WhatsAI: Transforming Meta Ray-Bans into an Extensible Generative AI Platform for Accessibility

Multi-modal generative AI models integrated into wearable devices have shown significant promise in enhancing the accessibility of visual information for blind or visually impaired BVI individuals, as evidenced by the rapid uptake of Meta Ray-Bans among BVI users. However, the proprietary nature ...

CVE-2024-47762 Unexpected visibility of environment variable configurations in @backstage/plugin-app-backend

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Configuration supplied through APPCONFIG environment variables, for example APPCONFIGbackendlistenport=7007, where unexpectedly ignoring the visibility defined in configuration schema. This occurred even if the configuration schema...

CVE-2024-45816

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. When using the AWS S3 or GCS storage provider for TechDocs it is possible to access content in the entire storage bucket. This can leak contents of the bucket that are not intended to be accessible, as well as bypass permission checks...

New Framework Released to Protect Machine Learning Systems From Adversarial Attacks

Microsoft, in collaboration with MITRE, IBM, NVIDIA, and Bosch, has released a new open framework that aims to help security analysts detect, respond to, and remediate adversarial attacks against machine learning ML systems. Called the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, the initiative is an attempt to...