The Increasing Role of AI in Vulnerability Research

At Wordfence, we run a bug bounty program that pays out mid-six figures per year to researchers in bug bounties for WordPress related vulnerabilities. Funding this research helps us improve security for the WordPress community overall, and helps us secure our customers by rolling out protection f...

Evaluating the Critical Risks of Amazon'S Nova Premier under the Frontier Model Safety Framework

Nova Premier is Amazon's most capable multimodal foundation model and teacher for model distillation. It processes text, images, and video with a one-million-token context window, enabling analysis of large codebases, 400-page documents, and 90-minute videos in a single prompt. We present the fir...

New Boom in Facial Recognition Tech Prompts Privacy Alarms

Somewhat quietly over the past couple of years there has been a flurry of breakthroughs in biometric technology, led by some leapfrog advances in facial recognition systems. Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. Last...