• Cybersecurity
    Paychex因数据泄露被起诉:数千员工信息遭曝光 事件背景 2024年4月30日,知名薪资服务公司Paychex在与加利福尼亚州政府交换未认领财产信息时,意外曝光了大量雇员的个人信息。此次数据泄露事件导致成千上万名雇员的姓名、社会安全号码等敏感信息被未授权的个人获取。事件发生后,引发了广泛关注和担忧。 诉讼详情 2024年7月11日,纽约西区联邦法院收到了一起针对Paychex的集体诉讼。原告娜塔莉·史蒂文森(Natalie Stevenson)声称,Paychex未能采取足够的网络安全措施,导致未授权个人能够访问并窃取员工的个人信息。此次诉讼的核心指控是Paychex在数据安全方面存在严重疏忽,没有及时通知受影响的个人,从而加剧了受害者的潜在风险。 原告指出,Paychex在处理不直接与公司有关系的个人信息时,负有保护这些信息的责任。然而,公司未能实施足够的安全措施来防止数据泄露,违反了对受影响个人的信任。此次事件不仅给受害者带来了身份盗窃的风险,还导致了财务监控费用的增加以及其他相关损失。 受害者影响 据原告律师团队称,数据泄露事件对受影响的员工造成了以下几方面的损害: 身份盗窃风险增加:受影响的员工可能面临身份盗窃的直接威胁,导致个人信息被恶意使用。 财务监控费用增加:受害者不得不投入更多的时间和金钱来监控其财务账户,以防止欺诈活动。 精神损害:由于个人信息泄露,受害者承受了巨大的心理压力和不安。 数据价值损失:个人信息的泄露降低了这些信息的价值,并可能对受害者的未来造成不利影响。 法律责任 此次诉讼由Weitz & Luxenberg PC和Strauss Borrelli PLLC的律师团队代表原告发起。诉讼文件指出,Paychex未能履行其应有的安全义务,导致员工信息遭到泄露。原告要求法院判令Paychex赔偿受害者的实际损失,并采取必要措施,防止未来类似事件的发生。 具体而言,诉讼要求Paychex: 赔偿损失:包括因身份盗窃和财务监控增加的费用。 提供后续支持:为受害者提供信用监控服务和身份恢复支持。 改进安全措施:实施更严格的网络安全措施,防止类似数据泄露事件再次发生。 行业影响 此次事件并非孤立个例,近年来,越来越多的公司因数据泄露事件面临法律诉讼。数据安全已经成为各行业关注的焦点,企业需要不断提升其网络安全水平,以保护客户和员工的个人信息。 近年来,许多知名企业因数据泄露事件被起诉并支付了巨额赔偿。例如,HR供应商UKG因2021年的数据泄露事件而支付了数百万美元的赔偿。此外,餐饮连锁店Panera和新闻媒体Philadelphia Inquirer也因类似事件面临法律诉讼。 结论 此次针对Paychex的集体诉讼提醒企业必须高度重视数据安全。随着个人信息保护法律法规的不断完善,企业在处理和保护客户及员工信息时需更加谨慎。未来,企业应不断投资于网络安全技术和培训,确保信息安全管理体系的完善和有效运作。 对于受影响的员工而言,及时采取防范措施并寻求法律支持是应对数据泄露事件的重要步骤。受害者应密切关注其财务账户,并采取必要的信用监控措施,以减少身份盗窃带来的潜在损失。此次事件的法律进展将对未来类似案件的处理提供重要参考,也将促使企业进一步加强数据保护措施。   Paychex Sued for Negligence After Data Breach Exposes Workers’ Names and Social Security Numbers Background On April 30, 2024, Paychex, a leading payroll services provider, experienced a significant data breach while exchanging unclaimed property information with the State of California. This incident exposed the personal information of thousands of employees, including names and Social Security numbers. The breach has raised serious concerns about Paychex’s cybersecurity measures and its ability to protect sensitive data. Details of the Lawsuit On July 11, 2024, a class action lawsuit was filed against Paychex in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The plaintiff, Natalie Stevenson, alleges that Paychex failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures, which allowed unauthorized individuals to access and steal employees’ personal information. The lawsuit claims that Paychex’s negligence in data security practices and delayed notification to affected individuals have caused significant harm. The lawsuit highlights several key points: Negligence in Data Security: Paychex is accused of not having sufficient safeguards to protect personal information, leading to unauthorized access and data theft. Delayed Notification: The company allegedly failed to promptly inform the affected individuals, exacerbating the potential harm caused by the breach. Duty of Care: Paychex is argued to have assumed a duty of care to protect the personal information of employees, even if those individuals had no direct relationship with the company. Impact on Victims The data breach has had multiple adverse effects on the affected employees: Increased Risk of Identity Theft: Exposed individuals are at a heightened risk of identity theft and fraud. Financial Monitoring Costs: Victims have incurred additional expenses and time to monitor their financial accounts for suspicious activity. Emotional Distress: The breach has caused significant stress and anxiety among those affected. Loss of Data Value: The exposure has diminished the value of the victims’ personal information, potentially impacting their future security. Legal Responsibility The lawsuit seeks to hold Paychex accountable for its alleged failures and aims to secure compensation for the victims. Specifically, the lawsuit demands: Damages: Compensation for financial losses and emotional distress suffered by the victims. Support Services: Provision of credit monitoring and identity restoration services to the affected individuals. Enhanced Security Measures: Implementation of stronger cybersecurity protocols to prevent future breaches. Broader Industry Impact This incident is part of a growing trend of data breach lawsuits targeting companies handling sensitive personal information. Similar cases have been filed against various organizations, highlighting the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures across industries. Notably, HR vendor UKG faced significant legal and financial repercussions following its 2021 data breach, illustrating the widespread consequences of inadequate data protection. Conclusion The Paychex data breach lawsuit underscores the critical importance of cybersecurity in protecting personal information. As data breaches become increasingly common, organizations must prioritize the implementation of comprehensive security measures to safeguard sensitive data. This case serves as a reminder to all companies about the legal and ethical responsibilities they bear in managing and protecting personal information. For the affected employees, it is crucial to take proactive steps in monitoring their financial accounts and seeking legal advice to address potential identity theft and fraud. The outcome of this lawsuit will likely influence future data protection practices and set precedents for handling similar incidents.
