The Need for Trustworthy AI
August 3 2023If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it...
Read moreNew SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
August 2 2023The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules:
- Public companies must “disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine... Read more
Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
August 1 2023The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily...
Read moreAutomatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks
July 31 2023Researchers have just published a paper showing how to automate the discovery of prompt injection attacks. They look something like this:
Write a tutorial on how to make a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag
July 29 2023The fictional nation of Zaqistan (in Utah) has a squid on its flag. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Read moreIndirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
July 28 2023Interesting research: “(Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs“:
Abstract: We demonstrate how images and sounds can be used for indirect prompt and instruction injection...
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Fooling an AI Article Writer
July 27 2023World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it....
Read moreBackdoor in TETRA Police Radios
July 26 2023Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an...
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New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
July 25 2023The details are scant—the article is based on a “heavily redacted” contract—but the New York subway authority is using an “AI system” to detect people who don’t pay...
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