NEWS
WHO’s ‘virtual health worker’ designed by
Soul Machines
The World Health Organization’s first virtual health worker
has been designed by San Francisco and New Zealand-based
company, Soul Machines.
The WHO launched Florence as a ‘trusted source of information’,
designed to help the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users quit.
It uses Artificial Intelligence to dispel myths on both
COVID-19 and smoking.
“She’s a CGI creation just as we see in the movies, but what’s
unique about Florence and other digital people like her is she is
autonomously animated by a digital brain. You’re having a face-toface
interaction with a digital person.
“One of the things we know from our day-to-day lives is we
learn to build relationships, we learn to build trust, with face-toface
interactions.”
The organization said quitting
smoking is more important than
ever as evidence reveals that
smokers are more vulnerable than
non-smokers to developing a severe
case of COVID-19.
The technology was developed by
Soul Machines which says the way it
is designed means every interaction
is unique. “We would call Florence a
digital person,” said Greg Cross, Co-
Founder of Soul Machines.
KnowBe4 launches browser password
inspector tool
The new Browser Password Inspector
inspects all available user machines on an
organisation’s network and identifies their
at-risk users by scanning and searching for
passwords saved in the browser.
Password Browser Inspector also checks
to see if users are using known weak
passwords, old passwords or using the same
password across multiple sites.
KnowBe4, a Florida-based provider of one
of the world’s largest security awareness
training and simulated phishing platforms,
has announced it has launched a new,
complimentary tool called the Browser
Password Inspector to help better protect
organisations from ransomware attacks,
credential theft and account takeovers.
The issue with saving passwords in
browsers is that many users are reusing
the same passwords for work and personal
accounts, which puts organisations at a
higher risk. The 2018 Global Password
Security Report found that 50% of users
have the same passwords for both personal
and work accounts.
Browser Password Inspector then
generates a detailed but secure report on
the user accounts affected to show the
organisation’s vulnerability to credential
theft, account takeovers, falling victim
to a data breach or a network-wide
ransomware infection.
Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4, said:
“This new tool will help you to stop the
bad guys from finding and dumping
passwords that they find in employees’
web browsers.”
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