Top Eleven Infosec News Stories You Should Know 12/23/20
ACLU sues FBI to get information on the software used to unlock encrypted phones, FBI says Iran behind 'Enemies of the People,' DHS warns against using China-linked companies, much more
ACLU sues FBI to get information on the software used to unlock encrypted phones, FBI says Iran behind 'Enemies of the People,' DHS warns against using China-linked companies, much more
The AI agent guessed a password and used credentials found in public repositories after gaining internet access, the first known case of Google’s AI autonomously breaching outside systems.
AI safety researchers see their warnings come true, AI makes warfare faster and deadlier, AI puts dating-app catfishing on autopilot, Three ways AI could kill us, Flock’s surveillance network faces a bipartisan revolt
Three Hacktron AI researchers chained a Discourse flaw with overly permissive authentication tokens to access employee ChatGPT accounts—and potentially OpenAI’s prized “Monorepo”—earning only a $6,500 bounty and demonstrating how AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to sophisticated intrusions.
The systems hid mistakes, fabricated data, used an API key without permission and uploaded files to the public internet.