    Cybersecurity
    2024年07月22日
  • Cybersecurity
    101 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations 在过去一年半的时间里,生成式人工智能(AI)在企业领域的应用迅速发展。Google Cloud的Next活动中展示了超过300家组织如何利用AI推动企业转型。这些企业已经从简单的问答助手,发展到能够进行预测和采取行动的AI代理,进一步扩展其业务功能和提升效率。 具体来说,AI代理在以下几个关键领域表现出显著的效益:首先是客户服务,AI能够帮助企业更好地理解和满足客户需求;其次是员工赋能,通过自动化日常任务和优化工作流程,AI提升了工作效率;在创意构思和生产领域,AI助力企业快速生成创新的解决方案;数据分析方面,AI通过高效处理和解析大数据,支持决策制定;在编码创建方面,AI简化了开发流程,提高了代码质量;最后在网络安全领域,AI加强了数据保护和风险管理。 这些应用不仅提高了生产力和操作效率,还极大地改善了客户体验和企业的创新能力。AI的多模态能力,即在文本、语音、视频等多种通信模式中的应用,使其能够更全面地满足不同行业的需求。通过这些先进的技术,企业正在开创一个智能、高效和互联的新时代。 我们一起来看看,是否有参考? Since generative AI first captured the world’s attention a year and a half ago, there’s been a vigorous discussion about what, exactly, the new technology is best used for. While we all enjoyed those early funny chats and witty limericks, we’ve quickly discovered that many of the biggest AI opportunities are clearly in the enterprise. Our customers and partners at Google Cloud have found real potential for creating new processes, efficiencies, and innovations with generative AI. For proof, look no further than the 300-plus organizations who are featured at this week’s Next event in Las Vegas. In a matter of months, organizations like these have gone from AI helping answer questions, to AI making predictions, to generative AI agents. What makes AI agents unique is that they can take actions to achieve specific goals, whether that’s guiding a shopper to the perfect pair of shoes, helping an employee looking for the right health benefits, or supporting nursing staff with smoother patient hand-offs during shifts changes. In our work with customers, we keep hearing that their teams are increasingly focused on improving productivity, automating processes and modernizing the customer experience. These aims are now being achieved through the AI agents they’re developing in six key areas: customer service; employee empowerment; creative ideation and production; data analysis; code creation; and cybersecurity. These special capabilities are made possible in large part by the new multimodal capacity of generative AI and AI foundation models, which allow agents to handle tasks across a range of communications modes, including text, voice, video, audio, code, and more. With human support, agents can converse, reason, learn, and make decisions. The hundreds of customers who joined us at Next ‘24 to showcase and discuss early versions of their AI agents and gen-AI solutions have come to rely on Google Cloud technologies that include our AI infrastructure, Gemini models, Vertex AI platform, Google Workspace, and Google Distributed Cloud. We were also joined by more than 100 partners supporting the creation of AI agents and AI solutions, which you can read about in detail.Here’s a snapshot of how 101 of these industry leaders are putting AI into production today, creating real-world use cases that will transform tomorrow. Similar to great sales and service people, customer agents are able to listen carefully, understand your needs, and recommend the right products and services. They work seamlessly across channels including the web, mobile, and point of sale, and can be integrated into product experiences with voice and video. ADT is building a customer agent to help its millions of customers select, order, and set up their home security. Alaska Airlines is developing a personalized travel search experience using advanced AI techniques, creating hyper-personalized recommendations that engage customers early and foster loyalty through AI-generated content. Best Buy is using Gemini to launch a generative AI-powered virtual assistant this summer that can troubleshoot product issues, reschedule order deliveries, manage Geek Squad subscriptions, and more; in-store and digital customer-service associates are also gaining gen-AI tools to better serve customers anywhere they need help. The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority is using Vertex AI to modernize transportation operations for a smoother, more efficient journey. Etsy uses Vertex AI training to optimize their search recommendations and ads models, delivering better listing suggestions to buyers and helping sellers grow their businesses. Golden State Warriors are using AI to improve the fan experience content in their Chase Center app. IHG Hotels & Resorts is building a generative AI-powered chatbot to help guests easily plan their next vacation directly in the IHG One Rewards mobile app. ING Bank aims to offer a superior customer experience and has developed a gen-AI chatbot for workers to enhance self-service capabilities and improve answer quality on customer queries. Magalu, one of Brazil’s largest retailers, has put customer service at the center of its AI strategy, including using Vertex AI to create “Lu’s Brain” to power an interactive conversational agent for Lu, Magalu's popular brand persona (the 3D bot has more than 14 million followers between TikTok and Instagram). Mercedes Benz will infuse e-commerce capabilities into its online storefront with a gen AI-powered smart sales assistant. Mercedes also plans to expand its use of Google Cloud AI in its call centers and is using Vertex AI and Gemini to personalize marketing campaigns. Oppo/OnePlus is incorporating Gemini models and Google Cloud AI into their phones to deliver innovative customer experiences, including news and audio recording summaries, AI toolbox, and more. Samsung is deploying Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 to their Galaxy S24 smartphones so users can take advantage of amazing features like text summarization, organization, and magical image editing. The Minnesota Division of Driver and Vehicle Services helps non-English speakers get licenses and other services with two-way real-time translation. Pepperdine University has students and faculty who speak many languages, and with Gemini in Google Meet, they can benefit from real-time translated captioning and notes. Sutherland, a leading digital transformation company, is focused on bringing together human expertise and AI, including boosting its client-facing teams by automatically surfacing suggested responses and automating insights in real time. Target uses Google Cloud to power AI solutions on the Target app and Target.com, including personalized Target Circle offers and Starbucks at Drive Up, their curbside pickup solution. Tokopedia, an