A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more, recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025...

AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection: a Systematic Literature Review

Software vulnerabilities in source code pose serious cybersecurity risks, prompting a shift from traditional detection methods e.g., static analysis, rule-based matching to AI-driven approaches. This study presents a systematic review of software vulnerability detection SVD research from 2018 to...

OpenAI Shuts Down 10 Malicious AI Ops Linked to China, Russia, Iran, N. Korea

OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence company, has revealed it is actively fighting widespread misuse of its AI tools…...

Getty Images Sues Stability AI for Using Its Photos to Train AI Models

Getty Images accuses Stability AI of illegally using its content to train AI models in a high-stakes London…...

Hearing on the Federal Government and AI

On Thursday I testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing titled "The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." The other speakers mostly talked about how cool AI was--and sometimes about how cool their own company was--but I was asked by...

Empower Users and Protect Against GenAI Data Loss

When generative AI tools became widely available in late 2022, it wasn't just technologists who paid attention. Employees across all industries immediately recognized the potential of generative AI to boost productivity, streamline communication and accelerate work. Like so many waves of...

There'S Waldo: PCB Tamper Forensic Analysis Using Explainable AI on Impedance Signatures

The security of printed circuit boards PCBs has become increasingly vital as supply chain vulnerabilities, including tampering, present significant risks to electronic systems. While detecting tampering on a PCB is the first step for verification, forensics is also needed to identify the modified...

Hybrid Stabilization Protocol for Cross-Chain Digital Assets Using Adaptor Signatures and AI-Driven Arbitrage

Stablecoins face an unresolved trilemma of balancing decentralization, stability, and regulatory compliance. We present a hybrid stabilization protocol that combines crypto-collateralized reserves, algorithmic futures contracts, and cross-chain liquidity pools to achieve robust price adherence...

Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself

The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means everything from emails to video calls can’t be trusted...

Europol Targets Over 2,000 Extremist Links Exploiting Minors Online

Europol targets extremist online content exploiting minors, tackling rising use of AI, propaganda, and grooming across Europe’s digital platforms...

From Ideology to Financial Gain: Exploring the Convergence from Hacktivism to Cybercrime

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threat actors, the lines between ideologically driven hacktivism and financially motivated cybercriminals have become increasingly blurred. Originally fueled by political, social, or ethical causes, hacktivist groups have historically engaged i...

A Unified Framework for Human AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centers with Trusted Autonomy

This article presents a structured framework for Human-AI collaboration in Security Operations Centers SOCs, integrating AI autonomy, trust calibration, and Human-in-the-loop decision making. Existing frameworks in SOCs often focus narrowly on automation, lacking systematic structures to manage...

So, I Climbed to the Top of the Pyramid of Pain -- Now What?

This paper explores the evolving dynamics of cybersecurity in the age of advanced AI, from the perspective of the introduced Human Layer Kill Chain framework. As traditional attack models like Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain become inadequate in addressing human vulnerabilities exploited by...

Asymmetry by Design: Boosting Cyber Defenders with Differential Access to AI

As AI-enabled cyber capabilities become more advanced, we propose "differential access" as a strategy to tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defense by shaping access to these capabilities. We introduce three possible approaches that form a continuum, becoming progressively more restrictive for...

The End of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems for the AI Era

Many identity systems assign a single, static identifier to an individual for life, reused across domains like healthcare, finance, and education. These Universal Lifelong Identifiers ULIs underpin critical workflows but now pose systemic privacy risks. We take the position that ULIs are...

Security Benefits and Side Effects of Labeling AI-Generated Images

Generative artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, impacting humans' interaction with information and digital media. It is increasingly used to create deceptively realistic misinformation, so lawmakers have imposed regulations requiring the disclosure of AI-generated content. However, only...

Watermarking without Standards Is Not AI Governance

Watermarking has emerged as a leading technical proposal for attributing generative AI content and is increasingly cited in global governance frameworks. This paper argues that current implementations risk serving as symbolic compliance rather than delivering effective oversight. We identify a...

CVE-2024-52294

Khoj is a self-hostable artificial intelligence app. Prior to version 1.29.10, an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability in the updatesubscription endpoint allows any authenticated user to manipulate other users' Stripe subscriptions by simply modifying the email parameter in the...

CVE-2024-0452

The AI ChatBot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the openaifileuploadcallback function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above...

AI/ML for 5G and beyond Cybersecurity

The advancements in communication technology 5G and beyond and global connectivity Internet of Things IoT also come with new security problems that will need to be addressed in the next few years. The threats and vulnerabilities introduced by AI/ML based 5G and beyond IoT systems need to be...