AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts

I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature. Here's some interesting research on training AIs to automatically exploit smart contracts: AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we've written about before. But what is t...

Twitter Algorithmic Bias: Economic Harm through Twitter's Cropping Algorithm

Bounty Hunter Name: CyberQueenMeg About You: Megan, also known as CyberQueenMeg, is a passionate rising cybersecurity professional who is interested in programming, cybersecurity, and web development. Megan is a high school senior in a rigorous computer science program at her high school where sh...

Morgan Stanley Insider Theft Wealth Management Client Data

The financial services giant Morgan Stanley announced yesterday that that an employee had stolen sensitive information pertaining to more than 900 of the firm’s wealth-management clients. According to a company press release, the wealth management employee in question “has been terminated.”...