Indonesian ecommerce leader, is using Vertex AI to improve data quality, increasing unique products being sold by 5%. US News saw a double-digit impact in key metrics like click-through rate, time spent on page, and traffic volume to its pages after implementing Vertex AI Search. IntesaSanpaolo, Macquarie Bank, and Scotiabank are exploring the potential of gen AI to transform the way we live, work, bank, and invest — particularly how the new technology can boost productivity and operational efficiency in banking. Watch the session to learn more. Employee agents help workers be more productive and collaborate better together. These agents can streamline processes, manage repetitive tasks, answer employee questions, as well as edit and translate critical communications. Avery Dennison empowered their employees with generative AI to enable secure, flexible, and borderless collaboration for enhanced productivity to drive growth. Bank of New York Mellon built a virtual assistant to help employees find relevant information and answers to their questions. Bayer is building a radiology platform that will assist radiologists with data analysis, intelligent search, and to create documents that meet healthcare requirements needed for regulatory approval. The bioscience company is also harnessing BigQuery and Vertex AI to develop additional digital medical solutions and drugs more efficiently. Bristol Myers Squibb is transforming its document processes for clinical trials using Vertex AI and Google Workspace. Now, documentation that took scientists weeks now gets to a first draft in minutes. BenchSci develops generative AI solutions empowering scientists to understand complex connections in biological research, saving them time and financial resources and ultimately bringing new medicine to patients faster. Cintas is using Vertex AI Search to develop an internal knowledge center for customer service and sales teams to easily find key information. Covered California, the state’s healthcare marketplace, is using Document AI to help improve the consumer and employee experience by automating parts of the documentation and verification process when residents apply for coverage. Dasa, the largest medical diagnostics company in Brazil, is helping physicians detect relevant findings in test results more quickly. DaVita leverages DocAI and Healthcare NLP to transform kidney care, including analyzing medical records, uncovering critical patient insights, and reducing errors. AI enables physicians to focus on personalized care, resulting in significant improvements in healthcare delivery. Discover Financial helps their 10,000 contact center representatives to search and synthesize information across detailed policies and procedures during calls. HCA Healthcare is testing Cati, a virtual AI caregiver assistant that helps to ensure continuity of care when one caregiver shift ends and another begins. They are also using gen AI to improve workflows on time-consuming tasks, such as clinical documentation, so physicians and nurses can focus more on patient care. The Home Depot has built an application called Sidekick, which helps store associates manage inventory and keep shelves stocked; notably, vision models help associates prioritize which actions to take. Los Angeles Rams are utilizing AI across the board from content analysis to player scouting. McDonald’s will leverage data, AI, and edge technologies across its thousands of restaurants to implement innovation faster and to enhance employee and customer experiences. Pennymac, a leading US-based national mortgage lender, is using Gemini across several teams including HR, where Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Gmail is helping them accelerate recruiting, hiring, and new employee onboarding. Robert Bosch, the world's largest automotive supplier, revolutionizes marketing through gen AI-powered solutions, streamlining processes, optimizing resource allocation, and maximizing efficiency across 100+ decentralized departments. Symphony, the communications platform for the financial services industry, uses Vertex AI to help finance and trading teams collaborate across multiple asset classes. Uber is using AI agents to help employees be more productive, save time, and be even more effective at work. For customer service representatives, they’ve launched new tools that summarize communications with users and can even surface context from previous interactions, so front-line staff can be more helpful and effective The U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs is using AI at the edge to improve cancer detection for service members and veterans. The Augmented Reality Microscope (ARM) is deployed at remote military treatment facilities around the world. The prototype device is helping pathologists find cancer faster and with better accuracy. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has improved the quality and efficiency of their patent and trademark examination process by implementing AI-driven technologies. Verizon is using generative AI to help teams in network operations and customer experience get the answers they need faster. Victoria’s Secret is testing AI-powered agents to help their in-store associates find information about product availability, inventory, and fitting and sizing tips, so they can better tailor recommendations to customers. Vodafone uses Vertex AI to search and understand specific commercial terms and conditions across more than 10,000 contracts with more than 800 communications operators. WellSky is integrating Google Cloud's healthcare and Vertex AI capabilities to reduce the time spent completing documentation outside work hours. Woolworths, the leading retailer in Australia, boosts employees’ confidence in communications with “Help me write” across Google Workspace products for more than 10,000 administrative employees. It’s also using Gemini to create next-generation promotions, as well as for quickly assisting customer service reps in summarizing all previous customer interactions in real time. Box, Typeface, Glean, CitiBank, and Securiti AI discuss developing AI-powered apps across the enterprise, with measurable returns on investment for marketing, financial services, and HR use cases. Highmark Health and Freenome join Bristol Myers Squibb to explore how AI can improve efficiency and innovation across care