Evaluating and Preventing Security Smells in AI-Generated Ansible Code

AI coding assistants generate Infrastructure as Code, yet no work has examined whether this code meets security requirements. This matters because security smells in infrastructure code propagate to deployed systems, producing infrastructure that is insecure and untrustworthy. We evaluate 16 AI...

AI wrote my code and all I got was this broken prototype

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Vulnerabilities within software are a persistent challenge. Software engineers inadvertently tend to make the same mistakes repeatedly, with the same entries appearing in the annual top 25 list of Common Weakness Enumerations each...

The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare

In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale...