is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo's department of sociology and legal studies. The privacy expert shared her thoughts with CBC K-W's Aastha Shetty.
BreakingNews.ie
18-07-2025
- Automotive
- BreakingNews.ie
More than 900 speeding fines revoked following ‘human error'
More than 900 speeding fines from a speed camera in Kilkenny have been revoked over 'human error' in processing the location of the alleged offences. It means almost 2,800 speeding fines and associated penalty points have been revoked by gardaí this year because of significant errors with safety cameras. Advertisement On Friday, An Garda Síochána started telling motorists that fines and penalty points issued to them for speeding offences on the N25 in Kilkenny detected by the static speed safety camera system between May 30th and June 30th are being revoked. This corresponds with the first month the speed camera was supposed to be running, having been made operational on May 30th. A total of 914 speeding fixed charge notices were issued over this period. Of that total, 128 fines were paid and penalty points applied but these will now be repaid and revoked. Advertisement Fifty six were paid but the error was identified prior to penalty points being applied, and the fine will be repaid. No payment had been received in the remaining 730 notices and therefore no penalty points had been applied. A garda spokesperson said the service had confirmed an error with the 'offence location on Fixed Charge Notices' from the static safety camera located on the N25, Kilkenny. The spokesperson added: 'This error is a result of human error when inputting the offence location onto the processing system.' Advertisement It said the issue was rectified 'immediately' upon its discovery on June 30th and the camera resumed operations on July 4th. An Garda Siochana said it 'takes full responsibility for this error', adding that it had completed a review of all offence locations associated with static and average speed cameras. Chief Superintendent David Harrington, head of the National Roads Policing Bureau, said: 'This error is very much regretted. 'An Garda Siochana continues to work steadfastly with all our partners in road safety endeavouring to reduce the human toll of road deaths and serious injuries on our roads.' Advertisement In February, 1,871 speeding fixed charge notices were revoked following an error with the N17 static speed safety camera system. The charges related to notices from the period of December 20th and February 12th. Eight hundred of the fines had already been paid, with penalty points applied to the driver. They were all revoked. Advertisement In that instance, safety camera provider GoSafe identified an issue on February 12 and said the static speed camera on the N17 was 'fully functional and accurately identifying offences, but not certified'. It said the certification for the radar component of the camera had expired. The issue arose because a camera was found to have a faulty focus mechanism during testing and was replaced with a new camera, which did not have a valid certificate of calibration.
Arab News
15-07-2025
- General
- Arab News
Air India crash: Pilot groups push back against human error narrative
NEW DELHI: Associations of Indian pilots are rejecting claims that last month's Air India plane crash that killed 260 people was due to human error, after a preliminary investigation sparked speculation implicating the flight crew. The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad airport in the western Indian state of Gujarat on June 12. A report released over the weekend by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said that seconds after take-off, both of the plane's fuel-control switches moved to the position stopping fuel from the engines. It did not specify who turned off the switches, only citing the cockpit voice recording, in which 'one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he cut off,' while 'the other pilot responded that he did not do so.' The Indian Commercial Pilots Association and the Airline Pilots' Association of India have issued statements after the release of the initial findings — and the first media and online reactions to it — rejecting speculative narratives and presumptions over the guilt of the pilots. Capt. Kishore Chinta, an ALPA member and accident investigator, told Arab News that both associations have 'raised red flags on the selective release of information' by the AAIB, which has 'left the scope of ambiguity for people to jump to conclusions' and for the media to spin narratives. 'We are left defending those pilots who are not there to defend themselves,' he said. 'The Western media has been painting them as if they actually committed suicide-murder.' The London-bound flight was carrying 242 people — 230 passengers, two pilots and 10 crew members. Only one person, sitting in an emergency exit seat, survived the crash. Another 18 people were killed on the ground as the aircraft fell on a B. J. Medical College and hostel for students and resident doctors of the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. Investigators at the crash site recovered both components of the black box — the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, days after the crash. The Ministry of Civil Aviation said at the time that the final report was expected within three months. The early release of preliminary findings has shaken the Indian aviation community, for which it was unacceptable that experienced pilots who have flown thousands of hours would have turned off the fuel supply. 'Definitely a malfunction caused the disaster — poor maintenance or a hardware/software glitch,' said Sandeep Jain, an Indian aviator based in the US. 'Dead pilots are always the easiest target. They don't bite back. No litigation, no shareholder value erosion.' The Federation of Indian Pilots is planning to raise the consequences of the preliminary report with the government. 'We will be taking it up with the government no doubt. We will not let it go quietly. The report should not be open-ended,' Capt. C.S. Randhawa, the federation's president, told Arab News. 'It is inconclusive. So many things are not answered properly. The report does not say that the pilots have moved the fuel control switches, that is why it is inconclusive, and it is leading to speculations.'