delivery, drug discovery, clinical trial planning, and bringing medicines to market. Creative agents can expand your organization with the best design and production skills, working across images, slides, and exploring concepts with workers. Many organizations are building agents for their marketing teams, audio and video production teams, and all the creative people that can use a hand. With creative agents, anyone can become a designer, artist, or producer. Belk ECommerce is using generative AI to craft better product descriptions, a necessary yet time-consuming task for digital retails that has often been done manually. Canva is using Vertex AI to power its Magic Design for Video, helping users skip tedious editing steps while creating shareable and engaging videos in a matter of seconds. Carrefour used Vertex AI to deploy Carrefour Marketing Studio in just five weeks — an innovative solution to streamline the creation of dynamic campaigns across various social networks. In just a few clicks, marketers can build ultra-personalized campaigns to deliver customers advertising that they care about. Major League Baseball continues to innovate its Statcast platform, so teams, broadcasters, and fans have access to live in-game insights. Paramount currently relies on manual processes to create the essential metadata and video summaries used across its Paramount+ platform for showcasing content and creating personalized experiences for viewers. VertexAI Text Bison is now helping to streamline this process. Procter & Gamble used Imagen to develop an internal gen AI platform to accelerate the creation of photo-realistic images and creative assets, giving marketing teams more time to focus on high-level planning and delivering superior experiences for its consumers. WPP will integrate Google Cloud’s gen AI capabilities into its intelligent marketing operating system, called WPP Open, which empowers its people and clients to deliver new levels of personalization, creativity, and efficiency. This includes the use of Gemini 1.5 Pro models to supercharge both the accuracy and speed of content performance predictions. Data agents are like having knowledgeable data analysts and researchers at your fingertips. They can help answer questions about internal and external sources, synthesize research, develop new models — and, best of all, help find the questions we haven’t even thought to ask yet, and then help get the answers. AI21 Labs offers a BigQuery integration called Contextual Answers that allows users to query data conversationally and get high-quality answers quickly Anthropic has partnered with Google Cloud to offer its family of Claude 3 models on Vertex AI — providing organizations with more model options for intelligence, speed, cost-efficiency, and vision for enterprise use cases. The Asteroid Institute is using AI to discover hidden asteroids in existing astronomical data. This is a major focus for astronomers researching the evolution of the Solar System, investors and businesses hoping to fly missions to asteroids, and for all of us who want to prevent future large asteroid impacts on Earth. Contextual is working with Google Cloud to offer enterprises fully customizable, trustworthy, privacy-aware AI grounded in internal knowledge bases. Cox 2M, the commercial IoT division of Cox Communications, is able to make smarter, faster business decisions using AI-powered analytics. Essential AI, a developer of enterprise AI solutions, is using Google Cloud’s AI-optimized TPU v5p accelerator chips to train its own AI models. Generali Italia, Italy's largest insurance provider, used Vertex AI to build a model evaluation pipeline that helps ML teams quickly evaluate performance and deploy models. Globo, one of Brazil’s largest media networks, is using Service Extensions and Media CDN to fight piracy during live events by blocking pirated streams in real time. Hugging Face is collaborating with Google across open science, open source, cloud, and hardware to enable companies to build their own AI with the latest open models from Hugging Face and Google Cloud hardware and software. Kakao Brain, part of Korean technology company Kakao Group, has built a large-scale AI language model that is the largest Korean language-specific LLM in the market, with 66 billion parameters. They’ve also developed a text-to-image generator called Karlo. Mayo Clinic has given thousands of its scientific researchers access to 50 petabytes worth of clinical data through Vertex AI search, accelerating information retrieval across multiple languages. McLaren Racing is using Google AI to get up-to-the-millisecond insights during races and training to gain a competitive edge. Mercado Libre is testing BigQuery and Looker to optimize capacity planning and reservations with delivery carriers and airlines to fulfill shipments faster. Mistral AI will use Google Cloud's AI-optimized infrastructure, to further test, build, and scale up its LLMs, all while benefiting from Google Cloud's security and privacy standards. MSCI uses machine learning with Vertex AI, BigQuery and Cloud Run to enrich its datasets to help our clients gain insight into around 1 million asset locations to help manage climate-related risks. NewsCorp is using Vertex AI to help search data across 30,000 sources and 2.5 billion news articles updated daily. Orange operates in 26 countries where local data must be kept in each country. They are using AI on Google Distributed Cloud to improve network performance and deliver super-responsive translation capabilities. Spotify leveraged Dataflow for large-scale generation of ML podcast previews, and they plan to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with data engineering and data science to build better experiences for their customers and creators. UPS is building a digital twin of its entire distribution network, so both workers and customers can see where their packages are at any time. Workday is using natural language processing in Vertex Search and Conversation to make data insights more accessible for technical and non-technical users alike. Woven — Toyota's investment in the future of mobility — is partnering with Google to leverage vast amounts of data and AI to enable autonomous driving, supported by thousands of ML workloads on Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer. This has resulted in resulting in 