Category: AI in news
It is in this spirit of collaboration, and with all the respect in the world for the incident responders who have had to deal with Log4Shell, that we want to use this event to reflect a bit on the present and immediate future of security as both an industry and a body of knowledge. In…
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It’s been said before—long before. It’s the 18th-century philosopher Voltaire who gets credit for the timeless proverb “Perfect is the enemy of good.” But here we are, centuries later, and it’s still relevant—in this case to modern software development. If you try to make software perfect, not only will you fail at that, but you’ll…
Read MoreBots are not new. Attackers have used bots to achieve scalability in a variety of attack techniques for decades, and defenders have been fighting bots, to varying degrees of success, for just as long. However, two events in 2022—the prolonged acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, with its attendant discussion about exactly how much of…
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“You are what you eat” applies figuratively to humans. But it applies literally to the large language models (LLM) that power generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. They really are what they eat. If the massive datasets fed to LLMs from websites, forums, repositories, and open-source projects are poisoned with bias, errors, propaganda, and other junk,…
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Check out why the Cyber Safety Review Board has concluded that the Microsoft Exchange Online breach “should never have occurred.” Plus, warnings about the supply chain attack against the XZ Utils open source utility are flying. In addition, a report says ransomware attacks surged in February. And the U.S. government issues a comprehensive AI usage…
Read MoreManaging privacy online is a constant balancing act. On the one hand, we need to provide a certain amount of our personal information to authenticate ourselves. In select environments, we also want to provide some additional information to our friends, family, and peers. On the other hand, we want to withhold that information from those…
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Offerings will increase by as much as 17 percent and as little as 9 percent. Microsoft plans to increase prices for a variety of Dynamics 365 offerings on Oct. 1 by an average of 12 percent or $17 per user or per device per month as the vendor adds more generative artificial intelligence functionality and…
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Screenshots for Malwarebytes for Mac BleepingComputer Review: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac is a free security tool that allows you to scan your computer for common macOS infections and remove them. While focusing on adware infections, Malwarebytes for Mac will also scan for other known infections that are being released for the macOS operaitng system. With…
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MITRE defines NERVE as “an unclassified collaborative network that provides storage, computing, and networking resources.” However, the company’s CEO Providakes clarified that “there is no indication that MITRE’s core enterprise network or partners’ systems were affected by this incident.” Upon detection of the breach, the company said it took swift and comprehensive action including “taking…
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Microsoft addresses 147 CVEs in its April 2024 Patch Tuesday release with three critical vulnerabilities and no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Update April 10: The blog has been updated to include reference to exploitation for CVE-2024-29988 and the addition of CVE-2024-26234. View Change Log Microsoft patched 147 CVEs in its April 2024 Patch Tuesday…
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