How to Write a Cybersecurity Policy for Generative AI

Just months after hitting the scene, generative AI already seems like it will become a permanent addition to the enterprise IT toolbox. For CISOs, the pressure is on to roll out AI security policies and technologies that can mitigate very real and present risks...

New Research: 6% of Employees Paste Sensitive Data into GenAI tools as ChatGPT

The revolutionary technology of GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, has brought significant risks to organizations' sensitive data. But what do we really know about this risk? A new research by Browser Security company LayerX sheds light on the scope and nature of these risks. The report titled...

AI-Generated Steganography

New research suggests that AIs can produce perfectly secure steganographic images: Abstract: Steganography is the practice of encoding secret information into innocuous content in such a manner that an adversarial third party would not realize that there is hidden meaning. While this problem has...

Generative AI: What Every CISO Needs to Know

New technologies always change the security landscape, but few are likely to have the transformative power of generative AI. As platforms like ChatGPT continue to catch on, CISOs need to understand the unprecedented cybersecurity risks they bring—and what to do about them...

ChatGPT: Friend or Foe? | API Security Newsletter

Welcome to our April API newsletter, recapping some of the events of last month. This month’s topic is Generative AI tools e.g., ChatGPT in cybersecurity. It – along with API Security – dominated the 2023 RSA Conference, and there’s plenty of digital ink being spilled on the topic. Be sure to wat...

Microsoft Security highlights from RSA Conference 2023

The RSA Conference RSAC gave us an incredible opportunity to meet with security professionals from around the world, learn about exciting advances in the world of cybersecurity, and share our own security innovations. Defenders everywhere serve an important mission of protecting our world, and RS...

NSA Cybersecurity Director Says ‘Buckle Up’ for Generative AI

The security issues raised by ChatGPT and similar tech are just beginning to emerge, but Rob Joyce says it’s time to prepare for what comes next...

Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election

No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race...

Google Cloud Introduces Security AI Workbench for Faster Threat Detection and Analysis

Google's cloud division is following in the footsteps of Microsoft with the launch of Security AI Workbench that leverages generative AI models to gain better visibility into the threat landscape. Powering the cybersecurity suite is Sec-PaLM, a specialized large language model LLM that's...

How ChatGPT—and Bots Like It—Can Spread Malware

Generative AI is a tool, which means it can be used by cybercriminals, too. Here’s how to protect yourself...

See product news and on-demand sessions from Microsoft Secure

“Great speakers and very knowledgeable.” “Brilliant.” “Wonderful and very useful.” The first Microsoft Secure on March 28, 2023, was a huge success—as this attendee feedback shows. Our virtual event brought together more than 20,000 security professionals eager to learn security best practices an...

Stop! Are you putting sensitive company data into ChatGPT?

Helping to reduce costs and enhance productivity are both things that your employer will look kindly upon. But what if you use an external tool for those tasks and the tasks involve confidential data that ended up on a server outside of the control of your company? Thats a problem. As a news writ...

Deciphering Value in Generative Art: Art Basel Miami Beach to Feature Tezos Blockchain NFTs

By Owais Sultan This year, visitors to the gallery will be able to mint and claim a featured generative art NFT in real time. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Deciphering Value in Generative Art: Art Basel Miami Beach to Feature Tezos Blockchain NFTs...

Recovering Real Faces from Face-Generation ML System

New paper: "This Person Probably Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces. Abstract: Recently, generative adversarial networks GANs have achieved stunning realism, fooling even human observers. Indeed, the popular tongue-in-cheek website http://thispersondoesnotexist.com,...

Training Transformers for Cyber Security Tasks: A Case Study on Malicious URL Prediction

Highlights Perform a case study on using Transformer models to solve cyber security problems Train a Transformer model to detect malicious URLs under multiple training regimes Compare our model against other deep learning methods, and show it performs on-par with other top-scoring models Identify...

Pesidious - Malware Mutation Using Reinforcement Learning And Generative Adversarial Networks

Malware Mutation using Deep Reinforcement Learning and GANs The purpose of the tool is to use artificial intelligence to mutate a malware PE32 only sample to bypass AI powered classifiers while keeping its functionality intact. In the past, notable work has been done in this domain with researche...

Repurposing Neural Networks to Generate Synthetic Media for Information Operations

FireEye’s Data Science and Information Operations Analysis teams released this blog post to coincide with our Black Hat USA 2020 Briefing, which details how open source, pre-trained neural networks can be leveraged to generate synthetic media for malicious purposes. To summarize our presentation,...

A Deepfake Deep Dive into the Murky World of Digital Imitation

About a year ago, top deepfake artist Hao Li came to a disturbing realization: Deepfakes, i.e. the technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence AI to create fake content, is rapidly evolving. In fact, Li believes that in as soon as six months, deepfake videos will be...

A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing: PassGAN

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper JTR, enable users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to straightforward dictionary attacks, these tools can expand dictionaries using password generation rules. Although these...

The Great DOM Fuzz-off of 2017

Posted by Ivan Fratric, Project Zero Introduction Historically, DOM engines have been one of the largest sources of web browser bugs. And while in the recent years the popularity of those kinds of bugs in targeted attacks has somewhat fallen in favor of Flash which allows for cross-browser exploi...