USF College of Engineering Presents Rapid7 With 2024 Corporate Impact Award

This past Friday, April 19, the University of South Florida USF College of Engineering recognized individuals and organizations who have greatly impacted USF and beyond at its ninth annual Engineering Honors Awards at The Armature Works in Tampa. I had the honor of joining my colleagues, includin...

CVE-2024-1456

An S3 bucket takeover vulnerability was identified in the h2oai/h2o-3 repository. The issue involves the S3 bucket 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/h2o-training', which was found to be vulnerable to unauthorized takeover...

CVE-2024-3568

The CVE-2024-3568 issue affects the Hugging Face Transformers library, where an unsafe deserialization in TFPreTrainedModel.load_repo_checkpoint() uses pickle.load() on data from untrusted sources, enabling remote code execution via a malicious checkpoint. Documented impact targets Transformers v...

60% of small businesses are concerned about cybersecurity threats

According to a recent poll by the US Chamber of Commerce, 60% of small businesses are concerned about cybersecurity threats, and 58% are concerned about a supply chain breakdown. Not surprisingly, small businesses in the professional services sector feel significantly more concerned about...

Using LLMs to Unredact Text

Initial results in using LLMs to unredact text based on the size of the individual-word redaction rectangles. This feels like something that a specialized ML system could be trained on...

February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW

February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW. Hello everyone! In this episode, I will talk about the February updates of my open source projects, also about projects at my main job at Positive Technologies and interesting...

academy.pilottraining.ca Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3860873

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Updated: Top Cyber Actions for Securing Water Systems

Today, CISA, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI updated the joint fact sheet Top Cyber Actions for Securing Water Systems. This update includes additional resources—from American Water Works Association, the WaterISAC, and MS-ISAC—to support water...

Advice for manufacturers on the coming PSTI regulation

TL;DR PSTI: The UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Product Security Act Regulations effective from 29 April 2024 Assess how, where, why, and when you may be affected Review supply chain and in-house teams for compliance readiness Specific obligations for manufacturers,...

The New York Times vs. OpenAI: A Turning Point for Web Scraping?

In a recent blog, we covered the blurry lines of legality surrounding web scraping and how the advent of artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs further complicates the matter. Shortly after publishing the blog, a significant legal development began unfolding: The New York Times...

HackerOne: LLM03: Training Data Poisoning via ASCII decoding

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Teaching LLMs to Be Deceptive

Interesting research: "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training": Abstract: Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when given th...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Xss - ███

The parameter 'goal1Costs' was vulnerable to cross-site scripting XSS attack. The vulnerability allowed the attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code into the application, which could be executed by the users viewing the report...

How to Implement a Secure Incident Response Plan

Understanding the Basics of Secure Incident Response Plan A proactive strategy for coping with digital dangers calls for a well-planned process that can neutralize and diminish the harmful aftermath of unauthorized intrusion attempts and neglect of security principles. The primary aim of this...

ChatGPT accused of breaking data protection rules

Italys Data Protection Authority GPDP has uncovered data privacy violations related to collecting personal data and age protections after an inquiry into OpenAI’s ChatGPT. OpenAI has 30 days to respond with a defense. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence AI chatbot that can engage in conversatio...

Poisoning AI Models

New research into poisoning AI models: The researchers first trained the AI models using supervised learning and then used additional "safety training" methods, including more supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training. After this, they checked if the AI still had hidde...

This Free Discovery Tool Finds and Mitigates AI-SaaS Risks

Wing Security announced today that it now offers free discovery and a paid tier for automated control over thousands of AI and AI-powered SaaS applications. This will allow companies to better protect their intellectual property IP and data against the growing and evolving risks of AI usage. SaaS...

compliancetrainingonline.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3829899

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

NIST Warns of Security and Privacy Risks from Rapid AI System Deployment

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is calling attention to the privacy and security challenges that arise as a result of increased deployment of artificial intelligence AI systems in recent years. "These security and privacy challenges include the potential for adversari...

23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits

Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more...