Schneier on Security (49 minutes ago)
Two weeks ago, I attended the [un]prompted AI security conference in San Francisco. It was an excellent event: three days of very dense talks about all aspects of AI security. (My talk was about integrous AI, and I will post it when it is online.) AI security can be divided into three broad topics.
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Hackers compromised an external cloud service used by the shopping platform and may have stolen personal information from it.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Saturday that his personal data had been disseminated on the dark web.
Ukrainian law enforcement arrested four suspects in a case involving the theft of more than €4.3 million using a network of cryptocurrency investment scam call centers.
The initial exploitation attempts are attributed to botnets and crypto miners, but other threat actors are expected to follow suit.
Stolen sysadmin credentials enabled a follow-on attack on the campus management system
The login systems behind two car brands’ mobile apps could be taken over completely, two security researchers found, allowing them to access any customer’s account and, for an owner with a connected car, unlock the doors and start the engine.
News story: “Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic ‘squid’ unlike anything ever seen.” Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming’s ancient seas 160 million years ago.
This is fascinating: The video describes a technique that can reveal where an otherwise unidentifiable recording was made by analyzing its audio for the faint sounds of passing aircraft. The technique is both fascinating and frightening.
In both a 2021 essay and my 2022 book, A Hacker’s Mind, I talk about AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system. Here’s some demonstrations of this from Germany: Legal systems encode the foundations of social order in natural language.
A comment: 3% of ‘critical’ software security bugs, in all of recorded history, have been found in the last month. This is on pace to find another ~100,000 bugs this year alone, adding ~26% more vulnerabilities to the all time total Do you realize how fucking insane that is? Yes.
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