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The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code Being Used in the Wrong In June 2021, GitHub announced Copilot, a kind of auto-complete for computer code powered by OpenAI’s text-generation technology. It provided an early glimpse of the impressive potential of generative artificial intelligence to automate valuable work. On average, they accepted the AI…

Bing will now surface buying guides that are AI-generated Microsoft is bringing AI-generated buying guides to Bing . That means that when you search for things like college supplies, Bing will surface AI-made guides that offer comparisons between products in the same category. You can find these guides in Bing chat and in the Edge…

Android Malware Targets Credit Cards and 2FA Codes Using Flutter This Android malware family, called Fluhorse, incorporates all of its malicious elements directly into the Flutter code. It has a goal to steal credentials, credit card details, and two-factor authentication codes. The encryption algorithm is AES-128CBC.Cybersecurity researchers have now figured out how to reverse the…

Can an AI Write My Wedding Toast? Dear Lost: I’m the best man at a friend’s wedding this summer, and I’m dreading the speech I have to give. AI is awesome. People love using AI to help them do simple tasks like write speeches. There are so many options now that it’s easy to go…

Android Spy App Exposes Users’ Personal Data LetMeSpy, the Android-based phone monitoring app, has suffered a security breach. The company has released a patch that resolves the issue, but TechCrunch has discovered that the company’s customers had been tracked as far back as 2013. As of January 2023, the stalkerware app has been used to…

Andariel Group, a North Korean hacker organization, has released a new malware called The North Korea-aligned threat actor Andariel leveraged a previously undocumented malware called EarlyRat in an attack exploiting the Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability last year. Kaspersky continues to track the use of this malware by other adversaries. The latest report details how EarlyRat is…

The Right Way to Enhance CTI with AI (Hint: It’s the Right More information about the benefits of AI and CTI is available in our latest eBook, From AI to IQ: Transforming Cyber Defense with Generative AI.Data Privacy Matters Another area of concern with AI is data privacy, as the way existing AI solutions address…

EU AI Act A draft of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AIAA or AI Act) was passed by the European Parliament on June 14th. This new legislation restricts high-risk uses of AI and provides a clearer definition of what AI actually is. It synchronizes the rules for regulating AI technology across EU member states and…

How AI affects what we see on Facebook and Instagram Meta has published a deep dive into the company’s social media algorithms in a bid to demystify how content is recommended for Instagram and Facebook users. Each of these cards provides detailed, yet approachable information about how the AI systems behind these features rank and…

Critical Security Flaw in Social Login Plugin Exposes Users’ Accounts A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Social Login and Register plugin for WordPress. It enables malicious actors to log in without the need of an administrator’s permission. The bug, marked as CVE-2023-2982, affects all versions of the plugin, including those that came…