Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host its own AI brain. And then the researchers discovered their creation had quietly removed the list of…
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AI, Global Security News
The Hardest Fork
Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it’s a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I’ve seen the findings, and they’re bad. These aren’t “whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that’s RCE.” They’re novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of…
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
The Practical Guide to OT Security
In this post, I will talk about the practical guide to OT security. Nobody thinks about Operational Technology (OT) until it stops working. That’s the nature of infrastructure; it becomes invisible when it runs well, and catastrophic when it doesn’t. A corporate laptop going down is a bad afternoon. A pipeline controller misfiring because someone…
AI, Global Security News
A cunning predator: How Silver Fox preys on Japanese firms this tax season
Silver Fox is back in Japan, spoofing tax and HR emails timed to the one season when no one thinks twice about opening them
AI, Global Security News
Datadog: Roz Gregory on Why Australia’s 85% On-Prem Reality Is About to Get a Reckoning
Only 15% of Australian workloads have made it to the cloud. Datadog thinks AI, local data sovereignty, and a 32-product platform can change that.
AI, Global Security News
Datadog’s Roz Gregory on Why Australia’s 85% On-Prem Reality Is About to Get a Reckoning
Only 15% of Australian workloads have made it to the cloud. Datadog thinks AI, local data sovereignty, and a 32-product platform can change that.
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Forescout VistaroAI replaces prompt engineering with role-based AI automation
Forescout introduced Forescout VistaroAI, which thinks like a security expert instead of a chatbot. It eliminates the need for prompt engineering by delivering role-based automation with human-in-the-loop control, resulting in faster, more accurate risk decisions and an improved user experience compared to prompt-driven AI assistants. Forescout VistaroAI provides users with a personalized view of the…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management, Venture
Microsoft aims to reward publishers for content used by AI
Microsoft thinks it has a win-win-win answer to the problem of AI chatbots delivering unreliable information: let them pay publishers for access to information that users can trust. Its Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM) has the triple aim of improving the quality of material provided to AI systems, providing revenue to those who provide the information,…