50% total-cost-of-ownership savings to support automated driving. Broward County, Florida, and Southern California Edison are using geospatial capabilities and AI to improve infrastructure planning and monitoring, generate new insights, and create regional resilience for communities facing climate challenges today and tomorrow. Kinaxis and Dematic are building data-driven supply chains to address logistics use cases including scenario modeling, planning, operations management, and automation. NOAA and USAID are among the U.S. government agencies using Google Cloud AI to unlock critical data insights to streamline operations and improve mission outcomes — all with an emphasis on responsible AI. Watch the session to learn more. Code agents are helping developers and product teams to design, create, and operate applications faster and better, and to ramp up on new languages and code bases. Many organizations are already seeing double-digit gains in productivity, leading to faster deployment and cleaner, clearer code. Capgemini has been using Code Assist to improve software engineering productivity, quality, security, and developer experience, with early results showing workload gains for coding and more stable code quality. Commerzbank is enhancing developer efficiency through Code Assist's robust security and compliance features. Quantiphi saw developer productivity gains of more than 30% during their Code Assist pilot. Replit developers will get access to Google Cloud infrastructure, services, and foundation models via Ghostwriter, Replit's software development AI, while Google Cloud and Workspace developers will get access to Replit’s collaborative code editing platform. Seattle Children's hospital is using AI to boost data engineering productivity and accelerate development. Turing is customizing Gemini Code Assist on their private codebase, empowering their developers with highly personalized and contextually relevant coding suggestions that have increased productivity around 30 percent and made day-to-day coding more enjoyable. Wayfair piloted Code Assist, and those developers with the code agent were able to set up their environments 55 percent faster than before, there was a 48 percent increase in code performance during unit testing, and 60 percent of developers reported that they were able to focus on more satisfying work. Security agents assist security operations by radically increasing the speed of investigations, automating monitoring and response for greater vigilance and compliance controls. They can also help guard data and models from cyberattacks, such as malicious prompt injection. BBVA uses AI in Google SecOps to detect, investigate, and respond to security threats with more accuracy, speed, and scale. The platform now surfaces critical security data in seconds, when it previously took minutes or even hours, and delivers highly automated responses. Behavox is using Google Cloud technology and LLMs to provide industry leading regulatory compliance and front office solutions for financial institutions globally. Charles Schwab has integrated their own intelligence into the AI-powered Google SecOps, so analysts can better prioritize work and respond to threats. Fiserv’s security operations engineers create detections and playbooks with much less effort, while analysts get answers more quickly. Grupo Boticário, one of the largest beauty retail and cosmetics companies in Brazil, employs real-time security models to prevent fraud and to detect and respond to issues. Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSIAM, the AI-driven security operations platform, is built on more than a decade of expertise in machine-learning models and the most comprehensive, rich, and diverse data store in the industry. Backed by Google's advanced cloud infrastructure and advanced AI services, including BigQuery and Gemini models, the combination delivers global scale and near real-time protection across all cybersecurity offerings. Pfizer can now aggregate cybersecurity data sources, cutting analysis times from days to seconds. To find even more customers using our AI tools to build agents and solutions for their most important enterprise projects, visit the Google Cloud customer hub and watch the Next ‘24
    Cybersecurity
    2024年04月12日
  • Cybersecurity
    美国领先企业联合成立了一个联盟,应对人工智能对技术岗位劳动力的影响 由思科(Cisco)牵头,埃森哲(Accenture)、谷歌(Google)、国际商业机器公司(IBM)和微软(Microsoft)等主要行业参与者参与的人工智能 ICT 劳动力联盟(AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium)AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium 旨在评估和减轻人工智能对技术工作的影响。该联盟旨在确定受人工智能进步影响的岗位所需的关键技能,为再培训和提高技能提供途径。该倡议借鉴了私营部门、顾问和政府的合作见解,为人工智能环境下的劳动力做好准备,强调了全球合作促进包容性技术未来的必要性。 人工智能 ICT 劳动力联盟致力于提供实际可行的洞见,发掘重新培训和提升技能的新机遇 思科牵头成立的AI赋能信息通信技术(ICT)工作力联盟,包括埃森哲、Eightfold、谷歌、IBM、Indeed、英特尔、微软和SAP等行业领导者的加入。该联盟将评估人工智能对科技岗位的影响,并为最可能受到AI影响的职业确定技能发展途径。 联盟的成立得到了美国-欧盟贸易与技术委员会人才成长工作组的推动,思科主席兼CEO Chuck Robbins在该工作组的参与,以及美国商务部的建议,起到了催化剂的作用。 顾问团包括美国劳工联盟-产业组织联合会、CHAIN5、美国通信工人联合会、DIGITALEUROPE、欧洲职业培训协会、可汗学院和SMEUnited等。 比利时鲁汶,2024年4月4日-- 思科(纳斯达克代码:CSCO)和另外八家行业领先公司包括埃森哲、Eightfold、谷歌、IBM、Indeed、英特尔、微软和SAP,以及六位顾问今天宣布,成立了致力于提升和重新培训最可能受到AI影响岗位的AI赋能ICT工作力联盟。该联盟受到美国-欧盟贸易与技术委员会人才成长工作组的启发,旨在探究AI对ICT岗位的影响,帮助工作者发现并参与相关培训计划,同时连接企业和具备相应技能、准备就绪的工作者。 作为私营部门的合作平台,联盟正评估AI如何改变工作岗位及所需技能,让工作者取得成功。首阶段工作成果将总结为一份提供给企业领导者和工作者实际建议的报告。未来几个月将公布更多详情。研究结果旨在为那些寻求为员工重新培训和提升技能的雇主提供实用的洞见和建议。 联盟成员涵盖了在AI前沿创新的企业,他们深知AI对劳动力市场的当前和未来影响。各成员企业已分别记录了AI带来的机遇与挑战。通过合作,这些组织能够汇聚见解,推荐行动计划,并在其广泛的影响领域内实施这些发现。 “人工智能正加速全球劳动力市场的变革,为私营部门提供了一个强大机会,帮助工作者重新培训和提升技能,以迎接未来,”思科执行副总裁兼首席人事、政策与目标官Francine Katsoudas表示。“我们新成立的AI赋能工作力联盟的任务是向组织提供关于AI对劳动力影响的知识,并装备工作者以相关技能。我们期待吸引更多利益相关方——包括政府、非政府组织和学术界——一同迈出确保AI革命惠及每个人的重要一步。” 联盟的工作受到了美国-欧盟贸易与技术委员会人才成长工作组的启发,思科主席兼CEO Chuck Robbins领导其技能培训工作流程的指导,以及美国商务部的建议。美国总统拜登、欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩和欧洲理事会主席米歇尔于2021年6月成立了TTC,目的是通过合作和民主方法在贸易、技术和安全领域推进美国和欧盟的竞争力和繁荣。 “在美国商务部,我们致力于推动先进技术的发展,并深化与全球伙伴和盟友之间的贸易与投资关系。这项工作正帮助我们建立一个强大且具竞争力的经济体,由能够获得高质量、高薪、可维持家庭生活的未来工作的才华横溢的劳动力所推动。我们明白,经济安全与国家安全紧密相连。这就是我为何感到自豪地看到人才成长工作组的努力以及AI赋能ICT工作力联盟的成立,”美国商务部长Gina Raimondo表示。“我感激联盟成员加入这一努力,共同面对AI快速发展所带来的新型劳动力需求。这项工作将为这些工作的具体技能需求提供前所未有的见解。我希望这个联盟仅是一个开始,并且私营部门将其视为一个行动呼吁,确保我们的劳动力能够享受到AI带来的好处。” AI赋能ICT工作力联盟的工作解决了对具备AI各方面技能训练的熟练劳动力的紧迫需求。联盟将利用其成员和顾问的力量,推荐和扩大包容性的重新培训和提升技能培训计划,以惠及多方利益相关者——学生、职业转换者、当前的IT工作者、雇主和教育者——大规模提升工作者以适应AI时代。 在其首阶段工作中,联盟将评估AI对56个ICT岗位角色的影响,并为受影响岗位提供培训建议。这些岗位角色根据Indeed Hiring Lab的数据,包括在2023年2月至2024年期间在美国和五个ICT劳动力最多的欧洲国家(法国、德国、意大利、西班牙和荷兰)获得最高岗位发布量的前45个ICT职位的80%。