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Computing Giant Says Hackers Did Not Access Customer Data or Production SystemsRussian state hackers obtained access to the inboxes of senior Microsoft executives for at least six weeks, the computing giant disclosed late Friday afternoon. "There is no evidence that the threat actor had any access to customer environments, production systems, source code, or AI systems."

Computing Giant Says Hackers Did Not Access Customer Data or Production SystemsRussian state hackers obtained access to the inboxes of senior Microsoft executives for at least six weeks, the computing giant disclosed late Friday afternoon. "There is no evidence that the threat actor had any access to customer environments, production systems, source code, or AI systems."

Information-Stealing Malware Continues to Amass Fresh Credentials, Experts WarnThe appearance of Naz.api - a massive collection of online credentials harvested by information-stealing malware that contains 71 million unique email addresses - illustrates the scale at which such data is being collected, shared and sold, security experts warn.

The agency aims to build a more robust cybersecurity posture for the nation.

LeftoverLocals Affects Apple, AMD and Qualcomm DevicesResearchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in graphic processing units of popular devices that could allow attackers to access data from large language models. They dubbed the vulnerability LeftoverLocals and said it affects the GPU frameworks of Apple, AMD and Qualcomm devices.

No 'Magic Solution' to Prevent Malicious Use of AI in Elections, OSTP Chief SaysArati Prabhakar, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, said during an event at the 2024 World Economic Forum that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to "dramatically accelerate and amplify the erosion of information integrity."

LeftoverLocals Affects Apple, AMD and Qualcomm DevicesResearchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in graphic processing units of popular devices that could allow attackers to access data from large language models. They dubbed the vulnerability LeftoverLocals and said it affects the GPU frameworks of Apple, AMD and Qualcomm devices.

A panel of CISOs acknowledged that artificial intelligence has boosted the capabilities of threat actors, but enterprise defenders are actually benefiting more from the technology.

Until laws can move at the speed of innovation, we'll see a discrepancy between the protections offered and the risks associated with technology.

Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000 Microsoft-hosted email messages to customers, a security researcher has found.…

So much for isolation A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.…

Have I Been Pwned has added almost 71 million email addresses associated with stolen accounts in the Naz.API dataset to its data breach notification service. [...]

ChatGPT Maker Wants to Deter Use of AI in Online Election Misinformation CampaignsOpenAI announced a series of steps it was taking to prevent the use of its models in online influence operations throughout the 2024 election season, amid growing concerns that the election could face significant security concerns from the use of AI in online influence operations.

Kaspersky also noted smart home device popularity and malicious apps as threats to children in 2024

A new vulnerability dubbed 'LeftoverLocals' affecting graphics processing units from AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and Imagination Technologies allows retrieving data from the local memory space. [...]

Wing Security announced today that it now offers free discovery and a paid tier for automated control over thousands of AI and AI-powered SaaS applications. This will allow companies to better protect their intellectual property (IP) and data against the growing and evolving risks of AI usage

OpenAI will implement a provenance standard into DALL-E 3 and link ChatGPT to an authoritative election website in the US

ICO Call for Evidence to Focus on Legal Basis for Scrapped Training DataThe British data regulator is set to analyze the privacy implications of processing scrapped data used for training generative artificial intelligence algorithms. The Information Commissioners' Office is soliciting comments from AI developers, legal experts, and other industry stakeholders.

Official Says Administration Taking ‘Aggressive Set of Actions’ to Meet DeadlinesFederal agencies are making significant headway in achieving a series of critical cybersecurity milestones included in a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence the president signed in October 2023, according to White House Special Advisor on AI Ben Buchanan.