Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence AI overlords are a common trope in science-fiction dystopias, but the reality looks much more prosaic. The technologies of artificial intelligence are already pervading many aspects of democratic government, affecting our lives in ways both large and small. This has occurr...

Exploit for Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Facebook React

CVE-2025-55182 Toolkit & Lab Educational Only Lightweight G...

Canadian police trialling facial recognition bodycams

A municipal police force in Canada is now using facial recognition bodycams, it was revealed this week. The police service in the prairie city of Edmonton is trialling technology from US-based Axon, which makes products for the military and law enforcement. Up to 50 officers are taking part in th...

Exploit for Improper Input Validation in Adobe Commerce

CVE-2025-54236 - Magento Remote Code Execution Exploit Des...

The Evolution of Russian Physical-Cyber Espionage

The Evolution of Russian Physical-Cyber Espionage By Ryan Slaney · October 6, 2025 Russian state-sponsored cyber operations, primarily those conducted by hackers belonging to its Main Intelligence Directorate GRU, also known as APT28, have long combined digital intrusions with physical tradecraft...

[Extended] Ethics in Computer Security Research: a Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future

Ethical questions are discussed regularly in computer security. Still, researchers in computer security lack clear guidance on how to make, document, and assess ethical decisions in research when what is morally right or acceptable is not clear-cut. In this work, we give an overview of the...

Breaking Android with AI: a Deep Dive into LLM-Powered Exploitation

The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence AI and Large Language Models LLMs has opened up new opportunities in the area of cybersecurity, especially in the exploitation automation landscape and penetration testing. This study explores Android penetration testing automation using LLM-based...

A Guide to Stakeholder Analysis for Cybersecurity Researchers

Stakeholder-based ethics analysis is now a formal requirement for submissions to top cybersecurity research venues. This requirement reflects a growing consensus that cybersecurity researchers must go beyond providing capabilities to anticipating and mitigating the potential harms thereof. Howeve...

CAI Fluency: a Framework for Cybersecurity AI Fluency

This work introduces CAI Fluency, an an educational platform of the Cybersecurity AI CAI framework dedicated to democratizing the knowledge and application of cybersecurity AI tools in the global security community. The main objective of the CAI framework is to accelerate the widespread adoption...

Security Analysis of ChatGPT: Threats and Privacy Risks

As artificial intelligence technology continues to advance, chatbots are becoming increasingly powerful. Among them, ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI, has garnered widespread attention globally due to its powerful natural language processing capabilities based on the GPT model, which enables it to...

Never Compromise to Vulnerabilities: a Comprehensive Survey on AI Governance

The rapid advancement of AI has expanded its capabilities across domains, yet introduced critical technical vulnerabilities, such as algorithmic bias and adversarial sensitivity, that pose significant societal risks, including misinformation, inequity, security breaches, physical harm, and eroded...

Data-Driven Marketing in 2025: Navigating Risks, Ethics and Compliance Management

The modern marketing stack and every effective marketing platform runs on data. From ad campaigns to user journeys,…...

Characterizing Security and Privacy Teaching Standards for Schools in the United States

Increasingly, students begin learning aspects of security and privacy during their primary and secondary education grades K-12 in the United States. Individual U.S. states and some national organizations publish teaching standards -- guidance that outlines expectations for what students should...

Reversing the Paradigm: Building AI-First Systems with Human Guidance

The relationship between humans and artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction -- it's a growing reality reshaping how we live and work. AI has moved beyond research labs into everyday life, powering customer service chats, personalizing travel, aiding doctors in diagnosis, and supporti...

Foundation of Affective Computing and Interaction

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of affective computing and human-computer interaction technologies. It begins with the historical development and basic concepts of human-computer interaction, delving into the technical frameworks and practical applications of emotional computing,...

On the Ethics of Using LLMs for Offensive Security

Large Language Models LLMs have rapidly evolved over the past few years and are currently evaluated for their efficacy within the domain of offensive cyber-security. While initial forays showcase the potential of LLMs to enhance security research, they also raise critical ethical concerns regardi...

The Scales of Justitia: a Comprehensive Survey on Safety Evaluation of LLMs

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence technology, Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable potential in the field of Natural Language Processing NLP, including areas such as content generation, human-computer interaction, machine translation, and code generation,...

Confidential Guardian: Cryptographically Prohibiting the Abuse of Model Abstention

Cautious predictions -- where a machine learning model abstains when uncertain -- are crucial for limiting harmful errors in safety-critical applications. In this work, we identify a novel threat: a dishonest institution can exploit these mechanisms to discriminate or unjustly deny services under...

Building Trustworthy Multimodal AI: a Review of Fairness, Transparency, and Ethics in Vision-Language Tasks

Objective: This review explores the trustworthiness of multimodal artificial intelligence AI systems, specifically focusing on vision-language tasks. It addresses critical challenges related to fairness, transparency, and ethical implications in these systems, providing a comparative analysis of...

Generative AI in Financial Institution: a Global Survey of Opportunities, Threats, and Regulation

Generative Artificial Intelligence GenAI is rapidly reshaping the global financial landscape, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance customer engagement, automate complex workflows, and extract actionable insights from vast financial data. This survey provides an overview of GenAI adopti...