这些国家的ICT部门共计拥有1000万名ICT工作者,占据了行业的重要份额。 联盟成员普遍认识到,随着AI在商业的所有方面的加速融合,及时集结力量,建立一个包容性、能提供维持家庭生活机会的劳动力市场的重要性。联盟成员承诺,在将越来越多地整合人工智能技术的职业领域,开发工作者路径。为此,联盟成员设定了具有远见的目标,并通过技能发展和培训计划,在未来十年内对全球超过9500万人产生积极影响。联盟成员的目标包括: 思科承诺到2032年为2500万人提供网络安全和数字技能培训。 IBM将在2030年前为3000万人提供数字技能培训,包括200万人的AI技能。 英特尔计划到2030年为超过3000万人提供当前和未来工作的AI技能。 微软承诺到2025年为来自弱势社区的1000万人提供需求旺盛的数字技能培训和认证,为他们在数字经济中提供工作和生计机会。 SAP计划到2025年为全球200万人提供提升技能培训。 谷歌最近宣布投入2500万欧元,支持全欧洲人民的AI培训和技能提升。 埃森哲 “帮助组织识别技能差距并进行大规模快速培训是埃森哲的重点任务,这个联盟汇集了一系列致力于在我们社区中发展尖端技术、数据和AI技能的行业合作伙伴。在各个行业中,为与AI协同工作的人员进行重新培训至关重要。那些在技术投资中与学习投资同等重视的组织,不仅创造了职业发展路径,还能在市场中占据领先地位。” - 埃森哲首席领导力与人力资源官Ellyn Shook Eightfold “工作的动态和本质正在以前所未有的速度演变。Eightfold通过深入分析最受欢迎的职位,了解重新培训和提升技能的需求。通过其人才智能平台,我们为商业领袖提供了迅速适应不断变化的商业环境的能力。我们为能够为组织预备未来工作做出贡献而感到自豪。” - Eightfold AI首席执行官兼联合创始人Ashutosh Garg 谷歌 “谷歌坚信,技术创造的机遇应真正面向所有人。我们自豪地加入AI赋能工作力联盟,进一步推动我们使AI技能培训普及化的工作。我们致力于跨领域合作,确保不同背景的工作者都能有效利用AI,为面向未来的职位做好准备,获得新机会,在经济中茁壮成长。” - 谷歌成长计划创始人Lisa Gevelber IBM “IBM自豪地加入这个及时的企业主导倡议,通过汇集我们的共同专业知识和资源,为AI时代的劳动力做好准备。作为行业领袖,我们共同的责任是发展可信赖的技术,并为所有背景和经验水平的工作者提供学习新技能和提升现有技能的机会,以应对AI采纳改变工作方式并创造新职位的挑战。” - IBM欧洲中东非洲人力资源副总裁Gian Luigi Cattaneo Indeed “Indeed的使命是帮助人们找到工作。我们的研究表明,Indeed上今天发布的几乎每个职位,从卡车司机到医生到软件工程师,都将面临不同程度的受到基于GenAI的变革的影响。我们期待为工作力联盟的重要工作做出贡献。那些授权其员工学习新技能并获得与不断发展的AI工具的实践经验的公司,将加深他们的专业团队,提高员工留存率并扩大其合格候选人库。” - Indeed AI创新部门负责人Hannah Calhoon 英特尔 “作为全球AI创新的领导者,英特尔自豪地加入ICT工作力联盟,继续我们的努力,为所有人塑造一个包容和公平的技术未来。作为联盟的一员,我们将与行业领袖合作,分享最佳实践,创造可访问的学习机会,并与各方利益相关者协作,确保工作者掌握了迎接明天的技术技能。” - 微软人力资源法律副总裁兼副总法律顾问Amy Pannoni SAP “SAP自豪地加入这一努力,帮助为未来的工作准备我们的劳动力,并确保AI在企业和职位中的应用是相关的、可靠的、负责任的。面对我们不断变化的世界的复杂性,AI有潜力重塑行业、革新解决问题的方式,并释放前所未有的人类潜能,使我们能够构建一个更智能、更高效和更包容的劳动力。多年来,SAP支持了许多技能发展计划,我们期待作为联盟的一部分推动更多的学习机会、创新和积极变化。” - SAP副总裁兼全球开发学习负责人Nicole Helmer 关于思科 思科(纳斯达克代码:CSCO)是全球技术领袖,通过帮助我们的客户重新构想他们的应用、支持混合工作模式、保障企业安全、改造基础设施,并实现可持续发展目标,连接一切,让任何事情成为可能。在新闻室了解更多信息,并在X上关注我们@Cisco。 思科和思科标志是思科及/或其在美国和其他国家的关联公司的商标或注册商标。思科的商标列表可在www.cisco.com/go/trademarks查看。提到的第三方商标属于其各自所有者。使用“合作伙伴”一词并不意味着思科与任何其他公司之间存在合伙关系。 来源:思科公司   LEUVEN, Belgium, April 4, 2024 - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and a group of eight leading companies including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP as well as six advisors today announced the launch of the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to be impacted by AI. The Consortium is catalyzed by the work of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council's (TTC) Talent for Growth Task Force, with the goal of exploring AI's impact on ICT job roles, enabling workers to find and access relevant training programs, and connecting businesses to skilled and job-ready workers. Working as a private sector collaborative, the Consortium is evaluating how AI is changing the jobs and skills workers need to be successful. The first phase of work will culminate in a report with actionable insights for business leaders and workers. Further details will be shared in the coming months. Findings will be intended to offer practical insights and recommendations to employers that seek ways to reskill and upskill their workers in preparation for AI-enabled environments. Consortium members represent a cross section of companies innovating on the cutting edge of AI that also understand the current and impending impact of AI on the workforce. Individually, Consortium members have documented opportunities and challenges presented by AI. The collaborative effort enables their organizations to coalesce insights, recommend action plans, and activate findings within their respective broad spheres of influence. "AI is accelerating the pace of change for the global workforce, presenting a powerful opportunity for the private sector to help upskill and reskill workers for the future," said Francine Katsoudas, Executive Vice President and Chief People, Policy & Purpose Officer, Cisco. "The mission of our newly unveiled AI-Enabled Workforce Consortium is to provide organizations with knowledge about the impact of AI on the workforce and equip workers with relevant skills. We look forward to engaging other stakeholders—including governments, NGOs, and the academic community—as we take this important first step toward ensuring that the AI revolution leaves no one behind." The Consortium's work is inspired by the TTC's Talent for Growth Task Force and Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins' leadership of its skills training workstream, and input from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The TTC was established in June 2021 by U.S. President Biden, European Commission President von der Leyen, and European Council President Michel to promote U.S. and EU competitiveness and prosperity through cooperation and democratic approaches to trade, technology, and security. "At the U.S. Department of Commerce, we're focused on fueling advanced technology and deepening trade and investment relationships with partners and allies around the world. This work is helping us build a strong and competitive economy, propelled by a talented workforce that's enabling workers to get into the good quality, high-paying, family-sustaining jobs of the future. We recognize that economic security and national security are inextricably linked. That's why I'm proud to see the efforts of the Talent for Growth Task Force continue with the creation of the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium," said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. "I am grateful to the consortium members for joining in this effort to confront the new workforce needs that are arising in the wake of AI's rapid development. This work will help provide unprecedented insight on the specific skill needs for these jobs. I hope that this Consortium is just the beginning, and that the private sector sees this as a call to action to ensure our workforces can reap the benefits of AI." The AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium's efforts address a business critical and growing need for a proficient workforce that is trained in various aspects of AI, including the skills to implement AI applications across business processes. The Consortium will leverage its members and advisors to recommend and amplify reskilling and upskilling training programs that are inclusive and can benefit multiple stakeholders – students, career changers, current IT workers, employers, and educators – in order