Instead of using the tens of thousands of hacked email accounts at their disposal for spam or phishing attempts, a cybercrime group earns its money by skimming inboxes for free money. They log in periodically and search your emails for keywords and senders alluding to potential gift card and customer loyalty programs, like “Amazon” or “PayPal”. What do they do with their haul? They sell everything online for 80 percent of its actual value.
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Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
