Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the Munich Security Conference MSC 2024 in Munich, Germany, on Friday, February 16, 2024. I’m giving a keynote on “AI and Trust” at Generative AI, Free Speech, & Public Discourse. The symposium will be held at...

Microsoft, OpenAI Warn of Nation-State Hackers Weaponizing AI for Cyber Attacks

Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs to complement their ongoing cyber attack operations. The findings come from a report published by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, both ...

‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare

Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren’t transparent, new research from Mozilla says...

Global Cybersecurity Trends: AI, Geopolitical Risks, and Zero Trust

Trend Micro’s Chief Technology Strategy Officer discusses the biggest cybersecurity trends and what to watch for in 2024...

This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, tomorrow is Valentine's day, and I love Spring. So, it's a very exciting thing indeed to be able to share this week's jam-packed roundup. Let's dive right into it! Spring Tools 4.21.1 is now available In the latest...

Ransomware review: February 2024

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In this report, "known attacks" are those where the victim did not pay a ransom. This provides the best overall picture of...

AI-generated voices in robocalls are illegal, rules FCC

The Federal Communications Commission FCC has announced that calls made with voices generated with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI will be considered “artificial” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act TCPA. Effective immediately, that makes robocalls that implement voice cloning...

HackerOne: LLM03: Training Data Poisoning via ASCII decoding

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London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show...

What Generative AI Means for Cybersecurity in 2024

After a full year of life with ChatGPT cybersecurity experts have a clearer sense of how criminals are using generative AI to enhance attacks - learn what generative AI means for cybersecurity in 2024...

What Generative AI Means for Cybersecurity in 2024

After a full year of life with ChatGPT cybersecurity experts have a clearer sense of how criminals are using generative AI to enhance attacks - learn what generative AI means for cybersecurity in 2024...

Spring Tips: Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs like the one behind ChatGPT and tools to support the RAG retrieval augmented generation pipeline. ai springboot artificialintelligence java graalvm cloud java21 postgresq...

5 Insights from the Latest Cybersecurity Trends Research

Rapid7 is committed to promoting research that identifies the latest cybersecurity trends so that organizations can leverage these insights and create programs that make sense for the modern SOC. To that end, we’ve singled out five quick insights security professionals and stakeholders should...

Wiz AI-SPM extends support to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service models

Secure Microsoft Azure AI Services, including Azure OpenAI, with Wiz AI-SPM providing full visibility into AI pipelines and risks on the Wiz Security Graph...

Announcing TotalCloud™ 2.0 with TruRisk™ Insights: The Future of Cloud and SaaS Security

Rapid cloud and SaaS adoption is driving digital transformation thats reshaping business agility and scalability, making cloud and SaaS security more critical than ever. Recognizing this shift, in November 2022, Qualys launched TotalCloud – an AI-powered cloud-native application protection platfo...

Teaching LLMs to Be Deceptive

Interesting research: "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training": Abstract: Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when given th...

This Week in Spring - February 6th

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it! in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC 1 Billion Row Challenge...

Privacy information management system considerations for ISO 42001

Organizations that want to pursue ISO 42001 certification and have an existing ISO management system in place need to consider how to integrate an AI management system with their current management system to ensure common objectives and obligations are maintained. The following blog post explores...

Allegro AI ClearML path traversal vulnerability

A path traversal vulnerability in versions 1.4.0 to 1.14.1 of the client SDK of Allegro AI’s ClearML platform enables a maliciously uploaded dataset to write local or remote files to an arbitrary location on an end user’s system when interacted with...

GHSA-M95H-P4GG-WFW3 Allegro AI ClearML path traversal vulnerability

A path traversal vulnerability in versions 1.4.0 to 1.14.1 of the client SDK of Allegro AI’s ClearML platform enables a maliciously uploaded dataset to write local or remote files to an arbitrary location on an end user’s system when interacted with...