Some believe that the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence are beginning to emerge quickly. One recent mixed-case consequence of relying on AI resulted in dissention. This happened after a researcher was involved with an interesting initiative to try and get several AI companies in talking to each other and agree on ways to cooperate; all this with the goal of possibly benefiting both the AI industry and overall society. Below is an opinion piece regarding Anthropic’s Claude reply
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A novel Microsoft Copilot attack that researchers named "SearchLeak" would have enabled an attacker to silently exfiltrate user files, including emails, meeting notes, OneDrive files, SharePoint documents, and other business files the user has access to. Recently, Varonis Threat Labs detailed the three-stage vulnerability, which works as a relatively unknown subset of indirect prompt-injection attacks called parameter-to-prompt injection (P2P), which needs to be on defender radar screens.[1]
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You probably associate information security with desktops and laptops, business computers, and servers in datacenters. Too often, we assume that our mobile devices are inherently more secure, probably because of how we interact with them. But last week’s security news includes warnings for iPhone and Android users. Just a reminder that no one is safe.
First, if you haven’t updated iOS, it’s time to do so. Last week, it was reported that iPhone users running iOS 18.4 to 18.7 are vulnerable to
Microsoft was anxious to put generative AI at the heart of its systems. Ask a question about an upcoming meeting, and the company’s Copilot AI system can pull answers from your emails, Teams chats, and files, a potential productivity boon. However, these exact processes can also be abused by hackers. On 08 August 2024, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researcher Michael Bargury demonstrated five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot, which runs on its Microsoft 365 apps, such
Data security continues to cause angst and thus the US House of Representatives has reportedly banned congressional staffers from using Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, Copilot. This comes just weeks after Microsoft announced the official public release of AI Copilot on 14 March 2024.
The ban, implemented by the House’s Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor, reportedly stems from concerns about potential data leakage. According to Axios, Szpindor’s office believes AI Copilot “poses a