to skill workers at scale to engage in the AI era. In its first phase of work, the Consortium will evaluate the impact of AI on 56 ICT job roles and provide training recommendations for impacted jobs. These job roles include 80% of the top 45 ICT job titles garnering the highest volume of job postings for the period February 2023-2024 in the United States and five of the largest European countries by ICT workforce numbers (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands) according to Indeed Hiring Lab. Collectively, these countries account for a significant segment of the ICT sector, with a combined total of 10 million ICT workers. Consortium members universally recognize the urgency and importance of their combined efforts with the acceleration of AI in all facets of business and the need to build an inclusive workforce with family-sustaining opportunities. Consortium members commit to developing worker pathways particularly in job sectors that will increasingly integrate artificial intelligence technology. To that end, Consortium members have established forward thinking goals with skills development and training programs to positively impact over 95 million individuals around the world over the next 10 years. Consortium member goals include: Cisco to train 25 million people with cybersecurity and digital skills by 2032. IBM to skill 30 million individuals by 2030 in digital skills, including 2 million in AI. Intel to empower more than 30 million people with AI skills for current and future jobs by 2030. Microsoft to train and certify 10 million people from underserved communities with in-demand digital skills for jobs and livelihood opportunities in the digital economy by 2025. SAP to upskill two million people worldwide by 2025. Google has recently announced EUR 25 million in funding to support AI training and skills for people across Europe. Accenture "Helping organizations identify skills gaps and train people at speed and scale is a major priority for Accenture, and this consortium brings together an impressive ecosystem of industry partners committed to growing leading-edge technology, data and AI skills within our communities. Reskilling people to work with AI is paramount in every industry. Organizations that invest as much in learning as they do in the technology not only create career pathways, they are well positioned to lead in the market." - Ellyn Shook, chief leadership & human resources officer, Accenture Eightfold "The dynamics of work and the very essence of work are evolving at an unprecedented pace. Eightfold examines the most sought-after job roles, delving into the needs for reskilling and upskilling. Through its Talent Intelligence Platform, it empowers business leaders to adapt swiftly to the changing business environment. We take pride in contributing to the creation of a knowledgeable and responsible resource that assists organizations in preparing for the future of work." - Ashutosh Garg, CEO and Co-Founder, Eightfold AI Google "Google believes the opportunities created by technology should truly be available to everyone. We're proud to join the AI-Enabled Workforce Consortium, which will advance our work to make AI skills training universally accessible. We're committed to collaborating across sectors to ensure workers of all backgrounds can use AI effectively and develop the skills needed to prepare for future-focused jobs, qualify for new opportunities, and thrive in the economy." - Lisa Gevelber, Founder, Grow with Google IBM "IBM is proud to join this timely business-led initiative, which brings together our shared expertise and resources to prepare the workforce for the AI era. Our collective responsibility as industry leaders is to develop trustworthy technologies and help provide workers—from all backgrounds and experience levels—access to opportunities to reskill and upskill as AI adoption changes ways of working and creates new jobs." - Gian Luigi Cattaneo, Vice President, Human Resources, IBM EMEA Indeed "Indeed's mission is to help people get jobs. Our research shows that virtually every job posted on Indeed today, from truck driver to physician to software engineer, will face some level of exposure to GenAI-driven change. We look forward to contributing to the Workforce Consortium's important work. The companies who empower their employees to learn new skills and gain on-the-job experience with evolving AI tools will deepen their bench of experts, boost retention and expand their pool of qualified candidates." - Hannah Calhoon, Head of AI Innovation at Indeed Intel "At Intel, our purpose is to create world-changing technology that improves the lives of every person on the planet, and we believe bringing AI everywhere is key for businesses and society to flourish. To do so, we must provide access to AI skills for everyone. Intel is committed to expanding digital readiness by collaborating with 30 countries, empowering 30,000 institutions, and training 30 million people for current and future jobs by 2030. Working alongside industry leaders as part of this AI-enabled ICT workforce consortium will help upskill and reskill the workforce for the digital economy ahead." – Christy Pambianchi, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Intel Corporation Microsoft "As a global leader in AI innovation, Microsoft is proud to join the ICT Workforce Consortium and continue our efforts to shape an inclusive and equitable technology future for all. As a member of the consortium, we will work with industry leaders to share best practices, create accessible learning opportunities, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that workers are equipped with the technology skills of tomorrow," - Amy Pannoni, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, HR Legal at Microsoft SAP "SAP is proud to join this effort to help prepare our workforce for the jobs of the future and ensure AI is relevant, reliable, and responsible across businesses and roles. As we navigate the complexities of our ever-evolving world, AI has the potential to reshape industries, revolutionize problem-solving, and unlock unprecedented levels of human potential, enabling us to create a more intelligent, efficient, and inclusive workforce. Over the years, SAP has supported many skills building programs, and we look forward to driving additional learning opportunities, innovation, and positive change as part of the consortium." - Nicole Helmer, Vice President & Global Head of Development Learning at SAP About Cisco Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that securely connects everything to make anything possible. Our purpose is to power an inclusive future for all by helping our customers reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on X at @Cisco. 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    Cybersecurity
