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25 Cyber Orgs Sign Secure by Design AI Agreement

While basically unenforceable, the agreement is a starting point. The US, UK and 23 domestic and international cybersecurity organizations, representing more than a dozen countries, signed on to the Guidelines for Secure AI Development. The Guidelines, complementing theĀ U.S. Voluntary Commitments on Ensuring Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI, provide essential recommendations for AI system development and […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 24, 2023

Post Quantum Crypto Isn’t The Only Problem – Pre Stone Age Crypto is Also a Problem While some folks are worried about what is going to happen to encryption when quantum computing becomes real, other companies are still using antique crypto. Unfortunately, many of the companies who are using antiques are medical devices and higher […]

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When Will They Ever Learn?

The title comes from a folk song written by Pete Seeger in the 1950s, but apparently, software developers are not into folk music. In this case, security researchers are warning that developers are leaving security credentials in public repositories. They found these creds in repositories run by IBM, Digital Ocean, AWS, Gitlab, and others. The […]

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Boston’s Transit Authority – Lessons Learned, Maybe

In 2008 a group of MIT students were going to present a paper at the hacking convention Defcon on vulnerabilities in the Boston Transit (called the MBTA) fare card. The MBTA sued Defcon and the presentation was cancelled. But not before the slides for the presentation were published online. While this is an alternative to […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 14, 2023

OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]

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