New research: “Deception abilities emerged in large language models“:
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with human communication and everyday life....
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Interesting research: “Hyperlink Hijacking: Exploiting Erroneous URL Links to Phantom Domains“:
Abstract: Web users often follow hyperlinks hastily, expecting them to be correctly programmed. However, it is possible those...
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Peru has set a lower squid quota for 2024. The article says “giant squid,” but that seems wrong. We don’t eat those. As usual, you can also use this squid...
Read moreThis week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross Anderson,
The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet:
According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have...
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The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.
Read moreMicrosoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren’t about how hackers were...
Read moreInteresting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password.
Grand and Bruno spent months reverse engineering the version of...
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Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control...
Read moreA piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review:
Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and...
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