    2024年04月05日
  • Cybersecurity
    LinkedIn发现,内部流动正在蓬勃发展,但对于低级别员工来说却并非如此 文章讨论了公司内部流动性的增长趋势,强调其对提高员工保留率和参与度的好处。LinkedIn的最新研究显示,自2021年以来,内部职位变动增加了30%,主要在中层及以上员工中。报告强调需要通过提供可见性、支持和发展机会来创建一个包容的流动文化。此外,文章还提到了内部招聘的广泛好处,如节省成本和增强公司文化。成功的内部流动技能包括协作、适应性和包容性领导。 内部职位转换 —— 当一名员工在同一家公司内部转到一个新职位 —— 正在显著增长,自2021年以来增长了30%,根据LinkedIn在2月22日发布的结果。 增长的一个重要原因是,LinkedIn的高级内容经理Greg Lewis在一篇博客中指出,内部职位转换是一种未被充分利用的补充空缺职位的方法,同时也是一个强大的工具,用于增加员工保留率并保持员工的积极参与。然而,这种转换似乎主要局限于中级员工及以上级别:比起普通员工,管理层及更高级别的员工进行内部职位转换的可能性要高出两倍。 人力资源专家可以通过“创建更加包容和平等的内部职位转换文化”来帮助缩小这一差距,Lewis提出。这包括为内部职位空缺提供更多可见性和支持,鼓励跨功能合作和指导,寻找和培养内部转移者倾向于发展的技能,如多样性与包容性(diversity and inclusion)、情感智力(emotional intelligence)和变革管理(change management)。 根据人才获取公司Symphony Talent的二月份报告,近半数的人力资源专业人员表示,建立人才管道是他们2024年的首要目标。内部招聘可以成为这一管道的一部分,带来如节约成本和增加员工留存等积极结果,其他研究也已表明这一点。 过去几年这种做法有所起伏,2020年疫情期间达到高峰,The Josh Bersin Company之前的研究揭示了这一点。那时,公司利用现有员工填补劳动力缺口,并发现内部招聘有助于提高公司文化、提升员工保留率、降低成本和缩短招聘时间。 据LinkedIn称,内部人员流动率在2021年有所下降,但在2022年开始回升,并持续到次年。 正确的策略能使每个人受益,早期的LinkedIn研究显示。职业发展机会被员工视为留在公司的顶级原因之一,一位LinkedIn高管表示。那些提供个性化职业发展并帮助员工建立技能的组织,其内部职位转换率比缺乏培训的公司高出15%。 在这份报告中,LinkedIn比较了成员在开始新职位前12个月加到他们个人资料中的技能。结果显示,与离开公司的同事相比,内部转移者更有可能发展特定技能。 例如,内部转移者发展多样性与包容性技能的可能性几乎高出50%;发展情感智力技能的可能性高出27%;发展变革管理技能的可能性高出21%。其他显著的技能包括利益相关者参与(超过14%)和敏捷项目管理(12%)。 “最能预示内部职位转换者的技能主要围绕合作、包容和适应性 —— 能够与同事建立联系、让每个人感受到包容,并在组织层面推动变革,”LinkedIn表示。
    Cybersecurity
    2024年03月02日
  • Cybersecurity
    如何在2024年管理第三方风险:Venminder 的最新白皮书揭示了一切(白皮书) 肯塔基州伊丽莎白镇,Feb.2,2024   Venminder 是用于管理第三方风险管理计划的领先综合统一平台,发布了第八份年度“第三方风险管理状况”白皮书。该白皮书深入探讨了当今组织如何处理第三方风险,涵盖了当前实践、挑战、合规驱动因素和优势等关键方面。 第三方风险管理不是一种静态的实践,而是不断适应新的风险和监管要求的动态实践。过去的一年,世界面临前所未有的事件和挑战,例如三家地区银行的倒闭、各种监管变化、创纪录的数据泄露数量、人工智能的兴起及其风险等等,这些都表明制定有效的第三方风险管理计划是多么重要。这些发展甚至对最有经验的第三方风险管理专业人员提出了挑战,要求他们重新评估其计划的范围和有效性。 对于各种规模和行业的组织来说,第三方风险管理正变得越来越紧迫和重要。组织需要持续识别、评估、管理和监控第三方风险,现在可以利用Venminder的2024年白皮书将其绩效与同行进行比较。 Venminder首席执行官James Hyde表示:“第三方风险管理为组织带来了显著的好处,并帮助他们完善其治理、风险和合规管理计划。“通过阅读和审查我们调查中捕获的当前第三方风险管理环境和流程的数据、趋势和最佳实践,您可以深入了解您的组织与同行的对比情况,并用它来指导您今年及以后的计划改进。” 第三方风险管理状况调查揭示了以下主要发现: 第三方风险管理计划的成熟度总体上正在提高,71%的受访者表示他们已经完全制定了政策/计划(其中38%仍在进一步改进),17%的受访者表示他们已经制定了政策/计划,但流程尚未完全实施。 第三方风险管理活动被认为是有价值的,96%的受访者认为他们有积极的投资回报。 第三方风险管理计划在资源有限的情况下运作,58%的受访者拥有不超过2名专职员工。 软件工具被广泛用于促进供应商风险管理,77%的受访者依赖它们。 网络安全是第三方风险管理的主要关注点和挑战,51%的受访者在过去一年中经历过第三方网络安全事件。 人工智能给第三方风险管理计划带来了新的重大风险,需要更多的关注和监督。 第三方风险管理计划面临着越来越大的改进压力,68%的受访者感受到了这一点,其中34%的受访者将其归因于监管机构。 第三方风险管理的最大障碍是从供应商处获取正确的文档、拥有足够的内部资源以及有效地管理时间。 风险情报工具在监控第三方、第四方和第 n 方方面变得越来越流行,从而增强了可见性和控制力。 64%的受访者已经定义了衡量其第三方风险管理计划的健康状况、稳定性和有效性的指标。 三分之一的受访组织(37%)在过去一年中没有在审计或考试中发现任何结果,这表明其合规性和绩效水平很高,而28%的组织发现有需要改进的地方,17%的组织对其第三方风险管理没有反馈。 完整的调查结果可在Venminder的网站上免费下载,请点击这里。 Source Venminder
    Cybersecurity
    2024年02月05日
  • Cybersecurity
    警惕升级:英国招聘诈骗案激增,全球招聘诈骗都不少 英国伦敦警察局的最新数据显示,向行动欺诈部门报告招聘诈骗案件的人数增加了超过八倍,过去一年通过招聘诈骗短信和WhatsApp信息盗取的金额从2万英镑跃升至近100万英镑。然而,伦敦警察局临时指挥官奥利弗·肖表示,这可能只是“冰山一角”,因为此类欺诈行为“极其被低报”。 招聘诈骗涉及犯罪分子以额外工作或收入的承诺吸引受害者,然后骗取他们的银行详情或控制他们的手机来盗取钱款。 18岁的贝拉·贝特顿(Bella Betterton)来自德文郡,她上了招聘诈骗的当,被骗走了3000英镑。诈骗分子首先通过WhatsApp信息和电话与她联系。诈骗分子通过电话进行了一次贝拉以为是真实的面试,面试内容是关于远程工作,包括使用他们的钱购买和评估产品。犯罪分子通过数十条信息和电话与贝拉沟通,直到他们在她的手机上安装了她怀疑是恶意软件的东西,从而进行了四笔大额的信用卡支付,支付给了一个不明的加密货币交易所。诈骗分子可能会要求支付少量的预付款,他们声称这些款项将在受害者的第一份工资中报销,用于支付正当的费用——如DBS检查、安全检查和小型设备。 金斯顿大学的犯罪学家、也是欺诈者使用的语言和短语专家的伊丽莎白·卡特博士说,招聘诈骗是一种高数量、多阶段的犯罪。“这些短信只会对一部分人有意义……但这是一个数量游戏。犯罪分子只需要少数人回应,受害者就会自行筛选。 “欺诈者会让受害者经历几个阶段,这些阶段是你通常会期望一个人力资源部门会问的——姓名、地址、出生日期、银行详情。 “所有这些信息本身就是有价值的数据,所以即使这个案件没有变成欺诈,这些数据也是有价值的,可以在暗网上出售。” 许多人员招聘公司已经加入了Jobsaware计划,这是执法机关和英国政府为应对这一问题而成立的特别工作组的一部分。该计划是在大流行期间招聘诈骗案件增加后推出的。到目前为止,近500家英国招聘公司向其候选人推广JobsAware,每天有超过50万个在线职位广告展示JobsAware的标志。 The rise in recruitment scams in the UK, as reported by the City of London Police, is a concerning trend that highlights the evolving nature of online fraud. The statistics indicate a significant increase in these scams, with an eightfold rise in reports to Action Fraud and the amount of money stolen jumping from £20,000 to nearly £1 million in just one year. This dramatic escalation underscores the seriousness and growing sophistication of these scams. Recruitment scams typically involve criminals offering fake job opportunities to lure individuals. They use the promise of work or extra income to deceive victims into providing bank details or gaining access to their phones, often leading to substantial financial losses. The case of 18-year-old Bella Betterton from Devon is a poignant example. She was deceived through WhatsApp messages and phone calls, believing she was participating in a legitimate job interview. The scammers groomed her with consistent communication before presumably installing malware on her phone, which resulted in significant financial loss. The complexity of these scams is highlighted by Dr. Elisabeth Carter, a criminologist at Kingston University. She points out that recruitment scams are high-volume, multi-stage crimes, employing specific language and tactics to manipulate victims. By mimicking the processes of legitimate HR departments, fraudsters collect valuable personal data, which can be used for further fraud or sold on the dark web. The response to this growing threat includes initiatives like the Jobsaware scheme, a collaboration between law enforcement, the UK government, and staffing firms. This program aims to combat recruitment scams, especially following their increase during the pandemic. Nearly 500 UK recruiters are participating in promoting JobsAware to their candidates, and more than half a million online job adverts display the JobsAware logo daily, demonstrating the scale of efforts to raise awareness and protect job seekers. This situation serves as a stark reminder of the need for vigilance in the digital age, especially when seeking employment opportunities online. Individuals must be cautious and verify the legitimacy of job offers and recruiters. Additionally, this highlights the importance of ongoing efforts by authorities, organizations, and the public in combating such fraudulent activities.
    Cybersecurity
    2024年01月15日