There was an interesting article published about Bing’s AI chat bot using a LLM (Large Language Model) this weekend in the New York Times.
A clear recommendation for reading:
Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled – The New York Times
The German BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) and TÜV-Verband conducted a survey among German companies to assess the status of cybersecurity in the private sector. Some worrying results from my point of view are: 🌐 Link to the study: BSI – Presse – TÜV-Studie zur Cybersicherheit der deutschen Wirtschaft: Bedrohungslage steigt, Unternehmen wiegen sich…
Getting ready for my talk at Verband Deutscher Eisenbahn-Ingenieure e.V. (VDEI) Fachtagung Cybersecurity 2022. I’ll be speaking about Security for Safety and will be sharing a couple of lessons learned and best practices from real world projects at ICS – Informatik Consulting Systems.
German Federal Office For Information Security (BSI) now officially warns to use anti-virus software of the russian manuafacturer Kaspersky. BSI – FAQ – Kaspersky
Are the bad guys using AI? They might! AI tools like ChatGPT or DALL-E-2 are currently widely tested out on the internet – both for the good as well as for the bad. From my point of view, we are at the very beginning of an interesting development, which will unfold over the next couple…
This is actually a very interesting attack vector described in this post:As an attacker place a Google Ad for a keyword, which will be mapped to accidentally pasted unprotected Dropbox links (I’m sure, this will also work with other cloud providers) and see what you will get… LinkedIn Post
Despite the Easter holidays, a lot of incredible work was done over the weekend by many researchers analysing the details of the xz-utils backdoor. Some examples are: As the situation unfolds, it is becoming clear that this was not just one of the most sophisticated technical (perhaps the most sophisticated) attempts to introduce a backdoor…