Security News

AI-Assisted Attacks Top Cyber Threat For Third Consecutive Quarter, Gartner Finds
2024-11-06 22:18

AI-enhanced malicious attacks are a top concern for 80% of executives, and for good reason, as there is a lot of evidence that bad actors are exploiting the technology.

Microsoft Notepad to get AI-powered rewriting tool on Windows 11
2024-11-06 20:53

Microsoft has started testing AI-powered Notepad text rewriting and Paint image generation tools four decades after the two programs were released in the 1980s. [...]

AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
2024-11-05 12:08

I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning, AIs finding...

Google claims Big Sleep 'first' AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed
2024-11-05 06:38

You snooze, you lose, er, win Google claims one of its AI models is the first of its kind to spot a memory safety vulnerability in the wild – specifically an exploitable stack buffer underflow in...

AI learning mechanisms may lead to increase in codebase leaks
2024-11-05 04:00

The proliferation of non-human identities and the complexity of modern application architectures has created significant security challenges, particularly in managing sensitive credentials,...

How AI Is Changing the Cloud Security and Risk Equation
2024-11-04 18:06

Discover how AI amplifies cloud security risks and how to mitigate them, with insights from Tenable’s Liat Hayun on managing data sensitivity, misconfigurations, and over-privileged access.

Critical Flaws in Ollama AI Framework Could Enable DoS, Model Theft, and Poisoning
2024-11-04 14:08

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could be exploited by a malicious actor to perform various actions, including...

Google’s AI Tool Big Sleep Finds Zero-Day Vulnerability in SQLite Database Engine
2024-11-04 10:04

Google said it discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the SQLite open-source database engine using its large language model (LLM) assisted framework called Big Sleep (formerly Project Naptime)....

Strong privacy laws boost confidence in sharing information with AI
2024-11-04 04:00

53% of consumers report being aware of their national privacy laws, a 17-percentage point increase compared to 2019, according to Cisco. Informed consumers are also much more likely to feel their...

Inside Iran’s Cyber Playbook: AI, Fake Hosting, and Psychological Warfare
2024-11-01 14:09

U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity agencies have published a new advisory attributing an Iranian cyber group to targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics and compromising a French commercial dynamic display...