Augmented Software Engineering in an AI Era

Artificial Intelligence AI has been making waves in many industries, and software engineering is no exception. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way software is developed, tested, and maintained, bringing a new level of automation and efficiency to the field. However, with this...

ChatGPT: A tool for offensive cyber operations?! Not so fast!

ChatGPT: A tool for offensive cyber operations?! Not so fast! By Trellix · March 09, 2023 This story was also written by John Rodriguez. To ChatGPT or to not ChatGPT? That is a predominant question in the cyber landscape these days. It’s no surprise that AI bots have taken society by storm. On th...

The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets

After successful autonomous flight tests in December, the military is ramping up its plans to bring artificial intelligence to the skies...

Dumb Password Rules

Examples of dumb password rules. There are some pretty bad disasters out there. My worst experiences are with sites that have artificial complexity requirements that cause my personal password-generation systems to fail. Some of the systems on the list are even worse: when they fail they dont tel...

3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Stock Market Landscape (and Making It More Secure)

By Owais Sultan The AI software market has rapidly grown over the past few years. And, based on expert forecasts, its… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Stock Market Landscape and Making It More Secure...

How to Use AI in Cybersecurity and Avoid Being Trapped

The use of AI in cybersecurity is growing rapidly and is having a significant impact on threat detection, incident response, fraud detection, and vulnerability management. According to a report by Juniper Research, the use of AI for fraud detection and prevention is expected to save businesses $1...

Artificial Inflation of Interest-Bearing Balances

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact It is possible to artificially inflate one's balance, compromising the integrity of the KIB token entirely. The vulnerability arises from how the balances are updated and utilize "stale" values that were loaded into memory. As such, a self-transfer would...

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Cybersecurity

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence AI has been a game-changer in many industries, and cybersecurity is no exception. AI has revolutionized the way organizations approach security, providing new and innovative solutions for detecting and mitigating cyber threats. However, with its increasing use, i...

Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered - 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected

The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infect over 10,800 websites. "The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages which contain the AdSense ID...

Bard AI Causes Google Losses of $100 Billion

By Habiba Rashid It turns out that the intelligence in Google's newly-announced ChatGPT rival, Bard AI, is a bit artificial at this moment. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bard AI Causes Google Losses of $100 Billion...

A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03

In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet--her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs--was shared on Facebook, and it was shared by someone whose job it was to look at that photo and, by labeling the objects in it, help train an artificial intelligence system for a vacuum. Bizarre? Yes...

CVE-2022-4548

The Optimize images ALT Text & names for SEO using AI WordPress plugin before 2.0.8 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged-in admin change them via a CSRF attack...

AI and Political Lobbying

Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing. Created by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can automatically respond to written prompts in a manner that is sometimes...

The vulnerability of the Fortinet FortiNDR (Network Detection and Response) software, a hardware-based information protection solution utilizing AI and deep neural networks, stems from insufficient validation of input data. This allows attackers to exploit their privileges.

The vulnerability of the software-hardware security solution based on AI and deep neural networks DNN from Fortinet FortiNDR is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to increase their privileges...

Shennina - Automating Host Exploitation With AI

Shennina is an automated host exploitation framework. The mission of the project is to fully automate the scanning, vulnerability scanning/analysis, and exploitation using Artificial Intelligence. Shennina is integrated with Metasploit and Nmap for performing the attacks, as well as being...

Facebook Cracks Down on Spyware Vendors from U.S., China, Russia, Israel, and India

Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42 languages. The social media conglomerate also took steps to disable accounts and block infrastructure operated by spyware vendors, including in China, Russia,...

How AI-Powered Tools Can Spark Creativity and Help You Create Designs

By Owais Sultan Artificial intelligence AI tools are dramatically transforming the way we work. As AI applications get more sophisticated, the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How AI-Powered Tools Can Spark Creativity and Help You Create Designs...

New Book: A Hacker’s Mind

I have a new book coming out in February. Its about hacking. A Hackers Mind: How the Powerful Bend Societys Rules, and How to Bend them Back isnt about hacking computer systems; its about hacking more general economic, political, and social systems. It generalizes the term hack as a means of...

useAndRepay function can be used to underflow the principal debt of a credit

Lines of code Vulnerability details The function useAndRepay present in the SpigotedLine contract doesn't check that the amount is within the debt limit and can be used by a malicious lender to underflow the principal variable and manipulate the debt of a credit. Impact A malicious lender can use...

4 Major Benefits of Next Gen SIEM

By Owais Sultan Next gen SIEM is a cloud-native cyberscurity tool that utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to discover malicious activity in real-time. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 4 Major Benefits of Next Gen SIEM...