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Microsoft raises rewards for Copilot AI bug bounty program
2025-02-10 15:00

​Microsoft announced over the weekend that it has expanded its Microsoft Copilot (AI) bug bounty program and increased payouts for moderate severity vulnerabilities. [...]

February 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: New directions for AI development
2025-02-10 06:00

The new year has started with a whirlwind of activity, and one of the hottest topics in the news is the increasing emphasis on AI. DeepSeek ad Stargate DeepSeek took the world by storm as millions...

Political campaigns struggle to balance AI personalization and voter privacy
2025-02-10 05:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Mateusz Łabuz, researcher at the IFSH, discusses the balance between using AI for personalized political campaigns and protecting voter privacy. Łabuz also...

IT Teams Worry About Increasing Cost of Cyber Tools From AI Features, While Criminals Barely Use Them
2025-02-07 19:08

Most IT leaders believe generative AI will increase the cost of their security tools, according to Sophos research. But, by the looks of cyber crime forums, hackers are barely using AI.

Microsoft Edge update adds AI-powered Scareware Blocker
2025-02-07 11:15

Microsoft Edge 133 is now rolling out globally, and it ships with several improvements, including a new scareware blocker feature. In addition, Microsoft is updating the backend of the Downloads...

AI-Powered Social Engineering: Reinvented Threats
2025-02-07 11:10

The foundations for social engineering attacks – manipulating humans – might not have changed much over the years. It’s the vectors – how these techniques are deployed – that are evolving. And...

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
2025-02-06 12:03

Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those...

The overlooked risks of poor data hygiene in AI-driven organizations
2025-02-06 05:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Oliver Friedrichs, CEO at Pangea, discusses why strong data hygiene is more important than ever as companies integrate AI into their operations. With AI-driven...

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Enterprises invest heavily in AI-powered solutions
2025-02-06 04:30

AI is driving significant changes in attack sources, with 88% of enterprises observing an increase in AI-powered bot attacks in the last two years, according to Arkose Labs. 53% said they have...

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On Generative AI Security
2025-02-05 12:03

Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in the report itself are more useful:...